A trailer has been released for Alien: Covenant, the next movie in the Alien prequel story. The movie is out in May.
Note: this is a red band trailer, with some NSFW language and other stuff that might not appear in the more general trailers.
They’ve gone for the scary stuff in the trailer, with no real indication of how the story will develop. I’ll reserve judgment until i see the movie. Prometheus looked good, and was an exciting ride, but had too many plot holes and dumb character decisions.
It looks like they may be trying to merge Alien and Aliens.
Well, let’s hope the result isn’t half-s.
[Moderating]
We have a two-click rule for linking to NSFW material here, which that trailer qualifies as. That is to say, a viewer should have to click at least twice before seeing any not-safe-for-work material. The simplest way to comply with the rule is to put the link inside of a spoiler box, as I have done.
I’m well aware of the rule, but the only really NSFW thing in the trailer is the language, and people swear around here all the time, without putting anything in spoiler boxes.
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Yeah, it’s kind of a borderline case, but I figure better safe than sorry.
That was my thought as well.
What I would have hoped for from a second Prometheus movie would be a follow-up on the history of the Space Jockeys but minus the laughable stupidity of character actions. The trailer makes me think that they got rid of the historic angle, so basically it will just be another “people dying on a space station” film, without much more to recommend it. Even if they dispel of the stupidity, they’re still failing to really be a sequel to Prometheus. Instead it’s just a remake of the first two Alien movies, compressed into one.
They can go for the “feel” of the two first alien movies as much as they want- if they keep the dull characters and action from Prometheus, that’s what we’ll get.
Not enthused with the trailer, but hopefully I’m wrong about it.
You can take 1 minute of film cuts and place some backing music over it to make any soon-to-screen film look good.
Time will tell.
This looks like a replay of “face sucking Aliens chase terrified people around” version 5.7b. I had really wanted more of the space jockey backstory and interaction re the creation of the Aliens to fill the planet sized plot holes in “Prometheus” but it does not look like the direction they are going. It’s scream queen time.
With the Noomi Rapace character making it to the Home World of the Giant Humanoids who weponized the Alien Life form and Future Marine types on the trail also what could go wrong .
Yeah, I got burned by Prometheus - great eye candy, but saddled with an incredibly stoopid screenplay. I’ll wait to see what the reviews of this one are. Nice to have Michael Fassbender back as David (or a similar android), I have to say.
I guess it’s too late to hope that they have scientists who act like scientists?
I could even handle scientist acting like ridiculous movie scientists if the plot at least made a lick of sense.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me … I too will wait.
…who do obligatory naked wet shower scenes.
Really, Ridley. Really.
A part of the stunning impact of Alien is that these things just WERE. There they were. And the enormity of what was wrought made us wonder an awful lot about what happened before.
Good storytelling.
If this is the Connective Script between Prometheus and Alien, by god Ridley owes us some connective matter a lot more than some softcore porn shower scene.
And no self operating scenes with the ability to fight and run great distances just shortly after ripping a squid out of their body.
Of all the films that were released in 2012 (The Avengers, Skyfall, The Dark Knight Rises, Lincoln, Argo, The Hunger Games, etc…) Prometheus was the one I was most excited to see.
Man, was I disappointed.
I’m not optimistic. At least we don’t have the Prometheus team of Damon Lindleof and Jon Spaihts (about whom I know less) writing the screenplay. But we do have John Logan, who wrote the screenplay for the 2002 re-make of The Time Machine, and in my view made a mess of his passion project for TV, Penny Dreadful.
Didn’t realize that was his. I only watched the first season and was rather impressed by how much it was spinning its wheels in place. I didn’t bother with the second season.