"Alien: Covenant" to include familiar alien characters: Ridley Scott

PanARMENIAN.Net - Director Ridley Scott, who is working on "Prometheus" sequel, "Alien: Covenant", recently gave away some details about the upcoming movie, AceShowbiz said. In an interview with TheWrap, the director hinted that the film would include some familiar faces from the original "Alien" films like Xenomorph, along with its terrifying forms.

Scott said that fans would get to see "egg, face-hugger, chest-burster, then the big boy" in "Covenant". "I think maybe we can go another round or two," he shared. The director also credited illustrator and creature designer H.R. Giger, who had made amazing designs for characters in previous "Alien" films. "I knew we had done something special. I mean, I knew it as soon as I met with H.R. Giger. He was an artist in every sense of the word, but very businesslike. And I knew I had something special with this creature that he designed. Without that creature, the film wouldn't have been the same," Scott explained.

"Covenant" focuses on the crew members of colony ship Covenant discovering "what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world." Scott said that "they're going to go to the planet where the engineers came from, and come across the evolving creature that they had made." "Why did they make it? Why would they make such a terrifying beast? It felt bio-mechanoid, it felt like a weapon. And so the movie will explain that, and reintroduce the alien back into it," Scott added.

Serving as the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with "Prometheus" and connects directly to Scott's original "Alien", "Covenant" is slated to be released in North America on October 6, 2017. Michael Fassbender will be back to reprise his role as the android David while Noomi Rapace will return in a minor part.