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Alien: Covenant Dvd

The crew of a colony ship, Covenant, receive a radio transmission from a habitable planet. However, they encounter deadly aliens while investigating the planet and try to escape.

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Alien: Covenant is a 2017 science fiction horror film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by John Logan and Dante Harper, from a story by Michael Green and Jack Paglen. A joint American and British production, the film is a sequel to Prometheus (2012) and is the second installment in the Alien prequel series and the sixth installment in the Alien franchise, as well as the third directed by Scott. The film features returning star Michael Fassbender and Katherine Waterston, with Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, and Demián Bichir in supporting roles. It follows the crew of a colony ship that lands on an uncharted planet and makes a terrifying discovery.

In 2012, prior to the release of Prometheus, Ridley Scott discussed the prospects of a sequel and new trilogy, and the film was confirmed that August. Principal photography began on April 4, 2016, at Milford Sound in Fiordland National Park, New Zealand, and wrapped on July 19, 2016. Effects houses Odd Studios and CreatureNFX provided the film’s makeup and animatronic creature effects. Scott said that the first cut of the film was two hours and twenty-three minutes long, and was eventually edited down to the two hours and three minutes of the released version.

Alien: Covenant premiered in London on May 4, 2017. It was released on May 12 in the United Kingdom, and on May 19 in the United States. The film received generally favorable reviews from critics but underperformed at the box office. The film grossed a worldwide total of $240 million against a production budget of approximately $100 million, not including marketing costs.

Plot

Business magnate Peter Weyland speaks with his newly activated android, who chooses the name “David” after observing Michelangelo’s statue. Weyland states that one day they will search for mankind’s creator together. David comments on his own unlimited lifespan as compared to Weyland’s, which unsettles Weyland.

In 2104, eleven years after the Prometheus expedition, the colonization ship Covenant is seven years from reaching planet Origae-6, with 2,000 colonists in stasis and 1,140 human embryos in cold storage. The ship is monitored by Walter, an advanced android model that physically resembles David. When a neutrino burst damages the ship, Walter reanimates his 14 human crewmates, themselves couples and colonists. The ship’s captain, Jake Branson, is burned alive when his stasis pod malfunctions. While repairing the ship, the crew picks up a transmission of a human voice from a nearby planet, which appears eminently more habitable than Origae-6. Despite the protests of Daniels, Branson’s widow, that this new “perfect” planet is too good to be true, newly-promoted captain Chris Oram decides that they will investigate the new planet.

With pilot Tennessee maintaining Covenant in orbit, his wife, Maggie, flies a small lander to the Earth-like planet’s surface where an expedition team tracks the transmission’s signal to a crashed alien ship. Crewmates Ledward and Hallett are infected by spores from fungus-like organisms. Oram’s wife Karine helps the increasingly ill Ledward back to the lander, where Maggie quarantines them inside the med-bay. A small pale alien creature (neomorph) bursts from Ledward’s back, killing him, and then mauls Karine to death. Maggie returns and attempts to kill the creature with a shotgun, but triggers an explosion which kills her and destroys the lander. Nearby in the fields, another neomorph bursts from Hallett’s mouth, killing him. The neomorphs attack the remaining crew, killing crew member Ankor. The crew manages to kill one before David, who survived the Prometheus mission, appears and scares off the neomorph.

He leads the crew to a temple in a city full of dead humanoids. David tells them that upon his and fellow Prometheus survivor Elizabeth Shaw’s arrival at the planet, their ship accidentally released a virus which annihilated all fauna on the planet, and that Shaw perished when the ship crashed. Meanwhile, attempts to radio the Covenant are stymied by ion storms. When the remaining neomorph infiltrates the temple and kills crew member Rosenthal, David tries to communicate with the creature, and is horrified when Oram kills it. Oram questions David, who reveals that the Aliens are a result of his releasing and experimenting with the pathogen to produce new lifeforms. He manipulates Oram into being attacked by a Facehugger Alien. A new form of Alien, the Xenomorph, later erupts from Oram’s chest, killing him.

As the others search for Oram and Rosenthal, Walter finds Shaw’s dissected corpse, used by David as material for his evolving creature designs. David states that humanity is a dying and unworthy species, and his designed creature is a “perfect organism” set to eradicate them. When Walter disagrees, David disables him, then threatens Daniels. Walter’s advanced systems self-repair, and he attacks David while Daniels escapes. Crewmate Cole quickly cuts another facehugger off security chief Dan Lope, leaving Lope with acid burns on his face. The now fully grown xenomorph kills Cole while Lope escapes and meets up with Daniels. Tennessee arrives in another lander to extract Daniels, Lope, and Walter, who says David has “expired”. They kill the attacking xenomorph and return to Covenant.

The next morning, Daniels and Tennessee discover that another xenomorph burst from Lope’s chest, killing him, and is loose on the Covenant. It matures and kills crew members Upworth and her husband Ricks. Final crew members Tennessee and Daniels lure the creature into Covenant’s terraforming bay and kill it.

Covenant resumes its voyage to Origae-6. As Walter helps Daniels into stasis, she realizes that Walter is in fact David, but is unable to escape from her pod before falling asleep. David regurgitates two facehugger embryos and places them in cold storage with the human embryos.

He poses as Walter to record a log stating that all crewmembers except Daniels and Tennessee were killed by the solar-flare incident at the beginning of the film and that the ship is still on course for Origae-6.

Cast

Further information on individual characters: List of Alien characters

Waterston received positive reviews for her Ripley-like role as Daniels.[citation needed]
Michael Fassbender as David 8 and Walter One. Both are synthetic androids; David is an earlier-made android, who was formerly a crew member of the destroyed Prometheus, while Walter is a newer model android who monitors the Covenant.
Katherine Waterston as Daniels, the chief of terraforming for the Covenant mission and the wife/widow of the ship’s captain, Jacob Branson. She is the third in command after Branson and Oram. Waterston said she was well aware of the comparisons that were going to be made between her and Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley, but that she tried not to think about it too much while filming for fear of being intimidated.
Billy Crudup as Chris Oram, the Covenant’s first mate and Karine’s husband. Oram is a self-serious man of faith who believes their role on the Covenant is an act of destiny, and shares a “contentious” relationship with Daniels.
Danny McBride as Tennessee Faris, the chief pilot of the Covenant and Maggie’s husband.
Demián Bichir as Dan Lope, the head of the security unit aboard the Covenant and husband of Sergeant Hallett.
Carmen Ejogo as Karine Oram, the Covenant’s biologist and Chris’ wife.
Jussie Smollett as Ricks, the Covenant’s navigator and Upworth’s husband.
Callie Hernandez as Upworth, the Covenant’s communication officer and Ricks’ wife; she also has paramedic training.
Amy Seimetz as Maggie Faris, the lander’s pilot and Tennessee’s wife.
Nathaniel Dean as Tom Hallett, a member of the security unit and Lope’s husband.
Alexander England as Ankor, a member of the security unit.
Benjamin Rigby as Ledward, a member of the security unit.
Uli Latukefu as Cole, a member of the security unit.
Tess Haubrich as Sarah Rosenthal, a member of the security unit.
A number of actors appear in uncredited roles. Guy Pearce reprises his role as Peter Weyland, the trillionaire founder and CEO of Weyland Corporation (the Weyland-Yutani Corporation in “later” storylines) who died before the destruction of the Prometheus. James Franco appears onscreen in photos and a video as Jacob Branson, the original captain of the Covenant and husband of Daniels; he also appears in deleted scenes.[20] Noomi Rapace had played archaeologist Dr. Elizabeth Shaw as a member of the destroyed Prometheus in the prequel film, and appeared in a short promotional prologue to Covenant that was set in the period between the two movies,[21] but does not act in the final cut of the movie itself, though her voice is heard from the planet early in the film and her image and voice appear later. Logan Marshall-Green’s character Charlie Holloway, also from Prometheus, also appears in an archive image alongside Shaw.

Other credited parts include Lorelei King as the voice of the Covenant’s computer “Mother”; King was a colleague of Helen Horton, the voice of the Nostromo’s “Mother” in 1979’s Alien. Goran D. Kleut is credited in two roles, as both a neomorph and a xenomorph, while Andrew Crawford is credited as a neomorph.

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