The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape.The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape.The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and must attempt a harrowing escape.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 18 nominations
Demián Bichir
- Lope
- (as Demian Bichir)
Javier Botet
- Xenomorph
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaOn November 27, 2015, Sir Ridley Scott announced that this film would be the second (following Prometheus (2012)) in a new Alien trilogy that will take place closer to, and lead up to, the original Alien (1979) film. He later suggested that there may even be a fourth prequel film. However, the future of the series became uncertain after the purchase of 20th Century Fox by Disney in December 2017. The next film, tentatively titled 'Alien: Awakening', was set to enter preproduction that same month, but according to some sources, the project was shelved indefinitely. The commercial underperformance of Alien: Covenant as well as its lukewarm reception by critics and fans were named as reasons, although no official statements were made by Disney. In early 2019, however, the script called Alien: Awakening was actively being written, and Untitled Alien Prequel was officially in production as of 2022.
- GoofsA supposedly well-trained crew take no precautions at all against infections from an alien biosphere. They had no reason to suspect a link with humans, but Earth has bacteria like Tetanus that cannot survive in a human, but often causes death while trying. They have an android, safe from infection, but go themselves.
- Crazy creditsThe 20th Century Fox logo is in a shade of dark blue-gray.
- Alternate versionsChinese version was heavily edited to get an approval from film censor's office. Beside violent scenes, almost any scene with an Alien was cut/shortened so you can barely see the creatures. The kiss between David and Walter was removed as well.
- ConnectionsEdited into Alien: Covenant - Advent (2017)
- SoundtracksTheme from Alien
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith
Featured review
I am well aware the cinematography is great. And The lead actress was incredible and fascinating to watch especially considering the horrible material. The characters have no reason to do what they do and are very typical horror fare and uninteresting to watch. And since you cant invest in the characters it makes this already very long movie excrutiatingly so. There is no tension sinne you can almosy guess immediately The outcome of the move and thus are never surprised.
It is disapointing to feel this way when you can clearly see that a lot of work was put inte The movie.
Wish the crew well and hope for a better follow up!
It is disapointing to feel this way when you can clearly see that a lot of work was put inte The movie.
Wish the crew well and hope for a better follow up!
- tobias_lund_qvist
- Jul 19, 2021
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- Also known as
- Prometheus 2
- Filming locations
- Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park, Southland, New Zealand(spacecraft landing site)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $97,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $74,262,031
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $36,160,621
- May 21, 2017
- Gross worldwide
- $240,892,187
- Runtime2 hours 2 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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