With Alien: The Adora Files due out any day soon and Predator: Dark Ages due to premier later this month, it looked like we were about to return to a period of drought for fan films. Then Sonnet Realm Films announced their upcoming Alien fan film, Alien Identity:
“ALIEN IDENTITY takes place 14 years after the events of Jim Cameron’s 1986 blockbuster, Aliens. It continues the story of Newt, the little girl we all loved, but despised to see perish in vain. They decided to bring back Newt, played by Elle Viane Sonnet as a young woman with an undeniably haunting past and an uncertain future.
“I love the character Newt. Bringing her back has been something I’ve thought about for years, which is why this film takes place after Aliens, and dismisses the events of Alien 3 and Resurrection. It has been pretty much accepted as canon, that the last two films of the series are considered cryo-sleep nightmares, which we have no objection to,” says Writer and Director Adam Sonnet.
Amongst the many extraordinary people coming on board the project, some of the talents include: Emmy Award-Winning Make-up Artist and Creature Designer, Brian Sipe, Terminator Genisys, X-Men First Class, and Star Trek: Into Darkness; Celebrity Creature Concept Artist & Consultant, Neville Page, Prometheus, Avatar, Star Trek, Oblivion, and Falling Skies; Saturn Award-Winning Writer/Director Marc Zicree as a writing consultant, Space Command: Redemption, Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II, Star Trek DS9, Sliders, and Babylon 5; and many more exciting names soon to be announced.”
Elle Sonnet as Newt. Photo Credit: Adam Sonnet and Graphic Credit: Gale Benning
The Alien fan film has been a project that the Sonnets wanted to do for around 2 years but production started in earnest around 2 months ago. Alien Identity is expected to start filming from the end of 2015 with an eventual release of late 2016. They will be starting their Kickstarter campaign around July time with announcements as to their cast in the coming months.
Alien Identity will be the second recent Alien fan film to return Rebecca Jordan, aka Newt, to us! Aliens: LV-426 was released at the end of May 2014 and portrayed an alternate sequel to James Cameron’s Aliens. We spoke to writer, director and producer Márcio Napoli in June of last year.
You can follow Alien Identity on Facebook to keep up to date with the Alien fan film and their latest developments.
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Update from their Facebook page:
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They released another update over the weekend - Neville Page is joining them as Creature Concept Consultant. He's done a lot of concept design over the recent years - including Prometheus.
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Lucky. Bastard.
Couple of new Identity posts:
"We have been getting a lot of curious people messaging us and asking, "what Alien are you going to be using?"
We are happy to say that our Tribute Feature Film, ALIEN IDENTITY, will be very H.R. Giger inspired."
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"Director/Writer Adam Sonnet is working with Gale Benning on Pre-Visual FX, set design, schematics, plus the look and feel of the film from textures to the semiotic standard of the Alien Universe. "
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New picture shared today:
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Predator - Dark Ages was barely successfully funded on Kickstarter, ultimately it funded a trailer ? not this 30 minutes film , 5,000 for trailer 10,000 short 8 minute film 20,000 30 minute film , through I'm sure it will be good , However the teaser trailer on kickstarter was very bad , looked very cheap and showed nothing , if something else was better put together i'm sure it could of passed the 20,000 mark. True that
They could have worded that better but it wouldn't be a stretch to say many fans dislike Newt and Hicks' death.
Indeed! They need to define who it is that pretty much accepts it as canon. Themselves?
Predator - Dark Ages was sucessfully funded via Kickstarter last year.
And I understand that the team behind this have a presence in Hollywood so I'm sure there'd be some political smoothing to be done.
Even though they're funded like this, they're not being funded for profit - only to cover costs.
It's not like you have to fund it all by yourself. If you like it, throw them some money. If you don't, move along. And I really don't mind. I've seen the quality of projects that are done like this.
I can't wait to see what the proof of concept videos look like.
They'll be posting proof of concept videos and vignettes along with the campaign.
Potentially, it could be good with those people attached but it's all ifs, buts and maybes when it comes to kickstarter. So the project may not even be completed.
Ummm...