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Alien: Covenant | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX
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WHEAT....SO MUCH WHEAT
These explorers will never learn. You dont stick your face in those gaddamn egg sacks AFTER THEY OPEN
This is far in the future, so none of them have seen old 20th century movies like Alien that could warn them about such dangers.
True
Wheat? I'll trade you wheat for brick and lumber!
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I give you sheep and you give me wood? That's a deal right there. Do you have any ore?
Oh why the fuck did you have to put a road there
To mess you up and build my own settlement in due time
That dogtag reads DR. E SHAW. This engineer ship is clearly the same one from Prometheus.
Thank you for pointing this out.
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Apparently she shot weeks' worth of scenes. That's gonna be a hell lotta flashbacks.
For five years, she was stranded on a planet with only one goal, survive. To do that, she had to become someone else. She had to become something else.
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To me she's been stranded for centuries
I love Daredevil!
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That's definitely Fassbender.
It looks like some ranger from the north.
So should I watch Prometheus before I watch this then?
Yeah, I'm thinking you should
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Uh...did I just quote a famous quote from a movie I've never seen?
weird
Kinda
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This is supposedly a sequel to Prometheus and a prequel to Alien in a way. Kind of an origin story.
If this turns out to be the "The Empire Strikes Back" of his trilogy I would be soo happy.
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So I should expect conversations about sand. Good to know, Padawan.
The ship in this trailer flies over a lake that feeds into a waterfall that looks just like the one from Prometheus. The on that the Engineer dissolves into.
It's implied that, that waterfall was on Earth. That's Shaw's whole obsession. They engineered us, humans.
Yes. The (leaked) original script has that scene taking place on ancient Earth.
It is a great read if you were hyped for the movie and were disappointed. Several differences, worth looking at.
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Not OP but if irc the planet was originally LV-426 and the story was much more of a direct prequel. Things seem to have changed when Ridley decided to do a trilogy out of the whole thing.
This video by ComicBookGirl19 does a great job of highlighting the original script. She only talks about it in a certain section since she compiled videos into one big one, but I thought I would share. https://youtu.be/eSaKxB-8YlE
The Prometheus school of running from things
Never before has wheat been so foreboding.
Tell that to someone with celiac.
The Celiacs found their home planet. Then they found that only wheat grows there. True horror. For a niche audience.
Edit: Bonus dialog from the movie intro since you guys liked that so much:
Rated G for Gluten
I love you, Reddit. Never change.
Edit: I'd like to thank the Academy (and that Redditor, whoever you are) for this golden award. You love me, you really love me!
The rare Gluten-Free Gold Train.
Begun, the Crohn's war has.
Only a Sith deals in inflammatory bowel diseases.
Darth Testine
Underrated comment right here
Maybe that's where Maximus and his family went when they died
That man knew how to rally his men!
Secure that shit Hudson.
Well thanks, now I gotta watch Gladiator
There is never a bad time to re-watch Gladiator.
Interstellar: corn
Alien: wheat
Edit: Gold? - TARS, set gratitude to 98%.
The Martian: potato
Can Peas grow underground? I'm going to write some trash story about people being forced underground and only being able to grow peas. and there's mole people or whatever. People will pay to see any dumb shit.
Edit: The Martian: potatoes
That'd go great on pizza with some mayo
Alien: Gluten Rising
Giant damned wheat. What an awesome way to make the planet both familiar and at once so obviously engineered for Engineers
Not necessarily.
The dog tag they find says Dr E Shaw (https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/5ws42t/alien_covenant_official_trailer_hd_20th_century/deck0a7/), so this is the ship from Prometheus. It's likely that Dr. Shaw planted the wheat.
I don't get it, what's the matter with them and wheat?
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I get that, but why especially for Engineers, as Bardfinn said?
I thought Bardfinn was talking about the size of it, since Engineers are ~9 foot tall, it might make sense that they would produce larger food sources, at least in Hollywood logic.
I'm going to need a red band trailer with Danny McBride saying "fuck" 37 times.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, engineers? You have computer's all over the goddamn walls in your spaceships, but you jack off like a fuckin' pilgrim!
I've been drinking green tea all God damn day. I go to church every Sunday. These Aliens are bringing out the demons in me?
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MOTHER NATURE JUST PISSED HER PANTSUIT
I used to use this little gun when I was a prostitute.
You just got killed by a Daewoo Lanos mothafucka
Kenny fucking Powers is about to strike out a bunch of un-American alien twinkle shits.
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YOU'LL DO IT AND YOU'LL LIKE IT
Watch his new HBO show Vice Principals. While the majority of it is (really funny) comedy, there are a few dramatic moments and I think he nails it
Eastbound was like that sometimes, too.
They expected a whole lot of fucking... until they got fucked.
EDIT: Obligatory Kanye trailer song
I expect this as the new tagline
Kenny Powers: "Aliens, you're fucking out."
I've been drinkin green tea all god damn day
Guess they got tired of taking down the leaks.
I for one am totally okay with this. In fact all studios should just say they're going to drop a trailer one day and then drop it early. I'm looking at you Star Wars.
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Lot of technically savvy people get there hands on that footage, they just cover their digital tracks enough to where the studio either can't pursue them or doesn't care enough to.
This shot looks pretty haunting. Possibly something to do with the engineers?
Looks like an ancient Engineer city
Prometheus Spoilers ahead: [Here is a quick theory I developed from that shot, and tying it to Prometheus. In Prometheus, in the first act, the crew discover recordings of The Engineers fleeing...something. At the end of Promotheus their is the eventual "birth" of the (first?) Xenomorph. I believe The Engineers were fleeing something else, not Xenomorphs. In this trailer, and in previous teasers, there appears to be some alien spore/germ that infects one of the human colonizers. The spine birst shot could be the resulting infection taking hold of the crew member. I think this infection that the previous Engineers (from Prometheus) were fleeing, and is what led to the eventual death of all life on this new planet. The vast field of dead Engineers within among the city was an attempt to sterilize the disease before it spread to other Engineer colonies. Similar to how the previous crew in Prometheus found the dead Engineers in their frozen dead state. The ultimate source of this disease could come from the Engineers magic voodoo life-giving elixir, and possibly took hold on this planet...? Still working that out. ] (#spoiler)
Just my two cents!!!
Ooooh. Which would give the Xenomorphs a legitimate purpose, to sterilise an entire planet of vertebrate life vectors of a deadly contagion, quickly
Isn't that what happens in Halo? Create something that kills the infection by killing anything it could infect.
Basically. To give a brief summary of the Halos situation for those who are unaware, in the halo universe there was a race of beings before today's human beings. These were the forerunner. During the forerunners time a great disease spread, taking over a vast majority of organic life. This was the flood, a zombie like disease which spread through parasitic spores and could posses the host via hive mind. In order to stop this disease from spreading, they made the rings, giant devices that could explode and send a wave of murderous energy across galaxies in order to eradicate all organic life. By killing the food, which would be everything, you kill the flood. It's not completely redundant though, they weren't just wiping the universe forever. They had a plan to preserve life. They created robots that catalogued and kept samples of every known life form on shield worlds (planets literally surrounded by a giant shield) so they could repopulate the universe after the detonation of the rings. Kill all life, starve out the flood, then repopulate from samples. I think at a point in time the forerunners even tried to transfer their consciousness into a digital/nonorganic form so they could survive the flood.
I should go play halo now.
Importantly, this 'Flood' could use any information it could scrape from the brains of it's victims, and also develop very complicated Biological-technological interfaces out of Flood-bio-forms. these combined into making it an exponential dangerous foe, as it could learn how to use weapons, tactics, vehicles and so on all the way up to space combat.
This is just this info from halo CE-halo 3/halo wars btw. After bungie left 343i to handle things it all got a bit more... crazy.
They even made an animated short about this. Here you go.
Yeah I like that theory. Plenty of examples in real life ie Cane Toads
that's a terrifying analogy, I don't want Cane Toads exploding out of people's bodies!
It couldn't have been the first xenomorph in Prometheus, because their were carvings of them on the walls. Am I wrong?
The Xenomorph at the end of Prometheus is not the first Xenomorph. In the giant room where they found all the egg-like canisters containing the Black Goo, there is a massive mural showing a Xenomorph. The Black Goo is what a Xenomorph is in its original form; it's a parasitic organism that feeds off and transforms living cells. When the Black Goo comes into contact with a fertilized egg, a face-hugger is created as the organism morphs with the human DNA and creates a new, living creature, like the giant squid face-hugger that came out of Shaw. This is why Xenomorphs take on different attributes depending on the DNA of the species they fed off of when in their face-hugger stage. Also in Prometheus, there are worms at the base of the canisters that get infected with the Black Goo. What is the result of a hermaphrodite being infected with Black Goo? You guessed it. An infected fertilized egg and the birth of a face-hugger, in this case, a snake like face-hugger. So the mural shows us that the Engineers know a-lot about the Black Goo organism and what it is capable of. They know that face-huggers and Xenomorphs come as a result of the combination of the Black Goo and fertilized eggs, and they also most likely know what happens when the goo just comes into contact with living creatures and starts slowly feeding upon/morphing its cells. Therefore, I can only conclude that the Black Goo is simply a weapon, and one that creates more weapons. If released upon a planet, the result will be the annihilation of all living things on that planet as well as the creation of multiple Xenomorphs to be captured and used if possible.
Looks like 100s of people/bodies.
Probably a stadium worksite in Qatar
There's a shot at 1:42 that is of five bodies; there's no banana for scale, though, so hard to tell if they're humans or engineers.
Well, on this world, bananas would be giant anyway, like the wheat...
The central cloaked figure is human, so the bodies around her/him should be about 1.5 to 2x bigger. Engineer bodies.
That one figure kneeling on hands on the left looks about Engineer-scale. I think you're right.
I also think that this shot was composed specifically to be a reference to the Ninth Circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno. The bodies frozen in place, some of them seemingly frozen in "ice", and a "winged" giant figure at the center. And the tagline that says that the path to paradise begins in Hell. I think this movie is going for the overt Christian mythological signposts.
Why are you spoiler-tagging a 700-year old book?
I like the idea of getting some creature variety, one of them looks like an all white version of the thing from Prometheus! And seeing the classic Xenomorph as well is pretty amazing.
We will see neomorphs and protomorphs in the film, it's theorized that David is experimenting with the goo from Prometheus to try and revive the traditional Xenomorphs and the proto/neomorphs are, as the name would imply, prototypes of the final creature.
what a protomorphs and neomorphs? i just thought that the thing at the end of prometheus was the result of a xenomorph with engineer dna. remember they take on dna from the host, the alien in alien 3 was from a bull or something, so walked on 4 legs and was different than the ones in 1 or 2, which were human dna based. in the comics you have all kinds of crazy shit like ones from rhinos, snakes, gorillas etc. they all look pretty different.
and then there are the ones that are from predator dna, the "predalien".
The aliens in the form we know pick up stuff from the hosts, yes, but apparently the aliens in Prometheus and the aliens we see in the trailer are like the early stages of the alien. They're based off of the black goo mixing with shit rather than being in a stable life cycle like what we see in the Alien movies.
this takes place before the events of the original movies though. i don't think they know about the xenomorphs yet
The Xenomorphs were in Prometheus in carvings on the walls, they are definitely known about in one way or another. David clearly knew more than he was leading on, I wouldn't be surprised if he figured it out when he was reading the cryptography in Prometheus.
Or he had more secret instructions from Peter Weyland or something.
They did mention that there is no animal on the planet......
I'm interested to see just how much variety are we going to see.
Who the fuck plans these missions?
People with ulterior motives. Basically Weyland-Yutani has inside knowledge about some of this stuff and is pulling the strings. That was set up in Alien.
Why not send a fully geared science team with mercenary support instead of these "settlers"? Something like Prometheus but psych approved, with proper biological containment and not time constrained because of a dying old man?
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Maybe because it is too early and they do not know too much about xenomorph species at this point in order to organized a trip with so much more resources. My bet is that they would keep sending cheap crew such as the one seen in the movie with a couple of androids to study the species in more detail and see how they behave so they are better prepared when facing them. It's like learning from mistakes and getting better.
They mostly come at night. Mostly.
Pretty excited for this movie. Looks like a great cast and I'm stoked Danny McBride is in the film.
That being said... how many times are we going to see someone curiously walk up to an egg only to be ambushed? I mean, it was an iconic scene in the first movie. I hate to see it re-used.
In Aliens, James Cameron didn't re-hash old scenes but instead made it terrifying by placing the eggs in front of cocooned victims. We knew what was coming and could only watch in horror.
That's because James Cameron grew the franchise. Every movie since has been either a BS cash-in or a directer forcing a script to fit and Alien mold.
Speaking of great cast...was James Franco even seen in this trailer at all? Leads me to believe that he dies early on.
James Franco and Danny McBride? What is this? Pineapple Express 2?
Your Highness: In Space
"No Birds, No Animals" — because they were all of them hunted down by an apex predator biological weapon used to clear planets so that another population could take their place.
That or the animals know to shut the fuck up so they don't become a host.
There aren't even the sounds of insects. No wingflap, no buzz, no chirrup. If there are no hunting vertebrates, then there should be a swarm of insect pollinators.
So maybe this is the planet we saw at the beginning of Prometheus. The terrain and skies and mountain lakes and light quality all point back to the opening scene where the Engineer drinks of the Cup of Mingled Gall and Vinegar.
The planet at the beginning of Prometheus was Earth.
I believe Ridley Scott himself has said that the planet was not explicitly earth. He said it could have been any planet in the cosmos
It was supposed to be a demonstration of the Engineers seeding life on a planet. So yea, it could have been Earth, but not necessarily.
Please don't suck, please don't suck, please don't suck.
The dogtags say Dr. E Shaw, this is the same Engineer as from Prometheus
Yup, Noomi Rapace is confirmed to return in this film. Apparently she shot weeks' worth of scenes.
KENNY GOD DAMN POWERS WONT BE KILLED BY NO FUCKING ALIEN
The poor ship member getting his spine busted. I expect to leave the theater incapable of getting this scene out of my head . I am also open minded about incorporating CGI onto the Xenomorph. This will allow him to move in more non human ways. In his last shot by examples. The way his legs are placed give him arachnid characteristics which I love. Or even the way his paws seem to slide of because of the ship's velocity but he's still hanging on. Like an annoying insect that's hanging onto a windshield against the wing. Weird comparison but I think it works here.And again, Ridley got me sold on the atmosphere again...
New abortion sequence.
In daylight it looked like too, ya don't see a lot of xenomorph in broad daylight.
That's because they mostly come at night. Mostly.
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It's intentional. It's supposed to be extremely reminiscent of rape, specifically flipping the script on the typical rape narrative (female victim, male perp) to disgust the male audience specifically
It wants Danny McBride's hat.
I'm calling it- that's Noomi Rapace's character in the mysterious cloak. She's been hiding on this planet the entire time!
Or is it a repaired David?
Oh that's a thought. David runs into the former version of himself and then causes shit to go down.
It would be interesting if that happened! Like a what if Ash met Bishop kind of thing
That's what I thought as well.
I'm getting vibes of David orchestrating a lot of this, and there could be a very good explanation to his repair
Yeah I'm pretty sure he's responsible for placing the eggs there. Setting "traps" (The black plant). Gonna be interesting to see how it plays out.
The main character finds her on an island in the planet to hand her a FaceHugger and then the screen cuts to black before she turns around
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Look at the jaw. That's Fassbender's jaw.
So...she's wearing his jaw?
Holy shit, this could be a crossover between Aliens franchise and Face/off!
Please be good please be good please Ridley, please.
Let Danny McBride be in a good Alien film. Let this very odd dream of mine come to fruition.
I came this planet with the brain of a scientist, a cock like a burmese python and an arm like a fucking cannon
I'd like to think we were responsible for the forced release of this trailer
How so?
By posting leaked links faster than they could pull them down
Wish they had exluded the scenes of the Xenomorph at the end. We didn't need to see it ambling around and the trailer did a good job until it decided to just show extended scenes of the Xeno. I'm hoping that it hasn't just revealed the climax of the film like the Prometheus trailer did.
I'm still really looking forward to this, it's my most anticipated release for 2017. That being said, I'm not a huge fan of the Xeno on the ship in broad daylight at the end. One of the scariest parts of the Xenomorphs is how easily they blend into shadow and come out of nowhere. The broad daylight attack kind of takes away that aspect of the creature in my opinion. Also, I agree. It's that's the final sequence at the climax of the movie I'll be annoyed.
I agree, in the original Alien it was a patient hunter, hiding in the shadows. This Xeno in the trailer seems like it burst out of the Incredible Hulk's chest.
Yo Pineapple Express 2 is a lot darker than I thought it would be.
"Alien... You're Fucking Out!"
LA FLAMETHROWER BLANCA
Sure, I've been called a xenophobe, but the truth is I'm not.
I honestly just feel that America is the best country and all the other countries aren't as good.
That used to be called 'patriotism'.
This trailer renewed my excitement.
Someone wake me up in 3 months, I'm going to cryosleep.
If you accidentally wake up early, be sure to also wake up Jennifer Lawrence. She'll be pissed off for a bit, but she'll get over it.
Make sure a face hugger isn't in there with you. ;)
A part of me wants a frame by frame analysis so I can spent the next couple of months speculating but another part of me wants this to be the last thing I see before going to the movie.
I just rewatched it at .25 speed. Couldn't help myself. So hyped.
I'm not the most knowledgeable about the Aliens universe, but the last 30 seconds of the trailer make it seen like they are making this movie into hardcore popcorn/sci-fi as opposed to pure sci-fi horror.
Yeah the whole alien smashing its head while grabbing the top of the ship is really silly. The horror-ish vibes from the beginning were really nice, but then they started showing the alien a bit too much.
Yeah seeing the alien in a fully lit daylight environment was kind of jarring.
I don't care how pessimistic everyone else is, I'm looking forward to this.
I'm just glad to see my Phallic Acid Blooded friends again
When I started watching the trailer it hit me: we haven't seen the Xenomorphs in a film in ten years. AVP Requiem was in 2007 (and even then you could barely make them out most of the time). Seeing them back in action sent a chill up my spine.
People are pessimistic about this? Oh man, I'm just gonna stop reading now because this has me hyped. One thing is for certain, this film is going to look absolutely gorgeous. I'm really digging the direction the story is going in right now too.
Edit: I didn't stop reading. Still hyped. Everyone else seems to be too, not a lot of negativity.
John Logan (Gladiator, Hugo, Skyfall, Aviator, Star Trek: Nemesis) wrote the screenplay.
Nah people are just having Prometheus flashbacks - they're not going to trust an epic trailer now, especially after the Suicide Squad debacle.
Definitely caught sight of a Deacon Xenomorph. Guessing the different types of aliens will be on display through different 'weapons' abroad the ship.
They're supposed to be neomorphs, which is an intermediate to the xeno I believe. All speculation really
Neo and protomorphs will both make an appearance (the chest and throat bursters are different) and are theorized to be "blueprints" for the final xeno that were put together by David.
Put together by David? Can you elaborate?
David was obviously fascinated by the goo in Prometheus, and from early scripts, it appears that the Xenos were a dead race that the Engineers found and were trying to revive, albeit unsuccessfully. Given the way they are named (proto/neo) it's heavily implied that there's outside intervention in their creation.
It's a theory based on earlier leaks. Potential spoilers/misinformation at this link - you have been warned
This looks like the Xeno from Prometheus
Damn, that xenomorph is amped up!
You know, I think one of the scariest visual images for me is seeing a Xenomorph egg open. That bit with Crudup and the egg is going to give me goosebumps in the theater.
As a kid, I had nightmares about Facehuggers. Props to my parents who let me watch Aliens at the age of 6 lol.
It just gets worse and worse as the character inevitably leans over it...knowing how horrific the facehuggers are and what they do actually makes knowing what's going to happen more scary.
1:521:57 is the money shot.Is that Shaw? Is it Unpaired Heroine Girl? Is this on the planet or in a flashback during a Shaw Narrated Retelling Of The Consequences Of The Quest For Answers from the end of Prometheus?
Is it me or did the music in the beginning sound a lot like the Interstellar's theme?
CGI for the Xenos is interesting. The puppetry made them feel like realistic, terrifying creatures but you know the trailer looks pretty good so I'm sure it'll turn out fine.
The variety of Xenos helps adds to the vibe that the Covenant crew are completely and royally fucked. I've got to say I'm excited now, the cinematic experience will be absolutely tense.
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To get shit done while everyone else is having babies.
Which is actually a theory as to why gay people exist, evolutionarily. The Gay Uncle Theory, no joke.