A four and a half minute clip titled “Prologue: Last Supper” has been posted on the official Alien social media channels. This was expected to premiere during FX’s Legion episode 3 in a little over an hour, however, it has surprisingly been posted online early.
The short was conceived by Ridley Scott and 3AM, directed by Luke Scott (Ridley’s Son), and produced by RSA Films. It is not included in the film itself, but rather the start of the viral marketing campaign.
It introduces the crew of the colony ship: Covenant enjoying a last meal together before entering cryosleep. James Franco is featured in the clip as the captain, who retires to rest due to not feeling well before the crew celebrate their journey.
The meal is somewhat reminiscent of the original Alien, including a very on the nose, tense moment to throw viewers off.
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Update #1 (23/02/2017) – We have also uploaded the short sneak peek of the Last Supper that aired during Legion. It’s really short, at just under 15 seconds but it contains a couple of shots not seen in the full prologue.
Like many people here, I thought it was kind of a lame fakeout reference to the chestburster, but I've realized that, like the rest of the clip, it exists to illustrate the dynamics of the ship's crew. In this case, it gives us a situation that's literally comparable to the Nostromo's crew.
When Kane starts "choking," everyone stands up and the closest people to him, especially Dallas and Parker, immediately take hold of him to try and help him. You can see Lambert get knocked over trying to help when he starts convulsing. Even Ash, who has the most to gain from Kane's death, springs into action to put something in his mouth to bite on as everyone tries to hold him down during his seizure.
Compare with the Last Supper, where nobody is getting chestbursted, a woman is simply choking. What happens? The whole crew stands around dumbfounded before Walter bails them out. These people are not really prepared to handle being stuck on a spaceship, let alone starting a colony... or running into xenomorphs.
It's a link to the production company that made the Last Supper clip, that's all. Same folks who did the Prometheus viral work (and The Martian).
Has there ever been a scene in a trailer that you wanted in the film, however?
The Tango & Cash trailer is made up almost exclusively of footage that doesn't actually appear in the film
my showing had the new green band attached
Plus look at Walter, like a boss. No dramatic running, just a simple smack on the back and it's all good.
Hardly saw anything ambiguous in either.
Covenant takes place 10 years after Prometheus, so it could be that more alien life (whether Xeno or not) has been spotted. I like to think that nearly a century from now people are still using shitty cameras to take videos and photos of alien spottings.
That scene was cut from the film, so it wouldn't break any continuity if life had been found previous to Prometheus anyway.
I ask because in 'The Last Supper' one of the crew casually mentions bugs at a colonial outpost, yet in Prometheus the worms were apparently the first time life beyond Earth was discovered.
So I've been thinking about it and CdL never actually mentioned a green-band trailer. I reckon it was that Daniels vignette that we heard about at the other Showcase events and we just jumped the gun on it.
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Some wider versions of these stills and one without the text -
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https://twitter.com/20thCFoxSp/status/836159967589707776
And now a bunch of stills - http://www.avpgalaxy.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=362
Interested to see if it's greenband, or the one we were supposed to get @ super bowl??
Ok. I was thinking along the lines of the cut scene between Ripley and Lambert, about Ash.
(Mind you it's been a while since I listened to it, so might be misremembering.)
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Maybe at this stage its probably easier to say what I don't want it to be, than what I do. I don't want it to be 2 hours of a bloodbath and then we all get out of our seats and go home. And I don't want it to be too Prometheus-y.
I don't want to be let down by trailers that promise there's much more in store than there actually is in terms of plot and scale. And I certainly don't want wooden not fleshed out characters or half-baked or completely lacking science. Its 2017 - there are 3000+ confirmed exoplanets already out there. Gimme something futuristically plausible about colonization with a slice of Xeno on the side please.
I've rewatched the A L I E N dvd more times than I care to imagine and I still feel the butterflies in my stomach partly because the characters are somehow relatable. I feel like I can put myself in their shoes more than any of the other alien franchise characters. The Prologue works for me because while there are a lot of throwbacks to Alien, if you strip all that away, you basically have group dynamics just like what you often see at work, in the office/factory/whatever. Who is the office bike/clown/drunk/backstabber etc...
I know what you mean. Cudrup is not subtle at all in this. I think it's because it's both a story piece and a marketing piece. They're using the viral marketing to build the characters. Subtlety goes out the window when you have a short piece of time.
Ha! Nice catch!
Well-written, well-executed, free of groaner garbage. Prometheus could have been an outstanding movie, but it wasn't. That's on Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof, especially Lindelof. If Scott wanted distance from the rest of the franchise, he should have made more of a stand-alone sci fi movie out of it. His half-in/half-out approach was part of the problem, and it's easy to say what went wrong. Smart people repeatedly behaved stupidly, dialogue was awful, Engineers behaved like moronic savages, Engineers were nothing more than bald pale men, Engineers role was stolen from the Predators in AVP, AVP did that part better, the critter at the end looked silly and added nothing.
I'm also not going to say the Spaihts script was better. I think the array of monsters he provided were mostly too easily dispatched and the Ultramorph was a stupid idea. Just making the ordinary monster bigger does not make it better. The Queen is bigger, but the Queen adds value to the equation. She lays the eggs and exerts control over her underlings. She was an antagonist, too.
Now we have Covenant on the way. What would make it great? Well-executed script with ideas that are more than Alien saga retreads. Will we get that? It doesn't look that way. Seems like it's a blob of of retread ideas swizzled into a familiar mix. It seems Scott is more interested in recreating the tone of the original, topping the chestburster, and saying, "You want xenomorphs? Here you go." Except it's not the real biomechanical horror, is it? No. It's primal and sort of fleshy, just like the creatures in all the movies from A3 on. It also seems saddled with a ton of groaner material.
-David 8 makes the Alien. Really? What a letdown. Ok. Some people like the idea. Good for them. I obviously don't.
-Ripley isn't there, but we'll insert the obligatory Ripley surrogate. Hi Daniels. She might be Ripley's mommy. Great. Ugh!
-The viral video is 4 minutes of callback material.
-And we have blood - By the look of the trailer, lots of blood. But does extra blood make the movie better? Alien had some blood. It worked fine. Aliens had almost no blood. Mostly, the blood was bright yellow acid blood, not deep-red human blood.
Blood is not what makes the movies great. Alien, it's the sense of immersion and the believable nature of the characters that make it work.The mysteries are cool. Derelict, spacejockey, eggs, creature: All Lovecraftian things full of horror and foreboding. They stood the test of time, and Scott is busy crapping them up. It's disgusting. Aliens, it's the story and character interactions that make it go. The Queen is great, but the warriors act too much like cannon fodder. There are some excellent scenes and it's mostly a fun movie to watch. The series goes rapidly downhill after that.
I think you're right. Covenant is going to be another polarizing movie. But like Prometheus, it will be polarizing for all the wrong reasons. If Scott could just deliver a movie of the same quality as Alien or Aliens, all would be right with the world. But I think he can't. I doubt this will be the movie we're waiting for. That may have to wait however many years for a new director to give it a try, and might never happen.
- obviously he is the vice captain in rank yet the captain trust in his pilot more (just look at his face when the captain sets the pilot in charge)
- obviously he wanted to do the speech instead of Daniels (again his expression)
Probably he will do a bunch of dumb shit as soon as he will be in charge officially after the captains death just to prove himself.
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Sometimes there is a swerve, but more often these days, the marketing gives away the whole movie, including plot points and secrets best left a surprise. And in the case of this franchise, the marketing can also make the movie look better than it is. *Prometheus* *hack* *choke*
Burdern of proof is still on the movie to not be a turd.
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Sometimes a film's marketing betrays its true nature. Just look at movies like Alien 3 or Crimson Peak.
Yes, exactly!