‘Alien Covenant’ Poster Teases Earlier Release: May 19, 2017
Alien: Covenant! Can’t be any worse than Prometheus, right? Right?! Well, we will all find out a bit earlier, given that the movie has been pushed-up to May 19, 2017.
Nothing says “Happy Thanksgiving” like a chestburster at the dinner table. 20th Century Fox dropped a little pre-Thanksgiving surprise tonight by unveiling the very first poster for Alien: Covenant, director Ridley Scott’s follow-up to Prometheus. It’s an unnerving one-sheet that relies on the iconography of H.R. Giger’s Alien design, signaling to fans that this Prometheus sequel will very much tie into the Alien franchise as a whole.
But the poster also carries more information than meets the eye. The one-sheet boasts a “May 2017” release date tease as 20th Century Fox has also decided to move up the release of Alien: Covenant from August 4, 2017 to May 19, 2017. It’s the rare blockbuster shift that actually sees the movie arriving earlier rather than later, as many studios push back their pricey films in order to ensure the film is, you know, actually done. But it appears that Scott has been working quickly in post-production on the pic and it’ll be ready to enter the gauntlet of the Summer 2017 Blockbuster Season.