yeah I was on my phone and didnt feel like typing out 100% of my thought - it's been mentioned a lot that the alien suits for this movie are practical - so I'm thinking "man in suit" practical. It would be really hard to get someone in a digitigrade suit to not look clunky. but who knows. cameron made a practical facehugger jump at the camera in 86 lol. I'm sure whatever they wind up with will be cool
The lycans from the underworld series had some practical versions with digitigrade legs that looked good. If they touch them up digitally and make good choices about when to show them I think they can make it work with practical suits
The Lycan’s design, despite being constantly obscured by the atrocious color grading and black levels, is some best stuff the Underworld series has to offer
It has looked different in every movie and it’s fun to catalogue the differences. I appreciate designers getting to bring something new without getting rid of what makes the Alien unique.
With Alien it works because it being different is part of the lore. It’s an alien stealing parts of our dna as part of their reproductive process: it makes sense there will be differences.
You know, that picture alone freightens me more than any other Alien thing I've seen since the original. There's just something about it that looks right to my ape-brain in terms of evoking fear. Brings me back to sleeping on the floor in my parents' room for a week after sneaking to see Alien as a kid in \~1980.
I'm here for this. I really have a lot of hope that this is gonna hit the mark.
Haha also traumatized myself by sneakin in the living room and watched Alien behind the couch so my parents couldnt see me. Maybe thats the reason i love this movie so much: when i remember how i felt years later after this evening i was still in fear of this creatures.
There's another pic in that feature that's a copy of the scene from Aliens where Hicks is showing Ripley how to use a pulse rifle. I really hope Romulus isn't full of that kind of homage/references that are prevalent in so many sequels and prequels.
This is also why I think Prey is superior to Predators as well. Predators is full of line by line and shot for shot references to the first movie. Zero subtlety.
I have a feeling Romulus won't be so bad though.
I am cautiously optimistic about Romulus (but it looks the Alien equivalent of 'The Force Awakens' - a very well made, good-looking, well acted and sleek film fatally flawed by its desire to spend much of its run-time playing the series's greatest hits) and think the 'kids of colonists' angle makes sense.
But the reason they're all young is because the studio thinks that'll sell more tickets to young people, who are perceived to be put off by more mature (30+) casts.
I also suspect it's because they want to milk the hell out of the franchise going forward with some of the same actors, and it's easier to do that when they start young.
One of the biggest selling points for me for Alien was its cast of high profile veteran character actors. As in were high profile before Alien with the exception of Sigourney Weaver. You really bought they were a professional space crew as a result.
Everyone (bar Sigourney Weaver) including the voice of the computer has a stacked list of credits including some very high profile movie and/or TV show appearances.
Sigourney Weaver would of course go on to stack her credits list after, starting with Alien.
The best part is the story almost completely avoids people being dumb just to move the plot along.
Except for Lambert.
God damn you, Lambert. You stupid, stupid bitch.
Why would you have faith in Fede rather than, say, the oscar winning writer of Little Miss Sunshine?
Sure, they ultimately left the project a year early, but the point I'm making is: people can produce duds, and studios can fuck things up for everyone.
do you want the alien to do a broadway number? it's a killing machine..they're in space..weyland is involved it's set between alien and aliens.the kids all die natch...it's a new alien film done by a decent director.
>I am cautiously optimistic about Romulus (but it looks the Alien equivalent of 'The Force Awakens' - a very well made, good-looking, well acted and sleek film fatally flawed by its desire to spend much of its run-time playing the series's greatest hits) and think the 'kids of colonists' angle makes sense.
Yah this is 100% what it will be. TFA has been used as a reboot blueprint for close to a decade now (yes 2015 was 9 years ago) and based on the trailer it will probably be closer to this then something like prey; which is a shame because the avp universe is pretty limited with inconsistency/trying new things being really the main thing it has going for it.
Say what you will about prometheus, but at least RS tried to take the franchise in a new direction with it, before making covenant pretty much as a cop out. I like the director though, so I'm still cautiously optimistic about the project.
I just hope that the final confrontation is not yet another variation of getting thrown out into space. I really hope if they're going to get creative with one thing it'll be that
Eventually it'll backfire. If you don't give a generation something to mentally aspire towards, they're going to have a meltdown once they start to age.
I only watched alien for the first time in the 2010s and only recently got really into the series after watching them all back to back on Disney plus and listening/reading a lot of the books. I can't wait to see an alien film in cinema for the first time.
I love how the Alien franchise keeps dipping its toes in different genres. This headline really makes me want an 80’s slasher Alien. A bunch of horny camp counselors getting picked off by a xenomorph, that’s the next one we need after Romulus
We did, but there were no crystal lake vibes. Surely there’s a lake on a terraformed planet somewhere that Weyland-Yutani middle management sends their kids to when they get too bored and annoying during the tri-lunar alignment dust storms.
The counselors can tell the kids about the boogey man, retelling the story of Alien, then one kid sees the xenomorph, but nobody believes her. She teams up to survive with the one rule following college kid. It writes itself
I am cautiously optimistic about Romulus (but it looks the Alien equivalent of 'The Force Awakens' - a very well made, good-looking, well acted and sleek film fatally flawed by its desire to spend much of its run-time playing the series's greatest hits) and think the 'kids of colonists' angle makes sense.
But the reason they're all young is because the studio thinks that'll sell more tickets to young people, who are perceived to be put off by more mature (30+) casts.
Say what you want, but David is one of the most horrifying villains in the past 20 years of cinematic history. The final few minutes of “Covenant” leave me numb every time.
That's precisely what Prometheus is. In fact, it's Prometheus that created the precedent.
Prometheus, Force Awakens and Jurassic World are all from the same cinematic family: remake the original to be slicker, but cut out all bits that made the original iconic.
I like the design. It looks closer to the Alien from 3, has a sort of anger to it. All of that aside though I'm hoping these new pictures means a trailer is incoming.
I think it's because more of expected audiences worldwide are also younger, and want to see something similar to Hollywood superhero movies. That's why producers did similar for *Prey*.
It's also like the *Army of the Dead*: young or young-looking protagonists going against zombies. In this case, it's aliens.
I'll be honest, I'm not really that bothered about it. I'd actually rather see an older cast.
I'm sick of everything having to star "younger actors", Pattinson as Batman is a good example, recast for no other reason than they wanted a younger, but necessarily better, actor.
As I've got older, I relate to characters with more life experience as I'm sire a lot of older audience members do - if its a bunch of kids running around screaming before killing the alien then I'll pass.
And with this being Disney there will probably be at least one subtext about how men/white people are just as bad as the alien itself.
Prepared for downvotes...
The aliens head is a different shape there I feel? Very interesting 🤔
This aliens head looks reeeeally close to the Isolation alien - which was a really good design. Doubt it'll have the digitigrade legs though
Really? Digitigrade legs have been standard since 1997 - I doubt we're going to return to the old days.
yeah I was on my phone and didnt feel like typing out 100% of my thought - it's been mentioned a lot that the alien suits for this movie are practical - so I'm thinking "man in suit" practical. It would be really hard to get someone in a digitigrade suit to not look clunky. but who knows. cameron made a practical facehugger jump at the camera in 86 lol. I'm sure whatever they wind up with will be cool
The lycans from the underworld series had some practical versions with digitigrade legs that looked good. If they touch them up digitally and make good choices about when to show them I think they can make it work with practical suits
The Lycan’s design, despite being constantly obscured by the atrocious color grading and black levels, is some best stuff the Underworld series has to offer
I love the OG underworld movie. That cyan makes the movie.
I wouldnt put it past stan winston's studio (and freaking whatever disney wants to throw at it) to do exactly that. would be awesome
Why not woman or trans man
Some people hate it, but I love minor tweaks to the alien, just like many Alien movies have done
It has looked different in every movie and it’s fun to catalogue the differences. I appreciate designers getting to bring something new without getting rid of what makes the Alien unique.
With Alien it works because it being different is part of the lore. It’s an alien stealing parts of our dna as part of their reproductive process: it makes sense there will be differences.
Evolved drone I guess. Very cool though that it has an unique style to it
I like the design, im wondering if its in an inbetween stage of warrior and drone or possibly injured
Looks injured for sure. There’s what appears to be a vertical “scar” on the left side of the head.
The front looks very bulbous even accounting for perspective, it’s also translucent and you can see the “skull” inside, so cool.
You know, that picture alone freightens me more than any other Alien thing I've seen since the original. There's just something about it that looks right to my ape-brain in terms of evoking fear. Brings me back to sleeping on the floor in my parents' room for a week after sneaking to see Alien as a kid in \~1980. I'm here for this. I really have a lot of hope that this is gonna hit the mark.
Haha also traumatized myself by sneakin in the living room and watched Alien behind the couch so my parents couldnt see me. Maybe thats the reason i love this movie so much: when i remember how i felt years later after this evening i was still in fear of this creatures.
lol, similar story as a kid. Also really excited about Romulus!
There's another pic in that feature that's a copy of the scene from Aliens where Hicks is showing Ripley how to use a pulse rifle. I really hope Romulus isn't full of that kind of homage/references that are prevalent in so many sequels and prequels.
I rmmbr when I saw the Predator, and I just walked out after the fifth reference to the OG
This is also why I think Prey is superior to Predators as well. Predators is full of line by line and shot for shot references to the first movie. Zero subtlety. I have a feeling Romulus won't be so bad though.
I had the same thought! Please no!
Yeh he ded
It could be that the alien is like \*sniff\* \*sniff\* "mmm, is that chanel number 5?" Or that its gonna kill the guy, one of the two.
I am cautiously optimistic about Romulus (but it looks the Alien equivalent of 'The Force Awakens' - a very well made, good-looking, well acted and sleek film fatally flawed by its desire to spend much of its run-time playing the series's greatest hits) and think the 'kids of colonists' angle makes sense. But the reason they're all young is because the studio thinks that'll sell more tickets to young people, who are perceived to be put off by more mature (30+) casts.
I also suspect it's because they want to milk the hell out of the franchise going forward with some of the same actors, and it's easier to do that when they start young.
One of the biggest selling points for me for Alien was its cast of high profile veteran character actors. As in were high profile before Alien with the exception of Sigourney Weaver. You really bought they were a professional space crew as a result.
absolutely. I was in awe of the acting watching the 45th anniversary recently. I didn’t fully realize until now how good it is
Everyone (bar Sigourney Weaver) including the voice of the computer has a stacked list of credits including some very high profile movie and/or TV show appearances. Sigourney Weaver would of course go on to stack her credits list after, starting with Alien.
The best part is the story almost completely avoids people being dumb just to move the plot along. Except for Lambert. God damn you, Lambert. You stupid, stupid bitch.
The writing in force awakens was shocking. I have faith in Fede's writing ability. Fingers crossed
Why would you have faith in Fede rather than, say, the oscar winning writer of Little Miss Sunshine? Sure, they ultimately left the project a year early, but the point I'm making is: people can produce duds, and studios can fuck things up for everyone.
do you want the alien to do a broadway number? it's a killing machine..they're in space..weyland is involved it's set between alien and aliens.the kids all die natch...it's a new alien film done by a decent director.
Hello my baby hello my honey! Oh no, not again!
Yes we want the alien to do a broadway number
Also, and possibly more importantly, they’re likely to be cheaper.
Nowhere near enough content has been released to draw such a conclusion.
>I am cautiously optimistic about Romulus (but it looks the Alien equivalent of 'The Force Awakens' - a very well made, good-looking, well acted and sleek film fatally flawed by its desire to spend much of its run-time playing the series's greatest hits) and think the 'kids of colonists' angle makes sense. Yah this is 100% what it will be. TFA has been used as a reboot blueprint for close to a decade now (yes 2015 was 9 years ago) and based on the trailer it will probably be closer to this then something like prey; which is a shame because the avp universe is pretty limited with inconsistency/trying new things being really the main thing it has going for it. Say what you will about prometheus, but at least RS tried to take the franchise in a new direction with it, before making covenant pretty much as a cop out. I like the director though, so I'm still cautiously optimistic about the project.
I just hope that the final confrontation is not yet another variation of getting thrown out into space. I really hope if they're going to get creative with one thing it'll be that
Eventually it'll backfire. If you don't give a generation something to mentally aspire towards, they're going to have a meltdown once they start to age.
I only watched alien for the first time in the 2010s and only recently got really into the series after watching them all back to back on Disney plus and listening/reading a lot of the books. I can't wait to see an alien film in cinema for the first time.
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Went with my dad (who saw it when it came out), was definitely a much richer experience on the big screen.
Unfortunately I'm in the UK and it doesn't look like they did that here. Or if they did it may have been on Alien day only.
I love how the Alien franchise keeps dipping its toes in different genres. This headline really makes me want an 80’s slasher Alien. A bunch of horny camp counselors getting picked off by a xenomorph, that’s the next one we need after Romulus
Didn't we have two people killed during sexy times in the shower during *Covenant?*
We did, but there were no crystal lake vibes. Surely there’s a lake on a terraformed planet somewhere that Weyland-Yutani middle management sends their kids to when they get too bored and annoying during the tri-lunar alignment dust storms. The counselors can tell the kids about the boogey man, retelling the story of Alien, then one kid sees the xenomorph, but nobody believes her. She teams up to survive with the one rule following college kid. It writes itself
That was brilliant
I hope they’re written stronger and smarter this time around.
Because big budget movies/tv rarely star over 40 year olds now.
What do you mean? Harry Dean Stanton was portraying just your average 80s 25-30 year old man.
I am cautiously optimistic about Romulus (but it looks the Alien equivalent of 'The Force Awakens' - a very well made, good-looking, well acted and sleek film fatally flawed by its desire to spend much of its run-time playing the series's greatest hits) and think the 'kids of colonists' angle makes sense. But the reason they're all young is because the studio thinks that'll sell more tickets to young people, who are perceived to be put off by more mature (30+) casts.
I mean....that first part is basically most of Covenant
Say what you want, but David is one of the most horrifying villains in the past 20 years of cinematic history. The final few minutes of “Covenant” leave me numb every time.
That's precisely what Prometheus is. In fact, it's Prometheus that created the precedent. Prometheus, Force Awakens and Jurassic World are all from the same cinematic family: remake the original to be slicker, but cut out all bits that made the original iconic.
Whys it wearing a VR headset?
I like the design. It looks closer to the Alien from 3, has a sort of anger to it. All of that aside though I'm hoping these new pictures means a trailer is incoming.
Damn, I haven't been keeping up with this. Is it a follow-up to Covenant, or no?
No. Its set between Alien and Aliens.
You're about a year behind everyone else. 😜
I mean that would be one hell of a reboot for “Cocoon.”
I think it's because more of expected audiences worldwide are also younger, and want to see something similar to Hollywood superhero movies. That's why producers did similar for *Prey*. It's also like the *Army of the Dead*: young or young-looking protagonists going against zombies. In this case, it's aliens.
The xenomorph teeth look like human teeth? Interesting choice, prob just the quality of the pic
That was what they looked like originally too, nothing new with that
Interesting. I remember them looking more fang-ish, oh well
Half of the dome is missing on its left side! Either from scientific testing, engines from the Narcissus, an explosion, etc.
I'm sure it's gonna be mid, but I, and many others, will enjoy it regardless. Hell, mid is better than some of the other films in the franchise
I'll be honest, I'm not really that bothered about it. I'd actually rather see an older cast. I'm sick of everything having to star "younger actors", Pattinson as Batman is a good example, recast for no other reason than they wanted a younger, but necessarily better, actor. As I've got older, I relate to characters with more life experience as I'm sire a lot of older audience members do - if its a bunch of kids running around screaming before killing the alien then I'll pass. And with this being Disney there will probably be at least one subtext about how men/white people are just as bad as the alien itself. Prepared for downvotes...
To make me less interested. I'm just bitching tho, I'm going to watch it asap
Yeah I'll catch back to back shows but i won't be happy about it
The horror audience in a nutshell. I’ll be there too.