We’ve finally got details of what’s in store for us for the Alien Covenant Blu-Ray Special Features! Whilst 20th Century Fox haven’t made any formal press announcements as of yet, this information comes via multiple online retailers and distributors. Firstly the release date – some online retailers including Amazon have got the Alien Covenant Blu-Ray release down for August 15th, 2017 so expect other regions outside North America to be around the same time.
There are almost 100 minutes of special features including an audio commentary from director Ridley Scott, 12 deleted scenes and a few featurettes, most of which we’ve already seen. The big documentary is Master Class: Ridley Scott which is almost an hour in length. It appears there will be no Extended / Director’s Cut of Alien Covenant but I never really expected there to be one.
There are also no major Making Of documentaries like the Furious Gods documentary for Prometheus or the plethora of featurettes for the Alien Anthology. It’s important to note that producer Charles de Laurizika who produced the previous Alien releases didn’t work on this one which explains why the release seems a little underwhelming. In terms of audio, Alien Covenant will sport a DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 soundtrack for regular Blu-Ray releases while the 4K set will contain the newer Dolby Atmos.
Special Features
- Audio Commentary by Ridley Scott
- 12 Deleted and Extended Scenes (17m 58s)
- 5 Featurettes: Meet Walter (2m 19s), Phobos (9m 8s), The Last Supper (4m 36s), The Crossing (2m 32s), Advent (6m 40s)
- Master Class: Ridley Scott (55m 25s)
- Theatrical Trailers
- David’s Illustrations
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1
4K Blu-ray: Dolby Atmos
You’ll find below the final artwork for the Blu-Ray releases across all regions.
There’s another interesting Limited Edition release that is an exclusive to American retailer Target. This one contains a 36-page booklet containing photos and sketches from Alien Covenant. We also reported in May about the Alien Covenant Steelbook release with the embryonic stage of the Neomorph on the cover.
Alien Covenant Target Exclusive Release
So there you have it folks, Alien Covenant will be infesting stores on August 15th 2017.
Update 5/7//17: 20th Century Fox have now released a trailer for the blu-ray. August 15th will be the release date as already posted. Digital downloads will be available on August 1st.
Looks like Australia gets a nice release date. I'm buying it for the commentary.
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Some extra blu-ray release dates.
There are photos SOMEWHERE of a cocoon/egg chamber-like thing with the same Blue-light covering a SINGLE(?) egg or something. I remember seeing a photo of this scene somewhere and then - never again.
I don't believe the basement scene was in the workprint.
Yep. Totally true. Forgot. My bad.
Assuming it has eyesight, it would be poor because the whole thing got roasted by the engines right? Including it's head cowling...
The bit with Shaw and Weyland isn't especially deleted - just re-ordering that resulted in them losing that short series of shots.
With Alien 3 apart from the lengthened scene you mentioned I'm struggling to think of 'many' or 'loads' of deleted material beyond the rare line of dialogue (like Aaron's 'You going to need a bigger cage than that' or talk about 'deoderant' when Rains, Boggs and Golic go off foraging).
If we had to have a POV shot, I think it would have been more effective to have it be able to 'zoom-in' on a close-up on the fearful eyes of someone who looked around as they were being chased, or something which showed much better clarity at least. It just didn't work for me.
Anyway, like David's flute-playing moment of the PROMETHEUS soundtrack, onto the cutting floor they will go for my own version of COVENANT.
(while I understand the notion that the PROMETHEUS music can retrospectively be seen to be a clever inclusion of the the tune that David composes himself, I just find that too much of a distraction myself)
However, I'm confident that some of the deleted scenes will offer at least one of two nicely-filmed moments that I'll definately want to see included in COVENANT.
Should've gone to Specsavers :-)
At this point, I choose to look on this whole PROMETHEUS storyline as merely an alternate,'re-interpretation' of the source material (in the same kind of way I look on the 2 AvP movies)...as I prefer to retain the mysterious qualities of ALIEN's giant, Giger-esque 'Space Jockey' skeleton the way I originally looked at it.
I may not like the direction Ridley took with his 'Engineer in a suit' / 'David as a Xenomorph creator' scenarios, but I find the PROMETHEUS/COVENANT movies re-watchable enough if I seperate them from his original movie. Ridley is a fabulous visualist, but some of his 'creative choices' with these 'prequels' have been pretty dodgy, as far as I'm concerned.
To be honest, for my own version of PROMETHEUS, I'll be removing the awful side-on shot of the Engineer being 'suited up' in the chair altogether - as far as I'm concerned, this should have been a major 'money shot'...but it turned out to have some very unconvincing CGI of the 'snorkel' attaching and 'ribbed' appendages wrapping around. Even though I'm looking on these movies as a completely 'alternative take', I just can't include that particular shot in my own re-edit, as it's so disappointingly done in my view!
...and the same goes for those shoddy-looking 'Xeno-vision' shots in COVENANT, by the way. For such a 'perfect organism', it sure has some poor eyesight!
But the vast majority of Ridley's footage is beautifully filmed and executed, and certain additions made PROMETHEUS a far more satisfying watch for me compared to his existing 'theatrical' cut. And the same will apply to my eventual COVENANT re-edit too, I'm sure...as I already like some of 'The Crossing' footage, especially where David is alone with the 'Engineer statues(suits?), for instance.
And by looking on these 'prequels' as not actually being 'prequels' to ALIEN after all, this certainly helps smooth away any other visual inconsistencies these movies have to the original for me, too. So I'm very content to look on them this way.
In Prometheus there are lots of stuff in the trailers not in the final film. For instance, during the Fifield attack, Shaw and Weyland come into the cargo hold, with his guards firing as the elevator doors open, and it ends up being Shaw that ends up running over Fifield.
In the Alien 3 workprint there is a bunch of stuff that should have been kept. There's an especially great take of Ripley THINKING ABOUT WHETHER to go with BISHOP, that I absolutely love and there's even more I cant think of right now. It used to be on Youtube but Im at a loss for finding it now.
Disappointed the DVD isn't an extended cut, but after Prometheus, I know the drill...
Obviously.
Thing is there's nothing to extend in the third act, you just be making it even worse. The third act only get's better if there's actually some stalking/hunting elements added with another death or two thrown in.
It still irks me that so many of the deleted scenes from Prometheus and Alien 3 have never been released.
Also this shot of the Derelicts in the pit... It makes me wonder whether or not - should Ridley go with the colonists becoming the eggs on the Derelict - its actually Walter who takes one of these Derelicts to rescue the colonists, who are already mutating and if he doesn't end up being the one who ends up in the pilots chair. Pure speculation.
Question to the extended cut strand of this forum;Am I to understand the total running time of extended scenes is now thirty minutes?,i.e. 1/2 an hour?This is a good thing to look forward to!
Which scenes did he shoot?
It would require a lot of work to turn that into a sequence that would make any sense, and since the film was only released in May, I can't imagine Ridley would have any interest in sitting down to create a new sequence he didn't want at the time.
No?
It would make sense to withhold the more interesting deleted material for the future - if a re-release or extended version was planned.
I wouldnt say adored. Both theatrical and assembly cuts still have plenty of flaws. But i think the Alien community as a whole probably rates it higher than your average person would
Alien 3 is practically adored now. I enjoyed it.
Whoa! If that's true, then there's a ton of footage hidden somewhere in Fox.