News and Social Media posts regarding Alien: Covenant

[Corporal Hicks]

(Preview) NEW interview w/ Michael about #AlienCovenant! Full #Interview on Sunday! #Fassbender #Scott #Prometheus

https://twitter.com/BeatFassbender/status/730495320010850304

Please be something new!



That's a misleading post on BeatFass's part. Looks like the interview is coming via the Sydney Morning Herald.  http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/while-littleseen-at-home-tribal-romance-tanna-will-get-a-us-release-20160511-goryeq.html

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯]

"The sets are fantastic. The best since 'Prometheus'. Mixture of high-end technology & primitive elements."

https://twitter.com/JohnSant87/status/731577074549411841

[Enoch]

Interesting.

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Full Interview : http://entertainment.inquirer.net/194809/michael-fassbender-on-assassins-creed-alien-apocalypse#st_refDomain=t.co&st_refQuery=/KXi1b60T4j

He is in Sydney filming Ridley Scott's "Alien: Covenant," with a cast that includes Billy Crudup, Katherine Waterston, Danny McBride, Jussie Smollett and Demian Bichir.

"There are going to be great sets and aliens coming out of people," Michael promised about Ridley's "Covenant," the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that started with "Prometheus."

"It's amazing to watch Ridley work. I try to soak up as much knowledge as I can from him, because having worked on this kind of films a few times and having seen how many moving parts there are, how many people work on the set and how many departments need attention and the language, he's an absolute master.

"The sets are fantastic. Again, the most impressive sets I've seen since 'Prometheus,' which was the original setting. It's a fantastic mixture of high-end technology and primitive elements. The way that I can explain it is the same way that Ridley did 'Blade Runner.'

"You have this futuristic world where people are eating noodles, because that seems to be the cheaper food and something that will fill you up. But it's also something that harks back to the past. The weaving of those two things—past and future—together makes for an interesting world that we can aspire to, but also recognize something in it."

On what he packs when he travels from his London home to places like Sydney, Michael said, "I don't think I have anything other than the script that I'm working on. I take a computer, because I use that to help with work. And my toothbrush (laughs). I don't have anything that I hold onto that much, to be honest."

[Corporal Hicks]

Sydney Morning Herald posted their interview with Fassbender but barely anything in it regarding Covenant:

So it's a surprise to hear Fassbender say he always tries to bring comedy to his performances.

"I just look for different types of characters but maybe all of them are a little extreme," he says. "I think I should probably start looking for comedies now. That's probably what I'm going to try."

He played an offbeat comic role, an introverted singer who wore a giant plaster mask, in Frank two years ago and says he tries for humour with David in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant as well.

"I try and bring comedy to everything, even if it's a horrible sinister character. Even Epps in 12 Years a Slave. That scene where I'm chasing Solomon around and slipping in a pigsty. That reminded me of a Buster Keaton sketch or Charlie Chaplin."

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/michael-fassbender-surfs-sydney-on-way-to-return-as-magneto-in-xmen-apocalypse-20160510-gopdkj.html

[windebieste]

'Frank'... I love that movie!  It's my fave Fassbender movie to date.

Frank

More of this, please, Mr. F.   

-Windebieste.

[Corporal Hicks]

It's on my list to watch but I just haven't gotten around to it yet!

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Painting of Dane Hallett, which is one of the artists working on Covenant.



This leaked few days ago. Surely not retained.

[Enoch]

Holy Christ

Interesting concept and creepy creature... I like it. Looks somehow sentient to me?
Is that some sort of Xeno or entirely different creature, I wonder?


Where did you get this painting?

[Corporal Hicks]

It's from the artist's Facebook page. He describes it as a warm-up/sketch. I doubt it's actually from the film (I don't think any of the artists would dare to post any of their related work up on social media) but it's a nice indication of the talent behind the new film. I noticed one of the other artists liked it too.

[Stolen]

I found it on Instagram. Shared by Lisa Javelin who also works on film.
May be an indication of the direction taken by the artistic team?

[Corporal Hicks]

She also posted this: Scorpio Telescopic Camera Crane ~ looking a little eerie whilst waiting for action in a dark studio



I don't know if it has anything to do with Covenant though.

May be an indication of the direction taken by the artistic team?

Perhaps. It definitely looks vaguely Alien.

[Astronoë]

Painting of Dane Hallett, which is one of the artists working on Covenant.

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/626755DaneHellett.png

This leaked few days ago. Surely not retained.

Looks dead, ancient, also what a fat ass, too much pizza killed him!

[T Dog]

Painting of Dane Hallett, which is one of the artists working on Covenant.

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/626755DaneHellett.png

This leaked few days ago. Surely not retained.

He posted this one in January - Badass!

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On twitter:

Have you had a chance to visit any of the Covenant sets yet, to see it all come to life?

Wayne Haag
@ankaris   @blahokblahwhat Yeah, I walk past them every day. I've also seen them up close of course. Very impressive work from the set guys!