In September 2015, it was announced that Prometheus 2 would be going under the title of Alien: Paradise Lost. This eventually changed to Alien: Covenant but the shift in focus was interesting as Prometheus itself had started life as a direct Alien prequel before spinning off slightly. It would appear the film’s sequel had undergone the opposite change.
Unlike Prometheus’ well documented shift in gear and focus, very little of Covenant’s Prometheus 2 days are known. We’ve had some artwork from Carlos Huante that were labelled Prometheus 2 but information is still sparse.
We recently came across an artist called Khang Le who had a portfolio of work for Alien: Covenant on his website (which has been down for the last few days). Though he doesn’t appear to be credited on the film, we have confirmed that Khang did work in Covenant’s art department back in 2014 and here is the art he previously shared on his website.
Xenomorph
Statue
Statue
Parasite
City
City
Disease
Disease
Disease
Many of these pieces are dated 2014 and would seem to pre-date the shift in Alien: Paradise Lost. There are concepts that seem to show the Engineers more obviously mutating into Alien-like creatures. We’re still trying to find out more about these earlier days of the film’s production so stick with us!
Other concept artists from Alien: Covenant have still been regularly posting new pieces of artwork from their time on Covenant and we’ve been keeping the gallery up to date so be sure to check that out!
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That is disgutsing, i love it.
Honestly thought, in that scene, should have not the mouth burster like destroy the host mouth or something? i found odd the thing coming out from such a small place.
The art in the movie is great, but i feel like it was glossed over in the actual movie, it was always moving forward and we did not get to see well all the stuff, just an observation i am not complaining.
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Love his comment under the first one:
Thank you for the rundown! I will definitely give it a look next opportunity.
Yep! That's the one Scott got his money's worth out of.
Well, the artistic style is fantastic. The psychedelic music and the surreal setting brings a truly alien atmosphere to the film. Definitely worth watching. And although the plot is simple, there are interesting things related to the culture of the civilizations that inhabit the bizarre planet: from the strange way of feeding and meditation of the "Draags" (a Zen style civilization of giant blue humanoids) to the hypnotic sexual rituals of the "Oms" (humans brought from Earth, some of them are considered pets while others roam loose like wild animals).
Now back to the plot, the overal story is about a human pet who escapes into the wilderness with headphones that transmit knowledge. A technological device that becomes the key to forge a new and equal relationship between the Oms and the Draags.
So basically similar to a "Native American vs European" scenario. It's actually reminds me of the historic episode (during the colonization and conquest of South America, in Chile) about Lautaro, an araucanian militar lider who after being slave and servant of the Spaniards managed to escape and return to his people. Lautaro learned the military ways and skills of the Spaniards' army by observation, and he proceeded to educate his people with this knowledge to fight them back.
Even the myth of Prometheus seems like an archetype of this story, with this heroic figure stealing a powerful artifact in order to benefit the human race.
There also seems to be an ecological-environmental message, showing how the humans are being treated in the same cruel manner with which they themselves treat animals on Earth. Maybe even a message of peace and freedom as a reaction to the communist dictatorship (the greater part of the production team was Czechoslovakian).
Pluss, the alien creatures (including plants) are amazing. Almost like something designed by Wayne Barlowe:
I used to see that one at the video store for years, but never gave it a go. Any good?
Speaking of weird sci-fi
Such a Great 'ALIEN' movie, that is.
-Windebieste.
Actually yeah, cheers Ridley.
Not me.
Thanks Ridley for giving me a decent Alien film.
Lol, yeah. From SkyNews or something?
Speak for yourself.
What's insulting to me, is when a greedy studio hire yes men, and the best they can come up with is horny teens killing Xenomorphs like a hot knife through butter.
Theory:
Those parasites that spawn from the Engineers look like a type of facehugger.
So Engineer + black goo = parasite(s).
Maybe David was trying to produce them without needing goo and a host. And the movie would end with him creating the facehugger eggs.
When a superior alien planet (who created humans) is shown on screen, what audience would expect in technology-wise. A damn slum like city (even after 10 years of massacre)?.
Still unable to digest Covenent movie. I still feel that Ridley insulted the fans
It's also interesting that David destroying the Engineers was part of the story so early on. I had assumed that was something that came later.
Remember when it was believed that the giant head in Prometheus was flying the ship? THAT's the kinda weird I want outta these movies!
Certainly a possibility considering the rest of the ship had not been explored. Perhaps other remains might have been found if their exploration wasn't cut short due to the attack on Kane. Bio-engineering seems to be their specialty, not far fetched to assume they tried bio-engineer experiments on themselves.
I see that picture of David staring at the small pods on the table and can't help but be reminded of the seed-pod scene from "the thing from another world". It's so similar it's freaky. Maybe the urns and black goo are an old and outdated weapon. Maybe current engineers would have something far more powerful that David could use to wipe out earth, and he's fighting to get to it. Maybe the derelict from Alien 79 could've been some impregnated engineer escaping as the city falls in this film, only to die and crash on lv-426. Either way, it may take some serious writing-fu, but it would be wonderful if something like this artwork was done for the final film.
I liked the idea that the Jockey was just a creature specifically bred/created for the purposes of navigating. And there's other specifically engineered creatures in other areas of the ship doing other tasks or etc.
Of course, if the Jockey was never intended to leave his chair as was the general idea back when Giger painted, sculpted, and put the thing together... Then it wouldn't need to be moving around inside the ship at all.
More importantly, why is that a problem..?
-Windebieste.
I'd assume the chairs are the same size because they represent the same thing and as far as I can tell they are the same size - literally the only scale that is different is the Jockey himself.
You side-by-side images highlight that more than the casual moviegoer is going to notice, if they don't revisit ALIEN as slavishly as the rest of us do.
Scott's reasoning was almost certainly that it evokes the same thing without his being lumbered with the more elaborate route of making the Engineers 15 feet tall. Nothing wrong with that in my view, but I think that's the way it was approached.
There's no source that they are the same size, that I'm aware of. And since they're both supposed to be different ships, they could be different sized chairs. Why would you assume it's the same size?
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Is it? Any source for that?
It might make sense, after all it's weird that the Derelict (a spaceship, supposedly, designed to transport giants beings) has some small interiors.
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It's about the size of things in the concept art compared to what we saw in the movie.
Point being there are less limitations when it comes to creating concept art, compared to actually putting things into practice.
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