New Alien: Covenant still in latest issue of Empire magazine! The April issue of Empire has hit the shelves today and with it comes a small article on Alien: Covenant and a brand new still. The Empire website has posted a short snippet of the article and the new still of the Covenant crew departing the dropship:
“What’s great about this story is the characters are so different,” says the film’s returning star, Michael Fassbender. “They’re not just filling out a spaceship, their characters have been thought about. It harks back to those really cool characters in the original Alien, where there are great relationships going on outside of the [alien].”
New Alien: Covenant production still in the April issue of Empire Magazine
The article is only a short one, touching on several elements including multiple David androids, the characters (as mentioned above) and they also mention that the setting of Alien: Covenant is not the crew’s initial destination:
“As the new Empire explains, this planet is not their original destination: they have detoured to answer a distress call. And given this franchise, it’s a good guess that “distress” will soon be too mild a description.”
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Scott knows what he is doing.
Interesting that Scott says this will answer the questions left in Prometheus. I'm sure he's overreaching on this - or just doesn't remember that film very well - but it's exciting nonetheless.
Thanks to Leonard for the file.
https://twitter.com/DAMAN_Magazine/status/839355149202112512
Unwatermarked version of the new Empire still.
And Google Translate butchers the text. I'd suggest doing it just for the laugh.
Ha! I told you guys that boy was going to become famous one day. Any chance of doing a translation for us Stolen? Know it's asking a lot but Google translate sucks with French. It's our Squad Leader (Nanny) after all.
He's too humble
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Well, Scott had a similar situation with the Wadi Rum, a popular tourist destination but managed to make it not look like the Wadi Rum in The Martian and Prometheus. But we'll see, it could simply be a case of the final visuals not being finished yet considering the long lead times on trailers and promotional stills.
Here is a little visual effects reel by MPC (same guys currently doing Covenant's enviroments) on how they created LV-223 in Prometheus. You'll see it's basically pieced together from bits of Iceland, the Wadi Rum in Jordan and fully artificial CGI enviroments. My assumption was always that it would be the same case for Paradise in Alien: Covenant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdJYlKfyjg8
While suits/helmets are always a reasonable precaution as it's certainly possible on another alien world that a human pathogen might exist, the extraterrestrial environment does not make it more likely for native microbes to be pathogenic for humans, in fact it actually makes it less likely.
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Same spot!
But no matter, the place is so fantastic and cinematic. It has never been shown in a popular movie, so I don't see any harm.
Especially as we certainly havn't seen everything, I imagine the temple of engineers will be quite impressive to see in such place..
Oh, I did complain about it before. A full-on complaint. Totally.
Southern Island.
P.S. I said that the Lake Quill scene is unaltered, indeed, but you didnt complain about
that particular shoot. When complaining, complain fully.
I did. And it is unaltered.
Wasn't talking about that shot my dear.
You didnt complain about this "unaltered scenery":
Lake Quill, New Zealand
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Comparison
And I presume they "radically and believably altered the environment" of this scene
Maybe they spent too much money on this one and couldnt spare on that you are
complaining about. Regardless, Milford Sound a beautiful place and doesnt need any alteration.
This is my opinion. Respect yours, as always.
https://i.imgur.com/IlqaM05.jpg
Scene filmed in Australia, highly altered CGI scene.
Except that anyone who has actually traveled around and seen a bit of the world (or even just picked-up a National Geographic) would immediately know it's Milford Sound. And for the rest there are gazillions of photographs on the web of that particular waterfall.
If it was the seventies or eighties then I could understand. Nowadays they have the means to radically and believably alter the environment.
for filming such a scenery.
All those unofficial set photographs from last year either showed the dropship prop high-and-dry or in shallow water but still in the same spot.
Milford Sound is lovely but it all just looks like Milford Sound, not an alien planet. It's one of the worlds leading tourist destinations and easily recognizable. I was hoping they'd digitally extend the background and amp everything up a bit. Taller mountains, taller waterfalls etc. Like they did with the Wadi Rum scenery in Prometheus, such as adding the tall snow covered mountains behind the desert scenery.
Now this may simply just be a behind-the-scenes photograph, maybe they will still change things up a bit in post. Although the scenery in the trailer wasn't really altered as far as I could see.
EDIT
Actually nevermind, this is not a bts shot. The dropship prop has the CG extensions added so what we see here is probably what we'll see in the final film.
I've been there
Of course. But why get wet feet on day one? 20 meters further might have been dry land. And does the shuttle not blow up on a grass surface? Might be wrong with that.