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by **dodgy** » Sep Sat 10, 2016 1:21 pm

One of the biggest complains about Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" was that the film didn't really show off any of H.R. Giger's original creature design of the xenomorph. Instead, the "Alien" prequel opted only for a brief scene at the end with what's been dubbed a 'Deacon' form of the creature.

When Scott announced several follow-up films were in the works that would lead back to the original "Alien," the thinking was that we still wouldn't get to see the original creature design back in action until likely the last of these films.

That's not the case though according to Scott today. Speaking with The Wrap, the filmmaker says the upcoming first of the "Prometheus" sequels - "Alien: Covenant" - will bring back not just the original alien design but all its different incarnations too:

"We'll have them all. Egg, face-hugger, chest-burster, then the big boy. They're going to go to the planet where the engineers came from, and come across the evolving creature that they had made. Why did they make it? Why would they make such a terrifying beast? It felt bio-mechanoid, it felt like a weapon. And so the movie will explain that, and reintroduce the alien back into it."

The new film follows the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy which they discover is a dark, dangerous world - the home of the Engineers. Its sole living inhabitant? The "synthetic" David (Michael Fassbender) from the doomed Prometheus expedition.

by **Fogdude** » Sep Sat 10, 2016 1:36 pm

Cool! Another instant classic to look forward to!

by **ctaulbee** » Sep Sat 10, 2016 1:38 pm

Love all things Alien :-$

by **sk-ar** » Sep Wed 14, 2016 4:11 am

i was surprise with the video above.. a cgi film?? ok, in fact it's a fan edit teaser.. now wait and see

by **chouette** » Sep Wed 14, 2016 4:58 pm

Fogdude wrote:Cool! Another instant classic to look forward to!

I thought you didn't like computer animated movies, what changed? lol

by **Fogdude** » Sep Wed 14, 2016 5:03 pm

It's almost impossible to see a film today that doesn't have CGI & special effects. I don't like ANIMATED films. This isn't an animated film, it just has some CGI characters, as have all the Alien films. That's a big difference. :-O