A very short looping video goes behind-the-scenes on Ridley Scott’s highly anticipated upcoming sci-fi/horror film Alien: Covenant and brings us a sneak peek into what the creatures in the film might look like.
The BTS video shows an FX team person working on the hand design for…something. It has elongated fingers, although it is jointed just like a human hand, and it also features five total fingers. This differs from the xenomorph design that we’re used to, which features six total fingers, two of which are conjoined and two others held very close to each other (example).
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Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in ‘Alien’ with ‘Alien: Covenant’, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with ‘Prometheus’ — and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science fiction. Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
Alien: Covenant comes to theaters on August 4th, 2017.
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