Ridley Scott's next return to the Alien franchise will occur 10 years after the events of Prometheus, according to its costume designer.

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Janty Yates, who recently worked on the slightly less bombastic science fiction film The Martian, confirmed as much to Collider. This would place the film in the fictional future of 2103, or well over a century before the original Alien.The film — titled Alien: Covenant — will also feature at least some visual continuity in the form of David. That's Michael Fassbender's amoral android from the previous prequel. He'll apparently be wearing the same sort of spacesuit as before, which would imply that his character has found a replacement for the body an angry Engineer "misplaced" for him at the end of Prometheus.Besides that tidbit, the time delay might clue us into what Noomi Rapace's character Doctor Shaw has been up to. Likely traveling to the Engineer's home world in their very own spaceship. Though that doesn't explain how at least one new human character — to be played by Inherent Vice's Katherine Waterston — gets involved. Alien: Covenant is set to premiere on October 6, 2017.

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