Gnome Scat
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Agreed, was really disappointed that they're aiming more for action than horror.
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Alien Covenant - Trailer 2
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Agreed, was really disappointed that they're aiming more for action than horror.
noomi rapace but yeah she's good
wesleyshark
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It's a direct sequel to Prometheus, and still in prequel range of the original film.
My guess its
shaws engineer ship they find and she's in stasis. the person in the hood is probably her too. I'd also put money on her and ripley jr surviving together. Everyone else dies.
neoism
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lol yea autocorrect lol but yea she a wonderful actress...
I think this is likely the case, along with references.
neoism
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from what Ridley said their will be two more prequals... after this one... and then it ties to the first alien movie
Count Dookkake
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Prometheus is a beautiful idiot.
LongDongJunon
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Poor Jamal Lyon is catching that Xenomorph tail straight up his ass.
paragonpro
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Looks great, though i think they blew there xeno load, this is very clearly an action movie rather than horror and thats fine with me
Traditional Xeno in full daylight is a mistake. At least Prometheus fashioned new threats and scenarios that were at least creative.
It does make me wonder however if there'll be something more subversive at play here, I just can't imagine a talented guy like Ridley Scott making the same film again just five years after Prometheus.
Action over horror doesn't bother me but attaching the traditional Xeno to it just saps the energy from it. Silent planet is a cool concept though.
It does make me wonder however if there'll be something more subversive at play here, I just can't imagine a talented guy like Ridley Scott making the same film again just five years after Prometheus.
Action over horror doesn't bother me but attaching the traditional Xeno to it just saps the energy from it. Silent planet is a cool concept though.
CassidyIzABeast
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Has James Franco been seen in anything other than that prologue?
wesleyshark
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So good.
Metalingus5150
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The Xeno doesn't look like a traditional Xeno. Missing a lot of the biomechancial features of the original. Seems more organic. Looks like a mix of Resurection and 3's Xeno.
Cesare Borgia
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Not falling for this trick again. Movie will not be good. Pretty to look at though, clearly.
Winterblink
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Transitional design from the one at the end of Prometheus to the one in Alien, maybe?
What's Kylo Ren doing here?
This is probably one of the last shots of the movie. I hope that's Shaw in the cloak
My most anticipated movie of the year.
Speedydonut
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CG Xenos kinda bum me out.
Bobby Roberts
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It's probably a flashback.
LowParry
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Yeah, looks slightly kinda sort of out of place. Those shots with the hooded figure are pretty damn cool though.
CadetMahoney
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I loled.
If I can sit through Alien Resurrectin and Alien 3 I can sit through anything.
And no, the Assembly cut doesn't "save" that movie.
How valid were those plot leaks from some time back? Seems to match up with the trailers somewhat so far.
Who's this supposed to be?
FUBAR McDangles
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Fassbender android from Prometheus maybe? Idk
Everything in that trailer looked like it could've come out of a modern remake/re-imagining of Alien... Which Prometheus already was, albeit shit.
Familiarity is the death of horror, and the Alien ("Xenomorph," whatever) has been done to death by now - at least in the pseudo-biped form they've been using for years. The exact plot of the original Alien has been done to death by now. At least Prometheus had an element of uncertainty and unpredictability to its dumb black goo stuff - the super vagina starfish at the end was actually pretty cool and unexpected, for instance. But now Mr. Scott seems to want to play it safe again and I'm honestly really sorry to say this but at this stage he just needs to let it go.
I always loved how each installment of the original Alien "Quadrilogy" brought in a different director with a different artistic vision. Sure, the later ones were troubled and had some serious issues, but it was almost poetic to have a series that was as shifting and unpredictable as its hallmark monster. Even Blomkamp's Alien project, as much as I disliked rumors that it would retcon 3 and Resurrection, had more going for it on the basis of bringing new blood alone. But now it feels like with each entry Scott does the series is going to lose more and more of its impact and as someone who holds the original up as his favorite film of all time that depresses the hell out of me.
Familiarity is the death of horror, and the Alien ("Xenomorph," whatever) has been done to death by now - at least in the pseudo-biped form they've been using for years. The exact plot of the original Alien has been done to death by now. At least Prometheus had an element of uncertainty and unpredictability to its dumb black goo stuff - the super vagina starfish at the end was actually pretty cool and unexpected, for instance. But now Mr. Scott seems to want to play it safe again and I'm honestly really sorry to say this but at this stage he just needs to let it go.
I always loved how each installment of the original Alien "Quadrilogy" brought in a different director with a different artistic vision. Sure, the later ones were troubled and had some serious issues, but it was almost poetic to have a series that was as shifting and unpredictable as its hallmark monster. Even Blomkamp's Alien project, as much as I disliked rumors that it would retcon 3 and Resurrection, had more going for it on the basis of bringing new blood alone. But now it feels like with each entry Scott does the series is going to lose more and more of its impact and as someone who holds the original up as his favorite film of all time that depresses the hell out of me.
Probably David. Shaw put him back together and he killed her? LOL
CassidyIzABeast
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Its most likely David in a Engineer cloak
lol, very concise
ffejeromdiks
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Dick move.
DesmondGreer
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I think the Alien looks and is different in design because of H.R Geiger's estate, as far as I know H.R had it in his original contract that anytime the Alien was used in any type of film that he would receive compensation due to the fact that it was by his design, he created the alien design for Ridley Scott, not the idea of it. Along with basically all of the set pieces from the original Alien. Anything to do with the alien / xenomorph would have to receive approval from him and his camp in Germany. If you watch the documentary on him entitled "Dark Star" there are scenes while H.R is still alive where his wife was in talks with twentieth century fox about the use of the Alien's design/ image in an upcoming Alien film at the time. If I had to guess why it's different in Design is to avoid having to pay H.R's estate.
But this planet is different from the one in Prometheus, right? Shaw and David took one of the remaining Engineer ships to venture out in search of the Engineer's home world - so is it presumed that this planet in Covenant is the Engineer's home planet, or a planet on which Shaw and David investigated, or even crashed on?
Well, David is a dick.
EroticSushi
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The tag says DR. E SHAW so the ship they find is the one from Prome.
Spladam
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Ok, I thought everyone had figured this out, or maybe I read it in press clips, but I'll put this in spoiler just in case, I don't know if this is accurate, it's just what I assumed from what I've ingested about this.
Apparently this is the Engineer homeworld that Noomi Rapace and Fassbender take the alien super weapon back to in the end of Prometheus, and it appears they are successful and wipe out all life on the Engineer planet, which just happens to be the same planet that these guys are going to colonize. I assume that it is some time in the future with regards to Prometheus and maybe even far into the future, but there is a scene in the trailer where that woman finds what appears to be some dog tags, I'm assuming it's evidence of Rapace and Fassbender's mission.
What super weapon? All they did was fly one of the remaining Juggernauts there?
ffejeromdiks
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The black goo is a biological super-weapon, they're hauling a metric shitton with them.
Rodney McKay
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Huh, movie looks better than I thought. First trailer just made it look like a boring Alien 1 remake, but now it's looking like more of a mix of Alien, Aliens, and Prometheus. If they get the mixture of those 3 right, they could end up with a solid movie (or at least more solid than Prometheus, which isn't the highest bar to shoot for, but at least it's something).
I assume the ship they took was full of black goo, just like the one they wrecked at the end of Prometheus. That's the super weapon.
I assume the ship they took was full of black goo, just like the one they wrecked at the end of Prometheus. That's the super weapon.
Right that I knew but how would that be weaponized to wipe them out? Oh, the canisters? They carpet bombed them... and that's why the vegetation grew spores. Hmmmm
ffejeromdiks
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Remember the Engineers themselves seem to have immense trouble containing them in the first place seeing how the Engineers in both Prometheus and Alien made monumental fuckups in regards to the handling of their bio-weapons...so needless to say, a weaponized strike on them would probably be wholly unexpected and devastating.
gustave154
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The alien looks terrifying and that's all they need honestly.
PhoncipleBone
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Joss Whedon finally redeemed for that shit stain of a film?
Okay, I did laugh at this. Thank you.
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