With his new series, Vice Principals, now being shown, Danny McBride continues his press rounds promoting the show. In a new interview with Complex, McBride spoke briefly about Alien: Covenant. He doesn’t reveal much and the subject only gets two paragraphs but he re-iterates that Alien: Covenant is heading down a darker path than its predecessor, calling the film a “straight horror movie.”
“It was nuts. The idea that he trusted me to be a part of this thing is something that I’m still blown away by. I’m not allowed to talk a lot about what happens in it, but it is a straight horror movie. I’ve never been on something that intense before, with that level of visual effects and gore. I’ve also never been in a movie where people just straight up die like that.”
“It is a straight horror movie. I’ve never been on something that intense before, with that level of visual effects and gore.” – Danny McBride on Alien: Covenant.
Michael Fassbender recently spoke about Alien: Covenant, telling Collider that “it’s much scarier than Prometheus.” Hopefully this indicates we maybe seeing a return to the intensity and style of Ridley Scott’s Alien. McBride also shared a great anecdote about the diminishing cast:
“When I started the movie, the cast would go to these dinners and it was like twenty people. Then each week, the numbers dwindled and it became less and less people at the table.”
Thanks to SuicideDoors and Igor Prokopczak for the news.
Lol. I must make a New Years' resolution to stop being a pain in the ass one of these years..
Like someone else said, Lambert was naked from the waist down, her pants, underwear (I'm guessing), socks and boots all being removed. And I swear to god one of her toes is broken. I thought it might be a prop, but I'm thinking a model with double-jointed toes?
Makes me shudder! :/
The reason that scene is so powerful is because it is suggested, and because the scream that Lambert gives is so horrifying. It sounds, towards the end, with the stutters, that she's being raped. Not cool. Still, it's not shown, and we hear it while Ripley is running in vain down a dark corridor. This isn't a brightly lit room, even; there's lots of space to imagine as the horrorible act occurs off-screen.
Alas, the scream they re-recorded in the Alien: Isolation DLC, Last Survivor (I think, or was it the other one?), for Lambert dying sounds so bad! XD
Still trying to make that catch on, I see. #ALIENfilms
What Hicks just said. Intense gore, not gore porn. It's an Aliens film. Somebody has to die. In a bad way.
Where in the contract does it state that Alien:Covenant has to have a Parker who's a white guy? Now if you wanna pay the man some money we can have Yaphet Kotto reprise his roll.
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Alien had gore. Kain bursts open, and the filmmakers literally use gore taken from an abattoir. At one point, in the movie, they tried using bones fro ma abattoir for the derelict scenes, according to Giger. Brett and Parker's heads are both bit into, and in Parker's case, you can see the skull come open and the brains pop out. Ash's head gets knocked off with a baseball bat. They used "Nottingham lace" for the inside of the alien egg, as well. It's a violent, gory film.
Doesnt bother me at all, as an alien film some gore is to be expected. I myself prefer a certain level of gore, at least similar to the amounts seen in the first 3 films. Like everyone else has said, as long as its not gore porn then there shouldnt be a problem. It's not like Scott is known for crazy amounts of gore in his films anyway.
Maybe McBride goes out like Parker
I'm of the same thoughts. Alien had gore but it was intense gore, not gore porn. I'm hoping that's the same way that he'll be handling it here. Not gore for the sake of it but as a punctuation.
I am loving all these comments about it being horror though.
He'll definitely be exploring. That's the whole point to his prequels.