Following on from their report yesterday about four new cast members, Deadline are now reporting that Billy Crudup is currently in talks for a “key role” in Alien: Covenant:
“Billy Crudup, who was part of the killer ensemble cast of Best Picture Oscar nominee Spotlight, has lined up two more big pics. He is in advanced negotiations for a key part in Alien: Covenant, the sequel to Ridley Scott’sPrometheus that is set to begin production next month in Australia.”
According to Deadline, Billy Crudup is in an advanced state of negotiations that will see him join the cast of Alien: Covenant in a key role.
Crudup has been in a number of films, the most notable of which I feel are probably the Zack Synder directed Watchmen where Crudup played the role of Dr Manhattan (aka Jon Osterman) in the 2009 adaptation and Public Enemies in which Crudup starred as J. Edgar Hoover.
As with the other casting reports, there are no details about his potential character in Alien: Covenant. Thanks to tmjhur for the tip.
Why not? wouldnt that be the biggest trip ever, make a space journey mystery movie that rolls for like 6 hours.
I heard the Phantom Menace cut was 6 hours and some who saw it said it was mind boggling.
Anyway way why hold on to the simple 2 hour plus duration.
If you are going to make a good movie just go all the way and break some rules.
Prometheus is also 2 hours but when i watch it i dont feel like ive watched a two hour movie.
@tmjhur
Yeah same exact point with Pearce , yeah and what ever happened with those cool memorable death scenes like in Indiana jones with the nazi's.
I wanna see people get hurt and get punished for their bad greedy behaviour.
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and I want her..
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if there is any more actors in Covenant...
My personal thought is that they are keeping one or two big names to announce...
Just a presumption, but there is certanly place for a few more
actors, its a colony ship after all...
I would like to see Tom Hardy...
What about you?
I personally never considered Prometheus a failure, but a mere drop in some aspects of writing and character development (other problems: too much ambiguity, and lack of psychological horror). No one can really say that main ideas in that movie were bad, on the contrary, ideas and motif (mythological, religious and philosophical) were great.. and so I hope that Ridley is going to fix mistakes from Prometheus (characters, story development and too much ambiguity) and give us a great story about Engineers, humans, androids and xenos... and maybe someone new..
If he fail to deliver a satisfying movie, then we can say goodbye to this franchise and to two other planed sequels (in fact prequels to Alien)...and that fact was surley in the minds of Ridley's and others from Fox... They know what this movie must be and what it doesnt... I myself would consider Covenant a failiure if they disregard all the story they told in Prometheus... This movie must in some extent explain the story of Engineers and explain major questions from Alien and Prometheus (not all, because mystery is essential): What part will humans and David play in Xeno and Engineer story, why they want to destroy humans, who created xeno and why, space jockey... I dont want full answers, but movie need to show us something that will lead us to some answers. They also need more psychological horror, mystery, great questions and a few answers (few big hints will sufice)... Prometheus failed there, because that movie just imposed number of questions without any concrete answers...
I m very optimistic about this one...
P.S. I'm satisfied with cast choices...
they probably roughly fit the discription of the characters in the story board so i think thats why they just pop up all four.
None of them look like they can tell a good story or make a difference (with all respect to them as actors)
but they sure will do fine by getting picked off like cookies in the jar.
While you are saying that it comes to my mind it looked like they already casted and contracted the Patrick Wilson guy,
and with Lindelof at it and Ridley its like they both had a separate story and they made one together and mashed it all up in the end because the studio needed an answer and a direction because time was running out,
and therefor we got so many different shit in Prometheus and different cuts,
like the cargo bay part with Fifield, one with Rapace in it and one without her.
Then the ending they just easily took out Vickers in the most lame possible way ever, then the engineer shots,
the talking of the engineer to Weyland, the engineer falling victim to the squid, with a burned face and without a burned face.
i think they both had so much material and both thought "mine is better" that they had a little argument over it,
oh yeah and something about Spaihts
But Prometheus is the baby who looks so beautiful and is so entertaining but during its lifespan it gets addicted to drugs and loses its potential.
Because lets face it Prometheus could be soooooo much more after all these years.
It was bizarre casting indeed. There were a lot of very very questionable choices made in Prometheus......who the hell knows what was really going on. Maybe it was an entire movie of Ridley ideas such as the golden idea in the original Alien of "the alien kills Ripley and then talks in her voice" ending.
That was bizarre. The whole way through I kept waiting for him to show up in more flashbacks, but then he never did.
It is quite easily one of my favourite films! I didn't like it the first time I saw it but then I read the graphic novel some many years later and rewatched the film and just fell in love with it.
Glad I'm not the only one who liked Watchmen, no one else I know seemed to enjoy it. I thought it was amazing.
He was good as J. Edgar Hoover in Public Enemies, too. It was only a small part, but I always remember it.
I smell an android!
I love this! I loved Watchman so much and Dr Manhattan is one of my favourite powered people in graphic and film format!