{"id":82032,"date":"2015-11-17T09:52:09","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T09:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=82032"},"modified":"2015-11-17T09:52:44","modified_gmt":"2015-11-17T09:52:44","slug":"alien-covenant-first-plot-details-and-title-art-but-whos-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/alien-covenant-first-plot-details-and-title-art-but-whos-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien: Covenant first plot details and title art, but who&#8217;s missing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the new title reveal, Ridley Scott&#8217;s <strong><em>Alien: Covenant<\/em> <\/strong>has a new plot synopsis that has a few clues worth looking at (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/movies\/news\/633311-alien-covenant-gets-a-title-treatment-release-date-and-synopsis\">Coming Soon<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in <strong><em>ALIEN<\/em><\/strong> with<strong><em> ALIEN: COVENANT<\/em><\/strong>, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with <strong><em>PROMETHEUS<\/em><\/strong> \u2014 and connects directly to Scott\u2019s 1979 seminal work of science fiction. Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant <span id=\"itxthook0p\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap\"><span id=\"itxthook0w\" class=\"itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan\">discovers<\/span><\/span>\u00a0what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world \u2014 whose sole inhabitant is the \u201csynthetic\u201d David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Which is interesting stuff, introducing a new crew (fingers crossed for a better, less-hastily written band of characters than we saw in <strong><em>Prometheus<\/em><\/strong>) and a new ship, but one point to make is the absence of Noomi Rapace&#8217;s Elizabeth Shaw? We&#8217;ve all been operating on the assumption that Rapace would return for the <strong><em>Prometheus<\/em><\/strong> follow-up alongside Fassbender. Should we read into her absence? Is her character being held back deliberately? Did she and David get where they were going at the end of the film? Should we wait for confirmation before we\u00a0speculate wildly?<\/p>\n<p>One thing we do know: Given the rate at which little snippets of teasing news keep popping up for this film, we&#8217;ll have more to talk about soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Alien: Covenant<\/em>\u00a0will be released on 30\u00a0May 2017. Keep up with the latest genre news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3903\/s\/scifinow-issue-112\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one Prometheus star is confirmed in the Alien: Covenant plot synopsis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":82033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4872],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/alien-covenant-1280.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}