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The latest issue of Fangoria magazine, Issue 24, went on sale a few days ago which features a spread about Alien: Romulus. We’re not sure what details it has but the blurb says that both Ridley Scott and director Fede Alvarez share details about the Alien movie.

Today, Fangoria has released a limited edition variant cover version that features a new shot of Cailee Spaeny’s character Rain being cornered by the Xenomorph. It’s the same scene from the trailer but from a different angle. The normal version of Fangoria #24 features the new slasher film MaXXXine.

Fangoria Shows Off Variant Cover Featuring New Alien: Romulus Still

You can buy the Alien: Romulus variant cover issue of Fangoria over on their website for $19.79. Thanks to Cosmic Incubation for the news.

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  1. GrimmVision
    Posted
    My 45th anniversary edition of Fangoria featuring Romulus on the cover arrived today.

    I took pictures of the article with my phone and copied/pasted the text from those pictures, so I apologize if there are any strange typos, but the article is below for you to read if you'd like:

    QuoteFede Alvarez grins as he describes his first reaction to the Xenomorph as a child. Remarkably, it wasn't any of the movies that left ten-year-old Álvarez captivated. Rather it was a behind-the-scenes television featurette, depicting scenes from 1979's Alien, including the demise of Brett (Harry Dean Stanton) and the first appearance of the full-grown alien. He recalls looking at a "massive black dragon of sorts that was made of chains," and remembers the sheer terror he felt as a child not yet versed in horror, unable to classify what it was he had just seen. Years later, when Álvarez finally saw Ridley Scott's Alien in full, the film's refusal to answer what the alien was, and where it came from, left an indelible mark on him.

    Now in post-production on Alien: Romulus, the seventh film in the Alien franchise (not including those two out-of-continuity excursions with the Predators), Álvarez can't hide his excitement over the chance to play in this universe and leave audiences with new questions and visceral responses. Álvarez is, of course, no stranger to taking the reins of horror installments with historic legacies, having resurrected Sam Raimi's Deadites in his first feature, Evil Dead (2013). But it was the success and reaction to his second feature, Don't Breathe, that shot him towards the cold darkness of space where he was welcomed with a warm embrace. When asked by a studio exec about what else he wanted to do, Álvarez immediately had an answer: Alien. He did not expect to work within the mainline franchise, as Ridley Scott was working on Alien: Covenant at the time. He was just hoping to create something within the space of Weyland-Yutani. And simply by chance, Álvarez was granted the opportunity to write a one-page pitch Lo Ridley Scott. No pressure.

    A deleted scene in James Cameron's Aliens, featuring a group of kids playing in the corridors of Hadley's Hope, gave Álvarez a new perspective on what Alien could be. "Part of me connected with them, having grown up in Uruguay in a very small country, very away from everything where you never think you'll do anything but do what your parents did... if you're lucky. So, there was something about that idea of when you see those kids and then in the next scenes, they talk about the Shake and Bake colonies where you put a bunch of families there and wait fifty years until you have an atmosphere. And I was like, 'Well, those poor kids, they have nothing to do for fifty years. They have no place, no air to breathe really, or to have a true life. So those were the characters that I focused on. What's going to happen with those kids?" With Alien: Romulus, set between Alien and Aliens, Fede wants to hand the franchise over to a younger generation. one already burdened by the mentality that the best days of humanity are already behind them. These kids are forced to face, as Alvarez did all those years ago, a lack of answers.

    At this point in his illustrious career, you might expect Ridley Scott to have all the answers, He does have quite a lot of them, but he remains curious and ever interested in moving forward as both a director and producer. "An old friend of mine. he actually wrote Blade Runner, he said, 'Art's like a shark. You got to keep swimming, otherwise you drown.' Sharks drown, they don't sleep. they keep moving. You know that?" I admitted that I didn't but I was struck by how this fact applied to both Scott's career of near constant output and the Alien franchise. The 86-year-old filmmaker, who shows no sign of treading water, tells me he has three directorial projects in development, having just locked Gladiator II. And funny enough, just like Alvarez, he too was looking to hand the Alien franchise over to a younger generation. The director has spent the entirety of his career fielding questions about Alien, a daunting position for any interviewer. Yet, to my surprise and great pleasure, he expresses nothing but excitement about Romulus and working with Alvarez, because this, like all of his endeavors, keeps him moving forward.

    So, what is it that appeals to Scott about Alien: Romulus? "I think things get worn out, and one is always looking for a fresh approach to something as worthwhile as a good franchise, which Alien is. I watched it gradually die, and by the time we got to Alien 4 [Resurrection], I think it was cooked and done, and the beast was no longer unique. And the more familiar you are with the beast, it makes it less entertaining in terms of why you go to see it, which is to have the shit scared out of you." When Resurrection failed to make good on its namesake, Scott began contemplating where the franchise could go from that point, and to push it further, he needed to go back. "We re-reversed it into the Prometheus idea, resurrecting the possibility of something fresh. I think Alien: Covenant did pretty good, and Prometheus was surprising, and the reaction was enormous to the fact that there was still life in the beast." Notably, Scott never refers to the alien as a Xenomorph. It's always "the beast," a mysterious, suggestively religious term attributed to a creation which he maintains that, without the brilliance of artist H.R. Giger, would not have spawned a franchise. Scott tells me he felt he had committed to his duty of bringing back the beast, and despite discussions of a follow-up to Covenant, it was Álvarez's one-page pitch that grabbed him. What makes Alien: Romulus the key to the franchise's evolution? "It's really about Fede," Scott says. But of course, I couldn't help but ask if he'd ever finish David's (Michael Fassbender) story after Covenant. After all, there are always more avenues to explore in this universe. "Never say never," he replied.

    Setting a new Alien film between the two most beloved entries of the franchise isn't something one does without the confidence of knowing they've got something special on their hands, something that will always be compared to the two films it's sandwiched between. When asked about his choice of setting, Álvarez says he wanted to bring the franchise back to its horror roots, and for him, the most terrifying entries were always Alien and Aliens. "How can I create a universe that has the DNA of the first one and the second one? And that's when we thought, for the story we want to make and tell, it made complete sense that it was a few years after the first one. The opening scene of the movie, when you see it, you'll see that in a way the only way to make sense of that scene is that it's happened many years after the events of the first film." Álvarez confirms that every Alien film impacted his choices for the film in some way, but those weren't his only influences. Something horror fans will surely appreciate is Álvarez's love for comics and video games, and those were ever-present on his mind as he entered production. "I collect most of the old [comics]. There's new ones still coming out, all the Marvel ones, that are pretty awesome. So that was really helpful and inspiring when it came to going beyond what's in the movies and finding out there's certain chapters here and there, certain ideas where I go, 'Oh, that's actually really cool.' And that's why really for me as a director, as a writer, you stand on the shoulders of all these artists that dealt with this before and have had their time to come up with new ideas and new angles for this story. Even in the games as well. A lot of people will notice that there's a lot of [the 2014 video game] Alien: Isolation in the film. It was a big influence on me as well. When I was having those early conversations with Ridley, I had the chance to tell him what I wanted. I was actually starting to play Alien: Isolation and the game made me remember how scary Alien can be."

    And of course, some of the best scares in the Alien franchise stem from ther practical and visual effecs, As well as grounding the film in a period most audiences will be familiar with, Álvarez also wanted to keep the technology, special effects, and creatures within that realm. While there's been plenty of excitement about the use of practical effects in the film, the lifeblood of many a horror fan, Alien: Romulus is really a united effort between practical and visual effects teams, which shouldn't come as a surprise given Alvarez's history of creating VEX models and his love of copious amounts of practical blood. Both Alien and Aliens are known for their groundbreaking special effects, which allowed VFX Supervisor Eric Barba and Special Effects Supervisor Gábor Kiszelly to put their stamp on the franchise. When discussing the VFX side of the film, Barba says that while Romulus is set between two films, "it still needs to be its own thing for a modern audience, but fully embrace what I like to call, and I keep telling my teams, the analog future. It's the analog future and it's the tangible, physical models. It's our practical models, it's our practical face-huggers, it's all that work, and then we also have to step in and enhance where needed. And take over in some cases where obviously we can't shoot stuff, space, obviously, and there's big stuff in Zero-G and things like that." In the same way that Scott's career as an artist enabled him to shape the look of Alien and its prequels with highly detailed storyboards, Alvarez's history with pre-vis also proved essential to getting the look of the film just right, and knowing where to use digital versus practical and when to combine the two. "From the beginning, Fede's vision has been to ground this in as much of the practical effects, animatronics. and miniatures as we could, because he knows all that stuff that he's embracing. But then his knowledge of visual effects is amazing. He's truly a Renaissance man and can do the work himself, and understands technology. can show me something new and interesting and go, 'Oh, this is how 1 want to apply it.' So, we're really using every new piece of technology you can imagine to make this film," Barba adds.

    Kiszelly, who worked with Álvarez on Don't Breathe and Don't Breathe 2, also highlighted the collaborative process between the teams. "From the first moment, Fede was asking for as many practical effects as he could get." But nearly all of those practical effects were achieved in unison with the VFX and animatronics departments, especially in the case of the Facehuggers, which I'm told there's no shortage of, and you can draw your own conclusions about what that means. In terms of the challenges that practical effects and gags can create, like the infamous chest-burster scene in the original film, Kiszelly says one of the benefits of practical effects now is the wider selection of materials and the different angles in which a shot can be captured. While some of the same techniques that were used in 1979 are still in play today, Kiszelly attests that a lot has changed over the past 20 years. Surprisingly, he credits computers for being a big breakthrough in practical effects. "I'm not talking about computer generating effects, I'm talking about computer drive, even the kind of equipment, what we are using. And then we can provide physical effects with controlled movements, which can help visual effects as well, and these LED screens. But I think that's the future - still a long way to go to make it perfect." Maybe so, but it's hard not to get excited when Kiszelly says, "the majority of the gags, they're not only blood, but any kind of body fluid. You'll see..."

    So where does the Xenomorph stand today? Does it still scare those younger than us, who already have more to fear? Is it still impactful to younger generations, those set to inherit this world and all the horrors man has unleashed on it? Ridley Scott remembers watching the early audience test screenings of Alien and seeing people nearly under their seats with terror. "I thought, this can't be healthy," he says. And yet, the beast was one of the last great original monsters, as the '80s brought on more masked men, and the '90s began to unmask them. When I mention how much horror has changed, how infrequent it is to be terrified by an alien rather than human nature, Scott ponders it for a moment. "What is it about that? I don't like it and most horror boils down to some terrible sex crime. What is the matter with us? We are obsessed with this idea and I think it's very unhealthy." It's an intriguing response; after all, Alien has been the subject of numerous analyses regarding the sexual allegory within the franchise, and Alvarez himself has left a stamp on the monstrous and sexually violent nature of man with Don't Breathe, and as story writer on Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022). Ironically, it was Tobe Hooper's 1974 original, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, that established a boundary for what Scott wanted to achieve with Alien, "Sorry, Tobe, but I thought it was too much. I was shocked, honestly. So are a lot of people, regardless if it's a classic, but it becomes sick. At what moment does something become sick?" We never land on an answer, though Scott does conclude that Deliverance was a much better version of Texas Chain Saw. "I was dismayed rather than horrified, frankly. There's a difference." Was any of this on his mind as he pursued Alien: Romulus with Fede Álvarez? "No. I think Alien was purely about the beast. I was just curious about the need to be frightened to death." It's a need audiences of any age still seek, if only to put the horrors of the real world in perspective and fight back.

    In discussing this topic with Álvarez, he lands on a different conclusion, highlighting the importance of fearing both the man and the monster. "I think when monsters become fully non-human or just not even humanoid, it's something else. And maybe in this day and age, it depends what that is. I don't know how scary that would be, for me at least. But I think what I find terrifying is the human aspect of the film and we do explore that in depth. I cannot go too in-depth [here], but I'll say it's a spoiler, and I think the scariest part of the movie has to do with the most human aspect of the monster." But where the filmmakers, several generations removed from each other, do align, is that in every way Alien and its subsequent entries have been analyzed - fear of corporate greed, psychosexual nightmares, looking at people as numbers, putting our faith in Al - at the end of the day, the success of the franchise is because it's downright scary. It's the thing we see on TV at a young age that follows us, changes us and, like Álvarez, allows us to project our own fears onto it. Or perhaps, there's a purity to Alien's brand of fear that is generational because at the end of the day it's not much different from that fear of the dark we carry all our lives.

    To put it more simply, we only need to turn to the wisdom of Ridley Scott. "I always thought it was a B-movie. You got seven people locked in a tin can, and who gets killed first? That's what it is. It turned out to be one of the most important B-movies in history."

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  2. bobcunk
    Posted
    Quote from: SiL on Jul 07, 2024, 09:36:44 PM
    Quote from: bobcunk on Jul 07, 2024, 08:54:57 PMWhats with the originsl chest bursters flippers? Thy always look asymmetrical. I never hear much about the chest burster arms. Adi got rid of them alltogether.
    It was going to have arms and they basically tore them off, only leaving the nubs.
    thats whst I thought but don't remember hearing much about that in the documentarys. Can you derect me to a video where they discuss that?
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  3. AlienatedPredator
    Posted
    Quote from: D-13 on Jul 06, 2024, 02:04:20 AMMe: As long I don't see Alien-dolls moving in on a truck, for da Bad side-shot... AvP2 talkin trash!
    Makers of Avp2: Hey, we knew nothing about movies, we are FX-guys... we said to direct as a joke, and fox said yes...
    (GL Disney) was the general answer.

    Thats the only talk you get in... woaaa... "What about "THE PREDATOR". That sucked... did he..
    Shane Black: Hey. I freaking stared in predator... that makes me doableing to makeing THE predator...
    just wait, "Hey, You Guys! , I'll be back... pew, pew", that´s the script... and yea... trow in some chopper references to...
    That goes good with the fans, couse I ride a chopper... but it's like crazy... a chopper is a bike aswellö... did you know?... I diden't know... but hey... I was in Predator...".

    Translation please?
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  5. bobcunk
    Posted
    Wasnt that the last one? I dont remember and blood or swearing.

    Whats with the originsl chest bursters flippers? Thy always look asymmetrical. I never hear much about the chest burster arms. Adi got rid of them alltogether.

    Whats with the originsl chest bursters flippers? Thy always look asymmetrical. I never hear much about the chest burster arms. Adi got rid of them alltogether.
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  11. D-13
    Posted
    Me: As long I don't see Alien-dolls moving in on a truck, for da Bad side-shot... AvP2 talkin trash!
    Makers of Avp2: Hey, we knew nothing about movies, we are FX-guys... we said to direct as a joke, and fox said yes...
    (GL Disney) was the general answer.

    Thats the only talk you get in... woaaa... "What about "THE PREDATOR". That sucked... did he..
    Shane Black: Hey. I freaking stared in predator... that makes me doableing to makeing THE predator...
    just wait, "Hey, You Guys! , I'll be back... pew, pew", that´s the script... and yea... trow in some chopper references to...
    That goes good with the fans, couse I ride a chopper... but it's like crazy... a chopper is a bike aswellö... did you know?... I diden't know... but hey... I was in Predator...".
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  18. Mike’s Monsters
    Posted
    Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jul 05, 2024, 09:31:49 AM
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 08:16:22 PM
    Quote from: 426Buddy on Jul 04, 2024, 05:50:54 PMLegacy Effects created the adult alien for Romulus... not Studio Gillis.

    Correct. Gillis did some creature work, but it wasn't the adult Xenomorph which I'll be able to share once the film is out, unless he does before release. He also worked on the miniatures.

    According to Fede at the preview, Gillis also did the chestburster. Thought it was puppeteered by all of them.

    That is it! Since it's out there, yep, he did the chestburster.
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  19. PortugueseXeno
    Posted
    Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Jul 05, 2024, 09:27:10 AM
    Spoiler
    Although I'm very wary about it, I'm still very curious about this "big baby" too.
    [close]
    Spoiler
    Maybe it's because i have already seen the Xeno so many times, but everything that has been speculated/hinted about the hybrid is intriguing me, although i understand why people are also worried.

    Is it going to be a large sized baby with Xeno features, crawling and crying like the Resident Evil: Village giant fetus monsters.

    I really hope the marketing doesn't spoil or hint at it, but from what i can theorize, i think those pics with Rain holding the "freezing" gun are probably when she is about to confront it.

    There have been instances in the marketing, where Rain seems more casual, while she is holding the pulse rifles, but then there are also instances of her being barefoot, sweatier and sporting that freezing gun with the tubes in her back, which i guess it's going to be her final girl mode for the movie.
    [close]
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  20. Corporal Hicks
    Posted
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 08:16:22 PM
    Quote from: 426Buddy on Jul 04, 2024, 05:50:54 PMLegacy Effects created the adult alien for Romulus... not Studio Gillis.

    Correct. Gillis did some creature work, but it wasn't the adult Xenomorph which I'll be able to share once the film is out, unless he does before release. He also worked on the miniatures.

    According to Fede at the preview, Gillis also did the chestburster. Thought it was puppeteered by all of them.
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  22. PortugueseXeno
    Posted
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 09:55:35 PM
    Quote from: BigChapismyBestFriend on Jul 04, 2024, 09:47:53 PM
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 09:43:11 PM
    Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Jul 04, 2024, 09:31:40 PM
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 08:16:22 PM
    Quote from: 426Buddy on Jul 04, 2024, 05:50:54 PMLegacy Effects created the adult alien for Romulus... not Studio Gillis.

    Correct. Gillis did some creature work, but it wasn't the adult Xenomorph which I'll be able to share once the film is out, unless he does before release. He also worked on the miniatures.

    Also, the director is in charge of giving the final sign off and... directs where the design should go in the end. So the creature design team isn't 100% to blame if we are casting stones.

    Spoiler
    Gillis for the hybrid maybe ? Probably... There's also a lot of facehuggers though.
    [close]

     :-X
    Spoiler
    I really do want to know what it look like but I been spoiler enough so I'm gonna just say this. Does the hybrid look remotely look like the newborn
    [close]

    Spoiler
    No.
    [close]
    Spoiler
    Even though i dislike Resurrection, the concept and design of the Newborn has grown on me, but still i'm happy to know that whatever Fede and his crew cook up with the new hybrid isn't a copypaste of the newborn, and to be honest, the hybrid is probably my most anticipated thing in the movie at the moment, just for the sheer factor of seeing a whole new unique creature being done by practical effects, since it seems like Hollywood has kind of been ditching practical monsters for fully CGI ones.
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  26. BigChapismyBestFriend
    Posted
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 09:55:35 PM
    Quote from: BigChapismyBestFriend on Jul 04, 2024, 09:47:53 PM
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 09:43:11 PM
    Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Jul 04, 2024, 09:31:40 PM
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 08:16:22 PM
    Quote from: 426Buddy on Jul 04, 2024, 05:50:54 PMLegacy Effects created the adult alien for Romulus... not Studio Gillis.

    Correct. Gillis did some creature work, but it wasn't the adult Xenomorph which I'll be able to share once the film is out, unless he does before release. He also worked on the miniatures.

    Also, the director is in charge of giving the final sign off and... directs where the design should go in the end. So the creature design team isn't 100% to blame if we are casting stones.

    Spoiler
    Gillis for the hybrid maybe ? Probably... There's also a lot of facehuggers though.
    [close]

     :-X
    Spoiler
    I really do want to know what it look like but I been spoiler enough so I'm gonna just say this. Does the hybrid look remotely look like the newborn
    [close]

    Spoiler
    No.
    [close]
    Spoiler
      is it biomechanical?
    [close]
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  27. Mike’s Monsters
    Posted
    Quote from: BigChapismyBestFriend on Jul 04, 2024, 09:47:53 PM
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 09:43:11 PM
    Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Jul 04, 2024, 09:31:40 PM
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 08:16:22 PM
    Quote from: 426Buddy on Jul 04, 2024, 05:50:54 PMLegacy Effects created the adult alien for Romulus... not Studio Gillis.

    Correct. Gillis did some creature work, but it wasn't the adult Xenomorph which I'll be able to share once the film is out, unless he does before release. He also worked on the miniatures.

    Also, the director is in charge of giving the final sign off and... directs where the design should go in the end. So the creature design team isn't 100% to blame if we are casting stones.

    Spoiler
    Gillis for the hybrid maybe ? Probably... There's also a lot of facehuggers though.
    [close]

     :-X
    Spoiler
    I really do want to know what it look like but I been spoiler enough so I'm gonna just say this. Does the hybrid look remotely look like the newborn
    [close]

    Spoiler
    No.
    [close]
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  28. BigChapismyBestFriend
    Posted
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 09:43:11 PM
    Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Jul 04, 2024, 09:31:40 PM
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 08:16:22 PM
    Quote from: 426Buddy on Jul 04, 2024, 05:50:54 PMLegacy Effects created the adult alien for Romulus... not Studio Gillis.

    Correct. Gillis did some creature work, but it wasn't the adult Xenomorph which I'll be able to share once the film is out, unless he does before release. He also worked on the miniatures.

    Also, the director is in charge of giving the final sign off and... directs where the design should go in the end. So the creature design team isn't 100% to blame if we are casting stones.

    Spoiler
    Gillis for the hybrid maybe ? Probably... There's also a lot of facehuggers though.
    [close]

     :-X
    Spoiler
    I really do want to know what it look like but I been spoiler enough so I'm gonna just say this. Does the hybrid look remotely look like the newborn
    [close]
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  29. Mike’s Monsters
    Posted
    Quote from: BigDaddyJohn on Jul 04, 2024, 09:31:40 PM
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 08:16:22 PM
    Quote from: 426Buddy on Jul 04, 2024, 05:50:54 PMLegacy Effects created the adult alien for Romulus... not Studio Gillis.

    Correct. Gillis did some creature work, but it wasn't the adult Xenomorph which I'll be able to share once the film is out, unless he does before release. He also worked on the miniatures.

    Also, the director is in charge of giving the final sign off and... directs where the design should go in the end. So the creature design team isn't 100% to blame if we are casting stones.

    Spoiler
    Gillis for the hybrid maybe ? Probably... There's also a lot of facehuggers though.
    [close]

     :-X
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  30. BigDaddyJohn
    Posted
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 04, 2024, 08:16:22 PM
    Quote from: 426Buddy on Jul 04, 2024, 05:50:54 PMLegacy Effects created the adult alien for Romulus... not Studio Gillis.

    Correct. Gillis did some creature work, but it wasn't the adult Xenomorph which I'll be able to share once the film is out, unless he does before release. He also worked on the miniatures.

    Also, the director is in charge of giving the final sign off and... directs where the design should go in the end. So the creature design team isn't 100% to blame if we are casting stones.

    Spoiler
    Gillis for the hybrid maybe ? Probably... There's also a lot of facehuggers though.
    [close]
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  31. Local Trouble
    Posted
    Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Jul 03, 2024, 04:28:08 PM
    Quote from: Local Trouble on Jul 03, 2024, 05:54:16 AMIs there any outside chance that you might possibly photograph it some day?

    Yep. Big chance. Once it's released and I have one because I'm 100% buying it as soon as it's available.

    https://media1.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExb2lhbnZ3anNvc2V5dncycmJtaGF4cHpscnpqemYzNXM4cHRkMHcwOSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/3g9KHH6fB0XpcukoqZ/giphy.gif
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  32. Mike’s Monsters
    Posted
    Quote from: 426Buddy on Jul 04, 2024, 05:50:54 PMLegacy Effects created the adult alien for Romulus... not Studio Gillis.

    Correct. Gillis did some creature work, but it wasn't the adult Xenomorph which I'll be able to share once the film is out, unless he does before release. He also worked on the miniatures.

    Also, the director is in charge of giving the final sign off and... directs where the design should go in the end. So the creature design team isn't 100% to blame if we are casting stones.
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  36. D-13
    Posted
    Are you kidding me?
    I understand you have no talent in design, but the form - Yes - is good... but you have too look closer.
    The woobly lines on the dome - The candy lines on it's jaw - the terrible big lower jaw.

    This is still Tom Woodruff and Alec Gillis fault.
    They are simply NOT good designers.
    They f**ked up the design on every movie after Alien 3.
    I just don't get it how these guys still get to do this work.
    Atlest one guy is out, so maybe it's better... we'll see.
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  39. Anthony
    Posted
    This is the best looking shot of this design yet. Those curves along the head are just right. Could do with some more explicit biomechanical elements, but at least they're there.
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  40. PsyKore
    Posted
    Maybe the alien will get right up close to her during the airlock countdown but then get sucked out. And in true aliens fashion she'll hold on to the ladder behind her. Not bad for a human ;D

    Cool-looking shot though.
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  41. MikeC83
    Posted
    Finally saw the latest trailer in the cinema last night and it was so good. The chest cracking and xeno scream at the end in pitch black and surround sound was just a dream. Can't wait 'til next month!
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  42. hamilton_milo
    Posted
    Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Jul 03, 2024, 02:46:43 PM
    Quote from: MikeC83 on Jul 03, 2024, 02:34:36 PMCan't seem to log in here on my phone, so hope this works!

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/C89KvAVRpaX/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

    It is a video of Bishop, but the text top right says new trailer coming soon

    Ahh, got ya!

    I have to imagine that it'll be a green band one this time (so no real blood, no utterances of "f**k") so that they can start attaching it to PG-13 movies.

    I still haven't even caught the full trailer in a theater yet, surprisingly.

    Hmmm I'm unsure. The fact Alec said "new Alvarez" trailer soon makes me think Fede has cut this one and it's going to be extra bloody and gnarly  ;D


    Hopefully it drops this week or next week!
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  48. Eal
    Posted
    I'm just excited that we finally get scenes featuring microgravity. For a series set in deep space and having to do with...alien stuff...it's weird that we never see zero g. It's all magically generated earthlike-gravity for film convenience.

    Maybe I've spent too much time watching The Expanse.
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