Geoffroy Thoorens has uploaded more Alien 5 concept art to his Instagram! With these latest updates we’re getting a look at the film’s Alien orientated sequences including what appears to be a chestburster attack, an egg chamber and a new image of the controversial Alien suit. You can check them out below!
Trematode Open
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We’ll also be keeping on eye on Geoffroy’s ArtStation in-case he posts these pieces on there and we can get better quality copies of these particular pieces.
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Update 14/06/21 – Geoffroy has uploaded some more concept artwork, this time showing off what appears to be a character named Miller trapped and being attacked by a new form of the Alien (a Trematode). This may in fact be the creature in the first picture above and not a chestburster attack. It also seems like it maybe related to this concept by Doug “please look at me neill blomkamp” Williams (thanks to Nightmare Asylum for the shout).
(although recently she was doing a lot of stunts for the Avatar sequels, so she's still in pretty good shape).
If this thing still has any chance of getting made it has to be soon-ish.
That alone excites me more than whole Covenant.
Blomkamp has kind of been channeling a "Cameron meets Verhoeven with a splash of anime" aesthetic and tone through his first three films, so that definitely seems to fit the bill and gel with what we're seeing in the art here.
The biggest determents for me, like you said, are the very Atax/Kenner-inspired suits, and the odd genetic offshoot Aliens we saw in art a few years back - the ones with multiple heads, limbs, etc. The central ideas/concepts intrigue me, though, and I like Blomkamp's filmmaking enough that I would have been curious to see the final result here. It'd be hard to top Alien 3's Assembly Cut for me, and I certainly wouldn't expect this too (and if I had to pick between only this or only Covenant existing, I'd choose Covenant) - but there's room for different ideas and continuities in Alien. Every filmmaker that comes in puts their own stamp on the material and kind of sidesteps the previous filmmaker's intent anyways, and one of my favorite things about the franchise on the whole is that each filmmaker that comes in is able to really let their own distinct voice shine through. Each Alien film is just as much a distinct part of each individual director's filmography as it is a part of the franchise. There isn't a "house style" that they all adhere to, and I love that.
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Ripley and Hicks radicalized against the Company and decided to conduct attacks against WY research sites.
(Ripley becomes.. Sarah Connor, then.)
There's no corny "Hicks and Ripley and Newt are one big happy family" stuff.
And the plan was to continue with Cameron's aesthetics
while injecting some anime-style influences of their own (the merc helmets are very Appleseed).
And it would've ended with a probably definite defeat of the Company.
Other thoughts:
I like that there's no big Colonial Marines presence in this. There's the dropship and some guns, armor.. that's fine.
The Biomech suit stuff could be something they could get away with.. if they did big redesigns
(gotta get away from that Atax, Halloween clownshoes suit aesthetic).
Prometheus and the Covenant prologue did show us why David hated humanity, though. He felt oppressed and held back by human limitations (and, upon meeting the Engineers, by their very humanlike limitations as well). He saw himself not as an equal to prior generations of creators, but rather as being better in every conceivable way, capable of creating with actual purpose, rather than creating simply for the sake of creating. Once his 'father' was out of the picture, he was free to go off and do just that without anyone holding him back, and he took advantage of that wiping out his genetic predecessors and using them as the raw biological material on which to begin his experiments.
"The tea, David."
Covenant worked for me on the whole a lot more than Prometheus did. Prommy is gorgeous and packed with intriguing concepts, but by far the best gift it left us with is David, and in my opinion Covenant used David to much better effect. The Gothic Horror "tropes" of Covenant work in its favor, in my opinion. It's a totally unique flavor within the franchise (closest in tone, I guess, to Alien 3, but even that is a stretch). David, in his "Dire Necropolis," distills the themes and big ideas of creation and creators inherent to Prometheus into a much more captivating story and twists what we know (or think we know) about the franchise into something new and mutable. It really opened the floodgates to a whole new onslaught of fascinating concepts - concepts that, it seems, even Blomkamp's film would have dabbled with to some extent or another, given the "Trematode" creature.
These new pieces look Awesome!
I have to say I will take Covenant over Prometheus, any day, and certainly over this Alien concept.
The Alien in Covenant felt tacked on yes, but the ideas around that felt more coherent, than whatever it is Prometheus attempted to say.
I think you've just cracked the code and figured out how that Scorn game is going to work.
And then he shoots it.
Also, the snakelike creature has a name now: Trematode.
neat.
It all gives the impression that Hicks/Ripley were
raiding a few top secret research "sites"
Interesting. Reminds me of the old PS2/XBOX game Cold Fear. Still nothing that makes me sit up and say "Yes, I definitely want to see this film!" though...
a TON of new art over on Thooren's site.
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One slight thing to consider could have the cancelation of Neill's Alien Awakening was partly being unimpressed with his script, though BanditIncoprated's video is old he made a critique that Blomkamp's movies are a bit repetitive of ideas and formulaic. Skip to 11:37
https://youtu.be/7VzXQvtCnkI?t=697
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Certainly it hurts!
Actually that's an interesting point.
Have yet to figure out the actual (psychological) mechanism behind this.
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I wonder if I'll stop liking Prometheus if it becomes trendy online to praise it?
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Dick walked rhythmically.
As much as I long for one more David narrative...
Yeah I'm going to have to disagree, I think we need a change of pace in the franchise, Disney should take advantage of the isolation fan base and do a spin-off.
What's left to tell of David, now that we know the end game.
looks like a direct rip of Giger's sandworm for Dune.
Hahaha now I can't I see it
Agreed. Though I remain more curious about his original, pre-Ripley standalone Alien movie ideas than the post-meeting Sigourney, restructuring the film around Ripley concept.