Michael Fassbender says Alien: Covenant is “much scarier” than Prometheus! Chatting to Colliders’ Steve Weintraub about Michael Fassbender’s upcoming The Light Between Oceans, Fassbender spoke a little about the tone of Alien: Covenant:
“This Alien is going to be… I’m very excited to see it and everybody in the film was saying this is a film that we all want to see. It’s much scarier than Prometheus but it’s got the same sort of scope of Prometheus. It’s kind of got more of the sort of thriller, imminent disaster feel that Alien had, so it’s kind of a beautiful meeting of both of those films. I’m really excited to see it, I think it’s gonna be super scary number one and then again with the massive scope of Prometheus… Once it starts and the ball starts rolling, it doesn’t let up. It’s really gonna bring chills to the cinema.”
In a new interview with Collider, Michael Fassbender says Alien: Covenant is “much scarier” than Prometheus!
Fassbender isn’t the only cast member to comment on the tone and scare factor of the upcoming Prometheus sequel. Danny McBride recently spoke about the film, calling it “a dark horror movie.” After years of Ridley Scott saying the Alien was no longer and Creative Assembly’s Alien: Isolation proving that wasn’t the case, I’m sure we’ll all be eager to see what approach Ridley is taking with the new film’s horror angle.
Thanks to tmjhur for the news.
Also, Fassbender was obviously asked the question. He hasn't randomly just come out with it.
They say they fully support it, it's got a great script and features the funniest comediennes working Hollywood right now.
How does it say nothing? People have been crying for years that Prometheus should have had more horror and been scarier. I've seen lots of people post here expressing their hope that the film would go in a more horror/scary direction and now two people on the film have stated that it will be.
Then you get people that post " he's not saying anything!". Gotta love this fanbase.
Yes, they should really quantify that. Like will it be a 7 or 8 level, or maybe.... 11?
Well one of the gripes about Prometheus was that it wasn't scary, or even trying to be... So he's just sayinbg this film will be scary or scarier at least, addressing one of the concerns people have. Says something if you ask me.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to be negative about this, but that's not saying much at all. O.o
But I have a feeling we may actually get an decent Alien film this time. Not a masterpiece like ALIEN and ALIENS, but something that strikes the right bargain.
If Scott pulls that off I can forgive everything underwhelming in PROMETHEUS for making its way to this. This series deserves its redemption, finally.
And now, two encyclopedia salesmen, or, in this case, two Pauline medpods!
I believe we ll see such thing in Covenant!
I'd love something like that. I'm still dying to see that zero-G opening from Peter Briggs' 2nd AvP draft.
Apparently Danny Mcbride also said the same about the film.
It's funny because the trailer gave it this air of terror and then there was that audio of the hammerpede scene that was released that sounded terrifying but Prometheus just doesn't take that approach. At all.
Admittedly, I do find those black Engineer eyes creepy as f**k though.
When I first watched Prometheus and there was that moment where Fifield and Milburn were informed of a "ping", I thought that was a pretty scary moment. I mean, the first time you watch it, you have no idea what that ping is, but you know it can't be good...
I'd say that was probably the scariest moment in an alien film in 30 years.
I just never expected Prometheus 2 to be this Alien. Like I said Prometheus isn't without merit, if Alien Covenant is grandiose that'll be a trait derived from Prometheus
Come to think about it, has there been any reports of pussy on board the Covenant? Surely they have a pussy cat or maybe two patrolling on the ship. That has to be the main reason Prometheus didn't feel alien, no Sigourney Weaver is one thing, but no cat as well? Come on Ridley, time for reshoots.
So technically there were scary bits and it goes without saying. Unless you have a much higher tolerance to disgust.
Not the same cat, though.
Tom Woodruff has been in a few alien films.
Ehm... I think you need to re-read what Fassbender says..
also screw Alien, good movie, but I don't want this trilogy to be tied to Alien at all...remember that the space jockey was ancient...I don't want them to retcon that...
You forgot Ripley's cat.
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I'm anti bullshit.
-Windebieste.
See, that's the thing. We are getting all of these non-Ripley films to satisfy the anti-Ripley brigade, and when we get ONE film proposed by a really cool filmmaker that will offer an alternate ending to Ripley's arc, which fans have been clamoring for for 30 years, all hell breaks loose. What's wrong with this picture?
(that sounds painful, but I'm up for it
If this is an 'ALIEN' movie, then where's Ripley? Why is Sigourney Weaver not appearing in it? Must b fail already.
OK. So that's 2 questions. I'm so durhp.
-Windebieste.
*sarcasm alert.
Oh, I forgot, we need to wait till f**king August of 2017.
Also by "when the ball starts rolling" I can't help but remember how awesome aliens was once the second attack happen. It just refused to let up on the tension. However the films budget has to be somewhere between 135 and 160 million. I can't see a higher budget being approved.
"It's much scarier than Prometheus "
Alien Fanbase=Sonic Fanbase.
Not with an R-rating, they'd never make their money back!
$150 million tops.
I think that last Pirates of the Caribbean movie holds the record for most expensive film at around $350 million. Avatar could perhaps have cost even more since I suspect the official figures were fudged.
10 years from now people will probably understand the value of the film in the long run.
I don't hate the last Star Wars, but it's just a blockbuster without interest and already forgotten.
Perhaps 300 million dollars?
Seems like both covenant and alien 5 is gonna be ok.
Could it be that we might have 2 great alien films in the next 6-7 years?
I guess covenant will be SW7 - a nostalgia fest .
I still maintain that Prometheus 's true value lies in its ability to open up new avenues.
Keep the good but add something new.
So it sounds like they are making the same movie but in a different location?
This is the reason why Aliens rock, it was a completely different scope that brought in a totally different feel.
People screwing around in an unknown place is not fun if they keep doing it again and again.