Watch the first Alien: Covenant trailer

Time to learn how the iconic species was created.

If it hadn't been for 20th Century Fox teasing it ahead of the holidays we'd never thought that they, out of all days, would decide to reveal the first trailer for Alien: Covenant on Christmas morning. Not that we're complaining.

Here we get to see some of the horrors the crew aboard the colony ship Covenant faces after meeting David 8 (Michael Fassbender), the synthetic from Prometheus.