External links
- Alien: Alone at IMDb
- Alien: Alone at IGN
- Alien: Alone at 20th Century Fox YouTube
- Alien: Alone at Tongal Studios YouTube
| Alien: Alone | |
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| Directed by | Noah Miller [1] |
| Written by | Noah Miller |
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| Cinematography | Colin Jacobs |
| Edited by | Noah Miller |
| Music by | Joel Santos |
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| Distributed by | IGN 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 12 minutes |
| Country | United States |
Alien: Alone is a short film based on the science fiction action media franchise Alien . Released via IGN on April 19, 2019, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the franchise, the film was written and directed by Noah Miller, through Tongal Studios and 20th Century Fox. [2] Starring Taylor Lyons, James Paxton, and Martha Vincent, the film follows focuses on Hope, a synthetic left behind when her vessel was abandoned by its crew, as she emotionally bonds with a facehugger she comes across after defying MU / TH / UR's orders.
The twenty-first short film in the Alien franchise, it received a generally positive critical reception. [3] [4]
Synthetic android Hope has been left drifting alone for more than a year aboard the Otranto after she crew abandoned ship, passing the time making repairs, drawing, reading, and counting rivets to distract from her loneliness, hoping as her captain promised that on day someone will return to rescue her. Frustrated with how the A.I. running the ship, MU / TH / UR, won't give her access to Laboratory B-11a, the one part of the ship she hasn't been to, after an electrical fire damage's the A.I.'s ability to communicate with Hope, the android cuts her way inside the lab and discovered several alien specimens stored within, all but one of which, a facehugger, having perished. Unable to impregnate Hope, the facehugger flees into the rest of the ship. Over the following days and weeks, Hope begins to study the facehugger, while emotionally bonding with it, as both android and alien begin to deteriorate over time.
Saddened by her companion's impending death, Hope conducts hasty, improvised repairs to the ship to move it towards populated space, hoping this will increase their chances of rescue before both die. Hope's gambit pays off, and the ship is found by a human, Macwhirr, who docks with it and comes aboard, with Hope immediately helping the facehugger subdue and impregnate him. Macwhirr awakes with no memory of Hope attacking him, finding himself locked in the Otranto, before Hope appears outside the door and asks that he accept his impending death as she has, before a chestburster emerges' from Macwhirr's chest. Sometime later, as Hope mourns the facehugger, she is approached by the now fully-grown xenomorph grown of Macwhirr via the facehugger, gazing up at it as it looms over her. [5] [6]
In July 2018, it was reported that 20th Century Fox had joined forces with Tongal Studios to produce a series of Alien short films to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the franchise. [8] [9] [10] By March 2019, the details of the short films were released, Tongal co-founder and CEO James DeJulio describing the joint-production as "reflective of Tongal's mission to bring creative opportunities to the next generation of talent." [11] [12] The sixth short released and the twenty-first overall in the franchise, Alien: Alone was written and directed by Noah Miller, filming having taken place over two days at Laurel Canyon Stages in Los Angeles, where the preceding short film Alien: Harvest was also filmed. [13]
Alien: Alone was released on the IGN website on April 19, 2019, after which it was uploaded to the Alien Universe website, and all Alien social media pages on May 5, 2019, the short film then premiering alongside five others at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, [11] and as a Movies Anywhere-exclusive bonus feature accompanying the digital release of Alien.
Alien: Alone received a positive critical reception, [3] [14] [15] [16] [17] with Bloody Disgusting likening Hope's relationship with the facehugger and xenomorph to a romantic one, calling it "the closest the franchise will ever get to The Shape of Water ". [4]
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