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New Alien: Covenant Image of a Bloodied Katherine Waterston

USA Today has released a new high-resolution Alien: Covenant still that features a bloodied […]

USA Today has released a new high-resolution Alien: Covenant still that features a bloodied Katherine Waterston holding a gun and gritting her teeth through an attack from a nasty intergalactic creature. The site also spoke with Waterston, who shared the film’s main theme and explained how her Daniels character — the crew’s chief terraformist — is similar to Sigourney Weaver’s iconic Ripley.

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“They are both able to somehow think clearly in really shocking, unimaginable scenarios,” Waterston said. “It’s fun to play someone who can thrive in that chaos.”

And like Ripley, a warrant officer-turned-alien warrior, Waterston’s self-described “space gardener” will discover how courageous she can be when the lives of her and her crew hang in the balance. This all ties together with the film’s theme: “You don’t really know what you’re made of until you’re tested.”

Director Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created, with ALIEN: COVENANT, a new chapter in his groundbreaking ALIEN franchise. The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, 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. When they uncover a threat beyond their imagination, they must attempt a harrowing escape.

The cast features Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Amy Seimetz, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Nathaniel Dean, Alexander England, and Benjamin Rigby.

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Alien: Covenant opens in theaters on May 19, 2017.