'Alien: Covenant' Release Date, News & Updates: Poster Reveals Earlier Release And More Details!

By R. A. Jayme - 24 Nov '16 05:42AM

The studio 20th Century Fox has just released an "Alien: Covenant" poster as it teases a new release date. Said release date is three months sooner than previously announced. It can be noted that "Alien: Covenant" was previously set to hit the big screen August 4, 2017. It will now arrive on May 19. The newly announced date has been previously earmarked for their family franchise sequel, "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul."

Check out the new Alien: Covenant poster below:

BREAKING NEWS! Alien: Covenant has a NEW release date and the official poster has been revealed! #AlienCovenant https://t.co/ANpzhKgVbl

— Alien: Covenant (@PrometheusFilms) November 23, 2016

Michael Fassbender (reprising his Prometheus role of David as well as a new android Walter) stars in the film along with Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice), Danny McBride (Eastbound & Down), Demián Bichir (The Hateful Eight), Jussie Smolett (Empire), Amy Seimetz (Upstream Color), Carmen Ejogo (Selma), Callie Hernandez (Machete Kills), and Billy Crudup (Watchmen). Noomi Rapace is also expected to reprise her role as Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, according to Coming Soon.

The film's plot is set as the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with "Prometheus." "Alien: Covenant" connects directly to Ridley Scott's 1979 seminal work of science fiction. It begins with the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy. There, the crew discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world - whose sole inhabitant is the "synthetic" David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.

Earlier this month, Fassbender revealed that he plays two roles--David, his robotic character from Prometheus, and a new version of the android.

"I am allowed to say I am playing two robots: Walter and David," he said, via AvP Galaxy. "I think what's great about it is that Ridley has gone back to the original DNA of Alien, the horror element of that. But it also has the scope and the scale of Prometheus. Ridley has cut it already. He is a machine. He is an incredible human being, and he was in such good form. He is such an imaginative and mischievous figure," he added.