At the end of June 20th Century Fox and Tongal announced they were partnering up to produce six Alien short films following a pitch competition. There were over 550 entrants which was then narrowed down to 18 finalists. Tongal have now announced the final 6 winners whose pitches are now proceeding to pre-production!
4⃣0⃣ years later, the legacy of the @AlienAnthology continues with 6⃣ #Tongal filmmakers who will create short films set in the #ALIEN universe. Stay tuned as we follow along from pre-production to release in early 2019 👽 pic.twitter.com/uctEYHavbj
— Tongal (@tongal) July 25, 2018
Production on the shorts is currently slated to begin in October with release sometime early in 2019. We’ll be sure to follow the production and promotion of these new entries into the Alien universe!
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That looks awesome!
Waiting for news too. Especially since Watch part of Amanda story has been announced.
30k is small for any decent short film. It's extremely small for a film looking for the production value of anything set in the Alien universe. I'm excited to see what they all do!
A decent xenomorph suit is well over 5k and a good chunk of time to make. I am doubtful any of the films will have one (unless they have some awesome connections).
Does anyone here have any film ready xenomorph suits? Would love to see photos if you do!
https://youtu.be/i_kr8mAM5Dg?t=288
Arms and legs are useful, but I think tentacles are much more practical.
I'd been hoping for something like this - a theatrical showing before re-releases of Alien and/or Aliens. But with the 4K re-release in March, I don't think we'll be seeing another showing for Alien Day. Hopefully I'm wrong and we do get a theatrical showing of the shorts. That'd be pretty sweet.
Practical suits are awesome, but the budgets are super small. Bet no one could get or build a proper suit.
Will like seeing what everyone comes up with though!
Do we know if there were any content restrictions? If so, they could be viewable by teen audiences, thus attached to more films.
Regardless, we'll need to see em' first. They could be terrific or horrific. Cheesy characters might choke to death on a Tylenol during a dutch angle.
Don't forget the nukes, man.
I don't know which of the select pitches is theirs - I suspect it's Alien: Ore - but it looks like they may have wrapped shooting on their pieces.
Honestly, I'm really curious about the quality of these short films and I hope we get something interesting.
I'm talking instantaneous chestburster births post-facehug, David being the Space Jockey, Turk dying in the EEV and not Hicks, Bishop putting an egg on the Sulaco, Charles Weyland being Peter Weyland's dad, etc.
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss this. They're 5-10 minute long shorts that are unlikely to have any sort of far reaching continuity implications. It's an officially sanctioned competition being overseen in some capacity by Fox. If anything, I'd say they'd have the same "canon" validity as any other tie-in's that Fox sanctions.
Unknown but I'd imagine they'll see online release. Personally, I'm hoping Fox'll make some spectacle of them for AlienDay 2019. Cinematic showings in front of or after showings of Alien or some such.
I doubt it. That would require a whole extra level of story ratification that they don't mention in the competition process. Here is what they have to say about story requirements:
Someone asked for clarificatio n about whether they could base their story on other Alien film; they said no. Alien '79 only.
There was also confusion expressed over the seemingly contradictory requirements of "wholly original", yet based on a "narrative vantage point centered around the original story".
At a guess I'd say "wholly original" means "don't rip off your fav. scene in that Dark Horse comic",
And "narrative vantage point centered around the original story" means they wanted stories that used Alien 79's setting, concepts, events, designs - pretty much everything except the actual characters.
TC
A small family vessel encounters a juggernaut I space, and is boarded. The family is in hypersleep. The family is quickly awoken and overtaken by engineers and some studies begin. A little unnoticed girl escapes and disappears into the small ship. A little time goes by and she is playing as she is discovered by a little engineer girl. They become playmates. Then a big tall engineer adult discovers them both, and a look of kindness crosses his face. He takes the little girl to her parents, wipes the family's memories and puts them back in hypersleep. The engineers leave. The little girl is shown sleeping with the engineer girl's toy. The end.
I was loosely inspired by that outtake scene from Prometheus at the end where the engineer is in vickers' vessel and he looks at the girl playing the violin as if admiring her.
It would be most disappointing if they were plainly just aping a previous Alien film, most likely the first.
I might have to stick to filming my own not-oficially aproved and totally low cost short someday...
Anyways, I see there are a lot of people in this forum who had ideas and motivation for this, maybe we should try to make something even without tongals and fox support.