Michael Fassbender and Danny McBride’s terrifying space adventure is landing on streaming today. Directed by Ridley Scott, the 2017 film also stars Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, and Demián Bichir. It follows a crew of a colony ship whose mission takes a terrifying turn after they land on a mysterious planet.
Alien: Covenant starts streaming on Peacock today, September 1, 2026. The film is a sequel to Prometheus (2012) and continues the story of Fassbender’s android David. Its streaming debut arrives shortly after Scott confirmed that he is developing a follow-up to the film, nearly a decade after its theatrical release.
The upcoming Alien: Covenant sequel will reportedly continue David’s story after the events of the 2017 film. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Scott has revealed that the project will explore David creating a “brave new world for himself.” The project is still in development, with no release date confirmed, while Fassbender is expected to return.
The announcement also gives fans a reason to revisit the film before David’s story potentially continues. Alien: Covenant ends with David’s fate in a major cliffhanger, setting up the story for the upcoming sequel.
What is Michael Fassbender’s Alien: Covenant about?
Alien: Covenant follows the crew of the colony ship Covenant as they travel to a distant planet to establish a new human settlement. When the crew receives a mysterious transmission from a nearby world, they decide to investigate and change their course.
What appears to be an ideal place for humanity to settle soon becomes a nightmare. The mission quickly becomes a fight for survival when the crew encounters deadly aliens. They also discover David, the synthetic survivor of the Prometheus expedition.
Fassbender plays both David and Walter, an android designed to serve the Covenant crew. Their differences become important as the survivors uncover David’s experiments and his disturbing vision for the future. McBride portrays Tennessee, the Covenant’s pilot and one of the crew members caught in the deadly crisis.
With Scott developing a sequel focused on David, Alien: Covenant on Peacock lets viewers revisit his story before the next chapter.
