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Alien: Covenant *Spoilers from post 747*

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  • #122
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    The writer of Prometheus got a lot if criticism, but isn't this universe Scott's (and others involved with the original) creation?
    It seems like there's a whiff of making it up as they go along, or the original big picture story Scott had was crap or he thinks the new one is better.


  • #123
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Ipso wrote: »
    or the original big picture story Scott had was crap or he thinks the new one is better.

    Hey! Don't diss Blue Space Jesus!


  • #124
    Mr Freeze
    Registered Users Posts: 6,618 ✭✭✭Mr Freeze


    Keplar240B wrote: »
    Was not david is just a head last we saw him?

    Davids-head.jpg

    When Shaw was rappelling out of the crashed ship at the end, you can see they took David's body too, sent it to down the rope before she rappels out.


  • #125
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,406 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    evosteo wrote: »
    12274548_10153678527116605_7526493259206569164_n.png?oh=769f6f3bc6e4691be0b0e9d71c027ffc&oe=56BB9729

    "Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in ALIEN with ALIEN: COVENANT, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with PROMETHEUS -- and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science fiction. Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world -- whose sole inhabitant is the "synthetic" David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition."

    taken from the alien facebook page


    Sounds like the plot from the recent "Fire and Stone" Alien/Prometheus/Predator comic series.


  • #126
    OU812
    Registered Users Posts: 6,034 ✭✭✭OU812


    I wonder if they'll rebrand Prometheus as "Alien: Prometheus" now


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  • #127
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Or going by Scott's recent hankering for religious themes - Alien: Jesus Christ :pac:


  • #128
    weemcd
    Registered Users Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭weemcd


    They better keep Noomi Rapace in this, fantastic actress.


  • #129
    Belial
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭Belial


    So Blomkamp's sequel will (or 'would have' - hopefully 'will'!) focus on a grown-up Newt.

    blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/michael-biehn-says-neill-blomkamps-alien-wouldve-focused-on-newt-2-xenomorphs-rumored-for-alien-covenant-20151123
    "They’re planning on bringing me and Newt back and at this point Newt will be around twenty-seven years old," Biehn said. "I know that every actress in Hollywood is going to want to play this one, it’s really a passing of the torch between Sigourney and this younger actress who would play Newt."


  • #130
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    So we will disregard Alien3 - not happy with that, it's a great film .


  • #131
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 18,895 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    I don't think you need be too unhappy.

    Blomkamp's idea is dead in the water.

    It was ridiculous to begin with TBPH.


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  • #132
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    cowboyBuilder wrote: »
    So we will disregard Alien3 - not happy with that, it's a great film .

    I'll disregard Aliens 3 and 4, AvP and AvP II, Prometheus and Prometheus 2, and you can disregard Blomkamp's movie, if it is ever made, OK?

    (I may disregard it, too, depending on the reviews.)


  • #133
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    Zubeneschamali wrote: »
    I'll disregard Aliens 3 and 4, AvP and AvP II, Prometheus and Prometheus 2, and you can disregard Blomkamp's movie, if it is ever made, OK?

    (I may disregard it, too, depending on the reviews.)

    Agree with all , except Alien 3 - especially the "directors" cut ... underrated film.
    Tony EH wrote: »
    I don't think you need be too unhappy.

    Blomkamp's idea is dead in the water.

    It was ridiculous to begin with TBPH.

    I thought it was going ahead ?


  • #134
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 18,895 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Last I heard it was "shelved".


  • #135
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Last I heard it was "shelved".


    Well, hope this Prometheus 2 makes up for the awfull tripe of the 1st.


  • #136
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    cowboyBuilder wrote: »
    Well, hope this Prometheus 2 makes up for the awfull tripe of the 1st.


    You are more hopeful than me!


  • #137
    cowboyBuilder
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,419 ✭✭✭cowboyBuilder


    Zubeneschamali wrote: »
    You are more hopeful than me!

    Purely because last time I checked Damon Lindehoff has nothing to do with this one ...


  • #138
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I liked most things about Prometheus bar the writing and the crazy editing in the last 3rd. The film gave a terrible sense of how many people were on that ship with them suddenly vanishing (and some reappearing after being killed earlier).

    The trailer is probably the best thing about the whole film :pac:


  • #139
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 18,895 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    IIRC, the trailer was really only a copy of the great trailers for 'Alien' and 'Aliens'.

    But, it sure made it look like a much better film than it actually was.


  • #140
    evosteo
    Registered Users Posts: 2,400 ✭✭✭evosteo


    "Ridley Scott confirms every kind of xenomorph will appear in Alien: Covenant"



    http://www.gamesradar.com/ridley-scott-confirms-every-version-xenomorph-will-appear-alien-covenant/?utm_content=buffer41282&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer_tffb


  • #141
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Be interesting to see what Scott does with the Alien Queen since that was separate from his film. I doubt it'll be in this film or even acknowledged.


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  • #142
    Alonso77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Alonso77


    new cast news for Alien Covenant

    http://www.slashfilm.com/alien-covenant-casts-billy-crudup/


  • #143
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Would love to see Scott make use of some proper body-horror this time around.

    This concept art of Holloway dying like this when he was in bed with Shaw would've been rotten to see. Rather than immediate death from a chestburster, this thing just slow peels itself out :(
    prometheus_concept_art_chest_burst_film_1-e1350686072577.png


  • #144
    Alonso77
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    http://www.blastr.com/2016-5-23/leaked-alien-covenant-set-images-portray-shocking-slaughter

    (Spoilerish) looks intriguing!

    Seems like Alien Covenant is official title too (for thread title)


  • #145
    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 12,955 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Is Noomi definitely in this?
    We now have new from Deadline that she is in the movie after all, on set in Australia at the moment.

    From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch’.

    — Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut



  • #146
    Kidchameleon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,482 ✭✭✭Kidchameleon


    Thank f**k. It would be silly if she wasnt in it


  • #147
    Sad Professor
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    I dunno, I reckon they only brought her back because of the fan reaction and she'll be Newt'd in the first 10 minutes.


  • #148
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    she'll be Newt'd in the first 10 minutes.

    :D


  • #149
    Zubeneschamali
    Registered Users Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    I dunno, I reckon they only brought her back because of the fan reaction and she'll be Newt'd in the first 10 minutes.

    The other possibility is that she'll appear only in the last 10 minutes - Charlton Heston in Beneath the Planet of the Apes


  • #150
    Frank Bullitt
    Registered Users Posts: 11,238 ✭✭✭✭Frank Bullitt


    Pictures from the sets look interesting!


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  • #151
    Oafley Jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,459 ✭✭✭Oafley Jones


    Sad Professor wrote: »
    I dunno, I reckon they only brought her back because of the fan reaction and she'll be Newt'd in the first 10 minutes.

    Were people actually clamouring for her inclusion? She wasn't the worst thing about the last one, but she certainly wasn't good.


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