He may have escaped fighting the Predator, but James Franco hasn’t been able to avoid the Alien! Alien vs. Predator Galaxy can exclusively reveal that James Franco will be making an appearance in Alien: Covenant.
We reported back in July that his agency was pushing hard for James Franco to be cast as McKenna, the lead role in The Predator. Franco apparently passed on that role to appear in a different science fiction film called Kin. That hasn’t stopped Franco from appearing alongside his long-time collaborator, Danny McBride, as a member of the crew of the Covenant though!
James Franco will be appearing in Alien: Covenant as Branson, the captain of the Covenant.
Franco will be appearing in Alien: Covenant as Branson, the captain of the Covenant and husband of Katherine Waterson’ Daniels. Franco’s appearance in Alien: Covenant will only be brief, though. He appears in the first ten minutes or so of the film with later small appearances.
Franco will also be reprising the role as Branson in some of the viral footage that has been shot for Alien: Covenant.
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Is the "box" Alien when Fifield appears all small and scrunched up?
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So...
Huda it reminds me of what Val said about much of alien's staying power coming from the mystery of the space Jockey.
I certainly hope it doent go that way.
I am going to be very disappointed if all the mystery elements ends up being David's doing and therefore man's .
That's gonna be really lame.
The whole point about the space jockey was that is came from somewhere else and was beyond are understanding.
This is virtually directly the opposite.
I can live with it but the staying power will be gone.
Sorry Huda you're point was no one here is saying that. And I hope you are right and believe.
Just feel saddened to the core.
But no one's saying the Alien is gonna do this.
We're talking about the new creatures they're putting in the film.
Agree with you there . Virtually all alien lore is gonna expire.
We created a android that created the alien from the neomorph and goo and android DNA based on his own programming and becomes more human (gets a soul) . Maybe that's how Shaw meets her parents David now uses his spiritual side to create a heaven for her. )
An engineer escapes paradise with a juggernaut filled with eggs but most of them are David's facehuggers that was created from the new bio mechanical xeno's and infects an engineer just as he climbing into his chair and his suit closes around him. Since he interfaces with the ship on a biological level via the telescope thing before him he carries the new bio mechanic DNA of the xeno growing inside him and he transfers that to the ship . The ship changes form and becomes bio mechanic. The engineer suits also start to grow like the xono inside it and when the engineer comes too he realises he will die and crashes the ship or lands it and set up a warning . The ship 's damaged part has an opening and the eggs start to grow in to an empty cave below the ship . the ship crows with them into the cave .
Is that where we are going?
Actually I don't know if this is dumb or not, but maybe the alien can drop it's head and then quickly reform it's body. You know, something freakish like that.
That's literally what happens with the new Alien in Spaihts' original draft for Prometheus. It turns to jelly and squeezes into tiny gaps.
Kind of like the T-1000, except biological, which goes all the way back to Lovecraft and his pesky Shoggoths.
Perfect organism.
One of the tweets mentioned something about the alien having a new trick that explains how they get around the ship so easily. I'm thinking box alien and being able to soften themselves up into a near goo like substance.
What's interesting about that, is that there is the implication that somewhere on the derelict, there may be a live, dormant, hibernating, alien.
There's no way that Dallas could have accurately deduced that the space jockey was in fact fossilized. He could have been quite wrong about that.
But looking at Wikipedia Franco was already on there last night, and reading the movie discription,
the only survivor on the hostile planet is David, and reading up on Scott he said these movies will lead up to the events of Alien,
and we will come to find out who made the xenomorphs, so the easiest guess in this it will all be David/Fassbender,
the creator of these creatures, if im correct the xenomorph is or has some robot aspects (i dont know how you call it in English)
in where the engineers failed to create the ultimate weapon, David succeeds.
And the theory of White Rabbit could be close also that the Derelict is on the Covenant and that the cargo hold are the Covenant crew turned into eggs.
Following this theory this could be the ultimate let down of the whole Alien series.
Here's a few more details. Thanks Himmelblau for the link!
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You can't really tell it's him though cuz he's wearing like a balaclava and only see his eyes. After that you can see him clearly but only in a video message he had previously sent his wife,(as he is scaling a mountain cliff). She watches it after the crew has a funeral for him and repairs are made to the ship - that's pretty much it for Franco's role!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316204/board/thread/264001053?p=2
At least this explains how he manages to reappear later in the film even though he's dead. So it's probably safe to assume he isn't a zombie.
No. Because character played by Franco will
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Check out Sagardoa posts:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316204/board/thread/262612841?p=3
That's just laughable.
-Windebieste.
This time there is detailed description of James Franco's fate, and the other scenes he is in!!
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316204/board/thread/264001053?p=2
What else did this IMDB user say?