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[MarkRenton]

this looks amazing

 

[skyfinch]

Sucks if you went to this planet and your diet is free of gluten.

 

[Animator]

Was that a swarm of alien insects or something in that shot where she is running in the corridor?

 

[One Eyed Willy]

My guess is Shaw planted the wheat, and that is actually her in the wheat field shot. Everyone thinks its David, but I have a feeling that Noomi being on set is a big secret and Ridley is keeping it under wraps well.

 

[iddqd]

The ALIEN remake for today's kids.

Not sure why Ridley Scott is wasting his precious last working years with this.

 

[Alienfan]

Looks fantastic, love the use of lighting and practical effects

 

[Michael F. Assbender]

Doesn't look bad. I was totally on board until that last sequence, and only because it showed way too much of the alien. The fear of the unknown entity in the shadows is what works for this type of movie. Here he's hulking out and taking names.

Even if it's bad, you still directed the best Alien movie, Ridley. It was Prometheus.

Spoiler

It was Alien.

 

[Alienfan]

Unpopular opinion but I think Ressurection CG still holds in some scenes.

It really does. People love to hate on CGI, and cherry pick bad shots - but it's not like the Alien holds up in the first and second movie in every single scene.

 

[Fancyarcher]

Actually looks pretty decent. Better than the last trailer too. Seems like this film is going to be a bit more action packed then Prometheus was.

 

[The_Kid]

I'm so excited for this.

 

[Fancyarcher]

It really does. People love to hate on CGI, and cherry pick bad shots - but it's not like the Alien holds up in the first and second movie in every single scene.

Yes not everything's gonna hold-up, but practical effects generally " trump" CGI mostly everytime.

 

[Osakadon]

There appears to be a few different xenomorphs in this movie.
Or perhaps its just one, but it develops throughout the movie.

 

[Spoo]

I actually find the alien here looks rather scary -- it's very contorted, animal-like. I agree we don't tend to see the alien looking like this, or with this much exposure, but it looks very intimidating.

 

[CouchDweller]

There appears to be a few different xenomorphs in this movie. Or perhaps its just one, but it develops throughout the movie.

I'll bet you this is actually Ridley trying to fill the gap between chest burster xenomorph and a fully matured xenomorph. Which, if true, would make me a little annoyed. Because part of the fun and mystery of it is wondering just how and why they mature so damn quickly in hiding, and what it even looks like. Of course if its the other way around, and its just some other random new type they made up... it could be a mess. Which worries me even more :/

 

[MarkRenton]

The ALIEN remake for today's kids.

Not sure why Ridley Scott is wasting his precious last working years with this.

 

[MarveI]

Alien in broad daylight ? Yeah I'm out. Ugh.

 

[rou021]

Well...this trailer was better than the first one at least. It's just a trailer, so there's technically still a chance it could be good. Soyouresayingtheresachance.gif

Even so, it was still going to be him writing and directing it, so whatever goodness in the idea was likely going to be leached out.

But it's a bad idea anyway, because the only real appeal is for fans who think wiping out every movie after ALIENS is like - gonna ACTUALLY wipe out every movie after ALIENS.

They'll still be there.

Which is of course, the comedy of everything Fox has tried to do with this property since 1992, when they broke it in half trying to make the third one: They've been trying to top Alien 3 for over 20 years and they still can't fucking do it.

It's a sorry state of affairs when the third best movie in the (currently) 7-film franchise is Alien 3. It's like a resoundingly mediocre athlete earning a bronze medal because all the other athletes had food poisoning.

Fox fucked up long before '92. I'm still pissed we never got Gibson's Alien 3.

That's true, though I think Brandywine shares a significant portion of the blame for Alien 3 (as well as the others). It was one of the producers that pushed for setting the movie in a space prison, for example. They had a lot of say in many of the creative decisions and clashed with Fincher frequently. Brandywine was always heavily involved in shaping the Alien movies since the first one.

Also, I don't think the Gibson script would've turned out well either. Just about all of the other scripts and alternate plots that were considered (that we know about anyway) had their own issues. From everything I know about the movie, I've gotten the impression that nobody knew what the hell they wanted to do for the third outing. They basically got one writer after another to throw shit at the wall to see what stuck. It's really no surprise the movie turned out to be a mess.

 

[.la1n]

I'll play devil's advocate; it could be argued the Alien is attacking parts of the windshield systematically to break the whole thing. It almost looks like that could be the case. I don't want to jump on the randomly banging head angle until I see it in full.

 

[cackhyena]

Alien in broad daylight ? Yeah I'm out. Ugh.

lol

 

[glow]

Sucks if you went to this planet and your diet is free of gluten.

Yeah and stay away from the eggs too

 

[Ether_Snake]

Why did they rip off the theme from Interstellar?

 

[WinFonda]

It has some fantastic shots, and the soundtrack sounds amazing

 

[Pizza]

So is this a reboot?

Sure seems like it. I wonder if it'll have closer ties to prometheus, is like to see it still

 

[Dalek]

I pretty much hated 90% of Prometheus and I think this look a pretty decent. I have hope.

I'm on mobile-so I can't make this image out clearly. What is this?

 

[- J - D -]

There appears to be a few different xenomorphs in this movie.

Or perhaps its just one, but it develops throughout the movie.

This one looks like Pumpkinhead.

 

[Stratosphere]

So the premise is that David somehow escaped the Engineer planet, returned to Earth, then somehow convinced higher ups to be part of a colonization team to return to the Engineer planet and explore the same ship from Prometheus? Boring.

 

[JB1981]

So the premise is that David somehow escaped the Engineer planet, returned to Earth, then somehow convinced higher ups to be part of a team to return to the Engineer planet to explore the same ship from Prometheus? Boring.

No. The other David is a droid named Walter. There are two of them. David is on the planet when the team gets there. Walter is part of the Covenant crew

 

[Plywood]

It's gonna look great, but it doesn't seem like it'll be great.

 

[Ether_Snake]

So the premise is that David somehow escaped the Engineer planet, returned to Earth, then somehow convinced higher ups to be part of a colonization team to return to the Engineer planet to explore the same ship from Prometheus? Boring.

Nah, you know the David from Prometheus will have become a Jesus on that planet or whatever.

 

[Stratosphere]

No. The other David is a droid named Walter. There are two of them. David is on the planet when the team gets there. Walter is part of the Covenant crew

Ah okay. Well that's less ridiculous, but not any more interesting to me...

 

[BotoxAgent]

Maybe he's keeping the plot straightforward, and less complicated to avoid the messy space Jesus plot holes and just focus on characters and the plot tight brisk. I'm more down for that than lindeloff unsatisfying garbage writing.

 

[Savitar]

I pretty much hated 90% of Prometheus and I think this look a pretty decent. I have hope.




I'm on mobile-so I can't make this image out clearly. What is this?

It's hard to tell.

Bodies of engineers or a bunch of aliens? Or both?

 

[rou021]

There appears to be a few different xenomorphs in this movie.
Or perhaps its just one, but it develops throughout the movie.

The first one looks like the deacon alien from the end of Prometheus. One of the set photos also showed

Spoiler

a bunch remnants of David's purported black goo experiments.

 

[wesleyshark]

It's hard to tell.

Bodies of engineers or a bunch of aliens? Or both?

I remember a set photo a ways back while they were filming

Spoiler

of a bunch of bodies, flash frozen in place. Not sure if they were charred and ashen or what, but they were humanoid in form, so I'm assuming engineers.

 

[Gravidee]

I pretty much hated 90% of Prometheus and I think this look a pretty decent. I have hope.




I'm on mobile-so I can't make this image out clearly. What is this?

From the looks of it, it appears to be the engineer civilization in some frozen state after a cataclysmic event, probably a biological weapon gone wrong or something.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

So, Scott is still going with the alt-gestation concept when it's shown that the Alien(s) have advanced to egg level?

 

[F!ReW!Re]

I hope they're keeping a lot of new stuff out of the trailer because so far it looks so "same-y" story wise;
Group of people on spaceship, go to planet, find Alien ship, one gets facehugged and then all hell breaks lose.

It's like they keep rehashing the same shit over and over again. There's got to be more to this universe than sending colonists/scientists/people to die on a distant planet.

 

[Fury451]

So, Scott is still going with the alt-gestation concept when it's shown that the Alien(s) have advanced to egg level?

BUT IT'S DIFFERENT

 

[valeo]

I liked Prometheus so I guess I have really low standards; looking forward to this.

 

[wesleyshark]

I hope they're keeping a lot of new stuff out of the trailer because so far it looks so "same-y" story wise;
Group of people on spaceship, go to planet, find Alien ship, one gets facehugged and then all hell breaks lose.

It's like they keep rehashing the same shit over and over again. There's got to be more to this universe than sending colonists/scientists/people to die on a distant planet.

But I mean, that's kind of the draw of this franchise haha.

 

[Garcia el Gringo]

I prefer my monsters bumbling around like Kane's son.

This sequel doesn't look like it will content me. I resent the subgenre direction it's taken; I dislike most pew pew blockbuster action movies with a passion. I perked up the most at the text mentioning Paradise, cause it reminded me most of Prometheus. And I guess there's the landed Juggernaut Shaw and David took, but that could just be a painful reminder of what could have been to me.

I still had some hope earlier in the day. Oh well, I think I can at least count on some body horror set-pieces.

 

[Rated-Rsuperstar]

Who would have thought 30 years ago all the big name directors (Scott, Lucas, Spielberg,) future goals were to make shittier versions of their most popular films using cgi and other modern tropes. Theyre living the dream.

 

[F!ReW!Re]

But I mean, that's kind of the draw of this franchise haha.

I understand what you are saying, but there's got to be other ways to tell the story of how scary and dangerous the xenomorphs are right?

 

[Burt]

Yeah I dunno, that looked pretty good to me.

 

[Diabelli]

So Ridley Scott really doesn't know why Alien worked, huh?

 

[jack_package_200]

I showed my mother the trailer and she loved it.

She saw Alien and Aliens on opening day.

 

[winnarps]

I have a feeling David ends up experimenting on Shaw, which results in the first Queen.

 

[Galactic Specter]

CG Xeno's are throwing me, it's fucking weird.

Looks more action heavy than I expected, but there is some cool looking shit in there. I just like seeing a Xeno back in action, I mean:

For me, that looks less CG and more like a guy-in-a-suit.

 

[Garcia el Gringo]

I have a feeling David ends up experimenting on Shaw, which results in the first Queen.

I like compartmentalizing the Queen off to the side where I can pretend it doesn't exist. Shaw becoming a Queen would be mixing one of my favorite things in the series with what I find most tacky about it.

Eggmorphing is the truth, even if it's not canon.

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

This can't be a human born xenomorph right? It looks 3 meters long to me (not counting tail)