Mid-last year 20th Century Fox and Tongal announced a competition that gave 6 lucky Alien fans and film-makers a chance to produce short films based set within the Alien universe. After learning the titles of the winning shorts, there’s been radio silence on the shorts.
Until today! Fox has just released a teaser trailer for the upcoming shorts, offering us our first look at the the Alien: 40th Anniversary Shorts!
“To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott’s groundbreaking sci-fi horror film Alien (1979), six visionary filmmakers were selected to bring their Alien-inspired stories to life. From terrifying escapes, to Facehuggers and Xenomorphs, these captivating shorts brings forth an exciting new narrative for fans while paying homage to the original film.”
The Hollywood Reporter has the exclusive details on the short’s premiere and plot summaries! As with the recent Alien: Isolation Digital Series, the Alien: 40th Anniversary Shorts will premiere on IGN starting March 29th after debuting at Emerald City Comic-Con in Seattle, Washington on March 15th.
The shorts will then be available on the Alien Universe website alongside exclusive behind-the-scenes content starting May 5. The plot details are as follows!
Alien: Alone — Hope, an abandoned crew member aboard the derelict chemical hauler Otranto, has spent a year trying to keep her ship and herself alive as both slowly fall apart. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life. Written and directed by Noah Miller.
Alien: Containment — Four survivors find themselves stranded aboard a small escape pod in deep space. Trying to piece together the details around the outbreak that led to their ship’s destruction, they find themselves unsure to trust whether or not one of them might be infected. Written and directed by Chris Reading.
Alien: Harvest — The surviving crew of a damaged deep-space harvester have minutes to reach the emergency evacuation shuttle. A motion sensor is their only navigation tool leading them to safety while a creature in the shadows terrorizes the crew. However, the greatest threat might have been hiding in plain sight all along. directed by Benjamin Howdeshell.
Alien: Night Shift: — When a missing space trucker is discovered hungover and disoriented, his co-worker suggests a nightcap as a remedy. Near closing time, they are reluctantly allowed inside the colony supply depot where the trucker’s condition worsens, leaving a young supply worker alone to take matters into her own hands. Written and directed by Aidan Breznick.
Alien: Ore — As a hard-working miner of a planet mining colony, Lorraine longs to make a better life for her daughter and grandchildren. When her shift uncovers the death of a fellow miner under mysterious circumstances, Lorraine is forced to choose between escape or defying management orders and facing her fears to fight for the safety of her family. Written and directed by the Spear Sisters.
Alien: Specimen — It’s the night shift in a colony greenhouse, and Julie, a botanist, does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have triggered her sensitive lab dog. Despite her best efforts the lab unexpectedly goes into full shutdown and she is trapped inside. Little does she know, an Alien specimen has escaped the mysterious cargo, and a game of cat and mouse ensues as the creature searches for a host. Written and directed by Kelsey Taylor.
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The trailers looked great already.
Awwww yeah
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I hope I don't wind up on Fiorina-161 with a Queen in my chest...
Oh... then I just read something wrong this morning then.
I need to go back to bed, methinks.
The first one should be up on Friday, NA.
Aye-firmative
Also my boy RidgeTop should be seeing these all (his) tonight at a special screening at Fox. I should also be getting a screener of them all so depending on embargos and stuff, we'll get some review stuff up soon.
Alien Versus Annihilation 4K Blu-ray Art.
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#Alien40th #eccc
Seconded lol
cheers
One per week starting on March 29th.
I need this on a t-shirt.
Yeah, but we will see, stories are all about the script, i will remain optimistic until i see them. Pretty obvious too that this is just a test to see what they do with the franchise.
"Short films based set within the alien films"
I wouldn't mention it, but it's on the main page and it kind of jumps out at ya.
"short films set within the Alien universe"
That's where I'm at with these. Hopeful. My favorite is already Alien: Containment because... you know... but a lot can be done with that suit. In my opinion, It's all ultimately going to live or die on the direction, acting, cinematography and to a lesser extent, story for these shorts.
$36,000 US each. Small, for a professional job, but it looks to me like Alien: Containment spent their money where it counts most in low budget production: art direction (set builds, costume, and props).
You can hire your fancy Arri Alexa and all the swish camera gear you like but if you want good looking images you gotta give your cinematographer a fighting chance and give him/her something decent to photograph.
TC
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Bit of behind-the-scenes stalking from Clara.
These look great considering.