Ridley Scott’s ALIEN: COVENANT Trailer Watch the first ALIEN: COVENANT trailer! The film, directed by Ridley Scott (The Martian, Prometheus), stars Katherine Waterston, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, James Franco, Carmen Ejogo, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Guy Pearce, and Demián Bichir. ALIEN: COVENANT will be released in theaters on May 19. Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discover what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world, whose sole inhabitant is the synthetic David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.