Alien: Covenant Trailer Teaser Released

12/24/2016 09:05 am EST

Twentieth Century Fox has released a new teaser for Alien: Covenant.

The teaser confirms that the first full trailer for Alien: Covenant will arrive on Christmas Day.

The new teaser shows an alien egg hatching in an homage to some of the tensest moments of the Alien Franchise

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In Alien: Covenant, headed toward a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew members of the colony ship Covenant discover what they believe to be an uncharted paradise, but it is actually a dark, menacing world in which the only inhabitant is the synthetic David (Michael Fassbender), a survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.

Alien: Covenant is directed by Ridley Scott, written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof, and stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Billy Crudup and James Franco.

Alien: Covenant opens in theaters May 19, 2017.

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