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Alien Covenant Released: May 2017 Starring: Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender, Billy Crudup, Carmen Ejogo Director: Ridley Scott In our latest trip to Ridley Scott’s version of space, will we be in for another thrill ride aboard The Nostromo, or will we have another horror aboard The Prometheus? _____________________________________________________________________________ Alien Covenant is the latest in the seemingly never-ending string of Alien films and the second of the newly formed prequels (although the first one which openly admits it is one from the get go [frankly though, Prometheus’ version of keeping it under wraps was about as subtle as David Dickinson’s [hopefully] fake tan] ). It opens ominously [how else would you want it to?] , with the colony ship, The Covenant [ah, now the title makes sense] hitting a snag of bother as they fly to their designated colony planet. Saved from disaster by their on board synthetic, Walter (Fassbender), the crew a