Thats what was going to happen in that proposed Aliens followup which wouldve been directed by dude who made Elysium,District 9 and Chappie..but Fox and Ridley Scott themselves shut down that idea
Alien Covenant sucked ass.
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Thats what was going to happen in that proposed Aliens followup which wouldve been directed by dude who made Elysium,District 9 and Chappie..but Fox and Ridley Scott themselves shut down that idea
Man fuck Fox! They're the biggest antagonists in this franchise. The original script for Prometheus was exactly pretty good but the studio forced them to crowbar a xenomorph into the movie. I'm not the biggest fan of Blomkamp but I think he would have at least tried something new.
Yeah I think Scott didn't really want to make a straight up Alien film but the suits said nay and arm twisted him into doing so. Checking it out tomorrow.
LOL.... Angry Joe Held nothing back. I haven't seen him this pissed since Ghostbusters.
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He said in the first few minutes what i was saying. They destroyed the mystery of the alien and watered it down to nothing. The mythos has become nothing
Damn.
I watched no trailers.
I liked Prometheus.
I liked Covenant.
The xenomorphs are like the zombies in TWD to me. Just to move the plot along. I was far more interested in seeing what happened to David and the Dr.
I left satisfied and happy with what I saw. I also saw it in large format which I think is necessary for this and Prometheus.
I liked Prometheus.
I liked Covenant.
The xenomorphs are like the zombies in TWD to me. Just to move the plot along. I was far more interested in seeing what happened to David and the Dr.
I left satisfied and happy with what I saw. I also saw it in large format which I think is necessary for this and Prometheus.
Yes.
IMO that was the point. We got to see the origin of the xenomorphs. That is exactly what I wanted to see.
The trailers come out so much earlier than before; by the time the final cut comes, some of the scenes used in the trailer don't make the cut in the final edit. Rogue One was the most egregious example of this.
I bet his reviews of Transformers:The Last Knight and Justice League will be something
I agree. I hate this movie. Prometheus was deep. This was like the original movie, just a mindless horror flick with death and the tired ass plot
Prometheus was better
Picky? Lol. Howard the Duck and Big Trouble in Little China were my favorite movies as a kid
Major plot hole? In Alien 1, remember the eggs were in the Alien ship. Not black goo bombs, Alien eggs. If David created the eggs then how did the Engineers get them in the first movie???
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It's already on Kodi. But, what do you expect from a series that died after the second one decades ago????[/QUOTE
My BGOL family member bgbtylvr, I'm not trying to call you out my nigga maybe you got the inside track or something and some shit to lose for having that inside knowledge but I got a question or 2 to ask you!
In the Fappening 2.o thread a month or 2 back you said there were Simone Biles naked flicks of her bussing it open, I ain't came across them shits yet I told you to post them but no bueno, and I'm sure all these perverted other BGOL members would have dropped them shits if they existed maybe you a web guru and keep that inside connect on the low but I'm likeif you got them drop them that's what this LA FAMILIA is about right?
Now my nigga, I know the Feds is fucking up Kodi heavy, you said this flick was on there I searched all over the net and Kodi I can't even find a bootleg of this movie that's so fucked up all you see is shadows speaking Ethiopian with Japanese subtitles.
My nigga wus up!
that shit is a classic tho
David didn't say he created the eggs. He said that he spliced genes and made a new life form.
Yes he did
Yes. The eggs with facehuggers in them. Go back and watch the film. He even has a diagram on the wall showing his progression to the facehuggers
He created the facehuggers/eggs through gene splicing and using old chicks womb and DNA so ipso facto he created the eggs.
Except it didnt in this film. Because in Alien one the cargo was the eggs. The same ship the Space Jockey was in that crashed
that's a good point. scott gonna fuck around and have that some of the engineers were not on the planet at the time david and shaw arrived or the space jockey probably already crashed on that planet in the og alien all this time. but how that explains david tweaking the pathogen?
plot holes in prequels , you gotta love em.
Yes and no.
But I liked it.
don't wanna spoil nothing for you.
didn't see Prome..., but I am gonna go back and check it out
But I liked it.
don't wanna spoil nothing for you.
didn't see Prome..., but I am gonna go back and check it out
How do they keep fucking up Alien movies with this slow, boring shit?
I guess they don't wanna over saturate the movie with a bumch of aliens running around.
They still want to have these high priced actors/actresses ACT!
which is stupid, cuz that's what got the original shit famous.
the gore and abundance of ALIENS!!!!
LOL
They still want to have these high priced actors/actresses ACT!
which is stupid, cuz that's what got the original shit famous.
the gore and abundance of ALIENS!!!!
LOL
I think that it is only an extended trailer....even tho it shows around a 2 hour duration....basically a placeholder file.
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How Alien: Covenant fits in the larger Alien timeline, and what comes next
The past and future of the franchise
By Andrew Liptak
on May 19, 2017 7:46 am
Alien: Covenant, hits theaters today. The series is coming up on its 40th anniversary, and over the course of its lifetime, it’s taken some interesting turns — and some downright unfortunate ones.
The franchise is already in a strange place, with the latest films sitting somewhere between prequels and sequels. And as with any long-running franchise, numerous entries can led to a complicated timeline. With the latest film coming out, it’s a good time to look back at the scope of the series, where it started, and where it’s currently landed.
What are the franchise’s core installments?
The franchise’s first film, Ridley Scott’s moody horror movie Alien, hit theaters in 1979, to widespread acclaim. James Cameron followed it up almost a decade later with 1986’s Aliens, which brought back Alien’s surviving protagonist, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), and took the series in a more action-packed direction.
The 1992 sequel Alien 3 was directed by David Fincher, who went on to direct Seven, The Social Network, and Netflix’s House of Cards. Citing studio interference with the production, he essentially disowned it. In 2003, producer Charles de Lauzirika completely recut the film, inclining it toward Fincher’s original vision. The “Assembly Cut” was received much better than the original.
Image: 20th Century Fox
The next film to hit theaters was Alien: Resurrection in 1997. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie), it jumps centuries into the future and features a clone of Ripley, and people who want to use an alien queen from her body for military purposes.
There have been a fair number of Alien spinoffs over the years. Two Alien Vs. Predator movies crossbred this franchise with the similarly long-running science-fiction horror series that began with 1987’s Predator. A planned third AVP film would have led right into Alien, but it never materialized. There have also been extensive runs of comics and video games, both standalone Alien stories and Alien Vs. Predator stories. And more than a dozen novels have further expanded the Alien universe. But the dual core of the story has always been Alien and Aliens, the two feature films that helped define modern cinematic science-fiction horror.
So where’s the confusion?
The film series was pretty straightforward before Ridley Scott’s 2012 film Prometheus.That movie confused fans, because Scott conceived it as a film that came out of Alien’s “DNA,” but told its own standalone story. Still, it’s so close to Alien in the story details that fans couldn’t stop speculating about whether it was actually part of the Alien universe. Regardless, the film is set before the events of Alien. And Alien: Covenant works as a sequel to Prometheus, but also moves closer to setting up the original Alien.
Mark Rogers / Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
The film series could have been more confusing: Fresh off Chappie, director Neill Blomkamp posted concept art for a fifth Alien film that was reportedly his next project. That film would have essentially ignored Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection in an attempt to reboot the post-Aliens side of the franchise. However, with Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel in the works, Fox put the project on hold, and Ridley Scott basically said it’s not going to happen at all.
What’s the chronology of the films?
Chronologically, Prometheus begins in a couple of places. There’s an alien Engineer in the beginning of the film, seeding a new world, which might be Earth in the distant past, or might just suggest how the Engineers created humanity. In 2089, archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw and Charles Holloway dig up some evidence of humanity’s origins. And the actual Prometheus mission to find the Engineers takes place in 2093. Alien: Covenant takes place more than a decade after Prometheus, in 2104. A recent prologue links the events of the two films and fills in some of the gap, but not all of it.
From there, we get into the original films: Alien takes place two decades after Covenant in 2122, while Ripley wakes up from stasis 57 years later in Aliens. Alien 3 is set immediately after Aliens. Finally, Alien: Resurrection makes a huge jump to 2386.
What comes after Alien: Covenant?
There’s a two-decade gap between Alien: Covenant and Alien, and while this new film provides a direct line of action from Prometheus to Alien, it doesn’t entirely lead up to that original film. Scott has ambitious plans for the future of the Alien franchise: he says Alien: Covenant is “one of three sequels to Prometheus that will take the saga to the ‘back entrance’” of the original film.
Image: 20th Century Fox
He’s also said he can keep this story going for another six films. And he told IGN that he’s writing the next film now, and that he’s aiming to have it in production within the next 14 months. It’s unclear what that film will be about just yet. Back in March, Scott referred to a film called Alien: Awakening that might take place between Prometheus and Covenant, but he’s also referred to Blomkamp’s canceled film as Awakening.
Either way, it seems as though Scott is now looking to set up the original Alien with these new films, rather than mess with the post-Aliens era.
The past and future of the franchise
By Andrew Liptak
on May 19, 2017 7:46 am
Alien: Covenant, hits theaters today. The series is coming up on its 40th anniversary, and over the course of its lifetime, it’s taken some interesting turns — and some downright unfortunate ones.
The franchise is already in a strange place, with the latest films sitting somewhere between prequels and sequels. And as with any long-running franchise, numerous entries can led to a complicated timeline. With the latest film coming out, it’s a good time to look back at the scope of the series, where it started, and where it’s currently landed.
What are the franchise’s core installments?
The franchise’s first film, Ridley Scott’s moody horror movie Alien, hit theaters in 1979, to widespread acclaim. James Cameron followed it up almost a decade later with 1986’s Aliens, which brought back Alien’s surviving protagonist, Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), and took the series in a more action-packed direction.
The 1992 sequel Alien 3 was directed by David Fincher, who went on to direct Seven, The Social Network, and Netflix’s House of Cards. Citing studio interference with the production, he essentially disowned it. In 2003, producer Charles de Lauzirika completely recut the film, inclining it toward Fincher’s original vision. The “Assembly Cut” was received much better than the original.
Image: 20th Century Fox
The next film to hit theaters was Alien: Resurrection in 1997. Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amélie), it jumps centuries into the future and features a clone of Ripley, and people who want to use an alien queen from her body for military purposes.
There have been a fair number of Alien spinoffs over the years. Two Alien Vs. Predator movies crossbred this franchise with the similarly long-running science-fiction horror series that began with 1987’s Predator. A planned third AVP film would have led right into Alien, but it never materialized. There have also been extensive runs of comics and video games, both standalone Alien stories and Alien Vs. Predator stories. And more than a dozen novels have further expanded the Alien universe. But the dual core of the story has always been Alien and Aliens, the two feature films that helped define modern cinematic science-fiction horror.
So where’s the confusion?
The film series was pretty straightforward before Ridley Scott’s 2012 film Prometheus.That movie confused fans, because Scott conceived it as a film that came out of Alien’s “DNA,” but told its own standalone story. Still, it’s so close to Alien in the story details that fans couldn’t stop speculating about whether it was actually part of the Alien universe. Regardless, the film is set before the events of Alien. And Alien: Covenant works as a sequel to Prometheus, but also moves closer to setting up the original Alien.
Mark Rogers / Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
The film series could have been more confusing: Fresh off Chappie, director Neill Blomkamp posted concept art for a fifth Alien film that was reportedly his next project. That film would have essentially ignored Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection in an attempt to reboot the post-Aliens side of the franchise. However, with Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel in the works, Fox put the project on hold, and Ridley Scott basically said it’s not going to happen at all.
What’s the chronology of the films?
Chronologically, Prometheus begins in a couple of places. There’s an alien Engineer in the beginning of the film, seeding a new world, which might be Earth in the distant past, or might just suggest how the Engineers created humanity. In 2089, archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw and Charles Holloway dig up some evidence of humanity’s origins. And the actual Prometheus mission to find the Engineers takes place in 2093. Alien: Covenant takes place more than a decade after Prometheus, in 2104. A recent prologue links the events of the two films and fills in some of the gap, but not all of it.
From there, we get into the original films: Alien takes place two decades after Covenant in 2122, while Ripley wakes up from stasis 57 years later in Aliens. Alien 3 is set immediately after Aliens. Finally, Alien: Resurrection makes a huge jump to 2386.
What comes after Alien: Covenant?
There’s a two-decade gap between Alien: Covenant and Alien, and while this new film provides a direct line of action from Prometheus to Alien, it doesn’t entirely lead up to that original film. Scott has ambitious plans for the future of the Alien franchise: he says Alien: Covenant is “one of three sequels to Prometheus that will take the saga to the ‘back entrance’” of the original film.
Image: 20th Century Fox
He’s also said he can keep this story going for another six films. And he told IGN that he’s writing the next film now, and that he’s aiming to have it in production within the next 14 months. It’s unclear what that film will be about just yet. Back in March, Scott referred to a film called Alien: Awakening that might take place between Prometheus and Covenant, but he’s also referred to Blomkamp’s canceled film as Awakening.
Either way, it seems as though Scott is now looking to set up the original Alien with these new films, rather than mess with the post-Aliens era.
So its no longer about the architects but about David fucking around in the science lab?
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