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Pre-Production

a) See: Heading towards Prometheus: Paradise Lost

b) See: Reaching Alien: Covenant

c) See: John Logan writes Alien Covenant

d) See: Early Holloway alien used as a basis for the Neomorph

 e) See: MPC designs Neomorphs and Xenomorphs

 

 

 

Making the movie 

a) See: Production fires up

b) See: Odd Studios and Creatures Inc: Meeting and merging

c) See: The Hall of Heads

d) See: Mother-Juggernaut

e) See: Elizabeth Shaw corpse 

f) See: The Xenomorph : Stripped down killing machine

g) See:  Stephane Levallois tackles the Neomorph

h)  See: Development of the Neomorph by way of Australia

i)  See: Beyond Alien Covenant    

j)  See: Alien Covenant production timeline

 

 

 

Cast and Character
Demian Bichir (to come)

See: Billy Crudup plays Oram 

Carmen Ejogo (to come)

Michael Fassbender (to come)
James Franco (to come)

See: Callie Hernandez plays Upworth 

See: Danny McBride plays Tennessee
Noomi Rapace (to come)
See: Benjamin Rigby plays Ledward
Amy Seimetz (to come)
Jussie Smollett (to come) 

See: Katherine Waterston plays Daniels

Beasts
a) See: Mutant Neo/Xeno head in David's lab
b) See: Neomorph head splice
c) See: Unused proto facehugger
d) See: Mouth burster sack

e) See: The Xenomorph : Stripped down killing machine
f) See: Baby neomorph puppet
g) See: David's Lab creature designed by Dominic Hailstone
h) See: Unused Adolescent neomorph for David's lab
i) See: Xenomorph Chestburster puppet

Concept art
a) See: David's nightmare Creature Face by Dan Hallett

b) See: Artwork by Matt Hatton

c) See: Artwork by Stephane Lavallois

d) See: Artwork by Steve Messing

e) The Domed Citadel

e.i) See: Domed citadel entrance references Grmeč Monument to the Revolution 

e.ii) See: Terrace with garden by Wayne Haag (Homage to Arnold Böcklin's Isle of the Dead)

e.iii) See: Domed citadel references "Satan presiding at the Infernal Council" (1824) by John Martin?   

 g) See: Giacometti alien by Dominic Hailstone

h) See: Alien Newborn by Colin Shulver

 

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• Odd Studios: Alien Covenant. Family photo of the on-set Xeno and Neo team. Creature effects by Odd Creatures- Odd Studio & Creatures Inc.(Source: https://www.facebook.com/oddstudiopl/)

Promotional artwork
a) See: Alien: Covenant poster
b) See: Empire magazine (june 2017) exclusive subscribers cover

Afterthoughts 

a) See: Exploration of So is it Any Good's "Alien Covenant" photos

b) See: I went to see the film

c) See: Mad Aliens illustration and the NECA Alien Covenant alien?

d) See: Early Neomorph inspired by the Quatermass And The Pit ghosts?

e) See: "The Planet Once More" from Moebius "Edena" 

inspires the discovery of the dead Engineers city?

f) See: Moebius inspiration behind landing craft scenes?

g) See: Traces of "Before The Watchman: Ozymandias"? 

h) See: Comparison to the Asterix comic book stories

i) See: David the android as a Barry Lyndon?

j) See: Flute scene as a homage to Hamlet?

k) See: Echoes of Peter Greenaway's Prospero's Books

l) See: Waffling about Nephilim

m) See: Alien: Awakening