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Almost 40 years later, even die-hard Alien fans may have trouble figuring out what they need to know going into this movie, especially with the film taking place 10 years after 2012’s 'Prometheus' and 18 years before 1979’s 'Aliens.'

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00:00Where is it?

00:06Ridley Scott's Alien Covenant is now in theaters, but almost 40 years and a half dozen movies later,

00:11even die-hard Alien fans may have trouble figuring out exactly what they need to know

00:16going into this movie, especially with the film taking place 10 years after 2012's Prometheus

00:21and 18 years before 1979's Alien.

00:24So here are five things you need to know before seeing Alien Covenant.

00:28First, alien xenomorphs were made to be used as biological weapons.

00:32In Prometheus, we learn the alien group known as the Engineers have created these weapons

00:37to eradicate life on Earth. While little is known about the parasitic lifeforms they created,

00:41we do know the creatures are linked to a mysterious black goo.

00:45Many different species who want nothing more than to infect another biological lifeform

00:50live in the goo, but the goo itself is also able to cause mutations.

00:54Also important to remember, the survivors of the ship Prometheus went off to find the Engineers

00:59at the end of that film.

01:00Next, different types of aliens are created after cross-species infections.

01:05We saw this at the end of Prometheus, when an alien burst out of an Engineer's chest.

01:09This alien that was spawned from a single drop of black goo, cross-infected by two human hosts,

01:15a squid alien and an Engineer, it looked similar to the xenomorphs that we're already familiar with

01:19from the Alien franchise. Next up, facehuggers not only creep me out, but they also don't

01:24exclusively infect humans. Throughout the entire franchise, we've seen this happen mostly

01:29to humans, creating the xenomorph that we are so accustomed to. But there are actually more

01:34infection possibilities than just humans, as seen in 1992's Alien 3, when we witness a facehugger

01:39infect a dog. Finally, xenomorphs behave differently if they are in proximity to their queen.

01:45In Aliens, we see xenomorphs capture the young character Newt, played by Carrie Henn, in order

01:50to take her back to the queen for infection. In films featuring no queen, the xenomorphs have

01:55one goal — kill everything. Our point? It's important to remember that depending on who

02:00they are around, a xenomorph may act differently.

02:03For a full breakdown of everything you need to know before seeing Alien Covenant, head to THR.com.

02:08I'm Tiffany Taylor for The Hollywood Reporter News.

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