We were always told that we shouldn’t have expected Prometheus to feature the original creature design from Alien, being a prequel to Ridley Scott’s sic-fi classic. That’s why we got the Deacon, just the first step on the road to the Xenomorph. Well, it seems like that will be an incredibly short road with Scott, speaking in an interview with The Wrap, promising that the sequel, Alien: Covenant, will feature H.R. Giger’s terrifying creature in all it’s forms:
“We’ll have them all. Egg, face-hugger, chest-burster, then the big boy.”
We always knew Scott would eventually find his way back to working with the classic creature, but with at least three Prometheus sequels coming our way, it seems a bit early to be giving us a fully formed Xenomorph, and only goes to further convince people that Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 is never going to happen (read on for even more proof). Why have two sets of movies feature the same creature, but tell completely different stories? Even if it was part of a shared universe, and one series told tales of the past and one of the future, it would still get incredibly messy.
Scott also shed some light on the sequel, shedding light on the mysterious plot, which involves the crew of a spaceship coming across the Engineer’s planet and find Michael Fassbender’s David as the sole inhabitant, and giving us a huge clue on where the story is going:
Well, really it’s “Alien.” 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.
Alien: Covenant is set for release October 26th 2017.