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Posted by The Old One
 - Apr 01, 2019, 12:54:00 PM
April Fools?
No thank you, and the design is a needless, garbage alteration.
Posted by Frosty Venom
 - Apr 01, 2019, 12:37:42 PM
Posted by The Old One
 - Apr 01, 2019, 01:59:04 AM
No. Ty. Neill Blomkamp's filmography doesn't inspire confidence.
Posted by Perfect-Organism
 - Apr 01, 2019, 01:44:15 AM
#filmthescript

#releasethefilm
Posted by The Old One
 - Apr 01, 2019, 12:59:04 AM
Indeed.
Posted by Huggs
 - Mar 31, 2019, 11:10:49 PM
#releasethescript
Posted by Drukathi
 - Mar 31, 2019, 02:45:41 PM
Very good stuff. I don't think this's a Queen, because Queen has three fingers on second arms, and here - four or five.
Posted by D. Compton Ambrose
 - Nov 15, 2018, 04:22:08 PM
I was a little harsh with my original post, but it just seems to me to be the original with some extra arms. I'm all about going back to the biomechanical look of the original, and ADI's execution of that look is utterly flawless. But there is sooo much to work from/with even with the original Drone alone in going about redesigning or reimagining the Alien, and it still being... well... an Alien. Even this shows that is the case, but to me it just feels rushed, when going about reintroducing the Alien to the audiences should be a process with some real effort put into it. I think Alien: Covenant is a fairly strong example of this (barring the horrible chestburster scene, sorry Old One x: ...), I mean, the Alien wasn't scary, per se, but it holds up as simultaneously being an Alien and a sufficient redesign.

Not to mention redesigning the Alien for each new film has been a tradition since 1985. I just think they should go even further, as Cameron did. As ADI did in Alien 3 and Resurrection. And as Haunte did for Covenant.
Posted by The Old One
 - Nov 13, 2018, 05:56:42 PM
Each to their own, I love the Chestburster scene.
Posted by The Kurgan
 - Nov 13, 2018, 05:50:20 PM
Quote from: JokersWarPig on Nov 13, 2018, 05:39:51 PM
My argument is that we don't know if this is how he planned on all of the aliens looking or if this was supposed to be an individual that was on its way to becoming a queen. If we find something out that contradicts that then I'll probably change my opinion on the design.
The A5 design makes more sense than the protomorph looking as fleshy as it does, or the fact that its chest burster...comes out as just a miniaturized...version of it's adult self....god I hate that scene.
I do actually like the way the face huggers looked in Covenant, just not the whole gestation time issue.

Protoqueen was also the first thing i thought about when i saw it. But its literally just the arms on an orherwise unchanged Alien. Sure we don't know if the second set is the first thing an alien changes on his way to queendom, but for me it does not look like a queen to be. 

And while the chestburster scene was a little wacky, no two bursters looked ever the same. The runner in A3 was a miniature version of the adult and the queen in A3 had arms and legs if i remember it right. And the gastation time always seemed pretty random.
Posted by JokersWarPig
 - Nov 13, 2018, 05:39:51 PM
My argument is that we don't know if this is how he planned on all of the aliens looking or if this was supposed to be an individual that was on its way to becoming a queen. If we find something out that contradicts that then I'll probably change my opinion on the design.
The A5 design makes more sense than the protomorph looking as fleshy as it does, or the fact that its chest burster...comes out as just a miniaturized...version of it's adult self....god I hate that scene.
I do actually like the way the face huggers looked in Covenant, just not the whole gestation time issue.
Posted by The Kurgan
 - Nov 13, 2018, 05:37:01 PM
Quote from: The Old One on Nov 13, 2018, 05:20:54 PM
Quote from: JokersWarPig on Nov 13, 2018, 01:01:02 PM
Quote from: D. Compton Ambrose on Oct 29, 2018, 04:30:15 AM
Wow. REALLY Blomkamp? You can do better than that. It is up to one of us to reinvigorate the Alien. No offense to Blomkamp, but I'm glad they went with Ridley's 'Covenant' instead...

Covenant is like 90% trash though and that includes its xeno design. Blomkamp looks like he was staying true to the bio-mechanical/Giger design.

Nah.

Protomorph"s cool. Best Facehugger and Egg designs.
Adding little stupid arms to the big chap is infinitely more insulting.

This. I don't think it's supposed to be the final biomechanical creature yet. It's just the prototyp David created with the resources he had on planet 4, so it makes sense that it's a more organic version for now.
Also not a fan of the extra arms. It's just....why?
Posted by The Old One
 - Nov 13, 2018, 05:20:54 PM
Quote from: JokersWarPig on Nov 13, 2018, 01:01:02 PM
Quote from: D. Compton Ambrose on Oct 29, 2018, 04:30:15 AM
Wow. REALLY Blomkamp? You can do better than that. It is up to one of us to reinvigorate the Alien. No offense to Blomkamp, but I'm glad they went with Ridley's 'Covenant' instead...

Covenant is like 90% trash though and that includes its xeno design. Blomkamp looks like he was staying true to the bio-mechanical/Giger design.

Nah.

Protomorph"s cool. Best Facehugger and Egg designs.
Adding little stupid arms to the big chap is infinitely more insulting.
Posted by JokersWarPig
 - Nov 13, 2018, 04:26:31 PM
Quote from: Huggs on Nov 13, 2018, 02:56:43 PM
I'm ready to see the headline, "Blomkamp Shares Alien 5 Script".

That'd be the thing that puts the Covenant vs A5 argument to bed
Posted by Huggs
 - Nov 13, 2018, 02:56:43 PM
I'm ready to see the headline, "Blomkamp Shares Alien 5 Script".
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