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AvPGalaxy Exclusive – Early John Logan Alien: Covenant Script!

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MemberOvomorphAug-15-2017 2:22 AM

AvPGalaxy Exclusive – Early John Logan Alien: Covenant Script!

Alien vs. Predator Galaxy can exclusively share with you all one of John Logan’s earlier Alien: Covenant scripts! I believe this may actually be one of, if not the, first drafts that John Logan completed.

Dated November 20th 2015 (it was first reported in early November that Logan would be revising existing scripts), this script follows the same over all structure as what ended up on screen for the finished film but has several differences.

The most notable element is a sub-plot involving a quarantine field around the Engineer homeworld that Tennessee, Ricks and Upworth have to deal with, giving their characters more to do while the expedition team is on the surface of the planet.

Among many smaller differences, the character of Rosenthall is completely missing, there’s a small set piece of an “astronomical model” on the roof of the Citadel and Shaw’s distress call is different.

Enjoy! :) 

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auximenes

MemberFacehuggerAug-16-2017 11:10 PM

Prometheus = no 'Alien' pre-fix
Prometheus 2 = no 'Alien' pre-fix
Alien: Covenant = yes 'Alien' pre-fix

Thombach

MemberOvomorphAug-17-2017 7:38 AM

Got it. Thanks.

Kethol

MemberChestbursterAug-17-2017 11:19 AM

Something else from the script I forgot to mention that goes with a something discussed here about that Alan Dean Foster interview. Faris sends Walter outside to analyze the air first before the crew exits the lander in the script. So that was not just something Alan Dean Foster added to the novelization all on his own.

It's not in the deleted scenes, so it most have been cut in a later draft, or maybe never filmed?

 

Thombach

MemberOvomorphAug-17-2017 11:38 AM

Someone said in another poste here that Muther says the air is clear when the crew is suiting up to leave the ship, so maybe it was just changed from David to Muther checking the atmosphere.

chli

MemberChestbursterAug-17-2017 10:25 PM

One thing that I don’t think anyone has mentioned in this thread is the difference in Shaw’s message? In the movie (as in the novelization) she’s just singing Denver's “Take Me Home, Country Roads”. In the script she is more terrified, pleading for anyone to come and rescue her. She even says a Catholic prayer (her crucifix is later found), and the hologram stops with her anxiously turning around (as if something has crept up behind her?).

Oram is also a religious man (like Shaw) and says to Mother to slow the screeching sound in the signal down - and to reverse it. It’s the devil’s sound - the sound of lies. This would fit with the allusions to “Paradise Lost”, Hell, the fallen angel (David) etc? It would have been creepier . . .

Perhaps they felt like changing this since Oram wouldn’t have made the decision to investigate the source (which was also a part of the tension between Daniels and Oram)? On the other hand, it might have built up more tension in the movie if, for example, it was part of their contract to answer distress calls (like in Alien)?

We also learn that it took 4 days for the engineers to all die, and Shaw also mentions this in the distress call: “Please, please, if you hear this, come and . . . help us . . . Everyone’s dying. They’re all dying . . . Mountains of them now . . .”. But she wasn’t infected herself - or was she?

As for the script discussion, we read on the title page that it is “Based on the screenplays by Dante W Harper And Michael Green”. “screenplays” is in the plural so did they write several drafts together or perhaps two separate ones?

“Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven” is also stated on the title page which hints at this story being centered around David and his rebellion?

Thombach

MemberOvomorphAug-18-2017 6:28 AM

She is describing the bombing, so she must have sent the distress message after the Juggernaut crashed and David later used it to lure a ship. I wonder why the did not use that message in the movie?

They don't find Shaw's mutilated body in this script like they did in the movie. David's says he used a face hugger on her so that must have been how she died.

BigDave

MemberDeaconAug-18-2017 6:57 AM

@Thombach

The Alien Prefix is a attempt by FOX/RS to connect the Prequels now more with Alien as far as bringing back Xenomorphs and explain their Origins and the Alien Prefix is also to show people that these movies are ALIEN ones and not Prometheus ones.

As i think FOX are concerned for Marketing Reasons a Prometheus 2 sequel or even a movie that does not have Prometheus in it or Alien, would maybe not be something that could gain as much interest.

My taking the route now to explore the Xenomorph Origin in a more Direct and Spoon Fed way and now Re-introducing the Xenomorph, FOX hoped this would gain more interest than Prometheus did and by Prefixing the ALIEN: it is to Market and Show potential viewers that these Movies are now more Directly connected to ALIEN..

@Chli

Indeed this was just going to be a Flaw Really, a lot of people felt Prometheus had some Dumb Decisions, some felt Oram made a Dumb Decision..  We could see Daniels Questions Orams Decision to investigate Planet 4.

If the Signal was exactly as in Logans Draft, then the Covenant Crew you would expect would be pretty much Extremely Cautious they would even have to Question is rescuing ONE Person worth the risk of 2000 Colonist plus 1000 embryos?

The only way such a Plot would Logically make sense if they went this route, would be if Oram had a secret Weyland Agenda and play the Burke from Aliens kind of role.

Also the Shaw SOS where she says she was seeing death, contradicts a bit the explanations of what happened to Shaw, she could not have seen the death as she described.

But then i have only had ONE Quick Read of this Daft.

 

R.I.P Sox  01/01/2006 - 11/10/2017

Kethol

MemberChestbursterAug-18-2017 7:00 AM

@chli - Based on interviews, all the writers worked on their drafts with Ridley separately. Paglen was first, then Green re-wrote that initial story, then Harper did a re-write, then John Logan.

Yog Sothoth

MemberFacehuggerAug-18-2017 9:52 AM

I'm still trying to work out how the heck what David says about the pathogen, in this script, fits with what we see in the movie.

Thombach

MemberOvomorphAug-18-2017 10:48 AM

@BigDave - Yes, I get the what Alien Prefix means now. I thought it was the title of another Covenant short film or something. I am new to this forum so I have not read all the previous threads.

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