Alien: Covenant Official Collector Edition Arrives May 27th, and updated synopsis revealed!!Quote On May 27th, 2017 Titan Comics will release Alien: Covenant - The Official Collector's Edition to the public. Below is the official description of the product, which will include never before seen set photos, concept art and interviews with the cast. The description also features a slightly altered plot synopsis for film .
Alien: Covenant is the long-awaited sequel to the Alien franchise, and Alien: Covenant – Official Collector's Edition brings you everything you need to know about Ridley Scott's latest masterpiece!
When a shipload of human colonists investigates an apparently habitable planet, they have no idea of the horror they are about to discover. But the biggest danger may perhaps come from a more unexpected source...
You can preorder here:
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The biggest danger has to be David. The real villain of the film.
Prequel novel sounds fantastic. So long as it picks up straight after Prometheus. I'll read a sequel novel if it's a prequel to the next film after A:C.
Quote from: Scorpio on Jan 16, 2017, 11:28:31 PM
The biggest danger has to be David. The real villain of the film.
Prequel novel sounds fantastic. So long as it picks up straight after Prometheus. I'll read a sequel novel if it's a prequel to the next film after A:C.
Maybe Walter.
Quote from: Scorpio on Jan 16, 2017, 11:28:31 PM
The biggest danger has to be David. The real villain of the film.
Yeah, I'm thinking the same. Also nice to see Franco mentioned in the synopsis. I think that's the first real confirmation outside of Franco's surprise in the interviews. :)
This has actually been on Amazon for a few weeks now. I was talking about this book to someone on a Twitter a few weeks back and I've no idea why I never posted it. :laugh: I've shared it now.
Too easy. And David was the bad guy in Prometheus.(to the general public) So thats wat people expect.
Then again... Franco could be, or maybe Shaw turns up and gives birth to Newt because she kissed Hicks in another dimension.
Fck knows.
I'm gonna stick with the art book and whatever docs appear on the blu-ray. In my experience, anything that says 'Collector's Edition' on it is usually pretty useless. YMMV, of course.
QuoteBut the biggest danger may perhaps come from a more unexpected source...
If it's unexpected then it shouldn't be David since we all know he's got mental :)
Quote from: Hemi on Jan 17, 2017, 11:37:13 AM
Too easy. And David was the bad guy in Prometheus.(to the general public) So thats wat people expect.
He's not a typical bad guy, though. If you look at the other human villains of the series, their motivations are pretty clear. However, with David you don't know. Like the question if he has consciousness that Ridley mentioned.
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Quote from: Scorpio on Jan 16, 2017, 11:28:31 PM
The biggest danger has to be David. The real villain of the film.
Prequel novel sounds fantastic. So long as it picks up straight after Prometheus. I'll read a sequel novel if it's a prequel to the next film after A:C.
Maybe Walter.
No, it will definitely turn out to be our good friend David.
I mean, i'd love to think the Engineers might show up in the end and really make a nightmare mind-f*ck out of the situation. Like waking up the colonists just to experiment on them... But we'd never see a film like that made by the mainstream. It'll likely be David pulling a Wrath of Khan type of scenario.
What if the biggest danger turns out to be Shaw? :o
I'd like that all out Engineer/Neomorph/David chaos...but I think it's more probable David has wiped out the Engineers, and become "God" on his own little planet.
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Quote from: Hemi on Jan 17, 2017, 11:37:13 AM
Too easy. And David was the bad guy in Prometheus.(to the general public) So thats wat people expect.
He's not a typical bad guy, though. If you look at the other human villains of the series, their motivations are pretty clear. However, with David you don't know. Like the question if he has consciousness that Ridley mentioned.
Well, yes. Basically this. For most of 'PROMETHEUS' running time, David 8's actions were carried out under the instructions of Weyland. It will be interesting to see how this machine interprets 'freedom' now that it has. After all, Weyland assuredly states that David has no soul.
Can a machine capable of more than follow instructions truly understand what Freedom actually means?
This will be a very interesting movie. No doubt Sir Scott is out to investigate what it means to be a free thinking Human Being vs Intelligent Machine with an agenda. Too awesome.
As for the book itself, 96 pages may seem a little light - but for a lavish full colour production that's being offered any more will drive the cost up. Call it a 'Collectors Edition' if you like. It's just marketing hype. Titan will want to sell boatloads of the book. Nonetheless, I'm still looking forward to adding this to my library. I just wish publisher's would stop badging print copies with such superfluous content across covers like this.
Given time, almost anything officially released in print form becomes a Collector's item.
-Windebieste.
I need to see some hints at the Drukhati!
if you observe the way David talks to the crew , I've noticed their questions lack definition and are asked in a nonchalant way
he answers them in the same way and never really gives any definitive answers , like he knows that because their questions lack specificity he answers in the same way , vague and without specifics .
he is a very sneaky robot
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I need to see some hints at the Drukhati!
I don't think we'll be seeing them in the films.
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Quote from: Shamo on Jan 18, 2017, 10:24:08 PM
I need to see some hints at the Drukhati!
I don't think we'll be seeing them in the films.
Yeah, but it would be awesome if we did. They
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took down the Engineers! :laugh:
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Temp cover up on Amazon.
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And here's the cover art (subject to change)! Thanks to Matt Booker via the Weyland-Yutani Bulletin.
I wonder if the cover art is a representation of the creature in the film?
It sure looks like the creature on the poster and it is a bit more fleshy/reptilian like I heard rumored.
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Going by the teeth it sure looks like the alien on the poster cover for covenant, could be wrong though.
It's likely not a 100% representation of the Alien, even if it is based on Stanley. Looks drawn so there's probably some degree of artistic license going off too. I don't think the Alien in the film will be looking that green or white.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jan 31, 2017, 03:48:22 PM
It's likely not a 100% representation of the Alien, even if it is based on Stanley. Looks drawn so there's probably some degree of artistic license going off too. I don't think the Alien in the film will be looking that green or white.
Yes of course, that's cool that it could be an artists representation of the creature in the film though.
Good find. Corp.
The return of the jaw tendons is something I've been looking forward to. They were't nearly so prominant on the 'Requiem' creatures.
Goodbye biomechanic beauty...
Quote from: locusta on Jan 31, 2017, 04:36:18 PM
Goodbye biomechanic beauty...
You're so very right, I don't think we'll ever see the return of the biomechanical aspects of the creature, its been fading for such a long time now, I used to just blame ADI lol. I had hoped that Scott would be the one who would bring it all back but unfortunately it seems he is determined to take us even farther away from Giger's nightmarish vision.
Scott liked the fleshy version of the "Beast", as he calls it.
Quote from: locusta on Jan 31, 2017, 04:48:43 PM
Scott liked the fleshy version of the "Beast", as he calls it.
It's a shame, a return to a biomechanical but updated big chap could have been something special imo.
I just deeply hope, that the original´s ALIEN creature and the Space Jockey are meant to be something of an older and more primal source of the species, and all else is an Engineer and David attempt to reverse engineer the stuff. HOPE!
Quote from: locusta on Jan 31, 2017, 05:01:06 PM
I just deeply hope, that the original´s ALIEN creature and the Space Jockey are meant to be something of an older and more primal source of the species, and all else is an Engineer and David attempt to reverse engineer the stuff. HOPE!
Yeah i agree. We'll have to see what's in store for the next film.
I think they're doing a slow progression of the creature until the other movies get around to tying up the dots to the original film. I'm not much of a fan of the fleshy vibe, but the head and jaw look really nice.
Quote from: locusta on Jan 31, 2017, 05:01:06 PM
I just deeply hope, that the original´s ALIEN creature and the Space Jockey are meant to be something of an older and more primal source of the species, and all else is an Engineer and David attempt to reverse engineer the stuff. HOPE!
I will definitely be hoping you are correct!
Quote from: echobbase79 on Jan 31, 2017, 05:42:22 PM
I think they're doing a slow progression of the creature until the other movies get around to tying up the dots to the original film. I'm not much of a fan of the fleshy vibe, but the head and jaw look really nice.
Yeah the jaw and front of the head look pretty cool.
I'm getting slight Alien 3 Runner vibes from this design.
Quote from: GQSioux on Jan 31, 2017, 06:57:21 PM
I'm getting slight Alien 3 Runner vibes from this design.
Yeah, that might be the reason why the crew got an ALIEN3 runner head as parting gift, which was a recast of the Halcyon model kit.
Hopefully not the final design ...
i havent read through all the comments, so i dont know if this has been brought up before, but does anyone think there may be a chance that walter gets impregnated (at the hands of david, most likely), thus giving birth to our biomechanical love child ..?
It de-evolved into a fleshy creature, now it's evolving upwards to a biomechanical creature, until we get to Big Chap.
Quote from: GQSioux on Jan 31, 2017, 06:57:21 PM
I'm getting slight Alien 3 Runner vibes from this design.
Yeah, I did too. Which I don't think is a bad thing. I'm fond of that design.
The cover alien does look like an alien but it looks nothing like the alien in Covenant.
While it might not exactly be the Big Chap (if that cover is anything to go by) I'll have to hold my judgement until the film has been released.
Quote from: whiterabbit on Jan 31, 2017, 11:14:47 PM
The cover alien does look like an alien but it looks nothidng like the alien in Covenant.
Hmm I thought the snaggle teeth looked similar.
The teeth are all crooked... ???
Not the most impressive cover. I would almost prefer it plain black to keep the mystery.
Dumb question, but what exactly is this? Is this like the Prometheus Art of the Film book? Or something else?
It's some form of behind the scenes book. Interviews, artwork, stills, that kind of thing.
Does noone on this form understand the difference between a robot and a living organism? Asking if a facehugger can impregnate an android, is like asking if a facehugger can impregnate your car. ::) ::) ::)
Quote from: Feeds On Minds on Feb 01, 2017, 03:10:31 PM
Does noone on this form understand the difference between a robot and a living organism? Asking if a facehugger can impregnate an android, is like asking if a facehugger can impregnate your car. ::) ::) ::)
:laugh:
Well, actually, there has always been a tacit implication in the alien series that there may be some sort of connection between the biological and the mechanical. Many of H.R. Giger's paintings portrayed biomechanical landscapes, and that is where the idea seems to stem from.
How often has it been stated that the Juggernaut looks like it may have been grown? And yest it is a machine.
In the Rage War series, we have a biological creature of sorts that is creating all manner of machinery.
It's an interesting idea, this mixing of organic and mechanical, and I would say entirely appropriate for the Aliens series.
It's an absurd, check your brain at the door kind of idea. So yes you're right; that would be an appropriate idea for the sequel to Prometheus. ;)
Quote from: Kronnang_Dunn on Feb 01, 2017, 10:26:05 AM
The teeth are all crooked... ???
Yeah.. I'm not liking this image. I hope the end-design is a lot more impressive.
Quote from: Feeds On Minds on Feb 01, 2017, 05:13:25 PM
It's an absurd, check your brain at the door kind of idea. So yes you're right; that would be an appropriate idea for the sequel to Prometheus. ;)
How so? We are standing on the gates of all sorts of possibilities that genetic engineering will hold for the future. Who is to say that you can't genetically engineer an organism (a plant) to be a chair, or something much more complex? It's fair game for compelling science fiction.
This is from the upcoming Sideshow Alien King statue. Looks like it will go this direction.
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to the person who addressed an awareness of robots vs organisms: there's a series out there called transformers, you might have seen it? i kid. mostly.
But more importantly, as Perfect-Organism stated, if you are familiar with HR Giger and his body of work, you'd know that the "creatures" he created were essentially organic machinery, seamlessly merging mechanical forms with biological organism (hence "biomechanical"). I don't think it's too far outside of the realm of possibilities, especially when the design of the original alien creature had very clear mechanical features (and has always been described as such).
david seems to be playing scientist on this new planet of his, so i can imagine he'd be curious to see what effects the black goo (and its offspring) had on his own kind.
But, does he have a soul?? ;)
Quote from: locusta on Feb 01, 2017, 11:45:15 PM
This is from the upcoming Sideshow Alien King statue. Looks like it will go this direction.
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That's something I've wanted to see for ages - Alien's coming up from the ground like that. I got a little of it in that big battle sequence in Three World War but I want
more. More god damn it!
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Quote from: locusta on Feb 01, 2017, 11:45:15 PM
This is from the upcoming Sideshow Alien King statue. Looks like it will go this direction.
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That's something I've wanted to see for ages - Alien's coming up from the ground like that. I got a little of it in that big battle sequence in Three World War but I want more. More god damn it!
Yep Corp, so true. Just too sad that the whole King concept is silly as hell and looks like SpaceCraft recycled garbage in my opinion. Well, so I have to do an own one.....:D :D :D (not King concept I mean, but something crawling out of somewhere) :D
Looks like the new alien came from a Ferengi :laugh:
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Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 02, 2017, 08:58:40 AM
Quote from: locusta on Feb 01, 2017, 11:45:15 PM
This is from the upcoming Sideshow Alien King statue. Looks like it will go this direction.
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That's something I've wanted to see for ages - Alien's coming up from the ground like that. I got a little of it in that big battle sequence in Three World War but I want more. More god damn it!
Yep Corp, so true. Just too sad that the whole King concept is silly as hell and looks like SpaceCraft recycled garbage in my opinion. Well, so I have to do an own one.....:D :D :D (not King concept I mean, but something crawling out of somewhere) :D
Oh man, please do! I miss seeing new pics from you.
It looks almost like the cover of the Game Alien Trilogy http://www.theoldcomputer.com/game-box-art-covers/Sega/Saturn/A/Alien%20Trilogy%20(G)/Alien%20Trilogy%20(G)%20Front%2BBack.jpg
God, that still used to scare me shitless as a child!
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 02, 2017, 08:58:40 AM
Quote from: locusta on Feb 01, 2017, 11:45:15 PM
This is from the upcoming Sideshow Alien King statue. Looks like it will go this direction.
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That's something I've wanted to see for ages - Alien's coming up from the ground like that. I got a little of it in that big battle sequence in Three World War but I want more. More god damn it!
design does look similar, including the fingers!
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Feb 03, 2017, 08:28:33 AM
God, that still used to scare me shitless as a child!
That's the runner right? (lips and all)
*Fixed link. Hicks.
Yeah, that particular still was an Alien 3 promo iirc.
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https://bnccatalist.ca/ViewTitle.aspx?id=8192807
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Merged with the Official Collector's Edition thread. Thanks for sharing. The artwork looks a little weird. Is it me or does the Alien look chunky?
Yeah I'm not digging the look of that much.
So, is that a variant cover showing the whole Alien or has it been changed?
I'm so confused by all these Covenant behind the scenes books :laugh:
Wasn't the last one we saw an exclusive brick-and-mortar cover? This might be the standard cover.
Bold claim "Behind the scenes of Ridley Scott's Masterpiece" - Hope it lives up to it!
I love the way the Alien looks btw. The tail, elongated head - minus the cockroach flat back, and hands are so so good.
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pre-ordered mine a while back... along with the special edition Alien Covenant novelization aaaaaaaaand the prequel novel. looking forward to this showing up in the mail!
Quote from: RidgeTop on Apr 13, 2017, 09:25:00 PM
So I guess this is the comic book shop cover? https://www-avpgalaxy-net.cdn.ampproject.org/i/www.avpgalaxy.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/31052017_01a.jpg
I reckon so, yeah.
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WHHHAAAT! That can´t be official. Looks freaking terrible! A Photoshoped catastrophy! Looks like stitched together from random Alien and muscle parts. Hell NO!
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WHHHAAAT! That can´t be official. Looks freaking terrible! A Photoshoped catastrophy! Looks like stitched together from random Alien and muscle parts. Hell NO!
I know it, why can't they just hire you for some nice covers? While we're at it, Titan desperately needs your help as well lol, their covers are the worst.
Nah, not talking about me at all. Just an observation that this simply can´t be legit or at least not a final cover. Might be a concept for it. It is not even the Xeno from movie. And for official concept art for the film, it is not of the standard, used to be known from the artists involved in making it.
Quote from: locusta on Apr 14, 2017, 06:49:56 PM
Nah, not talking about me at all.
Yeah I know but a guy can dream right? :)
But yeah that cover looks all wrong.
The Comic Store version is out now. Here's a snap of some of the artwork via Will Robbie of the Weyland-Yutani Bulletin.
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I'm about halfway through. It's nothing massively special. Pretty standard interviews with the cast. Some nice stills though which I need to scan up properly. Only real interesting thing I've read so far has been Fassbender talking David's motives for
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killing Shaw.
Is there a comic in the collector's book?
Nope.
So is it looking like the one to get is the 'Art and Making of' book that's coming soon instead of this.
In my experience, anything that says 'Collector's Edition' right on it is usually pretty useless.
So I'm sure I've asked this before, but what actually is the difference between the two?
Between this and the Art Of?
Yeah, seeing as both are apparently about the making of the film.
I'd guess the Art of would be more focused. This one has mainly cast interviews with some bts and concept art. I'll be posting some scans of the images later tonight.
Fair enough.
It all made sense when one was an art book and the other was about the making of the film, but now the art book has changed it's title and is apparently also about the making of the film.
I guess its like when Aliens had those two making-of magazines with deceptively similar titles.
Quote from: HuDaFuK on May 22, 2017, 09:56:43 PM
It all made sense when one was an art book and the other was about the making of the film, but now the art book has changed it's title and is apparently also about the making of the film.
Didn't we hear that when the film's (and Art Of book's) release dates were pushed to May, they ran out of time to interview the actual concept artists? So I suppose they've had to pad the book with 'Making Of' material so there'd be some sort of text.
Pity, I'd have happily waited 'til October for a better, dedicated art book.
Just got this through from Amazon today. Some great behind the scenes pics of the practical Xenomorph suit, but I'm disappointed at the magazine quality paper and the slightly streaky print marks on the some of the images; particularly the pics of Daniels on pages 33, 80 and 97... any one else have this issue?
Quote from: Daz85 on Jun 12, 2017, 02:58:22 PM
Just got this through from Amazon today. Some great behind the scenes pics of the practical Xenomorph suit, but I'm disappointed at the magazine quality paper and the slightly streaky print marks on the some of the images; particularly the pics of Daniels on pages 33, 80 and 97... any one else have this issue?
Agreed on the paper stock quality. A beautiful hardcover and then they go use a real crappy glossy stock inside.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 20, 2017, 05:34:12 PM
I'm about halfway through. It's nothing massively special. Pretty standard interviews with the cast. Some nice stills though which I need to scan up properly. Only real interesting thing I've read so far has been Fassbender talking David's motives for
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killing Shaw.
what does he say about that?
Quote from: groot on Jun 17, 2017, 09:59:39 PM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 20, 2017, 05:34:12 PM
I'm about halfway through. It's nothing massively special. Pretty standard interviews with the cast. Some nice stills though which I need to scan up properly. Only real interesting thing I've read so far has been Fassbender talking David's motives for
Spoiler
killing Shaw.
what does he say about that?
He kills Shaw because he's afraid that she'll leave him. In the 'Art and Making' of book it says that David has a strong attachment to the things he loves.