--- description: Fox has dropped the first horrifying and gory trailer for Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant. Watch it here title: Watch the First Terrifying Trailer for 'Alien: Covenant' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f18ceb22f1d6544/6988b3f397cdff74926aef93/alien-covenant.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch the First Terrifying Trailer for _Alien: Covenant_ by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Dec 25, 2016 7:04 PM CUT by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Dec 25, 2016 7:04 PM CUT Just in time for Christmas, Fox has dropped the first horrifying and gory trailer for [Ridley Scott’s _Alien: Covenant_](http://time.com/97857/hr-giger-ridley-scott-statement/ "undefined"). Directed by Scott and starring Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace and Guy Pearce, along with Katherine Waterston, Demain Bichir, Billy Crudup, James Franco and Danny McBride, the latest [film in the _Alien_ franchise](http://time.com/3965634/sigourney-weaver-alien-vs-predator/ "undefined") follows a group of space colonists who discover the planet they landed on is much more treacherous than they thought it would be. _Alien: Covenant_ hits theaters on May 19\. Watch the trailer above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4617863/alien-covenant-trailer-ridley-scott/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4617863/alien-covenant-trailer-ridley-scott/"},"headline":"Watch the First Terrifying Trailer for Alien: Covenant","datePublished":"2016-12-25T19:04:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:56.786Z","description":"Warning: It's gory","url":"https://time.com/4617863/alien-covenant-trailer-ridley-scott/","keywords":["movies","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f18ceb22f1d6544/6988b3f397cdff74926aef93/alien-covenant.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4f18ceb22f1d6544/6988b3f397cdff74926aef93/alien-covenant.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"alien-covenant","caption":"","creditText":"YouTube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4617863/alien-covenant-trailer-ridley-scott/","name":"Watch the First Terrifying Trailer for Alien: Covenant"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"Warning: It's gory","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4617863/alien-covenant-trailer-ridley-scott/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4617863/alien-covenant-trailer-ridley-scott/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```