They're Remaking 'Alien' -- the 'Prometheus' thread

skeptical about this being a ship meant to set up a colony with partnered couples, seems like a recipe for undercooked relationship drama and easy emotional beats

Fassbender's still a robot, right? imo the best plot would be this one finding the memory chip from the Prometheus one and getting up to some evil hijinks

Fassbender IS using a different accent in this one, yes? Do different models have different accents? There's some custom designing.

well, the one in Prometheus was obsessed with Laurence Olivier, so it could have been something he decided to affect

this one's secretly obsessed with gg allin

the one in Prometheus was obsessed with Laurence Olivier

Peter O'Toole, surely.

Laurence of Arabia tbf

brain fart, sorry guys

I guess everyone knows the movie and actor I get confused now and I don't need to post to that thread.

For the next movie, Fassbender will be asked to be obsessed with Jason Statham.

Steve Jobs

boo to Jobs, yay to Statham

we get scenes of him shadowboxing along to Statham classics

in the climax of the film, he punches an alien in the head

alien: covanent 2: turtles in time will feature danny mcbride teaming up with fassbender's robot, who is obsessed with pink flamingos star divine, to beat the alien menace forever by proving they've been committing tax fraud for hundreds of years

alien: covanent 2: turtles in time will feature danny mcbride teaming up with fassbender's robot, who is obsessed with pink flamingos star divine, to beat the alien menace forever by proving they've been committing tax fraud for hundreds of years

hmm

Alien Covenant 3, Alien V Predator 3: Alien 7

io9 with a trailer breakdown:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/everything-the-covenant-trailer-reveals-about-the-lates-1792841865

I admit I didn't catch this shot clearly enough on first viewing:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--XKD5Ls3y--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/kljzptg2kegwccg19q87.png

Per io9:

Remember how Prometheus started with a flashback to the Engineers/Pilots (the big, bald, white aliens—they’re called both, with “Engineers” being prominent in Prometheus)? This, with the monumental figures we’ve seen them make before, seems to be another one of those.

God bless any of yis who saw Prometheus and can still manage to pretend convince yourselves that this is going to either convincingly link to alien or be worth catching on its own standalone merit.

Chiding the rest of us seems a bit strong tho.

xp oh man if that's half as good as the rave scene in the second Matrix movie . . .

Alien dancers are truly the most supple.

God bless any of yis who saw Prometheus and can still manage to pretend convince yourselves that this is going to either convincingly link to alien or be worth catching on its own standalone merit.

I am simple in this regard: I mostly just want to see James Franco's character die bloodily.

You always say that tho

I fail to see the problem in James Franco's character dying bloodily in every film ever made.

am i the only one who thought the CGI alien looked really bad?

I think so too, but I can't separate that completely with my vague sense of emptiness and disappointment that seeing one of these aliens onscreen no longer produces any kind of thrill or scare in me. I don't want it to be that way but it is. These used to be genuine nightmare-producing horrors for me, from around the time I first saw Aliens, and unfortunately that's been worn away. Having them flipping and flailing around, CG-style, in broad daylight, does not help, of course. And the tail creeping in on the shower scene still offers a little of the old excitement. But I do increasingly feel like, as much as I enjoy Resurrection as a fun, disposable (tho stylish) 90s popcorn movie, it would have been way better in every way if the series had taken its final curtain with the third movie.

er, separate that completely from, etc.

Part of me has to wonder, especially given Scott's vociferousness a couple of years back about how he didn't want to deal with 'dragons' anymore, if there's some sort of bait/switch going on here in terms of the actual focus. Because I agree with Doctor Casino heavily here on the sheer overfamiliarity and its resultant impact or lack thereof. I'm curious about this film but not excited about it.

[Prometheus 2 is] fresh” and “getting away from gods and dragons and shit. If I see one more dragon I’m going to shoot myself. Stop the dragons.”

Rather than a dragon, Scott describes his original Alien as “the definitive dragon and he’s a motherfucker. The alien’s real which is why it’s probably one of the scariest monsters in film history,” Scott says. “So with Prometheus 2 what I’m trying to do is reintroduce a fresher form of alien in the third act.”

what if...the alien is us

he's talking total shite though

James Franco, alien.

Everything in that trailer takes 15 minutes of screen time and the rest is the Engineers holding Six Sigma workshops to design a new monster.

Alien: Dilbert

Quote just sounds like he's complaining about swords n sorcery films, idk. If only he'd been put in charge of Dragonheart, they might have really had something...

the hanging-off-something-in-space-by-a-rope trope is really starting to get boring. i mean it was in at least 2 Avengers movies, also in the 2nd Captain America, probably perfected in the first of the new Star Trek movies.. Rogue One too maybe? it's been done to absolute death.

the windswept somewhat lush desolation of the planet reminds me a bit of the mikkelsen homestead in Rogue One, minus the black sand beaches.

i'm kinda optimistic about this film, i like the visual ambition at least and have always enjoyed Scott's efforts to make sci-fi films that at least look good. i think his visual sense works better in this genre than in swordplay epics (as much as I did really really like Kingdom of Heaven.)

What if... Matt Damon planted all the wheat?

makes u think

https://anotherkindofgrass.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/gladiator-walking-thru-elysium-500-by-191.gif

ultimate shared universe theory: i think they ended up in the wheat field from Gladiator

or Summerisle

if there's some sort of bait/switch going on here in terms of the actual focus

this certainly crossed my mind too Ned

rather than a dragon it's the definitive dragon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP75aZvWVdw

idk i guess i can see why ridley scott would turn down this pitch

i think they ended up in the wheat field from Gladiator

or the one in this trailer for COMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FwiuJLwAIg

in space, if you build it they will come

that grass waving in water scene from Tarkovsky's Solaris has a lot to answer for

Building on what dr casino says, about the aliens inevitably becoming less frightening as time goes by, this movie is prob going to stand or fall on how good the human actors are, and I can't guess that from the trailer. The trailer obvs won't show the mundane 'oil rig crew' moments (if there are any, hope there are) and doesn't tell us anything about the pacing between the scary moments (which I'm not expecting to be scary tbh).

Or I dunno - they don't have to be gnarly and cynical I suppose. If they're meant to be idealistic colonists and they actually put that across using acting, that could work.

I like the photography and design. I wd probably watch a tv show set in the Alien world but without any aliens, just people grumbling about in Alien-style sets unable to find the right screwdriver.

You should check out The Expanse!

I've been meaning to, is it good?

It comes as close as any TV show ever has to what you just described.