‘Alien: Covenant’ Footage Reveals Shocking Information; Michael Fassbender Explains How His Character Differs From ‘Prometheus’

Fans are excited about "Alien: Covenant", which is a sequel to 2012 "Prometheus". Footage of the upcoming movie has been released recently that helped the audience to connect the two Alien franchise flicks via Michael Fassbender's character.

According to Digital Spy, the "Alien: Covenant" footage shows an arc-shaped spaceship arriving on the Engineers' home world. Michael Fassbender's David then emerges from it and unleashes hundreds of black bombs, turning the whole civilization into aliens.

Interestingly, the black canisters shown in the "Alien: Covenant" footage can be seen in their seemingly dormant form in "Prometheus." The scene then jumps forward to the present day, the crew of the Covenant lands on the same planet wondering what destroyed it.

In an interview with Collider, Michael Fassbender opened up about his character and "Alien: Covenant". The actor plays the role of Walter, an updated synthetic android and David, who is earlier-made, prototype android.

"Walter is very much a synthetic minus any of the human traits," Collider quoted Fassbender on Walter of "Alien: Covenant" and David's differences. "When the David 8's came out, there was a resistance from people to that model because it freaked them out a little bit."

Fassbender added that people found it rather uncomfortable that David was demonstrating a lot of human qualities. The android's programming was tilting more towards human characteristics, like ego and vanity and pride than being robotic. Therefore, in "Alien: Covenant", updated models such as Walter was designed with no human traits.

While David's human qualities were as much a part of him now as his synthetic qualities in "Prometheus", Walter is very straightforward, logical and synthetic. In "Alien: Covenant", Fassbender's character is there to serve the ship, and its crew. "Alien: Covenant" is all set to hit theaters on May 19, 2017.

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