For more potentially SPOILER-y details on the “Neomorphs” in Covenant, head on over to AVP Galaxy.
Michael Fassbender (who is reprising his Prometheus role as David in Alien: Covenant) let it slip in an interview on BBC Radio 2 (h/t to BMD) that the new Xenomorphs featured in Covenant are known as “Neomorphs”.
All of this makes Alien: Covenant sound like an intriguing (and possibly exciting) addition to the larger franchise – one that will hopefully prove more satisfying for those Alien fans who were under-whelmed by Prometheus.
It nonetheless appears as though Alien: Covenant is drawing on material that was previously included in William Gibson’s early script draft for Alien 3, written back in the late 1980s.