Saturday, 30 September 2023

'Probably' everything that Alien: Covenant ripped off

Meat of sequel is set on 5 December 2104, 10 years, 11 months and 15 days after Prometheus, and apparently ends in early 2105 (17 years before Alien).

Marketing campaign

As per predecessor, several short films were created.

The Last Supper
Meet Walter
Crew Messages
The Crossing
Alien: Covenant x Audi lunar quattro
She Won't Go Quietly
Phobos
Advent
David's Lab: Last Signs of Life

Alan Dean Foster wrote novelisation and a few months later, brought official prequel Alien: Covenant Origins.

An arcade game of same name was released in North America, but was just a rebranded version of Aliens: Armageddon.

Anyway, to serious business.

Poster 1 vs Alien versus Predator 2


Debatable I know.

However, there's absolutely no doubt here.

Poster 2 vs Alien: Isolation Japanese promo¹


Just look at this shit.

¹reused elsewhere.

Neomorph² vs Cale - Aliens: Fire and Stone - Chapter Four


WHAT?

²Inspired by a Goblin shark.

Aliens: Apocalypse - The Destroying Angels (January-April 1999)

At the end of Prometheus, Shaw stuffs David's head inside bag and takes body with her.

The Crossing
In early 2094, Shaw reattaches head.
Learning Deimos is a synthetic spy, Captain Mutombo blows head clean off.

Baal encounters an angel and loses head
The others are able to adequately reattach his head to Deimos' undamaged body.

David vs Dr. Lucien Keitel

To observe angels' life cycle and natural history, Keitel led team (test subjects) to corporeal death.
Sounds familiar.

Check this out.

Engineer graveyard


Baal warned earlier that if Weyland-Yutani programmed subversive sleeper directives into Deimos's body, there's a chance he'll present a threat.

Spoiler alert - they did.

David takes Oram through his lab where he's attacked by a facehugger.


Baal doesn't obstruct Hannibal Sten's pursuit of finding eggs.

Receive me... take me... raise me u---
No prizes for guessing what happens next.

Massey blows bastard away, causing facehugger to jump off.
It then goes for him, with Baal refusing to help.
Both watch, wearing a cold, blank expression.


However, things play out differently.

A praetomorph bursts from Oram's chest.
We don't see Massey giving birth.

Lope is implanted within seconds, reflecting Alien vs. Predator (2004).
While unique to comic, the following must be shown.

Baal places an egg on top of a barely alive giant, infecting it with an alien larvae.
Massive result destroys its own kind and retires Baal.
Poor son of a bitch.

Throop and Jellicoe flee Asteroid L927 on the Rachel.
Finally.

Daniels and Tennessee discover Lope has been killed off-screen, meaning another praetomorph is loose on the Covenant.
Massey's corpse isn't shown, but Arch reveals all.

She finds Massey with his chest cavity ruptured, but failed to find creature.
Throop says it didn't want to be found because they're only interested in biological hosts.

All things considered, how the fuck filmmakers avoided a lawsuit is beyond me.

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