Ridley Scott's "Alien: Covenant" (Oct 6, 2017) - Part 2

[Mysteryman]

Interesting trailer.

 

[dude stannis]

The hooded figure is David.

 

[JtheDreamer]

That looked infinitely better than the absolute turd of a trailer we got a few months back.

 

[Loki882]

This is a supposed plot leak that answers that question. Spoilers.

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The spaceship Covenant is transporting frozen embryos to a human colony on a faraway planet when they receive a distress signal from Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace), from the Prometheus expedition, which disappeared 10 years prior. The crew is brought out of hypersleep to answer to the signal, which leads to the death of the Covenant's captain, Branson (James Franco). His wife, Daniels (Katherine Waterson), is deeply affected by the accident, while Branson's first officer Archer (Billy Crudup) is made captain. The Covenant is piloted by Daniels's friend Tennessee (Danny McBride) and the crew is aided by an android, Walter (Michael Fassbender).

The Covenant follows Shaw's signal to Paradise, an uncharted forest planet and homeworld of the Engineers, the ancient extraterrestrials that seeded life on Earth and then sought to the destroy it. The Engineers' secret weapon, the black ooze, has spread through Paradise, turning it into a wasteland. The Covenant's crew ventures outside their ship and some of its members are exposed to spores released by plants infected by the ooze. It is determined they've contracted an alien pathogen and Archer has them quarantined aboard the Covenant.

Monstrous creatures known as "Neomorphs" burst from the infected crewmen's bodies and begin slaughtering the crew, forcing the survivors to flee into the forest, where they are rescued from the Neomorphs by David (Michael Fassbender), the sole survivor of the Prometheus crew. He reveals that Shaw sacrificed herself to crash a spaceship against Paradise's surface, exposing the Engineers to the black ooze to prevent them from destroying Earth, leaving him stranded on Paradise.

David leads the survivors back to the Engineers' derelict citadel, where he's been living ever since. Walter mistrusts David, who is not behaving in accordance with their programming, and finds out that David in fact murdered Shaw. David's mind has been warped by the numerous modifications that his creator, Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), made to his programming during the Prometheus's expedition, and is obsessed with creating the "perfect organism". He exposed numerous lifeforms on Paradise, including Shaw, to the black ooze and, after numerous failed attempts, has created an alien egg, which produces a facehugger that latches itself to Archer, leading to the birth of a Primal Xenomorph.

Daniels and Tennessee realize David is controlling the Neomorphs and escape back to the Covenant with Walter in order to leave Paradise. Together, Daniels and Tennessee manage to kill the Primal Xenomorph and the Neomorphs and detonate explosives to destroy David's laboratory, with David himself apparently perishing in the explosion.

After escaping, Daniels and Tennessee place themselves back in hypersleep to continue their voyage to the colony, unaware that David has killed Walter and stolen his identity to leave Paradise. David secretly plants two alien egg embryos among the human frozen embryos that the Covenant is transporting to proceed to the next phase of his experiment.

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That honestly sounds like a REALLY underwhelming sendoff for Shaw. Disappointing if true.

 

[Marvolo]

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That honestly sounds like a REALLY underwhelming sendoff for Shaw. Disappointing if true.

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I think it makes David more genuinely creepy and disturbing. Going from Prometheus's ending with Shaw allied with David and hopeful that she will find Paradise and then finding out in Covenant that David experimented on her and did god only knows what to her and she was alone and stuck with that monstrous android on a desolate planet light years from help...thats the **** of nightmares.

 

[harlequinade]

Much better than the last one, still not great

 

[Consona]

Feels like soft reboot of Alien AND Prometheus.

 

[Loki882]

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I think it makes David more genuinely creepy and disturbing. Going from Prometheus's ending with Shaw allied with David and hopeful that she will find Paradise and then finding out in Covenant that David experimented on her and did god only knows what to her and she was alone and stuck with that monstrous android on a desolate planet light years from help...thats the **** of nightmares.

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Meh, not feeling it. I'd much rather she be an actual presence, rather than just fridged to make David look creepy (when there's plenty of other ways to do that).

 

[harlequinade]

Feels like soft reboot of Alien AND Prometheus.

That's essentially the movie, unfortunately.

I would hope the trailer doesn't show all the creatures but something tells me it does and there is no bigger end game boss than that Alien in trailer's ending

 

[StarLord]

Didn't care much for this trailer either. Oh well.

 

[harlequinade]

The shot of Xenomorph running in red corridor makes the trailer

 

[harlequinade]

Oh and the red band trailer should drop today, this was released faster because there was a leak

 

[TheVileOne]

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So apparently the Xenomorph in the film isn't the classic Xenomorph, it's a type of "primal Xenomorph" or a protomorph.

Here's my main problem:

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I dunno, a Weyland android essentially creating the Xenomorphs makes them a little less special and interesting. That's just my opinion though.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[TheVileOne]

Yeah I think this was a much better trailer.

 

[Galactus10]

That tan prototype xeno looks pretty badass in that gif. Evokes how the face hugger itself lunges and wildly gets up in your **** lol

 

[Silvermoth]

Wow it looks amazing! It's a bit like the country area where I grew up! Can't wait for this.

I have a feeling the xenomorph is not the only horror there

 

[dude stannis]

That's because it was shot here and NZ

 

[AlluAllu]

Should the title of this thread be changed? I got really confused for a second there.

 

[harlequinade]

Spoiler

So apparently the Xenomorph in the film isn't the classic Xenomorph, it's a type of "primal Xenomorph" or a protomorph.

Here's my main problem:

Spoiler

I dunno, a Weyland android essentially creating the Xenomorphs makes them a little less special and interesting. That's just my opinion though.

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There's a theory that David is just following a bluprint. Kinda as if a man now decided to re-create dinosaurs. I hope that's it but knowing Scott it's probably just David creating the creature

 

[chamber-music]

I liked the shot of David walking through the mummified engineer corpses.

 

[harlequinade]

I'm stunned how bad the marketing of some movies is. Suicide Squad and its terrible marketing designed only to get butts in the seats and not worrying that half the stuff in the trailers is not in the movie and people will be disappointed. This reminds me of that. Showing final creature of the movie in daylight too so you can really take a good look at it is so dumb. Yeah we all know what the creature looks like but the different forms of it are always the surprise. It's still a horror movie and the golden rule of horror movie trailer is to never ever reveal the big bad there especially in the age of gifs and screenshots

 

[dark_b]

 

[tanita_mors]

A marketing campaign job is to get butts in seats so calling the one SS had as terrible is disingenuous - it was misleading but not terrible.

As for this movie, idk man, i know it's an alien pic and frankly i would have been pissed if two moths out before the premier i still don't see an actual alien in a trailer.

My big problem with Covenant is the female lead - i find Waterston to be incredibly bland - she was my least favorite part of Fantastic Beasts. Give me enough Fassy and we are good

 

[harlequinade]

a marketing campaign job is to get butts in seats so calling the one SS had as terrible is disingenuous - it was misleading but not terrible.

as for this movie, idk man, i know it's an alien pic and frankly i would have been pissed if two moths out before the premier i still don't see an actual alien in a trailer.

It is possible to have great campaign that doesn't backfire and actually hurts the movie's (already bad) reception.