The technology was cleaner and the crew was full of corporate types and the scientific elite, instead of the blue collar crew and much dirtier atmosphere of the original film.
While this tease doesn’t give us a terrible surplus of footage for tomorrow’s trailer reveal, Alien: Covenant has still managed to amp up the expectation meter by basically not being Prometheus.
Our first glimpse at Alien: Covenant signals what could be a return to form, as that egg is the latest in a line of clues and whispers we’ve seen that suggest the horror is back in the franchise.
Admittedly, whether you loved or hated Ridley Scott’s first prequel in the Alien anthology, you have to admit that it was a lot less like Alien than most other films in the series.
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Alien Trailer HD (Original 1979 Ridley Scott Film) Sigourney Weaver