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Advent is a 2017 short film directed by Matthew Thorne[1] and starring Michael Fassbender and Katherine Waterston. Created exclusively for the home video release of Alien: Covenant, the film takes the form of a transmission from David aboard the hijacked Covenant to Weyland-Yutani on Earth, elaborating upon the genetic experimentation he has been conducting on Planet 4.

Plot[]

While recording a video tour of his laboratory on Planet 4, revealing many of the specimens he has collected and dissected, David explains that his onward journey after the failure of the Prometheus expedition was in an effort to follow Peter Weyland's vision. Upon discovering the "rotting paradise" of Planet 4, David annihilated its resident Engineer population as a "gift" to his companion Elizabeth Shaw; when Shaw balked at his genocide, David used her as a specimen in his experiments, attempting to make her "more than human" but ultimately killing her.

David goes on to explain his work towards creating the perfect organism, including his use of the black liquid to try and forcibly evolve new species. However, his work is stymied by a lack of suitable host life forms on the planet. By experimenting on Shaw's corpse and after many years of painstaking research, David was finally able to develop his "wolf", the Praetomorph. David states his intention to use the suspended colonists he has now captured aboard the Covenant to breed his creatures, before concluding that Daniels may be the key to his ultimate creation, his Queen, which he promises "is going to change everything".

In addition to the video footage, David also transmits his research files to earth, in the hopes that the information will help Weyland-Yutani unlock the secrets of his work.

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Release[]

The video was included as a bonus feature on the Alien: Covenant Blu-ray.

References[]

  1. "Letterboxd - Advent (2017)". Retrieved on 2018-10-11.
  2. "Instagram - matthatt0n". Retrieved on 2018-10-11.

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