Michael Fassbender: 'Alien: Covenant' Will Be 'Much Scarier' Than 'Prometheus'
Michael Fassbender in ‘Prometheus’ (Photo/20th Century Fox, Kerry Brown/AP)
Ridley Scott has been slowly stoking anticipation for his upcoming Alien: Covenant, releasing a couple of set photos featuring star Katherine Waterston that suggest his latest sci-fi outing — a sequel to 2012’s Prometheus, and the first of three prequels to his 1979 classic Alien — will be a legitimate throwback to his original triumph. That notion was furthered recently by Michael Fassbender, who says the upcoming outer-space saga is going to be pitched in a distinctly horror-ish key.
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Speaking to Collider’s Steve Weintraub while doing promotion for this September’s The Light Between Oceans, Fassbender provided a few details on his second intergalactic collaboration with director Scott, in which he’ll again star as untrustworthy android David, who’s now the sole inhabitant of a paradise-like planet discovered by Waterston and her crew:
“This Alien is going to be… I’m very excited to see it and everybody in the film was saying this is a film that we all want to see. It’s much scarier than Prometheus but it’s got the same sort of scope of Prometheus. It’s kind of got more of the sort of thriller, imminent disaster feel that Alien had, so it’s kind of a beautiful meeting of both of those films.
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Fassbender’s comments should be music to the ears of die-hard fans of the franchise, which recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of its first sequel, 1986’s Aliens, with a cast reunion at last week’s San Diego Comic-Con. Alien: Covenant lands in theaters August 4, 2017; before then, you can see Fassbender back on the big screen on Sept. 2 in The Light Between Oceans, and then again on Dec. 21 in Assassin’s Creed.
‘Prometheus’ featurette: 30 Years In the Making:
