If you ever wondered what life on Earth was like before the Covenant left the planet's orbit to go on the doomed mission in Ridley Scott's recent film, then your questions can now be answered in Alien: Covenant Origins, the new novel written by Alan Dean Foster (author of the official novelizations of Alien and Aliens). With the official prequel novel to Alien: Covenant out now from Titan Books, we've been provided with three copies of both the prequel and Foster's official novelization of Alien: Covenant to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.
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- 9/28/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Simon Brew Jun 23, 2017
As he's done with Alien, Ridley Scott is interested in more films to expand the Blade Runner world...
With his third Alien movie, Alien: Covenant, spluttering a little at the box office this summer, that’s put some doubt on plans to start work on a further Alien adventure next year. Not that Ridley Scott’s slate will be empty whether the movie presses ahead of not. He’s also producing the new Blade Runner film, that arrives in cinemas later this year, and has now hinted that more Blade Runner sequels might be on the way once that movie is out.
Chatting to IGN, he was asked if he had thought about expanding the Blade Runner would beyond Blade Runner 2049, with more movies. “Yes. I think that”, he said.
“You know what, George has always proved that. Of course there’s always something. George Lucas. You know, and the way he’s handled Star Wars has been spectacular. It’s what I’ve been trying to do to really evolve Alien, because in those days I wasn’t into making sequels, but now suddenly you realize, ‘well, that’s stupid.’ I’ll use the word ‘duh’ again, right? You’d better get into sequels, duh. So, that’s in a way what I’ve been doing”.
The interview was to mark the 35th birthday of the original Blade Runner film, and whether a third film in the series follows will clearly depend on how well Blade Runner 2049 – that Denis Villeneuve is directing – goes down. The film arrives in October…
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As he's done with Alien, Ridley Scott is interested in more films to expand the Blade Runner world...
With his third Alien movie, Alien: Covenant, spluttering a little at the box office this summer, that’s put some doubt on plans to start work on a further Alien adventure next year. Not that Ridley Scott’s slate will be empty whether the movie presses ahead of not. He’s also producing the new Blade Runner film, that arrives in cinemas later this year, and has now hinted that more Blade Runner sequels might be on the way once that movie is out.
Chatting to IGN, he was asked if he had thought about expanding the Blade Runner would beyond Blade Runner 2049, with more movies. “Yes. I think that”, he said.
“You know what, George has always proved that. Of course there’s always something. George Lucas. You know, and the way he’s handled Star Wars has been spectacular. It’s what I’ve been trying to do to really evolve Alien, because in those days I wasn’t into making sequels, but now suddenly you realize, ‘well, that’s stupid.’ I’ll use the word ‘duh’ again, right? You’d better get into sequels, duh. So, that’s in a way what I’ve been doing”.
The interview was to mark the 35th birthday of the original Blade Runner film, and whether a third film in the series follows will clearly depend on how well Blade Runner 2049 – that Denis Villeneuve is directing – goes down. The film arrives in October…
IGN...
- 6/23/2017
- Den of Geek
With Ridley Scott's Alien: Covenant now in theaters, Titan Books is taking a deeper dive into the world of Facehuggers, Xenomorphs, and Backbursters with two new book releases, The Art and Making of Alien: Covenant and Alien: Covenant - The Official Movie Novelization, and we've been provided with three copies of each book to give away to three lucky Daily Dead readers.
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- 5/23/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Joe Matar Aug 25, 2016
Schwifty. Poopy Butthole. Roy. Plumbus. Our Us chums select the best, most ridiculous moments from Rick And Morty season two...
Way back in 2014, when the world was a much more innocent place, we did a list like this for Rick And Morty season One. In these current, turbulent times, we grope for comforts of the past, such as quaint top ten lists, so how about another one for season 2! What, you got a good reason we shouldn’t? Get up on outta here with my eyeholes!
10. The Plumbus
The Plumbus is probably the second-most iconic thingy to come out of the second season. The combination of co-creator Justin Roiland ad-libbing a slew of nonsense words and the artists figuring out how to depict those various nonsenses makes for what’s essentially an episode of How It’s Made about an imaginary alien doohickey with no clear discernible function.
Schwifty. Poopy Butthole. Roy. Plumbus. Our Us chums select the best, most ridiculous moments from Rick And Morty season two...
Way back in 2014, when the world was a much more innocent place, we did a list like this for Rick And Morty season One. In these current, turbulent times, we grope for comforts of the past, such as quaint top ten lists, so how about another one for season 2! What, you got a good reason we shouldn’t? Get up on outta here with my eyeholes!
10. The Plumbus
The Plumbus is probably the second-most iconic thingy to come out of the second season. The combination of co-creator Justin Roiland ad-libbing a slew of nonsense words and the artists figuring out how to depict those various nonsenses makes for what’s essentially an episode of How It’s Made about an imaginary alien doohickey with no clear discernible function.
- 6/6/2016
- Den of Geek
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Joss Whedon originally had some different endings for Alien: Resurrection. Ryan looks at how Whedon's ideas were changed for the final cut.
In the beginning, it was supposed to be Dan Hedaya who got sucked out into space. His character, General Martin Perez, was originally set to exit Alien: Resurrection in spectacularly bloody fashion - his entire body ejected, limb by limb, through a whole in a tennis ball-sized hole in the space ship, Auriga.
Effects company Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc, spent several weeks in 1996 solving the problem of having a body pulled apart realistically by the vacuum of space. Test footage released by Adi shows the painstaking process of researching and testing practical means of creating Hedaya's death scene, which would have concluded with his character's screaming head stripped of its skin until only a gaping skull remained.
The results were almost comically grotesque and almost mesmerising to watch - so mesmerising,...
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Joss Whedon originally had some different endings for Alien: Resurrection. Ryan looks at how Whedon's ideas were changed for the final cut.
In the beginning, it was supposed to be Dan Hedaya who got sucked out into space. His character, General Martin Perez, was originally set to exit Alien: Resurrection in spectacularly bloody fashion - his entire body ejected, limb by limb, through a whole in a tennis ball-sized hole in the space ship, Auriga.
Effects company Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc, spent several weeks in 1996 solving the problem of having a body pulled apart realistically by the vacuum of space. Test footage released by Adi shows the painstaking process of researching and testing practical means of creating Hedaya's death scene, which would have concluded with his character's screaming head stripped of its skin until only a gaping skull remained.
The results were almost comically grotesque and almost mesmerising to watch - so mesmerising,...
- 2/15/2016
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Alien is one of the more beloved cinematic franchises in movie history. That.s why when Neill Blomkamp first teased that he was working on a new edition to the series, the world-wide movie community went ballistic. This hysteria then went into overdrive when it was teased that he.d been doing so with Sigourney Weaver - and it became cataclysmic when it was confirmed that Blomkamp.s vision would become a reality. But there.s more! The South African filmmaker has now hinted that there will be more than one new Alien adventure from him coming in the future. Blomkamp, who is currently doing the rounds promoting his upcoming film, Chappie, recently sat down with Empire about his vision for the future Alien films when he teased that he has enough ideas to expand into multiple stories. He explained, When I met Sigourney [Weaver] on the set of Chappie, ...
- 3/10/2015
- cinemablend.com
Tickets are selling fast for the 46th Annual Awgie Awards, to be held in Melbourne on October 4.
To be hosted by writer, comedian and singer Sammy J, the ceremony will honour the achievements made by Australian writers for performance. The Awgie Awards are the only Australian awards judged solely by writers on the basis of the script . the writer's intention . rather than the finished production.
"The Awgies are the highlight of the year for us and a unique chance to celebrate the oft-unsung but stellar work created by Australian writers of the script," says Awg.s President and Academy Award nominee Jan Sardi..
.It.s a night that really just celebrates the importance of story and storytelling. And that.s what sets us apart from other animals in the end, the ability to tell stories..
Sardi says the slate of nominated work is once again a strong one.
.It.s...
To be hosted by writer, comedian and singer Sammy J, the ceremony will honour the achievements made by Australian writers for performance. The Awgie Awards are the only Australian awards judged solely by writers on the basis of the script . the writer's intention . rather than the finished production.
"The Awgies are the highlight of the year for us and a unique chance to celebrate the oft-unsung but stellar work created by Australian writers of the script," says Awg.s President and Academy Award nominee Jan Sardi..
.It.s a night that really just celebrates the importance of story and storytelling. And that.s what sets us apart from other animals in the end, the ability to tell stories..
Sardi says the slate of nominated work is once again a strong one.
.It.s...
- 10/1/2013
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
A series of new images, possibly screen shots from a teaser trailer for Ridley Scott's next Alien adventure Prometheus have surfaced on the web, and we've got them courtesy of i09. Unfortunately, the pics are kinda on the grainy side, but are clear enough to make out the a few of the film's stars in Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace.
The images are very reminsicent of the style seen in the first Alien movie, which gets me more pumped for what Scott and company have in store for Prometheus.
Check out out the new pics after the jump...
The images are very reminsicent of the style seen in the first Alien movie, which gets me more pumped for what Scott and company have in store for Prometheus.
Check out out the new pics after the jump...
- 8/2/2011
- by Patrick Fancher
- GetTheBigPicture.net
We might finally be able to stop referring to Ridley Scott’s planned Alien prequel by that working title. According to Vulture, the film is called Paradise.And that’s not all that the blog’s sources have told them, as part of what can only be described as a dizzying info-dump. Despite earlier reports, the prequel has not been shoved back, though there had at one point been talk of re-scheduling production so as to accommodate chosen star Leonardo DiCaprio’s commitments to Clint Eastwood’s J Edgar Hoover biopic. DiCaprio is no longer involved and, as of right now, production for the new Alien adventure is pencilled in for March, assuming all the details can be worked out.Talking of details, what of the plot? Well, the rough beats apparently constitute something of a return to the original Alien’s themes, with a monstrous creature killing off a group of space travellers.
- 12/9/2010
- EmpireOnline
Too often are much-loved franchises flogged to death by suits keen to eke out returns. Will Scott's efforts be any different?
There are, perhaps, two obvious prisms through which to view a long-running movie series. The first posits the view that they inevitably suffer from the law of creative diminishing returns, hence the increasing poverty of the Alien series, which culminated in the execrable Aliens vs Predator films. The second view suggests, in a sort of monkeys-with-typewriters twist, that the longer studios go on making movies in a series, the more chance there is that they will eventually get it right. Studios, unfortunately, can always count on cinemagoers thinking to themselves: "I'll go and see Insert name here> 7, because I liked the first film. And they might just have got it right this time."
The reality can be rather different from either perspective. After three terrible Predator sequels, the...
There are, perhaps, two obvious prisms through which to view a long-running movie series. The first posits the view that they inevitably suffer from the law of creative diminishing returns, hence the increasing poverty of the Alien series, which culminated in the execrable Aliens vs Predator films. The second view suggests, in a sort of monkeys-with-typewriters twist, that the longer studios go on making movies in a series, the more chance there is that they will eventually get it right. Studios, unfortunately, can always count on cinemagoers thinking to themselves: "I'll go and see Insert name here> 7, because I liked the first film. And they might just have got it right this time."
The reality can be rather different from either perspective. After three terrible Predator sequels, the...
- 10/14/2010
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Rapturous reviews call James Cameron's alien love story 'astonishing,' 'inventive.'
By Eric Ditzian
"Avatar"
Photo: 20th Century Fox
"Avatar" won't come out for another week, but advance screenings have already taken place on both sides of the Atlantic and early reviews are streaming in. The consensus is staggering, from near-universal praise from bloggers on Twitter to a 100 percent approval rating on the movie aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes as of Friday morning (December 11).
Yup, the Web has a lot of love for James Cameron's big blue alien love story. Taking place about 140 years in the future, the film follows crippled ex-Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) as he lands in a mining colony on the planet of Pandora, populated by a race of aliens called the Na'vi. Given the opportunity to scout the land via a mind-controlled Na'vi avatar, Sully ends up falling for a native named Neytiri...
By Eric Ditzian
"Avatar"
Photo: 20th Century Fox
"Avatar" won't come out for another week, but advance screenings have already taken place on both sides of the Atlantic and early reviews are streaming in. The consensus is staggering, from near-universal praise from bloggers on Twitter to a 100 percent approval rating on the movie aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes as of Friday morning (December 11).
Yup, the Web has a lot of love for James Cameron's big blue alien love story. Taking place about 140 years in the future, the film follows crippled ex-Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) as he lands in a mining colony on the planet of Pandora, populated by a race of aliens called the Na'vi. Given the opportunity to scout the land via a mind-controlled Na'vi avatar, Sully ends up falling for a native named Neytiri...
- 12/11/2009
- MTV Movie News
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