Thanks for agreeing to answer a few questions for us, rabid fans, Ms. Perry. We've been trying to extract information from SM via various questionable means such as torture, bribery, coercion/extortion, trickery and cranial USB port but alas it was all to no avail.
He did however let slip that Fox is apparently now taking a more serious stance on what it considers "canon". The features blurb mentions that material from Prometheus, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection were used. Will it also incorporate material or elements from the "EU" such as the recent Alien novels (Sea of Sorrows, Out of the Shadows) and games such as Alien: Isolation and Aliens: Colonial Marines?
Does the book include an official canonical timeline?
There appears to be a fair amount of technical illustrations in the book and again the blurb mentions "extensive information on the characters, locations, vehicles, and weapons from the movies, along with an in-depth breakdown of the Xenomorph's life cycle." Will it therefore follow a similar format to the "Aliens Colonial Marines Technical Manual"?
Will it address any of the films unexplained mysteries such as the egg on the Sulaco (Alien 3), Egg-morphing vs. the Queen Alien, the box Alien, Fifield and Milburn getting lost, whether Xenomorphs were engineered or naturally occurring, the Walmart buyout of Weyland-Yutani and the confusion surrounding the various incarnations of Bishop and Weyland CEO's (the so-called Weyland Effect™)?
That's all I can think of for now and thanks again for taking the time to give us a better idea of what to expect in the book.
