Michael Fassbender Says ALIEN: COVENANT Will Be "Super Scary"

I really liked Prometheus the first time I saw it. I was swept up in the visuals (say what you will about that movie, but it looks wonderful), and I loved the idea of being back in the hands of Ridley Scott as he returned to an iconic movie universe he created years before with the first Alien. But after leaving the theater and really thinking about it, I realized the film is completely let down by the idiotic decisions of many of its characters — so much so that the film is pretty much ruined for me at this point. I can't take it seriously as a movie because the script fails the movie on such a massive level.

So naturally, I'm a little hesitant about Scott returning to that world again with Alien: Covenant, his sequel that still serves as a prequel to the original Alien. But some great casting choices and cool statements like this from returning star Michael Fassbender are making me get excited about the film in spite of myself. Fassbender told Collider:

"This Alien is going to be… I’m very excited to see it and everybody in the film was saying this is a film that we all want to see. It’s much scarier than Prometheus but it’s got the same sort of scope of Prometheus. It’s kind of got more of the sort of thriller, imminent disaster feel that Alien had, so it’s kind of a beautiful meeting of both of those films. I’m really excited to see it, I think it’s gonna be super scary number one and then again with the massive scope of Prometheus…Once it starts and the ball starts rolling, it doesn’t let up. It’s really gonna bring chills to the cinema."

That's very encouraging to hear, because Prometheus could have used a few more scares...or at least a bigger, better sense of utter dread permeating the whole thing. We'll see if Alien: Covenant can improve on what came before it when it arrives in theaters on August 4, 2017.