On Friday the 29th of March Alien: Containment, the first of six Alien: 40th Anniversary Shorts, will be dropping online via IGN. And 20th Century Fox have released a teaser trailer for the upcoming short film!
“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.”
Fox and IGN will be releasing a new Alien: 40th Anniversary Short each Friday, up until Alien Day on the 26th of April. Alien: Containment was written and directed by Chris Reading. And our own community member The Old One also contributed towards the project with some storyboarding!
Yesterday 20th Century Fox also hosted a special screening of all 6 shorts for various members of the geek and Alien fandom, including Alien vs. Predator Galaxy, the Perfect Organism Podcast and HN Entertainment. Our own RidgeTop was there and had the following to say:
We were treated to a special early screening of the new @AlienAnthology short films in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the original classic! Look for our full impressions soon! #Alien40th pic.twitter.com/6XOo5ldM1v
— Alien vs. Predator Galaxy (@avpgalaxy) March 27, 2019
The new @AlienAnthology shorts overall? Solid. Really illustrated the potential of the universe. Some seriously impressive work for the budgets that the teams were given to work with. #Alien40th pic.twitter.com/Dx5isQI3tK
— Adam Zeller (@ridgetop21) March 27, 2019
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I didn't realize this and put mine into Movies Anywhere, and I don't seem to have access to them through that service.
Bloody foreigners. Jumping on the internet and being useful
Just find a partner in the states who will submit it and do some work on it. Plenty of Americans on here.
Ouch. Sorry brother.
As an educated guess -- I'm not sure. I know I wasn't eligible to pitch.
I hope they do this again so I can submit the short I wrote ALIEN: REUNION. I missed the deadline by like 5 fukin minutes because I failed to consider time zones, like a moron.
I will say that the anticipation of a new episode of Knight Rider to actually start was a golden moment, but the week long lead-up to that was for the birds.
I did find the suspense of the original Aliens series by Nelson and Verheiden to be intoxicating. Those books took months and months between issues and it was always a worthwhile wait. In the meantime my mind was filled with all sorts of scenarios where the story could go.
I'm ok with letting artists, directors and whomever take their time, but I also like the immersive experience of doing the occasional binge watch.
Ahh, yeah, I forgot they have the international rights for BCS. Similar to Annihilation last year, which was a theatrical release in the US but went straight to Netflix everywhere else.
Anything Netflix does in-house all gets dumped on their platform all in one go, however.
I don't think Netflix has ever spread a season out, to my knowledge. Some of the other streaming platforms do, however.
I mean, I still prefer that to be honest. Gives me more time to mull over what I watched, to speculate about what's to come, and to enjoy each episode as it's own piece. Better Call Saul has been an obsession of mine the last four years, and I cannot imagine watching it all in one sitting for a first viewing.
Sometimes I wish Netflix would slow down and release some of their shows weekly as opposed to entire seasons at a time.
Y'all made that way too easy.
In my day...
I actually agree with your points Huggs but after Isolation's series, I think spacing things out, little by little on a regular basis might be a fun change pace. I kinda like the one per week model right now.
But yah, those days of having to wait an entire week for an episode kinda sucked.
6 days is all at once?
When something is already done, especially a 10 minute short to be released online, I don't see the harm with 24 hour Windows.
10 minutes per week?
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One a day, maybe.
Typically, internet was down over the weekend so I've not watched the first one yet. Glad to hear you enjoyed them almost across the board though.
Maybe he's been eating some of that arturian poontang.
https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/03/29/alien-40th-anniversary-short-film-containment
About 10 minutes apiece.
Did you have any accidents?
Mikey, RidgeTop and I will be recording a podcast later tonight for release next week and I'll start working on a written review too.
Also, please note, each short will get its own thread so I'll be locking this one down just before Containment goes online. But feel free to keep posting here until then.
Wrong Fox franchise.
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