The ampules return for Alien: Covenant! Amazon has just released a short introduction presented by Sir Ridley Scott for Season 2 of The Man in the High Castle. Shot on location at Fox Studios in Sydney, we see Scott sat in front of a wall of ampules, wearing his Covenant crew jacket.
The ampules return for Alien: Covenant. Sir Ridley Scott recorded an introduction for season 2 of The Man in the High Castle on the set of Alien: Covenant.
The ampules contained the black goo (also known as accelerant or Chemical A0-3959X.91 – 15) that brought about the various mutations in Prometheus. It would like they’re set to make a return in the sequel.
Thanks to Stolen for the news.
The idea of an intellectual and technological Xeno could be pretty interesting.
Another potential possibility is that the "goo" is from the Space Jockey species (the real Space Jockey, and not an Engineer in a suit). I still have hopes that the original derelict isn't an Engineer in a suit, and that the Engineers use a "Space Jockey" in order to manipulate their technology.
The different sizes always interested me as well. The urn that David grabbed was small, but most of them in the ampoule room were of the large variety. My theory was that the different sized urns represented goo with different functions. My feeling is that Holloway was going through a similar process as the sacrificial Engineer, but at a much slower rate due to the small quantity ingested.
The whole ingested vs inhaled idea never really made sense to me. At that point what happens when the stuff is injected, absorbed through the skin, instilled rectally, or dropped into the eyes? It's much simpler to say that the large urn mutates, small urn creates, and medium size urns do something else.
I'd never noticed that before. Nice catch! I wonder if that is actually something that's going to come into play. Enoch did report that the goo was something the Engineers found...
Maybe the Goo is God.
IMO, there was also a big difference in the alphabet between what is on the URNS and the Engineer writings in the facility. The writing on the urns seems to be organized in columns, while the Engineer text is organized rows. They look quite different to me.
This might have been done simply for artistic value, but it could also be used to signify that the urns and contents are not an Engineer creation which makes them much more interesting.
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We may also see how the alien eggs were created.
But seriously, the ampules are more scarier then the eggs, one drop will get you wasted.
Imagine if the engineers have a fire extinguish system on the sealing, i mean how long can you hold your breath??
and if it will go down you ear pipe your screwed.
Agreed, I think I speak for a lot of fans when I say they ought to return more faithfully to Giger's aesthetic, especially if Covenant is supposed to explore the origins of the creature (though I hope it's not explained outright, leave some mystery Ridley!) I mean we need not necessarily see the same elements per se but there are plenty of beautiful and nightmarish pieces in his art books that if translated well to screen would be spectacularly unsettling.
While some of the sets in 'Prometheus' were okay, the detailing missed out on having Giger's actual hands-on touch, I reckon. I know he's irreplaceable, but I'd just like to see some of his boney/bio-mechanical weirdness translated a bit more faithfully where any 'Engineer settings' are involved in the follow-up. Not necessarily anything too 'sexual-looking', just make it more unsettlingly 'Giger-esque' in general, if you know what I mean.
The gun reminded me of the stuff in EXISTENz and I also see Giger and Belzinzski (spelling) but also Gutalin? Who we all know idolizes Giger.
Thanks for posting this. Super excited to play this now.
The Ampules work so well in Prometheus because of all the sleek styling and aesthetic. It would be more interesting to see a re-engineered (by David?) Ampule design. Like an Ampule with what appears to be a pulsating tumor coming out of it or something. Part sleek and beautiful, part grotesque.
Still, the planet could be a seeded planet where the engineers dropped a few Ampule bombs, and thats all the crew come across - a few broken open empty Ampule halves amidst lots of lush greenery and seemingly idyllic surroundings. Since the engineers wouldnt do that to their own planet, maybe they stuck around on a nearby habitable moon and watched from afar as their testtube planet evolved. During one trip between planet and moon, the engineers bring back something which wipes out their moon colony. The pompeii looking massacre is what the crew discovers on the moon, before they continue to the planet up ahead.
Nice! but there are influences from Zdzislaw Beksinski too. Thank you for sharing it by the way
To be honest, I wonder just how 'Giger'-inspired any of the settings on (or underground?) the 'Paradise' planet will turn out to be? I only hope some of 'COVENANT's sets turn out to be as unnervingly-unfamiliar as some of those in ALIEN, even if they aren't especially 'Giger'-like.
While I don't expect to see anything that resembles some of the nightmarish background settings in this upcoming 'Scorn' video game, it was interesting to note some of it's inspiration -
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That's the one! I could totally see the stone representations of the eggs holding up that central plinth, being adapted and replaced with the urns.
That's always been my favourite piece of concept art from the original film. Would love to see a version of it finally being realised.
I love that they are including the ampules. Hopefully they will fully explain the nature of what's inside them lol.
Yes but Cobb's Alien planet designs were not dropped for those reasons.
A3-A4-AvP-AvPR-Prometheus. Four shit and one divisive. There can't be another.
No, it's from the set. Workshops generally don't have raw stone walls and shelves. And that looks like the Ron Cobb sketch's murals behind him!
Many idea's were dropped or rejected originally due to time and money constraints. Scott has long said he regretted not getting to implement more of those ideas.
Perhaps. But then if these designs were rejected in 1978, why are they suddenly good enough now?
about the other things, and hope we ll never get to see them on screen.
By the way, I really think this was filmed inside of a workshop,
so this is not a footage from set!
on the wall behind Ridley...
Next it's time travel and its Ripley's mother's fault.
It's still David as the chest bursted "engineer" pilot from ALIEN.
I fear you're right. I'm still holding out hope though. Lacey's comment about painting Giger patterns still leaves me hope we're going to see some more Giger-esque style scenery.
I'm not so sure. Scott has been reusing quite a lot of ideas and concepts from early Alien. I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if this was a deliberate callback to this concept.
I'm sure the Robb Cobb thing is just a coincidence. Why pick his designs for the temple over Giger? Even he admitted his speciality is spaceships and corridors.
Also, 'The Man in the High Castle' is an amazing book. This recent version of it has been worth investing time into as well. I'm so pleased they've put so much effort into the world building for the TV show. Dick's view of the Axis divided US was a character of itself in the book - possibly more important than the human characters appearing in it. This definitely is the case in the show, too. That's not such a bad thing because getting that balance right is heavily dependent upon creating a plausible alternate post war world where the Nazis and Japanese have won. Which is where the real meat of the story lies. Well, that and the revelation to the characters that the world they inhabit may not be real...
Too awesome in so many ways. Can't wait for season 2.
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