The spaceship Covenant is transporting frozen embryos to a human colony on a faraway planet when they receive a distress signal from the spaceship Prometheus, which disappeared 10 years prior. The crew is brought out of hypersleep to answer to the signal, which leads to the death of the Covenant's captain, Branson (James Franco). His wife, Daniels (Katherine Waterson), is deeply affected by the accident, while Branson's first officer Archer (Billy Crudup) is made captain. The crew is aided by an android, Walter (Michael Fassbender).
The Covenant follows the Prometheus's signal to Paradise, an uncharted forest planet and homeworld of the Engineers, the ancient extraterrestrials that seeded life on Earth and then sought to the destroy it. The Engineers' secret weapon, the black ooze, has spread through Paradise, turning it into a wasteland. The Covenant's crew ventures outside their ship and some of its members are exposed to spores released by plants infected by the ooze. It is determined they've contracted an alien pathogen and Archer has them quarantined aboard the Covenant.
Monstrous creatures known as "Neomorphs" burst from the infected crewmen's bodies and begin slaughtering the crew, forcing the survivors to flee into the forest, where they are rescued from the Neomorphs by David (Michael Fassbender), the sole survivor of the Prometheus crew. He reveals that the mission's other survivor, Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace), sacrificed herself to crash the Prometheus against Paradise's surface, exposing the Engineers to the black ooze to prevent them from destroying Earth.
David leads the survivors back to the Engineers' derelict citadel, where he's been living ever since. Walter mistrusts David, who is not behaving in accordance with their programming, and finds out that Shaw was the one that sent the distress signal and that David in fact murdered her. David's mind has been warped by the numerous modifications that his creator, Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), made to his programming during the Prometheus's expedition, and is obsessed with creating the "perfect organism". He exposes numerous lifeforms on Paradise, including Shaw, with the black ooze and, after numerous failed attempts, has created an alien egg, which produces a facehugger that latches itself to Archer, leading to the birth of a Primal Xenomorph.
Daniels and the ship's pilot, Tennessee (Danny McBride), realize David is controlling the Neomorphs and escape back to the Covenant with Walter in order to escape. Together, Daniels and Tennessee manage to kill the Primal Xenomorph and the Neomorphs and detonate explosivos to destroy David's laboratory, with David himself apparently perishing in the explosion.
After escaping, Daniels and Tennessee place themselves back in hypersleep to continue their voyage to the colony, unaware that David has killed Walter and stolen his identity to leave Paradise. David secretly plants two alien egg embryos among the human frozen embryos that the Covenant is transporting.
Adrian Jackson
tl;dr David wins.
Jeremiah Brooks
Huh
Isaiah Cruz
Wtf i love david now
Oliver Wright
Pretty much.
Hudson King
Do the xeno and neo interact at all?
Jaxon Walker
>primal xenomorph
jesus christ this is stupid.
Sebastian Miller
Liz was goddamn moran to take David with her in the first place.
Benjamin Scott
>White man dies >black man cucks him and survives along with his white wife
what did ridley mean by this?
Nolan Green
>Danny McBride >Black
Samuel Edwards
Wait a fucking minute, so the classic xenomorph form was created by David? And did he release the spores among the engineers or were they already dead?
Anthony Rivera
It's fucking stupid because that means thqt somewhere along the line the engineers found this specimen put it on their ship as a mass manufactured bioweapon and crashed somewhere to lead into the events of Alien.
Robert Nelson
They were killed by David and Shaw.
Brandon King
It doesn't explain the giant engineer and the cargo hold full of the classic facehuggers.
Ridley is a hack.
Nicholas Mitchell
The explanation will come in Alien-Prometheus 3: I've still got it.
Jack Wilson
Deer lord its so retarded thats its actually a plasuable thing.
Worst thing is that if it is real Scott is pretty much trying to crash the IP with no survivors, it'd even send up the comics into a blaze of shit recons
David Harris
This poor series.
Joseph Cruz
David is the Space Jockey
Jaxson Brooks
Will there be more Space Axe action?
Liam Brooks
this is a bretty gud story/ outline
imo
Jacob Butler
Is this really what Ridley and the writers think Alien fans want? Really?
Joshua Hill
Asked this in the prometheus thread, I was watching gameplay of the Alien game...I was just wondering how the alien finds its prey? In one scene in the game you're hiding behind a wall in the room and the Alien comes in and could have seen you but just walks right out?
Michael Reyes
>David has killed Walter and stolen his identity to leave Paradise. David secretly plants two alien egg embryos among the human frozen embryos that the Covenant is transporting. Based
Aiden Green
how the fuck did he kill her ? he was left with only his head at the end of prometheus
Jaxson Murphy
>caring about ai behaviour in a video game and its lore implications
You are the reason prometheus and this shit fest exists
Xavier Cox
Nature finds a way
Easton Clark
It sniffs out your farts
Joshua Adams
I actually think this is a good story
Ryder Flores
>the crew doesn't wear helmets on the planet >yfw....IT WAS EARTH ALL ALONG Based Ridley you magnificent auteur
Sebastian Turner
Is David going to dye his hair when he switches places with Walter?
Cameron Hall
She reattaches his head to his body on the way to Paradise.
Samuel Reyes
She must have put together a body for him, without realizing his intentions
Owen King
eh doesnt sound too bad actually trailer was bad though
Brody Edwards
plot sounds fine
trailer was dumb
Easton Parker
That sounds pretty cool actually. Like a real Alien movie
Elijah Thompson
So I thought the Engineers' home planet would be some magnificent heavenly place, since they're the creators of all life. Shit, maybe we'd find out the Engineers are cockroaches next to the beings that created them, with Shaw going insane because she can't even wrap her mind around what she sees, and David exploring and learning and applying everything he learns. NAH, FUCK THAT HERE'S SOME MONSTERS AND EXPLOSIONS, AND TITS!
Alexander Perry
>without realizing his intentions I would have thought that the shit that went down in Prometheus would have set off enough warning lights for her to let him be anything more than an immobile talking head.
Eli Phillips
It is, that's why it is called Paradise.
David fucks it up.
Logan Barnes
No, what you're going to get is this.
>ship travels through space >distress beacon picked up >crew gets out of cryosleep >debate it a bit then turn the ship towards teh beacon >a couple of crew members go check out the site of the beacon and they get infected >some of the crew want to gtfo and some want to stay because bonus situation reasons >turns out David's head or whatver is there >not-David android talks to David >turns out not-David is a really nice person >crew does extremely stupid shit for no reason and die one by one >nothing is explained about the engineers or anything like that >one person survives and destroys the beacon and/or leaves with the ship
the end
John Miller
>David stumbling around with a shonky Tin Man meets Scarecrow body made by Shaw >hey guys it's me, your pal Walter
Jose Jones
lmao who gives a flying fuck what "fans" want? If you want what other brain dead fans want just go read any number of the hack fan fiction work out there
since when should the impetus for writing being servicing fans? Moron.
Grayson Gray
So in Prometheus they plan on a super-fucking expensive, never even close to being done before mission to the farthest reaches of space.
And just 10 years later there are ships around there to receive a signal.
Fuck all this if true.
Juan Flores
>It is, that's why it is called Paradise. It's a shitty jungle you dumb fucking pleb, nothing extraordinary about it, engineers are mayans
Justin Kelly
Is this legit?
Nolan Thomas
only thing I ahte is them keeping david and probably making him the original jockey in the first alien
what a shit character
Landon Butler
>hey guys, it's me *checks his bloody spacesuit nametag*...WALTER! It's crazy out there, we should go, I'll put you to sleep....MMM...yes that sounds good
Aiden Williams
I miss when alien was just Alien, Aliens and the shitty sequels before Prometheus.
Connor Sullivan
>Prometheus = At the Mountains of Madness IN SPAAAAAACE >Alien: Covenant/Paradise = Island of Dr Moreau IN SPAAAAAACE
Jesus fuck someone confiscate Ridley's Kindle before he can be "inspired" by any more old works of pulp literature.
Matthew Perez
>What? Nothing's wrong with the frozen embryo. They're definitely human!
Lincoln Green
All this script "works" only because the 2 androids are identicall. Bravo Riddley.
Gabriel Perry
Wait, so if this their home planet, what the fuck was the planet they went to on Prometheus?
Landon Campbell
all the "fans" will complain about something no matter what they do. Its a lose lose
Liam Adams
*BRAAAAAAAAAAP*
Colton Flores
A remote base for weapon development. And will never be revisited again.
Jonathan Allen
A planet they used to develop their weapons. They talk about it in the movie about not making this shit in their own backyard or whatever the line was
Levi Hill
I just realised. Ridley broke the unwritten law of Alien movies.
>Ash >Bishop >Call >David >...Walter
Good job you doddering old fuck.
Xavier Parker
I wish this were true
Henry Thompson
Go to bed, Mike Stoklasa.
I don't want to hear shit from you after that suggestion that Jyn and Cassian needed a "bathtub scene" in R1...
Charles Cooper
wait, didn't the pilot crash the Promethus ship in "Prometheus"? He crashed it into the Engineer ship. So how did shaw crash it?
Mason Jones
It not Walter, It Edward
John Rivera
Yes, because it is basically the movie Alien except the Android wins.
Also, if the classic xenomorph is the most superior, why doesn't it reproduce via spore anymore like in Prometheus? It seems much more efficient
Jordan Bailey
There were more ships
Owen Perry
well maybe weyland company was pushing for it because they wanted to know what actually happened?
Daniel Butler
where they made their goo
Bentley Brown
There were 2 Alien ships on the planets surface, David and Liz left on the second ship at the end of the movie.
The real question is where David got a replacement body from, I don't see how he could infect Liz otherwise.
Hudson Cooper
eJ??? Is that you?
Liam Hernandez
Do we actually learn anything about the engineers
Josiah Butler
>space faring species that can create or at least influence life all die on their """"""home""""" planet
what did the hack writers mean by this?
Jaxon Rivera
Cool, stoked to see it
Benjamin Rodriguez
>The real question is where David got a replacement body from, I don't see how he could infect Liz otherwise. youtube.com/watch?v=xAOKEIJ74R0
Luis Roberts
If true, Shaw deserves what she gets for sparing and trusting that pos after what he did to their first crew
Elijah Ortiz
they all die the end
Landon Clark
This crap is so convoluted.
So in Prometheus there were spores and snake facehuggers and zombies and a giant starfish and a nu-xenomorph at the end.
And now in this movie there's nu-NU-xenomorphs along with not-classic xenomorphs along with facehuggers along with Alien queens???
My brain literally hurts just thinking about how all of this makes sense and I honestly won't be watching it because of this.
Sebastian Ward
But David's body runs on cum.
Nolan James
>a giant starfish
Oh yeah, what the FUCK was up with that random evolution? What logic drove these design choices anyhow?
Andrew Anderson
Plot holes: the movie
James Baker
much like my dads wife
Chase Nelson
That Ridley is beyond senile
Sebastian Harris
>My brain literally hurts just thinking about how all of this makes sense
I'm always behind this faggot at Starbucks.
Parker Evans
what the fuuuuck
ok this is entertaining at least
Cooper Jenkins
>Starbucks nu-male central, you need to get the fuck back
Dominic Walker
I'm not Mike (in fact I've really gone off him after the TFA and R1 reviews), but my idea for the future of Alien is simple:
Adapt some of those fucking great Dark Horse comics. Aliens: Stronghold and Aliens: Labyrinth translated from page to screen would both be infinitely better done competently than Prometheus or this.
Anthony Myers
Jesus have you seen the movie?they take another ship and head to paradise. Ffs.
Anthony Parker
so we still know next to nothing about Engineers huh? Thats the only thing this fucking series has going for it and there is no payoff?
Christian Myers
>they get off the ship without their helmets
STOP
STOOOOOOOOOP
Joseph Smith
>if the classic xenomorph is the most superior, why doesn't it reproduce via spore anymore like in Prometheus? Not very good for a bio weapon since there's just as much of a chance it'll infect you too.
Jordan Edwards
>snake facehuggers > a giant starfish >a nu-xenomorph Pointless almost-but-not-quite-references for fans to go "OH THAT'S ALMOST X BUT NOT QUITE".
Funny thing is that even the CGI version of the zombie looked like a proto-xenomorph before they switched it with the actor in prosthetics.
Juan Murphy
Why is David so based?
Brandon Cooper
Resurrection was like 1/3rd Labyrinth
Anthony Thomas
>none of these space-travelers seem to have a goddamn idea of basic space safety
Brody Reed
BUT THE HOMICIDAL ANDROID ASSURED THEM THE AIR WAS BREATHABLE
WHILE SAYING NOTHING ABOUT ANY POTENTIAL MICROORGANISMS
BUT I'M SURE HE WOULD HAVE MENTIONED THAT, IT'S NOT LIKE HE WANTED TO KILL THE CREW OR ANYTHING
Kevin Murphy
I'm just saying the ship "the prometheus" had already been crashed. I guess it doesn't matter since David lying according to OP
Mason Foster
>Walter >Not Edward or Eric
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Also >le identical twins twist at the end even though the "real" Walter probably won't even just say "HEY HE'S THE BAD GUY" in the movie and he'll just get killed
Anthony Gonzalez
...
Parker Rivera
Too bad it left out the two best thirds, then.
Carter Allen
It's a process. Starts out with random mutations via black goo, then melds with the surrounding ecosystem to create spores and Neomorphs, then David sciences up a more classic Xenomorph and the egg-to-facehugger-to-chestburster system.
Ethan Baker
Him and the aliens are the only things I'm really excited for. Everyone else is just fodder. Not-Ripley gave me a chub in one of those pics
Kayden Walker
queens are gone m8. retconned. only goo now.
Brandon Clark
why the fuck would shaw fix david
i dont remember all the details of prometheus but didnt she figure out that david was rusing everyone near the end?