Good news, those who enjoyed Ridley Scott's latest Xenomorphic chapter, Alien: Covenant – there will be 18 minutes of deleted scenes and even more extended footage upon its Blu-ray release.

The news doesn't come as that much of a surprise, given Scott recently revealed the original cut of Covenant was 20 minutes longer. So, as long as the deleted and extended scenes don't include an even longer recorder solo from David, we're rather excited by the prospect of a little more Covenant via whatever was left on the cutting room floor.

Indeed, the inclusion of new footage may mean that we finally see the many teaser and trailer moments that were notably missing from the movie's final cut.

Plus, there's a host of other goodies as well.

The forthcoming Blu-ray edition will include audio commentary by Alien pioneer and director Ridley Scott, as well as five featurettes (which may also fill us in about that missing footage from the trailers).

The shortest of the featurettes, Meet Walter, stands at at just 2m 19s long, while Phobos will run 9m 8s.

Given Phobos is the largest satellite on Mars, we expect this featurette will give us more from the transmission soundbites in the movie, and possibly a little more intel about Noomi Rapace's Elizabeth Shaw between Prometheus and the start of Covenant.

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The bonus features will also include a 55-minute Master Class from Ridley Scott, as well as those misleading theatrical trailers and David's Illustrations.

Excited, us?

Alien: Covenant will be available on Blu-ray August 15 in the US. The UK release date is TBC.

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