Ho-ho-ho! Arriving on Christmas morn, frosty and bleak, the first trailer for Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant arrived today as a surprise Christmas present. And it's likely to be the most terrifying Christmas present in your stocking today – even moreso than the Boots voucher you got from your aunt that you can't exchange because she forgot the receipt. Watch the trailer here. First look at Katherine Waterston in Alien: Covenant Danny McBride talks Alien: Covenant Noomi Rapace will star in Alien: Covenant after all
Alien: Covenant finds director Ridley Scott heading back to the Alien universe after Prometheus, and following a colony ship called the Covenant headed for a remote planet, a place that the crew initially thinks is an uncharted paradise but turns out to be dark and full of terrors. And the only inhabitant is synthetic life form David (Michael Fassbender), who claims to be the lone survivor of the Prometheus mission.
Katherine Waterston, Demián Bichir, Amy Seimetz, Carmen Ejogo, Callie Hernandez, Billy Crudup and Danny McBride make up the ship's crew, and it appears we'll catch up with Noomi Rapace's Dr. Elizabeth Shaw. Plus we'll be getting a double dose of Fassbender, as he's also playing another synthetic, this one named Walter.
Be sure to pick up a copy of the new Empire, on sale from December 29, for more on Alien: Covenant, including this exclusive image at Katherine Waterston. Alien: Covenant, meanwhile, arrives in May next year. Merry Christmas, everybody!