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dk

You're right. 

If anyone spots this beauty in a public place please let us know, for a good selfie.

We certainly have to be patient, don't we? and patience is not one of my strong points! :)

35 years for Sir Ridmeister to return to Sci-fi.

5 years for a sequel to Prometheus.

Now waiting....for any news at all!! 

Totally agree I Moon Girl Prometheus deserved a much longer cut! 

Yes, it's the entire thing. The Furious Gods: Making PROMETHEUS, The Peter Weyland Files, deleted and alternate scenes, Weyland Corp Archives, plus you can choose commentaries by Sir Ridley or John Spaights. 

HD or 4K, all for just £7.99 in the iTunes UK Store! Happy viewing :)

PROMETHEUS

I watched PROMETHEUS with a friend the other night. She's not into Sci-fi as such, but she really enjoyed it, found the premise very interesting and thought that the sets and holograms were really cool! 

ooooooooooooo some calcium gluconate needed for those burns me thinks lol

agree completely about the star trek reboot. I enjoyed all the films minus the last one. they can certainly go in a different direction with different characters in a different timeline and explore the expanded universe in much more detail yet keeping alive the original feel of the franchise. there r pros and cons for using Amanda ripley in a movie. some will like the attachment to the originals and some will just say why couldn't they have just brought in fresh characters but I thoroughly enjoyed alien isolation. im just an alien fan who wants to see someone come up with a good way of bringing the novels/ comic content to the big screen without damaging anything. don't just limit the alien franchise to humans and engineers on planet 4. lets go farther but keep the essence on the franchise intact. id pay to watch those movies. hell I spend money on the novels and comics and im betting most alien fans would to. alien is a profitable franchise if not in the same league as star trek or star wars but there is def a fanbase large enough to cut a decent profit. hell, AVP and AVPR managed profits.

ali81 Who knows? Alien is an old franchise but not nearly as old as Star Trek. The Star Trek reboot was excellent imo. Maybe it could go in that direction. Not that I want to see a remake of Alien, but maaybe it could start with either Bloomkamp's idea or even with Amanda Ripley from Alien Isolation. The stories and characters are there but the question seems what Disney would do- they likely want a hit with a decent profit margin. 

dk, I agree. unlike their purchase of lucas film, Disney's purchase of fox is for a much broader variety of films

Interesting. It's tough to know what RS will do with Alien anymore. Alien has never really been a big money maker so Disney might do well to enlist Bloomkamp.

Patrick is right about Alien Covenant. About Prometheus too.

Thanks for sharing this Timmy the ultramorph

I was under the impression Disney are interested in RS completing the prequels but its just not high on list of priorities. RS has other projects in the pipeline as alien isn't everything to him which is understandable considering the backlash from the 2 films hes done. I think theyl get to it and im quite excited to see what they come up with.

daliens A selfie next to one would be the most that many of us could expect imo. 

My better half doesn't allow to display even the 7" Big Chap from Kotobukiya so a life sized is totally out of question. But I would like to come near one of them one day. With a bowl of lavender scented ointment. 

Lawrence, I understand where ur coming from regarding the AI subplot. I love the subplot of the company being secretly run by synthetics etc but these AI subplots can be shown without making it all about David. when I watch alien and it gets to the derelict scene, I want the mystery. I want its history to be alien and ancient to us. if it going to be revealed then make it alien to us, not something one of our creations is responsible for as for me, that takes something away from the possible wonders that could have been attached and explored through the journey of discovery such as the possibility of an engineer civil war or an engineer uprising against their higher power and where the original form of the xeno fell into the mix. this is more interesting imo than just 'oh, the android did it'.

I don't see the connection between bishop and call and their relevant interests in the beast. bishop was fascinated by its simplicity and admired it for that, as being around humans had shown him that we complicated even the most minor of issues whereas the xeno isn't interested in politics, religion etc and only interested in the continuation of its species. and I wouldn't say call is fascinated in the beast. she wants to wipe them out and doesn't show any signs of fascination with it.

again, I love the backstory regarding the company and their dastardly attempts at gaining the xeno for themselves but personally, I want more alien stuff. new species of monster AND sentient beings such as the engineers. I want to know and see more of them but so far theyv been completely moth balled. we know they created a pathogen..... the rest is theory. we know nothing of their true culture and if there is a higher power and we have had 2 films already.

Ati I had forgotten about this video and now remember that thread. It is nice to see it re visited. It's tough to argue with Patrick.

Thoughts_Dreams IMO, it really isn't about defending a movie- it's more justifying why it is good. I think there is a difference. For AR, it is understandable why fans would not like it, but it also had some disturbing dark scenes in its own ways that the Trilogy had not done. The caged Aliens beat down of the weakest and Ripley 8 finding the other seven iterations of herself were pretty brutal and heavy. Just my two cents.

@Lone

fantastic news!!! I LOOOOOOOOOVE Prometheus.  It's a 9/10 for me.  To solve the problem, it should've went for 3 hours (or at least 2 1/2 hours).

So, Lone, this includes the WHOLE "Making of Prometheus" because I thought I read the there was a Blu-Ray version which had even more material?

Indeed. Finally now and two hundred topics before...

Patrick Explains ALIEN: COVENANT - And Why It's Great:

http://www.alien-covenant.com/topic/47359

Yesss, that video is excellent! I had seen it back in January or February, i'm so glad someone finally posted it here. 

ali81 Well, for me, it propelled the A.I. subplots of the franchise to the spotlight, solidifying their contribution to the universe instead of just being a sci-fi gimmick. It made the rest of those subplots cohesive (it explains why Call and Bishop are so fascinated by the beast and partly explains Weyland-Yutani's motives for obtaining the creature as they see it their property). It also explained why the beast was bioengineered and who did it, what Paradise is like, the stages of evolution (from Deacon to Neomorph to Proto-Xenomorph) and edges us ever closer to the famed Derelict on LV-426. The Space Jockey is still the main point of the prequels but I'm glad the narrative isn't super straightforward, you need to tell David's story to tell the SJs. It also continues the Creator/Rebellion narrative set-up by Prometheus.

Thank you daliens, it means a lot bro :)

The better half would never allow it unless I say we can use the dorsal tubes as a coat hanger.

@I Moon Girl The Furious Gods was available only on the Collector’s Edition Blu-ray set. However, it is now included as an iTunes extra, if you purchase an HD copy of Prometheus from the store.

Even if you already own Prometheus, it's worth the download price just to have the extras viewable on your devices!

I have the DVD, Collectors Edition Blu-ray and a digital copy in iTunes ;)

Abu Simbel, Egypt 

7 is considered a sacred number, even the God's number.

7 Wonders of the World

7 capital sins and the 7 catholic Sacraments

7 days resulting in the Creation of the World mentioned in the Bible

7 chakras in Hinduism

7 days of the week

7 colors of the rainbow.

Etc.

I think the hall of heads might also be a council, a political importance, not just religious.

I was watching Star trek nemesis one day, and when I saw the Romulan council the first thing that came to my mind was the hall of heads from AC, especially the floor.

The hall of heads is very ancient and old.

"I didn't care about their personal psychological quirks except in so much that it has an immediate barring on the situation at hand. I didn't want to stop and tell the life stories of these characters because I didn't care. I cared about the monster that was going to kill them, that I cared about. So I didn't do any of that in the script, I did none of it at all."

It works for me. In an Alien film I don't care about their life stories. No more than it is needed to understand their reactions and decisions. They have to explore, to discover, to fight, to survive. 

What cabin on the lake? David just had the proper reaction when he heard Daniels talking nonsense. Don't let the bed bugs bite.  I'll tuck in the children. 

RS is huge on sets. the pilots chair set in alien was a huge cost and the studio didn't want to spend the money but RS told them this set IS the movie and was needed. he knows the value of spending money on great sets and all RS movies are visually stunning, Prometheus and AC included. I love Prometheus but admit some of the characters could have been given more depth but visually its stunning

I totally understand AC and it has no effect on my feelings towards the movie. visually its another Ridley beaut but other than that its horrible. AR was a good popcorn movie and an understandable next stage in the franchise. AC for me hasn't really done anything for the franchise. all I saw was a fill in movie to get David his hosts/ lab rats, nothing more. im hopeful for Awakening I really am but expecting nothing ''Ridley Scott'' quality. it looks to be leading to completely trashing the mystery of the derelict and making it all about David when the whole reason RS got involved again with the franchise was to explore who the dude in the pilots chair was and his relationship with the eggs. now its about a synthetic madman whos responsible for it all? nah, ill stick with the originals and Prometheus if that's the case and wait for someone new to reboot AC and Awakening

it certainly showed in starbeast so the changes that were made to the characters definitely helped. I think the main should still be on the beast and not just David being the bad guy. if there is a higher power than the engineers then they should be introduced in awakening and portrayed in a similar tone to how Weyland Industries were portrayed in the original films. they have noticed the work David has been doing and want the beast as a weapon for themselves

I'm glad you're back, Lawrence of Arabia

Im sorry I cant help myself, but a spammer commenting on a troll spoofing thread......XD

Fire at will!

I work with HF, It is friggin nasty shit, but Alien blood it is not.

Hydrofluoric Acid is ridiculously corrosive to organics and metals, but is considered a 'weak acid' due to its low dissociation constant.

Essentially it penetrates skin and flesh, strips calcium from the bones then works it way back. If you've watched Breaking Bad season 1 where they dissolve the body in a bathtub slowly over a week until its a goopy liquid mess.....HF. 

Wipe or wash it off and it keeps burning!! Calcium Gluconate is needed to stop the reaction. Nasty, nasty shit!! 

Hydrofluoric Acid also attacks silicates, which seems to go against the chitinous exoskeleton of the Xenos. 

Science Bitches!   

Interesting find! I am not familiar with the compound. Based on the periodic table, I believe fluorine is in the same group as chlorine?  I have noticed inconsistencies with how that blood reacts throughout the series LOL! Aliens comes to mind although I love it nonetheless.

All said, if it is a strong acid for blood, an effective weapon would seem to be one that could penetrate the body with a basic solution to neutralize the acid? Gotta brush up on the ol' chemistry classes. I do know that experimenting with hydro chloric acid and water as a kid yielded nasty results. Boring summer days with swimming pool water maintenance duties- what could go wrong lol!

Thoughts_Dreams Do you mean as far as the Alien franchise is concerned or about movies in general? 

We can have open season here. The first making of/behind the scenes for me was The Matrix when bullet time was pioneered. Those scenes were fascinating and yet watching the movie still looked convincing despite knowing how they did it. 

I agree with the OP. I think mentioning Alien and AC are relevant since RS has his finger prints on all of them. Prometheus had excellent sets- everything looked crisp, sharp and real. I am pretty sure there were CGI enhancements in places but I could not tell- and that is what set designs should do.  

Great photos Lone.  I really like the one with Ash.

I don't know where to obtain a copy of The Furious Gods.  Wish I did 

Sir Ridders certainly earned his title of World-builder on Prometheus. I call him The Master World-builder. If you watch The Furious Gods, there's a spectacular time lapse sequence of the construction of the SJ cannon/Juggernaut interior.

Plus you see the construction of the Prometheus bridge, which was built on a gimble.

On ALIEN too, the Nostromo set construction was massive. The whole thing fitted together to form enclosed corridors etc, and could be moved to allow for camera access etc. The actors said that it was cramped and claustrophobic, which added so much realism to their performances.

Awesome topic, Ingeniero, thank you.