Farzad Vrahramyan, an artist who regularly works with Amalgamated Dynamics Inc. and on the Alien and Predator films, has just uploaded a piece of artwork he contributed to Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5!
Mutated Alien
Like much of the creature concepts we’ve seen of Blomkamp’s Alien 5 (aka Red Harvest), Farzad’s concept continues in the direction of mutated Aliens. Another frequent artist who works on Alien films, Carlos Huante, previously post – but then took down – some artwork he did for Alien 5 which showed a lot of mutated Aliens. A lot of those concepts also had dual sets of arms, something we saw in the design marquette ADI shared last year.
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Update 05/03/2019: Unfortunately the artwork was removed from Instagram. I have uploaded a saved copy and a copy of a second piece that was also uploaded and then removed. Thanks to Nightmare Asylum for the second image.
Mutated Alien
C'mon!
I expect the Scorpion design was Kenner's stand-in for the Aliens warrior and has the exploding gimmick. The spikes are nothing to fuss about. The biggest problem with it is, chibi proportions. It's a killer dwarf! The NECA redux fixes that and looks great.
The Alien 3 design is Jaguars and Freight Trains.
So... the Aliens design with a few extra spikes, and the Alien 3 design with a new hat?
With respect to the concepts in the thread, they are ungainly. That's their crime. As Giger often said, the Alien was an aesthetic monster. The original suggested grace and power. The best of the Kenner critters and other derivative works have that, as well. These, not so much. I think for the centipede, the insistence on keeping so much of the humanoid creature worked against it. The many-heads model may have been an experiment gone wrong, suggesting a serious birth defect. In that case, it works.
I don't read comics, so i'll take the leak.
Which would you prefer? A leaked script or a comic adaptation?
Similar to what's been done with William Gibson's ALIEN 3 script by Dark Horse?
I think a leak is in order.
A slight slip of the tongue, as it were.
Pretty confident FOX owns it.
He had something but it's only about a dozen pages. Not a full script.
Someone should ask him on twitter.
I don't a script alone would end it.
Even if it sucks there's still people who'd love a return to something like Aliens.
Neil's got one. Don't think he doesn't. He had to have something written down to pitch to weaver and Cameron.
Oh, man... Lol!
The amount of teeth gnashing it would bring, It would never end.
If his Robocop movie turns out well, it wouldn't surprise me if they still give him a chance.
I just wish this movie got made so the discussion could move forward.
Something to get behind?
Honestly if they would've played up the penis look for the centipede though, I've been fine with that.
I don't know. Too comic-like for my taste
Yeah, I'm not seeing it either. Looks fine too me.
Still not seeing it. Anyone else?
Trademark ADI Resurrection length head, pitiful back appendages, pitiful waist (ADI back particulars) and pitiful pelvis.
One is finalized for production and distribution pieces of artwork.
The other is preproduction conceptual artwork.
Bit of a difference there. Not to mention the lack of context.
The OP concept art is neither.
The one with lots of heads might have arisen from mutation, but who knows?
I don't mind genetic splicing/mutation in a film the Aliens feature in. If any horror concept is suited for it, it's them and 'The Thing', after all. It just depends on how it's executed. The Ripley clones are actually fascinating to see when revealed and one of the more memorable scenes in that film with a fairly decent atmosphere. The one with the mouthful of sharp teeth and no eyes really intrigued me. Heck, AC's laboratory David 8's been busy in, seems like it's the highlight of the entire film for some people. I'm sure the recent 'David's Drawings' book was snapped up precisely because of that when it was published.
So, yeah, I don't have a problem with it as a basic concept. Depends how it's done. And if some of these are as a result of birthing from non-human ET wildlife hosts, I've actually wanted to see that done properly on film for a long time, so long as the designs look dangerous and believable.
Exactly. That's exactly what the concepting stage is. I think people ought to be more mindful of that.They go wild and see what works and what doesn't. Concept art is going to go crazy.
Thanks for that NA. I was hoping someone had managed to snag a higher res save directly from the IG page as well.