{"id":95166,"date":"2017-02-23T08:25:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T08:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=95166"},"modified":"2017-02-23T08:26:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T08:26:04","slug":"alien-covenant-last-supper-clip-introduces-the-crew-and-humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/alien-covenant-last-supper-clip-introduces-the-crew-and-humour\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien: Covenant last supper clip introduces the crew (and humour)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the recent cast group photo, the &#8220;last supper&#8221; scene from <strong><em>Alien: Covenant<\/em><\/strong> has been released, which introduces us to the crew and their relationships, shows off some humour and includes a pretty massive in-joke.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bi6qdjkz-Bo\" width=\"616\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re not quite sure how we feel about directly quoting dialogue from the original film (&#8220;Food&#8217;s not that bad!&#8221;), it&#8217;s a reminder of just how strong this cast is:\u00a0Michaael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride, Demian Bichir, Billy Crudup, Carmen Ejogo, Jussie Smollett, Amy Seimetz, Callie Hernandez, Nathaniel Dean, Alexander England and James Franco.<\/p>\n<p>And while it might be a little strange seeing McBride cracking jokes about &#8220;colonising all over this table,&#8221; it&#8217;s a great relief to see something approaching human characters after <strong><em>Prometheus<\/em><\/strong>. You&#8217;ve got to have a Yaphet Kotto, a Harry Dean Stanton, a Bill Paxton, and we&#8217;re looking forward to seeing him fill that role.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also great\u00a0to see an LGBTQ couple in a film of this size, played by Demian Bichir and Nathaniel\u00a0Dean, and the first in this franchise. Good stuff, <strong><em>Alien: Covenant<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, we get\u00a0some clues as to Billy Crudup&#8217;s character, who clearly doesn&#8217;t like McBride&#8217;s pilot, and is definitely going to be a problem for Katherine Waterston&#8217;s Daniels when she inevitably has to take charge. Watch out for that guy.<\/p>\n<p>It also gives a look at Michael Fassbender&#8217;s new android character Walter, complete with an American accent and less of an evil twinkle. Fassbender has already hinted that Walter won&#8217;t approve of David&#8217;s actions; could Walter be the Bishop to David&#8217;s Ash?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll find out soon enough&#8230;<\/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 discovers what 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;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H0VW6sg50Pk\" width=\"616\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Alien: Covenant<\/em> will be released on 19 May.\u00a0Keep up with the latest genre news with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/magazines\/scifinow\/scifinow-issue-120.html\">new issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny McBride cracks wise, Billy Crudup&#8217;s a jerk and there&#8217;s a huge in-joke in Alien: Covenant clip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":95167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","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\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-23-at-08.07.42.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95166"}],"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=95166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}