In late 2013 it was announced that S.D Perry would be returning to the world of Alien literature with a new project called Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report. It would be a fictional report written as if by the scientists at Weyland-Yutani chronicling what they knew about the Aliens.
In September 2014, Sideshow Collectibles announced they would be teaming up with publishers Insight Media to produce a Collector’s Edition of the Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report . The Collector’s Edition should be released sometime this month (no solid date has been provided yet).
Copies of the book have been provided to contributors John Mullaney (who did the vehicle illustrations) and Markus Pansegrau, who the members of the online community will know better as Locusta (who provided the Alien illustrations) and they’ve been posting some pictures online:
In addition to John’s pictures above, Insight Media also released a video teaser of the Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report Collector’s Edition on Friday:
Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report Collector’s Edition retails for $325 and is available to pre-order now. Whilst the French have already received their Standard Editions, there is no news as to the release of an English copy of the Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report.
We spoke to Stephani Danelle Perry last year and she talked a little about her work on the Alien: The Weyland-Yutani Report. You can find that discussion (and others) in our Interviews section.
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what the actual US release date for this was? It kinda slipped out without me noticing.
Wait... phrasing.
Serious question though.
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Good to hear that SM! Guess you can't talk much about it?
Good luck with the production!
Nice, looking forward to all of that.
I went to London Film and Comic Con yesterday so still haven't had a chance to really dig into the book but I flicked through it. The bulk of that huge package was the fancy-pants Alien cover. Very very cool, very heavy. The book itself is still pretty damn thick - bigger than the Vault. Lots of super cool artwork by Locusta - didn't see much of John's before I had to put it away but what I saw of John's artwork was really nice too. Lots and lots of extra goddies - can't wait to read Space Beast.
Hopefully I'll get to start reading tonight - still got to pack everything away. And once I've read it and previewed it, should also be doing a podcast with Locusta towards the end of the month.
HuDaFuk said that you're apparently working on it as a consultant. Similar to what you did on the Weyland Yutani report.
My copy arrived this morning. Didn't have time to do anything except unpack it. It's absolutely massive.
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I'm still wondering about that. I recall Lebbon saying that the changes were pretty minor, which brings up all sorts of questions, especially since the previous Titan trilogy had been edited to stay in canon with A3 and AR.
Assuming Blomkamp will be completely ignoring Alien 3 and Resurrection, then his movie would regardless conflict with Rage War anyway. Wouldn't it? So that would already render Rage War obsolete.
Why should a book adhering to old canon be an issue when a movie establishing a new canon that's two or three years away be a problem enough to warrant cancellation for a standard edition book when the new movie won't be out for a good while?
Cool.
Looks really flashy and almost a little bit over the top, at least compared to the CMTM. Curious though to flip through that thing.
I've missed you.
Presentation is shown at 1:00 onwards.
Interesting.
The weapons and gear, for example - how is it presented? Are the explanations, statistics and mechanisms more futuristic and advanced than then somewhat semi-"contemporary" stuff we got in CMTM or about the same?
Things like the model numbers of USCM equipment were sourced from the CMTM, but not much else.
But you're forgetting that other countries have got stripped-down, bare-bones editions. That's where the gripe comes from. We have to shell out for this when other people can buy the meat and potatoes of it for much less.
You seem somewhat familiar. Have I threatened you before?
It's the contents that people are interested in and at 160 pages it's not exactly huge in page count.
I paid £100 for the James Bond archives book by Taschen (which was very costly and to be honest, I regret buying it now) but it's got over 600 pages in it.
Personally I think the cover is horrendous.
Yes, it's out of the price range of a lot of fans. But so are the aforementioned sculptures and there doesn't seem to be any negativity aimed at them.
Could well be wrong, but that's what I suspect.
The art is lovely, especially the cross sections.....but a lot of other books have this. I think $325 for the special book even with the extras and fancy cover is really pushing it to be honest.
C'est ici monsieur Locusta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_Rx4Hxxjbk
Although this appears to be the Spanish edition.
Never saw nor found this French review. Link please, thanks
Just not willing to pay upwards of $300.
I think saying it's not worth 32 dollars is a bit harsh. Sure, it includes a lot of old images...but theres such a wealth of fantastic CGI art by Locusta and those great cross sections and the number of physical collectibles (Burke's card, and couple of pages from Morse's book???) that come with the book. You have to be enthusiastic about that sort of stuff though.
Some great art throughout....but that's it. Lots of photos seen hundreds of time before.
I'd buy a standard softback edition for about 20 pounds, no more.
Huh, figures. Tell us whether this book is any good then, will ya?
And I got a plasma caster! My ship's faster than Huda's as well.
Must have this book in my trophy belt!
(Lookin' forward to the review by the way. You know, just to see how valuable the trophy will be.)
Plan b, then. Find Corporal, kill him, take his book.
No offence.