Prometheus and Alien: Covenant star Michael Fassbender has shared his thoughts on where his android character, David, might have headed next in Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror series.
The last we saw him, David had successfully tricked the human survivors of the colony ship Covenant, Daniels (Katherine Waterston) and Tennessee (Danny McBride), into entering cryogenic stasis, having smuggled a pair of facehugger embryos on board so that he could experiment on Daniels, Tennessee, and the rest of the ship’s unconscious colonists.
While a sequel to 2017’s Alien: Covenant directed by Scott had initially been in place, with a plan to eventually link up to the director’s iconic, original 1979 horror with Sigourney Weaver, successive delays meant the film fell eventually by the wayside.
Though Covenant had earned a respectable worldwide total of $240.9 million at the box office, it was only half of what Prometheus had made, and its reviews failed to drum up as much enthusiasm either.
Radio Times’s Terry Staunton gave the film three stars, writing “there are lots of scares but a lack of a meaty script".
So, when presiding studio 21st Century Fox was acquired by Disney, a largely disconnected sequel, Alien: Romulus, directed by Fede Álvarez, was greenlit instead.
"I thought it was super fascinating, the potential of what could come next," Fassbender told Radio Times in an exclusive interview.
"I always thought what’s interesting was David’s relationship to women in all of the Alien films. It’s almost like there’s an attraction, but an envy of the power of a woman, you know? I always thought that was very interesting to explore with David."
But the actor said, admittedly, he hadn’t put much thought to a third film.
"I didn’t think what could come beyond," he added. "I think for me it's always about ‘let's just get what needs to be done now’, in terms of the journey of what that story is, you know? Complete that, and then see what happens next."
The actor has since reunited with his Covenant co-star Waterston twice on screen, including in Danny Boyle’s 2015 biopic Steve Jobs, about the Apple Inc co-founder, and more recently, Paramount+’s spy series The Agency.
View Green Video on the source websiteIn the latter, Fassbender plays CIA officer "Martian", who returns to the agency’s London desk after a six-year covert assignment in Ethiopia. Waterston plays Martian’s former case officer, Naomi Ford.
The pair reflected a little on their past collaborations as they promoted the series's second season, with Waterston noting that she’d worked with Fassbender more than any other actor.
While she added that there "were some hint" in Covenant’s storyline as to her character’s fate, she joked about Daniels’s bowl cut: "Nobody wants me in that haircut again!"
"There was a review that said I looked like a missing member of The Monkees. It's one of the best bad reviews. I completely agree."
Ridley Scott, in 2024, told The Hollywood Reporter that he considered Covenant "big and ambitious and maybe too intellectual to play as well" as his other Alien films, but that it’s the "best one [for a sequel] because it leaves the girl in the [cryo pod] and David has alien eggs and 2,000 colonists hanging around. It’s a perfect beginning".
The Agency season 2 launches on Paramount+ from 21 June. Alien: Covenant in streaming on Disney+.
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