Ridley Scott shows three «Covenant» clips before a screening of the original 1979 «Alien,» giving fans neomorphs, lots of blood and some android treachery.
«Alien: Covenant» showed off three sneak-peek clips at SXSW.
We already knew «Alien: Covenant» would serve up a «backburster,» but the new film has a «bloody mouth-slider-outer» too.
Before a screening of the original «Alien» at the SXSW Conference and Festivals in Austin, Texas, director Ridley Scott previewed three sneak-peek clips from his new movie in the franchise, «Alien: Covenant,» set to be released May 12 in the UK, May 18 in Australia and May 19 in the US.
A spokeswoman for 20th Century Fox, the studio behind «Alien: Covenant,» said the company couldn’t share its plans about releasing the clips publicly yet. So unfortunately we’ll go on the almost illegible notes I scribbled in the dark. (Tip to directors: Explosions make it easier for people who are writing during your movie, thanks.)
The clips fill in some blanks left by the movie’s earlier trailers .
The first clip showed the crew of the Covenant, a colony ship, detaching and flying a lander shuttle to the mysterious planet they’ve been sent to colonize. It starts on the Covenant’s bridge, as Danny McBride’s pilot character, Tennessee, talks via radio with the crew on the lander still docked to the ship, with other characters like Billy Crudup’s Christopher Oram, the captain, standing by. There’s some joking about boobs, because sure, and the launcher disembarks.
