"Ridley Scott's Alienverse"

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

[Dr Kain]

Meh, if you say so. Frankly, Ridley Scott has already gone out to say that he changed the origins because he felt having David create them makes them more interesting, pissing all over O'Bannon and Shushet. The man must have gone to the George Lucas School of Making Prequels.

[tbeasley]

I watched all the main films before Covenant, so here are my little reviews...

Alien (1979, director's cut)


Aliens (1986, special edition)


Alien 3 (1992, assembly cut)


Alien Resurrection (1997, special edition)


Prometheus (2012)


Alien: Covenant (2017)

[Dr Kain]

An older article, but remember when Ridley Scott was all excited about Prometheus and couldn't wait to explore the Engineers? Well yeah, now he has completely changed his viewpoint.

http://www.outerplaces.com/science-fict ... prometheus

[mr.negativity]

Exclusive: Xenomorph vs. Neomorph Alien: Covenant deleted scene confirmed!

[mr.negativity]

Hulk dives into the career of one of our most eclectic filmmakers.

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

The home video release came out this week and apparently the special features fix a lot of the issues with the movie which is on one hand cool but on the other hand something that should have probably been included in the final cut of the film to begin with.

I'm torn on wether I want to pick up the release now or wait for the invevitable 4K release of all the other films in the franchise. I know we got a BD box set featuring all six movies but no 4K release.

[Dr Kain]

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Its not so much as extra scenes but a documentary style thing.

[Dr Kain]

[Gargantuan Gargantua]

Saw Covenant. Did not like it very much aside from the great looking sets.

David is the best part despite his hair somehow growing. I must of missed something in Alien mythos that androids can grow hair. Anywho, heres hoping Blompkamp gets a stab at it.

[Dai]

[klen7]

^ pretty fair assessment

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

I have a small fan theory but with if the final poster for A:C wasn't meant to be for A:C but for the next movie

[klen7]

Which poster are you referring to?

[Dai]

Presumably , which implied that there would be more than two xenomorphs in the movie.

On an unrelated note, a little thing caught my attention within the first few minutes of Alien: Covenant that tipped me off that Scott's approach to this franchise has changed significantly since 1979. The Covenant score makes heavy use of Jerry Goldsmith's main theme from Alien, which played over the end credits of the first movie, but not the opening title sequence. What's interesting is that Goldsmith's score originally did use that theme over the title, but Scott rejected it because its romantic space opera melody didn't fit the feeling of dread he was trying to create, so Goldsmith had to compose a replacement: the eerie cue that was used in the theatrical cut of Alien. From this we can infer that Scott takes a hands-on approach to the scores of his movies, which becomes important in a moment. Fast forward to 2017 and a slightly modified version of Goldsmith's original romantic space opera melody plays over the title card for Alien: Covenant. Then consider




(This appears to be an official upload of the soundtrack by the record label)

It's an initially counter-intuitive choice for such a violent moment, but does make an odd kind of sense. It's a gentle, sorrowful cue that seems to lament the inevitability of the xenomorph's genesis, but would sound just as at home in a scene of a woman dying while giving birth to her own beloved child. Furthermore, while this music plays, Scott forces the now familiar horror of a chestburster scene out of frame. He's romanticised the alien.

[Tom R VanSlambrouck]

Dai is correct in the poster I was talking about. Basically the final poster for the film. The teaser posters where the alien head with the tag line "Run" and the alien egg with the tagline "Hide"

[mr.negativity]

[Dai]

[Dr Kain]

[mr.negativity]

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