Alien Covenant trailer

[hedrap]

The poster has a certain Hellraiser vibe, but I think that's due to it trying to invoke Dante's Inferno. IIRC, that was part of the original premise.

Uh...the back wall isn't what it appears to be...

[Mikey]

A bit off topic...

Something I've always wondered, does the Alien have eyes or does it go by smell ?

[hedrap]

Originally, no eyes. They have a snake-like sense of organisms around them. It was clarified in the novel tie-ins. One scene had Bishop moving about the lower hive and since he wasn't "alive" they ignored him. Bishop then contemplates staying on LV426 and studying the species. That's the android motivation Scott and co. had for Ash in Alien and he's decided to expand on it with Covenant.

Alien3 added vision because Fincher approached the movie with a film school dbag's mentality. I was around Fox after its release. He was despised for making a movie, as he would put it, "was for my friends".

[Bruce Banner]

Alien: Covenant Prologue: The Crossing

(This also serves equally well as an epilogue to Prometheus.)

[Hector]

Simply awesome....thank you for the video...

[fallensaviour]

That was awesome!!!
I am getting pumped for this movie now.

[hedrap]

There's a new spot airing during NBA playoffs.

They show a wide angle of David dropping the urns. You can also see him in the background of the post facehugger attack.

That prelude video makes me wonder if Ridley is imploying some Blade Runner themes. It feels like David cracks from the solitude of the journey, ala Roy Batty and space combat.

His motivation to wipe out the engineers really has my interest. There are a few implications in the video, such as feeling appreciation and learning about the engineers.

The Covenant title probably works on a few levels. In general religious text, it's a blood bond from God. So the Alien is the result of bonding humans to whatever happened to the Engineers. I'm now wondering if we're going to see a fight between the Alien and the neomorph. The original assumption was the Alien spawned from the neomorph, but it appears David evolved the facehugger.

[Bruce Banner]

Saw it tonight. Pretty damn good...
If you didn't like Prometheus, chances are you won't like Covenant either. It's only in the last third of the movie that we get into anything like traditional Alien territory.
I liked the movie a lot, and it sure raises a lot more compelling Alien mythos/canon questions.
Some good plot twists... but I won't go into spoilers...
Recommended.

Interestingly, I had to complete a questionnaire about the movie for the distributors... and it wasn't even a preview showing or anything.

[Hector]

Saw it tonight. Pretty damn good...
If you didn't like Prometheus, chances are you won't like Covenant either. It's only in the last third of the movie that we get into anything like traditional Alien territory.
I liked the movie a lot, and it sure raises a lot more compelling Alien mythos/canon questions.
Some good plot twists... but I won't go into spoilers...
Recommended.

Interestingly, I had to complete a questionnaire about the movie for the distributors... and it wasn't even a preview showing or anything.

HOLY CRAP...YOU SAW THE MOVIE??????????

HOW, WHERE, WHY????

I both envy and hate you...

I LOVE Prometheus...Covenant is going to be right up my alley.

Oh my goodness...I cannot wait!

[Bruce Banner]

HOLY CRAP...YOU SAW THE MOVIE??????????

HOW, WHERE, WHY????

I both envy and hate you...

I LOVE Prometheus...Covenant is going to be right up my alley.

Oh my goodness...I cannot wait!

It opened on May 12th over here.
As a fellow Prometheus fan, I think you'll enjoy it.