Director Ridley Scott is returning to the Alien universe once again with the history behind the Engineers/Space Jockey alien race that, as established in Prometheus, was responsible for creating human life on Earth in the first place.
Scott's new Alien film takes place on a "dark, dangerous world" (believed to be the Engineers' home planet) that has been largely abandoned, where the human crew of the spaceship Covenant encounter the part of the human cast in Covenant, but the actor has now in essence confirmed that so much is true - even if he skirted around revealing what his role in the film is, in the process.
It's rumored that Franco is playing Branson, the captain of the spaceship Covenant and husband to Alien: Covenant protagonist Daniels, played by Why Him?, but refrained from saying anything beyond that.
Franco s a cast in Covenant that also includes Waterston's Fantastic Beasts costar Carmen Ejogo, as well as Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir and Prometheus veteran Noomi Rapace in ing roles. McBride, for his part, has already dismissed suggestions that he's playing the comic relief in the film, indicating that Covenant will find both McBride and his This is the End costar Franco in rare dramatic form. That doesn't read as being a bad idea either, seeing as both actors have been praised for their more serious turns in the past (see McBride in Up in the Air and Franco in True Story, for example).
Covenant itself is expected to be a straight-faced horror film with sci-fi elements (in the vein of the original Alien), based on reportedly once under consideration for), Covenant could therefore provide moviegoers with their one chance to see James Franco: sci-fi/action star on the big screen, instead.
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Source: WGTC