Alien: Covenant to feature the face-hugger, chest-burster and ‘the big boy’

Every once and a while Ridley Scott comes out from the shrouds of darkness to say something about the sequel to Prometheus. Some of it might be a bit confusing to follow since the film has gone from being referred to as Promethus 2 to Alien: Paradise Lost and finally officially settled on Alien: Covenant.

As far as we know, Covenant will have Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace reprising their roles from Prometheus and will document the search for the Engineers (the buff alien dudes that created everything). According to previous interviews with Scott, the Prometheus series will be a trilogy with the third film linking to Alien.

Even though we have though we have to wait three films before the series links back to the original, that doesn't mean we have to wait that long to see some aliens. On top of that, Scott doesn't see the movie as a sequel to Prometheus, he sees it as an Alien film.

"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," said Scott to The Wrap. "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."

As to which alien we will be seeing in Covenant, well, it sounds like everyone got invited to the party.

"We’ll have them all: egg, face-hugger, chest-burster, then the big boy. I think maybe we can go another round or two."