Though Katherine Waterston hasn’t heard anything concrete about Alien: Covenant‘s rumored sequel, some new details have surfaced thanks to a recent report from Deadline.Allegedly, Ridley Scott. Alien: Covenant - the sequel to Prometheus - isn't out for another few months and yet Sir Ridley Scott has a follow-up written should the world want it. The news was seemingly confirmed in a set.
. United Kingdom. United StatesLanguageEnglishBudget$97–111 millionBox office$240.9 millionAlien: Covenant is a 2017 directed and produced by and written by and Dante Harper, from a story by and Jack Paglen. A joint American and British production, the film is a sequel to (2012) and is the second installment in the and the sixth installment overall in the, as well as the third directed by Scott. The film features returning star and, with, and in supporting roles. It follows the crew of a colony ship that lands on an uncharted planet and makes a terrifying discovery.In 2012, prior to the release of Prometheus, Ridley Scott discussed the prospects of a sequel and new trilogy, and the film was confirmed that August.
Began on April 4, 2016, at in, New Zealand, and wrapped on July 19, 2016. Effects houses Odd Studios and CreatureNFX provided the film's makeup and creature effects. Scott said that the first cut of the film was two hours and twenty-three minutes long, and was eventually edited down to the two hours and three minutes of the released version.Alien: Covenant premiered in London on May 4, 2017. It was released on May 12 in the United Kingdom, and on May 19 in the United States. The film received generally favorable reviews from critics but underperformed at the box office. The film grossed a worldwide total of $240 million against a production budget of around $111 million, not including marketing costs.
Contents.Plot Business magnate speaks with his newly activated, who chooses the name ' after observing. Weyland states that one day they will search for mankind's creator together.
David comments on his own unlimited lifespan as compared to Weyland's, which unsettles Weyland.In 2104, eleven years after the expedition, the ship Covenant is seven years from reaching planet Origae-6, with 2,000 colonists in and 1,140 human embryos in cold storage. The ship is monitored by Walter, an advanced android model that physically resembles David. When a shockwave damages the ship, Walter reanimates his 14 human crewmates, themselves couples and colonists. The ship's captain Jake Branson dies when his stasis pod malfunctions. While repairing the ship, the crew picks up a transmission of a human voice from a nearby planet, which appears eminently more habitable than Origae-6.
Despite the protests of Daniels, Branson's widow, that this new 'perfect' planet is too good to be true, newly-promoted captain Chris Oram decides that they will check the new planet.With pilot Tennessee maintaining Covenant in orbit, his wife Maggie flies a small lander to the Earth-like planet's surface, where an expedition team tracks the transmission's signal to a crashed alien ship. Crewmates Ledward and Hallett are infected by spores from fungus-like organisms. Oram's wife Karine helps the increasingly ill Ledward back to the lander, where Maggie quarantines them inside the med-bay. A small pale alien creature bursts from Ledward's back, killing him, and then mauls Karine to death.
Maggie returns and attempts to kill the creature with a shotgun, but triggers an explosion which kills her and destroys the lander. Nearby in the fields, another neomorph bursts from Hallett's mouth, killing him. The neomorphs attack the remaining crew, killing crew member Ankor. The crew manages to kill one before David, who survived the Prometheus mission, appears and scares off the neomorph.He leads the crew to a temple in a city full of dead humanoids. David tells them that upon his and fellow Prometheus survivor arrival at the planet, their ship accidentally released a virus which annihilated all on the planet, and that Shaw perished when the ship crashed. Meanwhile, attempts to radio the Covenant are stymied by ion storms.
When the remaining neomorph infiltrates the temple and kills crew member Rosenthal, David tries to communicate with the creature, and is horrified when Oram kills it. Oram questions David, who reveals that the Aliens are a result of his releasing and experimenting with the pathogen to produce new lifeforms. He manipulates Oram into being attacked by a Alien. A new form of Alien, the, later erupts from Oram's chest, killing him.As the others search for Oram and Rosenthal, Walter finds Shaw's corpse, used by David as material for his evolving creature designs. David states that humanity is a dying and unworthy species, and his designed creature is a 'perfect organism' set to eradicate them.
When Walter disagrees, David disables him, then threatens Daniels. Walter's advanced systems self-repair, and he attacks David while Daniels escapes.
Crewmate Cole quickly cuts another facehugger off security chief Carl Lope, leaving Lope with acid burns on his face. The now fully grown xenomorph kills Cole, while Lope escapes and meets up with Daniels. Tennessee arrives in another lander to extract Daniels, Lope, and Walter, who says David has 'expired'. They kill the attacking xenomorph and return to Covenant.The next morning, Daniels and Tennessee find out that another xenomorph burst from Lope's chest, killing him, and is loose on the Covenant.
It matures, and kills crew members Upworth and her husband Ricks. Final crew members Tennessee and Daniels lure the creature into Covenant 's bay and kill it.Covenant resumes its voyage to Origae-6. As Walter helps Daniels into stasis, she realizes that Walter is in fact David, but is unable to escape her pod before falling asleep. David regurgitates two facehugger embryos and places them in cold storage with the human embryos. He poses as Walter to record a log stating that all crewmembers except Daniels and Tennessee were killed by the solar flare incident at the beginning of the film and that the ship is still on course for Origae-6.Cast. Waterston received positive reviews for her Ripley-like role as Daniels. as and Walter One.
Both are synthetic androids; David is an earlier-made android, who was formerly a crew member of the destroyed, while Walter is a newer model android who monitors the Covenant. as Daniels, the chief of for the Covenant mission and the wife/widow of the ship's captain, Jacob Branson. She's the third in command after Branson and Oram. Waterston said she was well aware of the comparisons that were going to be made between her and 's, but that she tried not to think about it too much while filming for fear of being intimidated. as Chris Oram, the Covenant 's first mate and Karine's husband. After the early participation of several screenwriters, John Logan wrote the final script for the film.The initial screenplay was written by screenwriter Jack Paglen in June 2013.
In March 2014, was hired to rewrite Paglen's script. Dante Harper later wrote a new script but an extensive rewrite was performed by screenwriter. Logan had previously worked with Scott on. For Logan, the main concept was to adopt a dual plot line for the film which would combine the horror elements of Alien with the philosophical elements of Prometheus. He said, 'With Alien: Covenant, I just really wanted to write something that had the feel of the original Alien, because seeing that movie was one of the great events of my youth. It was so overpowering in terms of what it communicated to me and its implications, that when I started talking to Ridley about what became Alien: Covenant, I said, 'You know, that was a hell of a scary movie.'
I wanted to write a horror movie because the elements of Alien are so profound. We tried to recapture that with Alien: Covenant, while also trying to pay homage to the deeper implications of Prometheus. In terms of tone, pace, and how we chose to play this particular symphony, we wanted to create a really frightening movie.' Pre-production In late August 2015, Scott confirmed that he had started scouting the locations for the film. In October 2015, the Australian government attracted the production of the film, and of, to Australia by providing $47.25 million in grants. Woz Productions Ltd., a subsidiary of 20th Century Fox, visited, on March 28, 2016 for a, for filming in. Casting In August 2015, it was announced that the film would star Rapace and Fassbender, while was in talks to join the cast.
That December, was cast in the lead role of Daniels; it was Waterston's second film alongside Fassbender, after 2015's., longtime collaborator with Scott, was confirmed to serve as the film's cinematographer. In 2016, Ridley Scott stated that would not reprise her role of Elizabeth Shaw. However, in June, it was announced that Rapace would shoot weeks' worth of scenes (though no new footage of hers appeared in the final film). In February 2016, and Alexander England were reported to have joined the cast. In March 2016, newcomer also joined the cast.
In December 2016, it was announced had been added to the film, as Captain Branson, husband to Daniels and captain of the Covenant. The role of Branson in the film was limited to a cameo appearance of the deceased captain.Production design In an article for Cinemablend from May 2017 titled 'Mythbusters' Adam Savage Toured The Set Of Alien: Covenant, And It's Wonderful', Connor Schwerdfeger included a five-minute short video of Savage's discussion of several of the props and stage sets used in the production design for the filming of different scenes from the film. Main article:The for Alien: Covenant was written by Australian musician and composer. Initially, was selected as the film's composer.
When the first trailer was released in late 2016, Kurzel was revealed as the replacement for Gregson-Williams. Themes from 's original score for Alien were incorporated, as well as themes from 's and Harry Gregson-Williams' score for Prometheus.
A version of ' sung by Norwegian singer and songwriter was used in the first trailer, while another song, ', was used in an extended promotional footage featuring the character Daniels (Katherine Waterston) battling a xenomorph.Additional song credits include: 'Theme from ' composed by Jerry Goldsmith, ', Scene 4: Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla' composed by, ' by, ' by Fred Gilbert, 'Ancient Flute', 'Life' and 'We Were Right' composed by, and '. Release Alien: Covenant premiered on May 4, 2017, at the in London. The film was released on May 19 in the United States, in 2D and IMAX 2D. It was originally set to be released on October 6, 2017 before being moved up to August 4, and then again to its final date.The film was released in on June 16, 2017, but is trimmed by 6 minutes, leaving the film total released length in China at 116 minutes. It is very likely that the move was due to usual censorship by the, because of the monstrous violence depicted in the movie and the removal of the David-Walter 'kiss' scene which was deleted due to censorship sensitivities in China. Alien: Covenant was released in Japan on September 15, 2017. Novelization.
Fassbender's portrayal of two similar androids with different programming, David and Walter, was highly praised by reviewers.In magazine, David Edelstein commented on David the android as representing a new generation of monster villains in the tradition of, stating: 'In Star Trek, that man-machine nexus was.hopeful. Here, there's some doubt about David's ultimate motives, which puts Alien: Covenant squarely in the tradition of the Terminator and Matrix movies. And, of course, the novel Frankenstein, which carried the subtitle The Modern Prometheus. No less than —who survived with the aid of machines—has predicted that we have 100 years to live before evolved machines take human imperfection as '.Kevin Lincoln, writing for magazine in an article titled 'What Other Blockbuster Villains Can Learn From David in Alien: Covenant', gave a strong endorsement of the depiction of David as an arch-villain in the film stating: '.
One franchise is showing it's still possible for a modern blockbuster to have a great villain. In Alien: Covenant, David—the android played by Michael Fassbender, first introduced in Prometheus—comes into his own as a fleshed-out, dynamic, and genuinely striking antagonist, one who isn't just an equal match for the heroes, but even becomes the central thread of the series. He's a huge part of what makes Alien: Covenant work.' Writing for, Allisa Wilkinson said that ' Alien: Covenant is too muddled to pull off its deeply ambitious Satan allegories'. She emphasized the demonic aspect of the android David, stating: 'But David is a better Satan than Satan himself. It's as if in the Alien universe, the devil has evolved, thanks to humans creating him. David, fatally, has the ability to create—something Satan never had—and he will use that power only to destroy.
He doesn't have any real need to rebel against his maker, since from the moment he became sentient, he knew he'd already won. He is indestructible, and determined to make creatures that imitate his drive for total domination.'
Accolades. Further information:At the, the film was nominated for, but lost to, another film by, Ridley Scott was executive producer of this film. Sequel In September 2015, Ridley Scott said he was planning two sequels to Prometheus, which would lead into the first Alien film, adding, 'Maybe there will even be a fourth film before we get back into the Alien franchise.' In November 2015, Scott confirmed that Alien: Covenant would be the first of three additional films in the Alien prequel series, before linking up with the original Alien and stated that the Prometheus sequels would reveal who created the aliens. The screenplay for the third prequel film, called Alien: Awakening, was written during production of Alien: Covenant and was finished in 2017, with production scheduled to begin in 2018.
In March 2017, Scott said, 'If you really want a franchise, I can keep cranking it for another six. I'm not going to close it down again.
In May, Scott announced that 's sequel to 's film had been cancelled. In a later interview, he said he would have participated as a producer but that 20th Century Fox had decided not to pursue the project.In an interview, Ridley Scott confirmed the next film sequel will include surviving engineers who were away from their planet while David destroyed its indigenous population. Michael Reyes, writing for Cinema Blend in July 2017, quoted Scott stating that if Sigourney Weaver could reprise her role as Ellen Ripley in the prequels, then 'Well, we're heading toward the back end of the first Alien so using may be feasible. Ripley's going to be somebody's daughter, obviously. We're coming in from the back end. The time constraints of what's the time between this film, where we leave David going off heading for that colony, I think you're probably two films out from even considering her.' In the audio commentary for Alien: Covenant, Scott confirmed that a sequel to Alien: Covenant, tentatively referred to as ' Alien: Covenant 2', is being written by, with Fassbender, Waterston, and McBride reprising their roles.
Scott also confirmed that the film will complete his prequel series, leading directly into the events of Alien.By September 2017, chief-executive-officer of 20th Century Fox, stated that although Alien: Covenant was a financial disappointment, the studio intends to proceed with Ridley's sequel. In late September 2017, screen-graphics designer Carl Braga announced that the project had been delayed. In October 2017, Ridley Scott stated that ' Alien: Covenant 2' will focus more on the androids and A.I.s as opposed to the xenomorphs. Scott said, 'I think the evolution of the Alien himself is nearly over, but what I was trying to do was transcend and move to another story, which would be taken over by A.I.s. The world that the A.I.
Might create as a leader if he finds himself on a new planet. We have actually quite a big layout for the next one.' In November 2018, it was announced that the film would take place on LV-426, with the extra-terrestrial Engineers being featured in the film and being in pursuit of David 8, following his nefarious actions against Planet 4.At the 2019, it was stated that after its, Disney 'will continue to create new stories' in the Alien series.
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