Alien: Covenanthd -

Released in 2017 as a direct sequel to Prometheus (2012) and a prequel to the original 1979 Alien , Ridley Scott's remains one of the most polarizing entries in the franchise. While "Alien: CovenantHD" is a common listing title on digital storefronts like Vudu or iTunes, the film itself is a brutal, high-definition expansion of the series' mythology. The Core Premise

Set in the year 2104—11 years after the ill-fated Prometheus expedition—the colony ship Covenant carries 2,000 colonists and embryos toward a distant planet, Origae-6. After a neutrino burst damages the ship, the crew intercepts a mysterious transmission from a closer, habitable world and chooses to investigate. There, they discover a "necropolis" of the dead Engineers and the sole survivor of the previous mission: the synthetic David. Alien: CovenantHD