This morning 20th Century Fox debuted new Alien: Covenant footage during yet another press junket for their 2017 film roster. One footage description by Digital Spy has also revealed some information regarding the film's plot - without spoiling any major elements. Below is a rundown of their accounts.
As we already assumed, Billy Crudup is the ship's captain, along with Danny Mcbride and Amy Seimetz. Katherine Waterston (Daniels) is the ship's Terraforming expert. They are on-board the USCSS Covenant vessel, a Weyland-Yutani colony ship carrying 2,000 people frozen in cryo-stasis. The first scene shows the crew making their descent to the new alien world Alien: Covenant takes place on.
The next scene shown involved the dreaded Neomorph back-bursting scene teased in the trailer. Apparently, the Neomorph busts the spine out of its victim and immediately has the capacity to move quickly after birth. The overall look of the Neomorph is being described as a mix between Prometheus' Deacon alien and the Dog Alien from Alien 3. It's also apparently very hungry for flesh and makes short work of a number of crew.
Though we're still not seeing the 'classic' alien of HR Giger's original design that the poster and trailer teased. This vicious critter is closer to the 'Deacon' revealed at Prometheus's climax, with a bit of Alien 3's dog-like beast thrown in, too.
Next up, we have our introduction of a mouth-burster! Although mentioned and teased prior, this is the first account by press witnessing the actual footage of a Neomorph bursting from the mouth of its host.
Meanwhile, out on the planet's surface another team, containing Fassbender's Walter, contend with another mortally poorly crewman, whose body-rending parasite bursts up out of his mouth. As it splurges out and skitters screechily off into the night, Walter looks on impassively, almost with admiration.
Interesting, they remark as Walter watching the birth of this alien take place, looks on with a sense of "admiration", sounds awfully similar to David's reaction to the Alien presence in Prometheus.
The final scene mentioned seems to suggest Walter does indeed have humanity's best interest in mind, contrary to David's motives. There is some new dialogue presented between Daniels and Walter:
In the final and shortest scene, we're led to believe the latter might prove to be the case. In a short exchange between Daniels and Walter, who sports a few bandaged facial wounds, she asks: "What kind of world are we building?" Walter replies: "I think if we're kind, it'll be a kind world."
It's hard to know what Walter's angle is so far, given his passive reaction to the crew member's Neomorph mouth-bursting and his comments with Daniels. You can read the full write-up over on Digital Spy.
What do you think of these footage descriptions? What do you think Walter's motives will turn out being? Will he and David team up or will Walter aim to protect his fellow crew against David? So far, all available information would suggest the latter, however Scott could be planning a big twist where by David and Walter end up sharing the same goal. Let me know your thoughts in the comments!
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