ALIEN: COVENANT (First Reactions from World Premiere)

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The spaceship Covenant is transporting frozen embryos to a human colony on a faraway planet when they receive a distress signal from the spaceship Prometheus, which disappeared 10 years prior. The crew is brought out of hypersleep to answer to the signal, which leads to the death of the Covenant's captain, Branson (James Franco). His wife, Daniels (Katherine Waterson), is deeply affected by the accident, while Branson's first officer Archer (Billy Crudup) is made captain. The crew is aided by an android, Walter (Michael Fassbender).

The Covenant follows the Prometheus's signal to Paradise, an uncharted forest planet and homeworld of the Engineers, the ancient extraterrestrials that seeded life on Earth and then sought to the destroy it. The Engineers' secret weapon, the black ooze, has spread through Paradise, turning it into a wasteland. The Covenant's crew ventures outside their ship and some of its members are exposed to spores released by plants infected by the ooze. It is determined they've contracted an alien pathogen and Archer has them quarantined aboard the Covenant.

Monstrous creatures known as "Neomorphs" burst from the infected crewmen's bodies and begin slaughtering the crew, forcing the survivors to flee into the forest, where they are rescued from the Neomorphs by David (Michael Fassbender), the sole survivor of the Prometheus crew. He reveals that the mission's other survivor, Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace), sacrificed herself to crash the Prometheus against Paradise's surface, exposing the Engineers to the black ooze to prevent them from destroying Earth.

David leads the survivors back to the Engineers' derelict citadel, where he's been living ever since. Walter mistrusts David, who is not behaving in accordance with their programming, and finds out that Shaw was the one that sent the distress signal and that David in fact murdered her. David's mind has been warped by the numerous modifications that his creator, Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), made to his programming during the Prometheus's expedition, and is obsessed with creating the "perfect organism". He exposes numerous lifeforms on Paradise, including Shaw, with the black ooze and, after numerous failed attempts, has created an alien egg, which produces a facehugger that latches itself to Archer, leading to the birth of a Primal Xenomorph.

Daniels and the ship's pilot, Tennessee (Danny McBride), realize David is controlling the Neomorphs and escape back to the Covenant with Walter in order to escape. Together, Daniels and Tennessee manage to kill the Primal Xenomorph and the Neomorphs and detonate explosivos to destroy David's laboratory, with David himself apparently perishing in the explosion.

After escaping, Daniels and Tennessee place themselves back in hypersleep to continue their voyage to the colony, unaware that David has killed Walter and stolen his identity to leave Paradise. David secretly plants two alien egg embryos among the human frozen embryos that the Covenant is transporting.

Sounds shit honestly
 
I absolutely loved Prom and I was super hyped for this movie. I almost teared up when I saw that a trailer was released and honestly, I was disappointed. I hope we get a little more info on the engineers at least.
 
TheRuthlessOne said:
The spaceship Covenant is transporting frozen embryos to a human colony on a faraway planet when they receive a distress signal from the spaceship Prometheus, which disappeared 10 years prior. The crew is brought out of hypersleep to answer to the signal, which leads to the death of the Covenant's captain, Branson (James Franco). His wife, Daniels (Katherine Waterson), is deeply affected by the accident, while Branson's first officer Archer (Billy Crudup) is made captain. The crew is aided by an android, Walter (Michael Fassbender).

The Covenant follows the Prometheus's signal to Paradise, an uncharted forest planet and homeworld of the Engineers, the ancient extraterrestrials that seeded life on Earth and then sought to the destroy it. The Engineers' secret weapon, the black ooze, has spread through Paradise, turning it into a wasteland. The Covenant's crew ventures outside their ship and some of its members are exposed to spores released by plants infected by the ooze. It is determined they've contracted an alien pathogen and Archer has them quarantined aboard the Covenant.

Monstrous creatures known as "Neomorphs" burst from the infected crewmen's bodies and begin slaughtering the crew, forcing the survivors to flee into the forest, where they are rescued from the Neomorphs by David (Michael Fassbender), the sole survivor of the Prometheus crew. He reveals that the mission's other survivor, Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace), sacrificed herself to crash the Prometheus against Paradise's surface, exposing the Engineers to the black ooze to prevent them from destroying Earth.

David leads the survivors back to the Engineers' derelict citadel, where he's been living ever since. Walter mistrusts David, who is not behaving in accordance with their programming, and finds out that Shaw was the one that sent the distress signal and that David in fact murdered her. David's mind has been warped by the numerous modifications that his creator, Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), made to his programming during the Prometheus's expedition, and is obsessed with creating the "perfect organism". He exposes numerous lifeforms on Paradise, including Shaw, with the black ooze and, after numerous failed attempts, has created an alien egg, which produces a facehugger that latches itself to Archer, leading to the birth of a Primal Xenomorph.

Daniels and the ship's pilot, Tennessee (Danny McBride), realize David is controlling the Neomorphs and escape back to the Covenant with Walter in order to escape. Together, Daniels and Tennessee manage to kill the Primal Xenomorph and the Neomorphs and detonate explosivos to destroy David's laboratory, with David himself apparently perishing in the explosion.

After escaping, Daniels and Tennessee place themselves back in hypersleep to continue their voyage to the colony, unaware that David has killed Walter and stolen his identity to leave Paradise. David secretly plants two alien egg embryos among the human frozen embryos that the Covenant is transporting.

Sounds shit honestly
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Well if this is the direction it goes, maybe I'll just wait until Netflix after all.
 
Just watched Alien an hour ago. Really excited about Covenant after that trailer.
 
i can't wait for when they're coming up with bold new ideas for the next movie and someone says, "What if the alien comes out his bottom?" and they all high-five each other.

in the meantime , I'll just be watching the 1979 version which foolishly relied on things like plot and characters to bring in the fans.
 
TheRuthlessOne said:
The spaceship Covenant is transporting frozen embryos to a human colony on a faraway planet when they receive a distress signal from the spaceship Prometheus, which disappeared 10 years prior. The crew is brought out of hypersleep to answer to the signal, which leads to the death of the Covenant's captain, Branson (James Franco). His wife, Daniels (Katherine Waterson), is deeply affected by the accident, while Branson's first officer Archer (Billy Crudup) is made captain. The crew is aided by an android, Walter (Michael Fassbender).

The Covenant follows the Prometheus's signal to Paradise, an uncharted forest planet and homeworld of the Engineers, the ancient extraterrestrials that seeded life on Earth and then sought to the destroy it. The Engineers' secret weapon, the black ooze, has spread through Paradise, turning it into a wasteland. The Covenant's crew ventures outside their ship and some of its members are exposed to spores released by plants infected by the ooze. It is determined they've contracted an alien pathogen and Archer has them quarantined aboard the Covenant.

Monstrous creatures known as "Neomorphs" burst from the infected crewmen's bodies and begin slaughtering the crew, forcing the survivors to flee into the forest, where they are rescued from the Neomorphs by David (Michael Fassbender), the sole survivor of the Prometheus crew. He reveals that the mission's other survivor, Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace), sacrificed herself to crash the Prometheus against Paradise's surface, exposing the Engineers to the black ooze to prevent them from destroying Earth.

David leads the survivors back to the Engineers' derelict citadel, where he's been living ever since. Walter mistrusts David, who is not behaving in accordance with their programming, and finds out that Shaw was the one that sent the distress signal and that David in fact murdered her. David's mind has been warped by the numerous modifications that his creator, Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), made to his programming during the Prometheus's expedition, and is obsessed with creating the "perfect organism". He exposes numerous lifeforms on Paradise, including Shaw, with the black ooze and, after numerous failed attempts, has created an alien egg, which produces a facehugger that latches itself to Archer, leading to the birth of a Primal Xenomorph.

Daniels and the ship's pilot, Tennessee (Danny McBride), realize David is controlling the Neomorphs and escape back to the Covenant with Walter in order to escape. Together, Daniels and Tennessee manage to kill the Primal Xenomorph and the Neomorphs and detonate explosivos to destroy David's laboratory, with David himself apparently perishing in the explosion.

After escaping, Daniels and Tennessee place themselves back in hypersleep to continue their voyage to the colony, unaware that David has killed Walter and stolen his identity to leave Paradise. David secretly plants two alien egg embryos among the human frozen embryos that the Covenant is transporting.

Sounds shit honestly
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Actually I like this. But it looks like Noomi Rapace will not have a big part, and just a cameo.
 
IMO the more they 'explain' the origins and creation of the alien, the less scary it gets. Mystery was a great deal of the first film and that's just gone now.
 
freakyfarley said:
IMO the more they 'explain' the origins and creation of the alien, the less scary it gets. Mystery was a great deal of the first film and that's just gone now.
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Hence why the title of the original film was perfect. Alien, as in not human. Alien as in foreign, un-knowable, not of this world.
 
TheRuthlessOne said:
The spaceship Covenant is transporting frozen embryos to a human colony on a faraway planet when they receive a distress signal from the spaceship Prometheus, which disappeared 10 years prior. The crew is brought out of hypersleep to answer to the signal, which leads to the death of the Covenant's captain, Branson (James Franco). His wife, Daniels (Katherine Waterson), is deeply affected by the accident, while Branson's first officer Archer (Billy Crudup) is made captain. The crew is aided by an android, Walter (Michael Fassbender).

The Covenant follows the Prometheus's signal to Paradise, an uncharted forest planet and homeworld of the Engineers, the ancient extraterrestrials that seeded life on Earth and then sought to the destroy it. The Engineers' secret weapon, the black ooze, has spread through Paradise, turning it into a wasteland. The Covenant's crew ventures outside their ship and some of its members are exposed to spores released by plants infected by the ooze. It is determined they've contracted an alien pathogen and Archer has them quarantined aboard the Covenant.

Monstrous creatures known as "Neomorphs" burst from the infected crewmen's bodies and begin slaughtering the crew, forcing the survivors to flee into the forest, where they are rescued from the Neomorphs by David (Michael Fassbender), the sole survivor of the Prometheus crew. He reveals that the mission's other survivor, Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace), sacrificed herself to crash the Prometheus against Paradise's surface, exposing the Engineers to the black ooze to prevent them from destroying Earth.

David leads the survivors back to the Engineers' derelict citadel, where he's been living ever since. Walter mistrusts David, who is not behaving in accordance with their programming, and finds out that Shaw was the one that sent the distress signal and that David in fact murdered her. David's mind has been warped by the numerous modifications that his creator, Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), made to his programming during the Prometheus's expedition, and is obsessed with creating the "perfect organism". He exposes numerous lifeforms on Paradise, including Shaw, with the black ooze and, after numerous failed attempts, has created an alien egg, which produces a facehugger that latches itself to Archer, leading to the birth of a Primal Xenomorph.

Daniels and the ship's pilot, Tennessee (Danny McBride), realize David is controlling the Neomorphs and escape back to the Covenant with Walter in order to escape. Together, Daniels and Tennessee manage to kill the Primal Xenomorph and the Neomorphs and detonate explosivos to destroy David's laboratory, with David himself apparently perishing in the explosion.

After escaping, Daniels and Tennessee place themselves back in hypersleep to continue their voyage to the colony, unaware that David has killed Walter and stolen his identity to leave Paradise. David secretly plants two alien egg embryos among the human frozen embryos that the Covenant is transporting.

Sounds shit honestly
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Agreed. I just want Alien 5 already. Not this bullshit.
 
The guy turning to something is interesting. Seems Rapice and Fassbender will have limited roles I'm assuming? That will be disappointing though
 
Tankeray said:
Lol trailer "looks solid?" What about it is solid, exactly? Looks like Scott's apology to Alien fans for the abortion that was Prometheus.

Did you stand up and clap for the shower scene lol?

Honestly this looks no different than the last AvP trailer. 42% on RT, calling it now.
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Perhaps he is righting a wrong. Who gives a shit, you? Prom sucked. Move on. Scott already is..
 
TheRuthlessOne said:
The spaceship Covenant is transporting frozen embryos to a human colony on a faraway planet when they receive a distress signal from the spaceship Prometheus, which disappeared 10 years prior. The crew is brought out of hypersleep to answer to the signal, which leads to the death of the Covenant's captain, Branson (James Franco). His wife, Daniels (Katherine Waterson), is deeply affected by the accident, while Branson's first officer Archer (Billy Crudup) is made captain. The crew is aided by an android, Walter (Michael Fassbender).

The Covenant follows the Prometheus's signal to Paradise, an uncharted forest planet and homeworld of the Engineers, the ancient extraterrestrials that seeded life on Earth and then sought to the destroy it. The Engineers' secret weapon, the black ooze, has spread through Paradise, turning it into a wasteland. The Covenant's crew ventures outside their ship and some of its members are exposed to spores released by plants infected by the ooze. It is determined they've contracted an alien pathogen and Archer has them quarantined aboard the Covenant.

Monstrous creatures known as "Neomorphs" burst from the infected crewmen's bodies and begin slaughtering the crew, forcing the survivors to flee into the forest, where they are rescued from the Neomorphs by David (Michael Fassbender), the sole survivor of the Prometheus crew. He reveals that the mission's other survivor, Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace), sacrificed herself to crash the Prometheus against Paradise's surface, exposing the Engineers to the black ooze to prevent them from destroying Earth.

David leads the survivors back to the Engineers' derelict citadel, where he's been living ever since. Walter mistrusts David, who is not behaving in accordance with their programming, and finds out that Shaw was the one that sent the distress signal and that David in fact murdered her. David's mind has been warped by the numerous modifications that his creator, Peter Weyland (Guy Pearce), made to his programming during the Prometheus's expedition, and is obsessed with creating the "perfect organism". He exposes numerous lifeforms on Paradise, including Shaw, with the black ooze and, after numerous failed attempts, has created an alien egg, which produces a facehugger that latches itself to Archer, leading to the birth of a Primal Xenomorph.

Daniels and the ship's pilot, Tennessee (Danny McBride), realize David is controlling the Neomorphs and escape back to the Covenant with Walter in order to escape. Together, Daniels and Tennessee manage to kill the Primal Xenomorph and the Neomorphs and detonate explosivos to destroy David's laboratory, with David himself apparently perishing in the explosion.

After escaping, Daniels and Tennessee place themselves back in hypersleep to continue their voyage to the colony, unaware that David has killed Walter and stolen his identity to leave Paradise. David secretly plants two alien egg embryos among the human frozen embryos that the Covenant is transporting.

Sounds shit honestly
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Sounds good to me.

You guys, jesus christ, you already KNOW about this movie line. I understand ALL about not knowing and why it creates fear, which is why I hate, hate, hate, investigations in horror/ghost movies. But for this story, Why not get some explanations at this point?
 
TheRuthlessOne said:
Sounds shit honestly
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I want the hooded person to be Shaw but it's probably going to be David. Ugh.

If that's the case though, where does he get a new body from?

EDIT: Shaw saved his body. Damnit.
 
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Wtf... Danny McBride is in this??? What kind of shenanigans is that.
 
at the end of the trailer, it goes to show why you dont have pre marital sex. It'll get you every time.
 
This will be a shit movie just like prometheus was. I remember thinking how awesome that trailer looked and the movie being shit.

Same will be with Covenant. Studios have gotten really good at crafting trailers. Marketing has come a long way. I do not put much stock in trailers anymore.

About the only good thing i can say is at least you know there is going to be an actual xenomorph in this one.
 
Trailer had me like

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