While making press rounds for his new show Vice Principals which begins to air on HBO this month, Danny McBride was interviewed by Complex and of course, the topic of Alien: Covenant came up. While remaining reserved regarding the film's details, McBride did tease some pretty exciting (and horrifying) tid bits about what we can expect from this Prometheus sequel. Simple put - it's 110% a horror movie, one with lots of gore. Read on for his official quotes!
Complex: Aside from Vice Principals, you’re a pretty busy guy: you’re making your first leap into sci-fi/horror with a major role in Ridley Scott’s highly anticipatedAlien: Covenant. What can you tell us about it?
Danny mcBride: Man, that movie is gonna be nuts. Alien and Aliens were two of my favorite horror films growing up as a kid. I don’t think there’s anything that comes close to that franchise. I would’ve never thought in a million years I would be in one of those movies. When we wrapped Vice Principals, I came back to L.A. and got a call that Ridley Scott wanted to sit down for a meeting. I’m a humongous fan of his so I was blown away just at the idea of meeting him. So as we’re talking in the meeting and just kind of bullshitting, he starts pulling out these books and showing me these storyboard sketches. I finally realized, “Oh my God, this is for an Alien movie!” [Laughs.]
Complex: Wow.
Danny McBride: It was nuts. The idea that he trusted me to be a part of this thing is something that I’m still blown away by. I’m not allowed to talk a lot about what happens in it, but it is a straight horror movie. I’ve never been on something that intense before, with that level of visual effects and gore. I’ve also never been in a movie where people just straight up die like that. When I started the movie, the cast would go to these dinners and it was like twenty people. Then each week, the numbers dwindled and it became less and less people at the table.
The more we hear about Alien: Covenant, the more it sounds like Scott has indeed taken this franchise back to its 1979 Alien roots. With lots of blood, guts, gore, surprise deaths and undoubtedly tons of suspenseful moments, it sounds like Alien: Covenant will be the Alien prequel so many fans of the original have been craving.
A big thank you to theDisektor666 for sharing this news with us in the Alien: Covenant forums! You can read the full interview over at Complex!
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