Alien: Covenant Announced

The title and treatment for Alien: Covenant was just released today. The follow up to 2012’s Aliens prequel, Prometheus, will hit theaters in 2017 and give us more insight into the backstory:

ALIEN: COVENANT
Release: October 6th, 2017

SYNOPSIS
Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in ALIEN with ALIEN: COVENANT, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with PROMETHEUS — and connects directly to Scott’s 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 — whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.