Casting for Alien: Covenant has begun! MCTV Management Group has posted the first casting call for Ridley Scott’s upcoming Prometheus sequel, Alien: Covenant. The first casting call asks specifically for people between the age of 8 and 40 who are “skinny & very tall or skinny & very short but strong and very physically agile”.
They further elaborate that other useful skills would be “fast in movement, acrobats, dancers, gymnasts, contortionists, Cirque du Soleil type performers.” Whilst the actual role isn’t specified, this sounds like a casting call for potential Engineers or Aliens. This is reinforced by the request for “skinny & very tall” and “gymnasts, contortionists, Cirque du Soleil type performers.”
Casting for Alien: Covenant has begun and the call asks for people who are “skinny & very tall or skinny & very short but strong and very physically agile.” Picture is from behind the scenes of Prometheus.
The first Alien, Bolaji Badejo, was notoriously tall and skinny and James Cameron was also known for casting gymnasts for his creatures in Aliens. Also of note is that the age range and stature request is quite varied as this could imply a wide variety of creatures – young and old Engineers? Less developed Aliens? Perhaps even new creatures as seen in the comic series Prometheus: Fire and Stone?
The last we heard Alien: Covenant is slated to start filming in April with an October 2017 release. Are you in Australia and planning on auditioning? We’d love to hear from you and see how the audition went!
If the tall people are going to play Engineers then the "midgets" (proportionate dwarfs) will probably play normal humans in order to get the necessary scale contrast.
Kind of how Ridley Scott used his kids in Alien to make the Space Jockey ...err "Engineer" appear bigger.
Engineers kids are the last thing I want to see, enough with the Space Jockey emasculation already!
Something tells me they are looking for actors to play "Deacon" hybrids or variations thereof. It is as if Sir Scott wants to have many different types of the 'ancestor' program and then build up to the final resolution and crescendo at the end of the film, wherein the ultimate form of this bio-weapon, the Xenomorph itself, is unveiled as the final showdown. I really hope he goes that route, with various small skirmishes and encounters with the various "attempts" by the Engineers at creating this theoretical "perfect organism" gone awry, and through much struggle and conflict (and maybe even an Engineer-Human team-up), eventually they track down the "egg silo".
No, it just doesn't mention Shaw, doesn't mean she isn't there, she just won't be in the next movie, but prob in the movie after. I don't trust anything Ridley Scott says anymore...If he however just kills off the character like Hicks n Newt were killed off..I will be even more disappointed than I was with Prometheus..
You are becoming hysterical!
The references must've completely flew over my head at the time, or I wasn't paying attention to their awesomeness. XD
Comeon! I had a Joe avatar too!
I just remembered reading it at one point now that you brought it up. I didn't get it at the time but now I do.
You are becoming hysterical! You and I are going to have a talk about safety... why not ask me about AvPGalaxy's safety protocols?
Are they part of some flashback sequence?
Is David lying and there are plenty of people/engineers on this planet with him?
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Is the Covenant carrying an entire Colony of people? If so, what kind of colony is comprised of these types?
You'll need a work permit for any sort of formal employment in Aussie. And even then I suspect they'll only employ Australian citizens anyway.
Unless they're looking for illegal aliens. That might be a different matter.
Start digging...
In answer to your question though - I don't know. I'd suggest contacting the agency.
If u look at my previous comment, there is a line separating the first line from the second. The second is not mine. Is this someone else's???
A more direct tie-in towards Alien isn't going to be until one of the later films, I don't think.
Either that, or the inhabitants of the planet are all creatures David has experimented upon in various stages of mutation from the goo.
I'm still expecting a lot of ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU from this.
Maybe. Personally I'm hoping we saw more movement like that of Stompy coming out the vents in Isolation.
That was my thought too.
Wonder what the midgets are for.
I'm skinny and tall... but I'd make a good Engineer couch potato, not a gymnast. XD
Move to Aussie and sign up to the agency!