The man who kickstarted the Alien franchise lifts the lid on the latest installment.
Ridley Scott is back in the director's chair for his third Alien film - and he's described Covenant as a "joining up" of 2012's Prometheus and the 1979 original.
Scott told Digital Spy that Covenant - out May 19, 2017 - is a "multi-layered" tale "with some great characters".
"I saw Alien finally succumb after four films, then they also did Alien vs. Predator, after which I thought, 'Uh-oh, that's it' - but then I waited a couple of years, I went back and decided to resurrect it," he explained.
"No-one actually asked where they came from in the three subsequent movies, which is kind of ridiculous," he said. "That's why good writers are good writers, because they'll ask a basic question like that and make that into a scenario.
"So we did Prometheus - that heaved it off the ground - and Covenant is a follow-through to Prometheus. So we now know who created this, and why, and the next one's a joining up of the storyline. It touches on mortality, immortality and the real question of who created us and why."
Scott told us that both Prometheus and Covenant were inspired by his own beliefs and speculation on the origins of the human race.
"We're not just a random biological accident," he insisted. "For you and I to be sitting here right now [by accident] would take trillions of correct decisions to be made randomly by nature, which of course is ridiculous.
"I think there's some kind of decision being made. I believe in a higher force - if we want to call it God, then it's God."