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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Alien: Romulus has a hard road ahead to get audiences excited about the franchise again, though it has been confirmed to fix a mistake Ridley Scott made with his prequel Covenant. On paper, the return of Scott to the Alien movie franchise sounded incredible. Not only did the 2012 prequel/spinoff Prometheus mark the filmmaker's return to the series he helped create, it was his first sci-fi movie in three decades.
Alien: Romulus Fixes Ridley Scott's Practical Effects Mistake Covenant replaced all its practical creature effects with inferior CGI There was also the use of CG to bring the Xenomorph creatures to life, with Covenant, in particular, suffering from unconvincing effects. Descriptions of Alien: Romulus' CinemaCon 2024 confirms that the movie uses mostly practical creature effects for the Facehuggers and adult Xenomorphs.
By all accounts, these effects look great too, and really evoke the style of the earlier movies. What's unfortunate about Covenant is that Scott filmed practical creatures during production, but opted not to use them in the final edit. Behind-the-scenes photos and footage show performers in suits bringing the monsters to life, but they were only used as references for the CGI used in the 2017 sequel.
I have this obsession with no green screens, so we built every creature and set. Everything had to be built so we were really living and breathing in these spaces.
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