Alien: Covenant

A 2017 sequel to Prometheus, Alien: Covenant, continues the former film’s story. A further sequel to Alien, Alien: Romulus, was released in the summer of 2024. The film’s story is set in the period between the events of Alien and Aliens.

(2016), 20th Century Women (2016), Alien: Covenant (2017), After the Wedding (2019), and Where’d You Go, Bernadette (2019). In addition, Crudup made his streaming series debut, performing in Gypsy (2017) as the husband of a therapist (Naomi Watts) who becomes too involved in her patients’ lives.

Scott’s films from 2017 include Alien: Covenant and All the Money in the World, about the 1973 kidnapping of oil baron and philanthropist J. Paul Getty’s grandson. The latter movie was finished in October 2017—some two months before its scheduled release—when Kevin Spacey, who played Getty, was accused of sexual…

…then reteamed with Scott on Alien: Covenant (2017), an installment in the popular sci-fi series. After playing the title character in the thriller Killer, Fassbender had a memorable turn as the coach of the hapless American Samoa football (soccer) team in Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins (both 2023). Fassbender then…