{"id":96104,"date":"2017-04-04T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=96104"},"modified":"2017-04-04T15:50:27","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:50:27","slug":"alien-covenant-new-poster-faces-off-with-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/alien-covenant-new-poster-faces-off-with-the-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien: Covenant new poster faces off with the beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new poster for <strong><em>Alien: Covenant<\/em><\/strong> has arrived, and Katherine Waterston&#8217;s Daniels is facing off with the big guy itself.<\/p>\n<p>While it doesn&#8217;t have the mad majesty of the earlier Giger-inspired one-sheet, this is a nice reminder that the classic xenomorph will be making short work of the crew of the Covenant.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Alien: Covenant<\/em><\/strong> stars Michaael 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>&#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;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Alien: Covenant<\/em> will be released on 12 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><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/svnAD0TApb8\" width=\"616\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Waterston is in trouble in the new Alien: Covenant poster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":96105,"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\/2017\/04\/Alien-Covenant-Camp-E-One-Sheet-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96104"}],"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=96104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}