The teaser trailer for this week’s Alien: 40th Anniversary Short has been uploaded to the various Alien Anthology social outlets. You can check it out below!
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, Night Shift is due for release via IGN (and their YouTube channel) on Friday the 5th at 9am PST/5pm BST.
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Fortunately, it wasn't quite Star Wars pew-pew so that didn't feel too out of place to me. Because it's the 70s, I've just got this notion of Star Wars lasers coming from those Nostromo pistols.
I think that's technically just a pew.
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And the laser pistol goes pew-pew.
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I know he does. But he never uses it and I'm referring to the idea of pew pew lasers.
Taking 'Aliens' into consideration, I could see laser pistols as being a space-based personal defense weapon that is perhaps designed to be effective against organic targets, but isn't going to risk going through the hulk like a bullet might.
Only in the DC, though we do see them hanging off their belts in both cuts.
I don't think they were supposed to be Star Wars kinda lasers. Probably more in line with invisible real-life lasers.
As an aside, I still think "phased plasma" is the propellant used by the M-41A pulse rifle rather than some entirely separate weapon that goes pew-pew.
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Won't get Pulse Rifles. This stuff is supposed to pull solely from the original film.
As for "Big Chap," we will be getting an adult Alien in at least one of the shorts, as per the trailer. Looks like they had access to an Alien: Covenant reference suit, though, so it isn't exactly "Big Chap."
They could only afford rubber bands.
But the good news is when they fire them at big chap, it will be in bullet time.
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I'm Bored already.
Pulse Rifles?
It's not really a must I guess. In the end the short story is more about the story. I really like the dog idea in specimen though. That's the kind of stuff that elevates the shorts.
I'm sure everyone doesn't want to see 8 different versions off a chest burst.
True, could add touches though, like a different coloured Egg etc.
Like Jurassic Park Dinos in subsequent films.
EDIT: On second thoughts would probably be met with " That's no meh Alien Egg, why's it purple, The LORE"
Potatoes are the life's blood of any great human endeavor.
Likewise, if the cast or crew try to rest, remind them of what Ron Perlman said in 'Alien Resurrection'.
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If you wanna do the best non silver screen alien, you just gotta have "the right crew".
Budget likely wouldn't permit -- we've gone one film with no Alien, and one with a cheap CG hugger. The brief said they had to stick to concepts from the first movie, so new designs likely wouldn't have been allowed anyway.
Given the runtime of these shorts, I wouldn't expect a mature alien in this one.
Will we be seeing any grown xenomorphs in these at some point?