Alien: Covenant: Gruesome image shows off deadly Neomorph

Alien: Covenant is drawing ever nearer and, if your excitement wasn’t already in overdrive, it most likely will be following the release of the below three images.

The brand new stills – which have been unveiled exclusively by Empire – backup director Ridley Scott’s claim that the sequel will be closer in spirit to his original 1979 classic Alien than any franchise entry that has followed.

First up is a still showing a mysterious figure unleashing pods on the Engineers planet – to us, this looks like David (Michael Fassbender) which corroborates previous reports seeming to confirm how Covenant will be directly linked to 2012 film Prometheus.

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