After nearly three months of shooting, Sir Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant has officially wrapped! Last Saturday the crew celebrated with their wrap party and have started to move on to other ventures. You can find pictures from the wrap party and the crew showing of their Covenant clothing in our forums.
Alien: Covenant set decorator Lacey Malice took to Instagram yesterday to show off her crew jacket and left a lovely caption talking about her time on the film: “It’s a wrap!!! I never would have guessed this time last year as I was having the time of my life in Switzerland at the HR Giger museum I would return home to paint the exact sets that he envisioned so long ago!, it has been an amazing experience, I’ve learnt so much and made some very talented new friends.”
Some of the art crew are remaining on the film to help with design work in post-production. Now it’s up to effect companies such as Animal Logic and MPC to provide the special effects for Alien: Covenant.
A “Thank You Note” from Ridley Scott, Mark Huffam and Michael Schaefer to the crew along with a Covenant patch and jacket (better seen here).
They made it through filming with very few leaks. Alien vs. Predator Galaxy were the first to reveal any sight of the film to the world with the location pictures from Milford Sound and the Daily Mail showed off some interesting pictures from the quarry location outside of Sydney.
Danny McBride poses with the Odd Studios (creature effects) crew. They’re all sporting various Alien: Covenant clothing including a cap that includes a Xenomorph! Higher-resolution copy here.
With just over a year left before release, we now wait while post-production work begins on Alien: Covenant and the marketing campaign starts to kick in. Stick with Alien vs. Predator Galaxy for the latest!
Yep!
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"Filming has wrapped. The next phase begins."
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That works.
Gotta catch 'em all!
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No doubt. I'll be curious to hear what needs reshooting.
I dread to think what it'll be like if Covenant ends up worse than Prometheus. I don't know how longer the series can keep taking subpar films.
I mirror your sentiments. Yay!
Just wanted to let my thinly veiled excitement out. Especially now that principal photography has finished. I guess we just have to wait for the inevitable pick up shots that are always needed. Stuff that editing can't fix. Either way...
YAY!
-Windebieste.
I'm hoping there weren't too many deviations between the Paradise and Covenant scripts. If the former was as good as I've heard, then the more changes there were, the more chances there was a change for the worse. And don't get me started on the chance of executive meddling (FOX) dumbing down the final script.
Give "Fury Roads" "R" rating in the USA (and 150 million dollar budget) and the success of Deadpool, I could see Fox risking 150 million on a r-rated franchise that could be a steady source of income. Yeah it won't be the next Force Awakens, but it could be a strong 350-450 million dollar franchise every few years before digital rights, merch, home media and all that bullshit.
I heard Fassbender billed the production company twice.
It was being bandied about on the Alien: Covenant IMDb boards (and we all know how strictly factual they are
I must have missed that one. Can you remember where it came from?
In my research to find out about that Palgen draft, I heard that the scripts are watermarked with who they were given to. Unless someone cares enough to write it up, I wouldn't expect to see any anytime soon.
I've just heard the $150 million rumor; also a set visitor tweeted that it would be "bigger" than Prometheus. So I'm just deducing.
Sorry if it's off topic but what do you think the chances are of some script drafts being made available after release?
Also, since we got Peter Briggs' unproduced AVP script, do you think we'll see Blomkamp's Alien 3.2 script eventually if it never happens as well?
Yeah, there's been rumours of a $150 million budget but nothing official has been released yet.
I don't think we've seen any budget info yet. Is this something your insider has told you?
Just confirmed who is remaining from the art department to help with VFX. Wayne Haag and Steve Burg (who has done all the ship design).
Scripts and filming, as Alien demonstrated, 40 years ago, is an organic process. Like evolution, though, the results aren't always superior. It's all random, essentially.
Even the drab looking Alien 3 had more moments I'd want to re-watch from a storyline perspective.
While everything sounds promising for Alien Covenant - Giger inspiration, more creatures, good budget and decent shooting time, I just hope the script delivers. In the early days, the script (and even the title of the film) has had so many reincarnations (like many movies these days). I just hope the script is gripping, the acting is of Charles Dance/Sigourney Weaver/Ian Holm/Lance Henriksen/Glenn Close calibre, and this becomes a movie that I will want to rewatch time and time again in years to come.
Ever the eternal pessimist, I know, but somebody has to be...
'Prometheus' had a few clumsy steps but at least it was heading in the right direction. I'm hoping Scott has gained his footing with 'ALIEN: Covenant.
-Windebieste.
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-Windebieste.
*lol.
All 'ALIEN' movies have been a success for Fox. You might want to consider critical success a different metric in itself but even if 'ALIEN: Covenant' is so bad it manages to teach your grandmother how to suck eggs through a straw, there's a good chance the follow up movie will go into production.
You can bet Day One ticket sales alone are going to be strong on this item.
-Windebieste.
As Thomas H. said above, 3 months on principal photography is normal for a movie of this size.
There are of course always exceptions, Mad Max: Fury Road for example took over 4 months and then they still did a ton of re-shoots afterwards.
I, for one, am really looking forward to this movie. I'm a big Prometheus fan, equal to Alien/Aliens. I can't wait to find out how this will expand and connect those movies even more.
Agreed, while Aliens certainly wasn't a smooth ride, a 10 month shoot would have put them way over budget. That 10 month figure probably includes pre-production and the visual effects work afterwards.
Can't wait to see some footage though.
let's hope so
*Fixed your quotes. Corporal Hicks.
I don't think we had any leaked footage of Prometheus' creatures. Well, unless you count the trailer we got our hands on early but that was a trailer.
Yeah, I thought that was odd. But that's why you never trust Wikipedia.
Off the top of my head: Alien shot from July '78 and wrapped in winter, err, October? But model shooting went on for months afterwards. I don't think Aliens took 10 months to shoot at all. 3 months is the norm, for a typical two hour picture.
I'm dying to see what they look like.
As for the Alien3 filming time, I imagine it felt like it took forever.
Yeah, I really like that quote too. I really can't wait to see something of the Giger-style sets!