Alien: Covenant will take place ten years after Prometheus

Started by 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯, Dec 30, 2015, 06:23:53 PM

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Alien: Covenant will take place ten years after Prometheus (Read 34,920 times)

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯

In an interview with Collider, Janty Yates (costume designer) talks about reinventing spacesuits for Scott's Alien: Covenant and continuing on one look from Prometheus as well as how the sequel will take place ten years after the events of the last film:

http://collider.com/costume-designer-janty-yates-the-martian-alien-covenant-interview/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=collidersocial


T Dog

Listening now. There will be two new space suits but it's not a "space suit movie".

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯

So I'm assuming the air on Paradise will probably be perfectly breathable then? No need for helmets?  :laugh:

oduodu

Wow

10 years ?? That's 2104 right, so how does a colony ship get that far from earth ?? In 10 years ??

T Dog

Quote from: oduodu on Dec 30, 2015, 07:35:57 PM
Wow

10 years ?? That's 2104 right, so how does a colony ship get that far from earth ?? In 10 years ??
How long did the Promtheus expedition take?

Maybe they got their hands on some of that Engineer FTL tech?

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯

The Covenant might have left earth much longer than 10 years ago. The events of Prometheus wouldn't necessarily have had any influence on the colony ship's date of departure. Perhaps they stumbled upon the planet or David radioed them an invite when he saw they were in the vicinity.

Quote from: tmjhur on Dec 30, 2015, 07:47:19 PM
How long did the Promtheus expedition take?

2 years, 4 months, 18 days, 36 hours, 15 minutes.

T Dog

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Dec 30, 2015, 07:48:51 PM
The Covenant might have left earth much longer than 10 years ago. The events of Prometheus wouldn't necessarily have had any influence on the colony ship's date of departure. Perhaps they stumbled upon the planet or David radioed them an invite when he saw they were in the vicinity.

Well it's probably just a Yutani ship init?

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯

Quote from: tmjhur on Dec 30, 2015, 08:29:47 PM
Well it's probably just a Yutani ship init?

Name's not Japonesque enough sounding methinks.

Quote from: oduodu on Dec 30, 2015, 07:35:57 PM
10 years ?? That's 2104 right

With regards to the "Ripley" connection, the new date means she would already have been born and would be around 10 years old in Alien: Covenant.

Primordial

Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Dec 30, 2015, 07:10:03 PM
So I'm assuming the air on Paradise will probably be perfectly breathable then? No need for helmets?  :laugh:

A "no problem of contamination at all" line = a lot of happy people  :D




Up to you to take it canon or not but according to weylandindustries.com, the first FTL-capable SEV (space exploration vehicle) is introduced on January 17, 2034. Best case scenario then : 70 years to reach the far side of the galaxy which is about 100 000 light-years wide.
So the 'far side' isn't what we think (Paradise being in the sagittarius arm in Spaihts' script) ... or the colony ship is an alien ship.


THE CITY HUNTER

Cough similar to Aliens cough

Corporal Hicks

Quote from: oduodu on Dec 30, 2015, 07:35:57 PM
Wow

10 years ?? That's 2104 right, so how does a colony ship get that far from earth ?? In 10 years ??

Perhaps the farside of the galaxy comment was a bit of exaggeration and not literal.

felipescado

only thing i want is shaw to return

TheBATMAN

According to the Weyland-Yutani Report, the company merger would have happened by the time covenant tales place.

Mustangjeff

According to the Weyland industries timeline

1) Hypersleep chambers were patented in 2030
2) FTL was discovered in 2032
3) First FTL ship was built in 2034

So it's possible that the Covenant was launched around 2035-2040 and had FTL/Hypersleep capabilities.

I guess it's also possible that it was launched earlier and was meant to be a slow moving sub-FTL multi-generation ship, but got sucked into a wormhole or some other space anomaly mcguffin.

whiterabbit

Time dilation people. Who's time is it? Ours or theirs?

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