Alien: Covenant‘s Rover Might Actually End Up Going to the Moon

Alien : Covenant has a mint of far - splurge futurist tech in it , which will ineluctably be smirch in scrap of the cast of characters by the time the xenomorphs are done with them . But one objet d’art in the movie is actually a morsel of present - mean solar day applied science : a small Rover supply by Audi that the manufacturer actually plan to send to the moon once its Hollywood calling has taken off .

The Lunar Quattro , as it ’s called , has been in development at the machine manufacturer in collaboration with a German blank space commencement - up called Part - Time Scientists ( yes , really ) since 2015 , with plans for it to eventually be used as part of a mission to the moonshine . lamentably , the Quattro ’s first mission will be fictional before it has any Bob Hope of jet off into the stars , appearing as one of the rovers used by the gang of the Covenant in the approaching Alien picture show . And , because apparently everything related to Alien : Covenant must have its ownshortfilmprologue , on top of its film appearance the Quattro also star in this :

It ’s a nifty way of life to incorporate actual ( eventual ) space - come engineering into a sci - fi film , even if it ’s a bit weird that the Covenant ’s crew are on the face of it using a 2017 wanderer in the former 22nd century . But hey , this promotional tie - in with a car producer makes a little more sense thansome other try latterly .