Alien Covenant: Sequels

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When the trailer for Alien Covenant was released, most people were trying to figure out if it was a sequel to Prometheus which is a prequel to the Aliens Franchise. Or if was a Sequel to both Prometheus and Aliens making it a reboot of the original based on the prequel. Turns out in simple terms, Alien Covenant is a sequel to Prometheus and the second installment of three in the Alien prequel series, as well as the sixth film in the overall Alien film series, and third directed by Ridley Scott…If your brains still function after all that, the series order is complicated. The critical response to Prometheus was pretty split down the middle but that wasn’t going to stop 20th Century Fox from seeing $$$ in a cinematic universe involving Aliens. …show more content…

A colony ship in the middle of space is bound for a remote planet that is years away with a couple thousand colonists onboard. The ship gets hit with a massive sonic wave that causes pod malfunctions and kills nearly 50 people including the ships Captain….James Franco. No, I’m not kidding, Franco is the Captain of this ship. Fortunately, he dies right away so he doesn’t even get an opportunity to speak. The crew finds a planet that is similar to Earth in the middle of nowhere and decides to test their luck and see if the planet is habitable. When they land on the planet things go wrong almost instantly as the crew is infected with the black alien spore from the first film which kills them and spouts Neomorphs from their dead bodies. The crew must fight to survive the planet while they others look for a way to save them without jeopardy the lives of the …show more content…

When it comes to the writing, you see a lot of similar to the first film. It’s not good or bad, just in the middle. The only story that seems to progress this franchise is the story of David played by Michael Fassbender who is on a ‘kill all humans’ trip and is single handily responsible spreading the plague of this deadly alien virus to one planet after another. Fassbender carries this movie in acting and story as he is playing the role of evil killbot David as well as a kinder upgrade version of himself. The scenes where he is having a conversation with himself are both brilliant and something unintentionally

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