Prometheus sequel is now called 'Alien: Covenent', First Trailer OUT
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[h=1]Alien: Covenant Will Be the Goriest Alien Movie Yet[/h]
Ridley Scott’s original Alien changes from being an eerily atmospheric movie set in outer space to a full-blown horror film, during the infamous dinner scene in which John Hurt’s character Kane suffers a gruesome death by way of Chest-burster. Nearly forty years later and the subsequent Alien film property birthed by Scott’s 1979 classic is one of the rare big-budget, consistently R-Rated franchises (with the exception of Paul W.S. Anderson’s Alien vs. Predator) that’s currently active in modern Hollywood.
Scott has made it clear for some time that Alien: Covenant – the director’s latest movie, which doubles as a sequel to Scott’s 2012 installment Prometheus and prequel to the original Alien – is upholding that tradition, teasing a “pretty hard R” mix of sci-fi and horror in the film. During Screen Rant’s visit to the set of Covenant, the film’s special visual effects supervisor, Neil Corbould further confirmed that Covenant won’t be skimping on the gore factor either.
When asked if Alien: Covenant is going to be the goriest Alien movie yet, Corbould responded in the affirmative, saying “I would probably say it is going to be, yeah.” While Corbould admitted he wouldn’t exactly call the gore in Covenant “original” in nature, he also emphasized that the additional gore serves to make the film as disturbing and unsettling as the original Alien was for audiences, back in 1979:
Um, I don’t know that you can make gore original. Gore is gore, I think, at the end of the day. Between myself and Conor [O’Sullivan], we’re trying to make it as realistic as possible, because that’s what Ridley [Scott] wants, you know. He wants the shock factor. So, you know, we’re going all out for that. From the stuff I’ve seen it looks fantastic. I think it’s going to have a similar impact to what the original ALIEN did, because that was quite shocking when everyone saw that. You know, it’s a true, true horror movie. I think that’s what this is going to be like.
The Alien: Covenant red band trailer offers a taste of the gruesomeness that awaits moviegoers in the actual film; including, the death of one of the Covenant’s crew members by way of a back-bursting newborn Neomorph (read: the new version of the Xenomorph seen in the film), as well as the death of another crew member during what starts out being a cozy shower with their partner. The variety in ways that characters in Covenant meet their own final destination required Corbould and his effects team to get creative too, when it came to creating different consistencies in the fake gore and guts being sprayed about throughout the film’s many moments of bloodshed:
We have, like, congealed blood and very … we’ve got these blood chuckers, which are different sizes with compressed air and then on the top … their like a long tube, and at the end of the tube we put a cap on it with different patterns so it gives you like a spray or splurge or, you know, we’re quite artistic … We do different shapes to give us different looks. You know, sometimes we want a sheet of blood or a spray of blood or big globules of blood. It’s a science.
Humans typically aren’t the only ones who suffer a grisly demise during the course of any one Alien movie, either. There’s usually an android character in these films who suffers heavy damage too (see Michael Fassbender’s David getting his head ripped off by an Engineer in Prometheus, for a recent example), before one or more members of the eponymous extraterrestrial race meets their own grim end. Covenant won’t be breaking from tradition in that respect, based on what Corbould had to offer:
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--------------- [MENTION=26]Chandoo[/MENTION] saw the new trailer ? what do u think is shaw alive
Ridley Scott’s original Alien changes from being an eerily atmospheric movie set in outer space to a full-blown horror film, during the infamous dinner scene in which John Hurt’s character Kane suffers a gruesome death by way of Chest-burster. Nearly forty years later and the subsequent Alien film property birthed by Scott’s 1979 classic is one of the rare big-budget, consistently R-Rated franchises (with the exception of Paul W.S. Anderson’s Alien vs. Predator) that’s currently active in modern Hollywood.
Scott has made it clear for some time that Alien: Covenant – the director’s latest movie, which doubles as a sequel to Scott’s 2012 installment Prometheus and prequel to the original Alien – is upholding that tradition, teasing a “pretty hard R” mix of sci-fi and horror in the film. During Screen Rant’s visit to the set of Covenant, the film’s special visual effects supervisor, Neil Corbould further confirmed that Covenant won’t be skimping on the gore factor either.
When asked if Alien: Covenant is going to be the goriest Alien movie yet, Corbould responded in the affirmative, saying “I would probably say it is going to be, yeah.” While Corbould admitted he wouldn’t exactly call the gore in Covenant “original” in nature, he also emphasized that the additional gore serves to make the film as disturbing and unsettling as the original Alien was for audiences, back in 1979:
Um, I don’t know that you can make gore original. Gore is gore, I think, at the end of the day. Between myself and Conor [O’Sullivan], we’re trying to make it as realistic as possible, because that’s what Ridley [Scott] wants, you know. He wants the shock factor. So, you know, we’re going all out for that. From the stuff I’ve seen it looks fantastic. I think it’s going to have a similar impact to what the original ALIEN did, because that was quite shocking when everyone saw that. You know, it’s a true, true horror movie. I think that’s what this is going to be like.
The Alien: Covenant red band trailer offers a taste of the gruesomeness that awaits moviegoers in the actual film; including, the death of one of the Covenant’s crew members by way of a back-bursting newborn Neomorph (read: the new version of the Xenomorph seen in the film), as well as the death of another crew member during what starts out being a cozy shower with their partner. The variety in ways that characters in Covenant meet their own final destination required Corbould and his effects team to get creative too, when it came to creating different consistencies in the fake gore and guts being sprayed about throughout the film’s many moments of bloodshed:
We have, like, congealed blood and very … we’ve got these blood chuckers, which are different sizes with compressed air and then on the top … their like a long tube, and at the end of the tube we put a cap on it with different patterns so it gives you like a spray or splurge or, you know, we’re quite artistic … We do different shapes to give us different looks. You know, sometimes we want a sheet of blood or a spray of blood or big globules of blood. It’s a science.
Humans typically aren’t the only ones who suffer a grisly demise during the course of any one Alien movie, either. There’s usually an android character in these films who suffers heavy damage too (see Michael Fassbender’s David getting his head ripped off by an Engineer in Prometheus, for a recent example), before one or more members of the eponymous extraterrestrial race meets their own grim end. Covenant won’t be breaking from tradition in that respect, based on what Corbould had to offer:
[We’ve] made some alien blood as well. We’ve made some black blood and then we’ve got the android white fluid, or whatever that is. Uh yeah, so we’ve made quite a few different types, different consistencies, different colors. The red blood, we’ve probably made like a thousand liters of red blood, so… You can imagine what the film’s going to be like.
Covenant was scripted by Scott’s Gladiator collaborator John Logan, a writer who himself is no stranger to crafting horror fare; being the creator of Showtime’s Grand Guignol-style horror literature mashup TV series, Penny Dreadful. If Logan, Scott, Corbould and their many collaborators fall short in their efforts to freak out moviegoing audiences with the newest Alien installment, it certainly won’t be for lack of trying on their part.
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- Alien: Covenant release date: May 19, 2017
--------------- [MENTION=26]Chandoo[/MENTION] saw the new trailer ? what do u think is shaw alive
I think Shaw is the alien, or some kind of alien.
I'm 100% in this movie just to see James Franco get killed horribly.
I'm 100% in this movie just to see James Franco get killed horribly.
well by the trailer they see those wheat fields and all im sure david and shaw came here planted those no ? im counting on shaw to be alive somewhere...
Alien: Covenant – The Engineers Didn’t Create the Xenomorphs
When Ridley Scott’s Alien first released in 1979, the franchise was a visceral horror film with a science fiction aesthetic. It was a gritty and relatively simple premise which was executed masterfully, earning instant critical acclaim. The franchise built upon this success by expanding its scope, ratcheting up the action spectacle and horror by militarising the core dynamic in James Cameron’s Aliens. Prometheus broadened the scope even further, by daring to ask questions about the nature of creation. Alien: Covenant is looking to fuse the two halves of this franchise in more ways than one, by spattering the screen with gore while expanding on the complex mythology of its eponymous creature, and finally answering where they came from.
The events of Prometheus appeared to suggest that the xenomorph was at least in-part a creation of the mysterious Engineers. However, returning director Scott has debunked that theory, teasing fans prior to the release of the fifth film in the franchise.
In an interview with Collider (via IBT), Scott discussed the nature of Alien: Covenant, and why now is the right time to answer a question that has bothered fans since the original released over 30 years ago:
So we’ve reinvented the idea of Alien, I think, which is that Covenant gets us a step closer to who and why was this thing designed to make human beings. And if you think it’s them [the Engineers], you’re dead wrong.”
Scott’s frank comments tease a much larger plot than the original entailed, with the suggestion that this film will bring viewers a “step closer” to understanding the nature of the creatures, hinting that audiences will not receive all the answers this time around. The sequel to Covenant is already written, so it’s likely that this core question will straddle the two movies. While that may frustrate fans who were hoping for some concrete answers, rumours have begun to circulate about the evolutionary chain linking humans, the Engineers, and the xenomorphs.
There’s a suggestion (posted on Alien-Covenant.com) that some higher power has seeded humans, Engineers, and 3-4 other iterations of humanoids throughout many universes. These higher beings supposedly have God-like powers, including the power to elicit massive scale natural disasters in order to change and reset ecosystems. The horror of a xenomorph reaching earth has been teased throughout the franchise with the general consensus that such an eventuality would lead to an extinction event. If these higher beings exist, however, they could have created the xenomorph as a form of divine justice. At this point, though, fans will have to wait to find out.
[h=2]Source: Collider (via IBT), Alien-Covenant.com[/h]
When Ridley Scott’s Alien first released in 1979, the franchise was a visceral horror film with a science fiction aesthetic. It was a gritty and relatively simple premise which was executed masterfully, earning instant critical acclaim. The franchise built upon this success by expanding its scope, ratcheting up the action spectacle and horror by militarising the core dynamic in James Cameron’s Aliens. Prometheus broadened the scope even further, by daring to ask questions about the nature of creation. Alien: Covenant is looking to fuse the two halves of this franchise in more ways than one, by spattering the screen with gore while expanding on the complex mythology of its eponymous creature, and finally answering where they came from.
The events of Prometheus appeared to suggest that the xenomorph was at least in-part a creation of the mysterious Engineers. However, returning director Scott has debunked that theory, teasing fans prior to the release of the fifth film in the franchise.
In an interview with Collider (via IBT), Scott discussed the nature of Alien: Covenant, and why now is the right time to answer a question that has bothered fans since the original released over 30 years ago:
“It shouldn’t have really ended, so we’ve come back with a very simple idea: Who made them? [Alien] was just about there it is; it exists. And this is what it is…
So we’ve reinvented the idea of Alien, I think, which is that Covenant gets us a step closer to who and why was this thing designed to make human beings. And if you think it’s them [the Engineers], you’re dead wrong.”
Scott’s frank comments tease a much larger plot than the original entailed, with the suggestion that this film will bring viewers a “step closer” to understanding the nature of the creatures, hinting that audiences will not receive all the answers this time around. The sequel to Covenant is already written, so it’s likely that this core question will straddle the two movies. While that may frustrate fans who were hoping for some concrete answers, rumours have begun to circulate about the evolutionary chain linking humans, the Engineers, and the xenomorphs.
There’s a suggestion (posted on Alien-Covenant.com) that some higher power has seeded humans, Engineers, and 3-4 other iterations of humanoids throughout many universes. These higher beings supposedly have God-like powers, including the power to elicit massive scale natural disasters in order to change and reset ecosystems. The horror of a xenomorph reaching earth has been teased throughout the franchise with the general consensus that such an eventuality would lead to an extinction event. If these higher beings exist, however, they could have created the xenomorph as a form of divine justice. At this point, though, fans will have to wait to find out.
[h=2]Source: Collider (via IBT), Alien-Covenant.com[/h]
[h=1]Alien: Covenant – Ridley Scott Teases Noomi Rapace’s Return[/h]
When it was announced that the next film in the Alien franchise to be released was going to be a sequel to 2012’s Prometheus, rather than Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5, fans weren’t entirely sure what to expect from it. The answer so far has been that Alien: Covenant will be more like the 1979 original than the divisive 2012 film, with a horrifying tone and gorier elements that clearly to harken back to the isolated roots that made Alien so terrifying and memorable in the first place. However, it’s still not entirely clear what connections to Prometheus fans can expect to see in Covenant – and at the center of that debate, is Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw, the protagonist and last living human survivor of Prometheus.
It’s already been confirmed that Michael Fassbender’s David will be returning in Covenant (though it’s not clear what his role in the film will be), while it took quite a bit longer for Rapace’s Shaw to be confirmed. But even after the news of her inclusion in the film, Shaw has been entirely absent from all marketing and footage released from Covenant, much to the confusion and dismay of fans who expected her to play a much larger role in the Prometheus sequel than she clearly is.
Director Ridley Scott hasn’t been exactly forthcoming with information regarding Rapace’s role in Covenant either. While recently speaking with Fandango about the film, though, Scott did confirm once and for all that Rapace will be appearing in the final version of Alien: Covenant, but not in a way that some fans might expect:
So while fans can expect to learn what happened to Shaw after Prometheus, it doesn’t look like she’ll be returning “fully” in the sequel, which could mean she’s only shown through flashbacks. It’s hard to know for sure what Scott means by that, but based on his comments here, it appears as though David may have used her or did something to Shaw in between the events of Prometheus and Covenant, that will likely play a major role in the story of Covenant. Especially if David is up to something similar to how he was in Prometheus, which he almost certainly will be.
This is definitely a bit of a bait and switch on Scott’s part since the ending of Prometheus made it look like the next film in the franchise would continue to follow Shaw and David, as they further explored the Engineer’s home world. But considering how most fans reacted to the tone and story of Prometheus compared to how positively they’re already reacting to the trailers and footage from Alien: Covenant, that unexpected storytelling swerve may have been for the best in the end.
Source: Fandango
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damn [MENTION=26]Chandoo[/MENTION] could be what you said something.. transforms into an alien ! damn
When it was announced that the next film in the Alien franchise to be released was going to be a sequel to 2012’s Prometheus, rather than Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5, fans weren’t entirely sure what to expect from it. The answer so far has been that Alien: Covenant will be more like the 1979 original than the divisive 2012 film, with a horrifying tone and gorier elements that clearly to harken back to the isolated roots that made Alien so terrifying and memorable in the first place. However, it’s still not entirely clear what connections to Prometheus fans can expect to see in Covenant – and at the center of that debate, is Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw, the protagonist and last living human survivor of Prometheus.
It’s already been confirmed that Michael Fassbender’s David will be returning in Covenant (though it’s not clear what his role in the film will be), while it took quite a bit longer for Rapace’s Shaw to be confirmed. But even after the news of her inclusion in the film, Shaw has been entirely absent from all marketing and footage released from Covenant, much to the confusion and dismay of fans who expected her to play a much larger role in the Prometheus sequel than she clearly is.
Director Ridley Scott hasn’t been exactly forthcoming with information regarding Rapace’s role in Covenant either. While recently speaking with Fandango about the film, though, Scott did confirm once and for all that Rapace will be appearing in the final version of Alien: Covenant, but not in a way that some fans might expect:
“Yes, in a way. Not fully, but in a way. She was integral to what David carried out later.”
So while fans can expect to learn what happened to Shaw after Prometheus, it doesn’t look like she’ll be returning “fully” in the sequel, which could mean she’s only shown through flashbacks. It’s hard to know for sure what Scott means by that, but based on his comments here, it appears as though David may have used her or did something to Shaw in between the events of Prometheus and Covenant, that will likely play a major role in the story of Covenant. Especially if David is up to something similar to how he was in Prometheus, which he almost certainly will be.
This is definitely a bit of a bait and switch on Scott’s part since the ending of Prometheus made it look like the next film in the franchise would continue to follow Shaw and David, as they further explored the Engineer’s home world. But considering how most fans reacted to the tone and story of Prometheus compared to how positively they’re already reacting to the trailers and footage from Alien: Covenant, that unexpected storytelling swerve may have been for the best in the end.
Source: Fandango
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damn [MENTION=26]Chandoo[/MENTION] could be what you said something.. transforms into an alien ! damn
yeah i want to see in imax but timing is BS for me i want a late night show man but 2am is absrud, can't go on 8:30 one coz of work... wheres the good ol 11pm one in imax
i want a late night show man but 2am is absrud, can't go on 8:30 one coz of work... wheres the good ol 11pm one in imax
Are they showing this in 3D? I can't seem to find any cinema in Lahore showing 3Dyeah i want to see in imax but timing is BS for me
. Not sure about other cities.
[MENTION=4563]opethian[/MENTION] yeah not everything was carried out properly and explained from Prometheus, sure shaw was shown but that alien as you mentioned that was born from the engineer where'd he go ?
hmm I thought that alien from the engineer was gonna be a xenomorph....
hmm I thought that alien from the engineer was gonna be a xenomorph....
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