SFX  |  July 2017
ALIEN FEATURING ALIEN COVENANT
It's June 2016, and in a decommissioned reservoir just outside Sydney the crew of Alien: Covenant has constructed Paradise. But a paradise this ain’t. At one end of the drizzly basin, giant stone steps are littered with immolated Engineers, the porcelain smooth old gods perfectly preserved in their chargrilled final moments like the haunting spectres of Pompeii. At the other end of the vast, open-air space stands a blue screen so big it’s being held up by cranes and a wall of shipping containers stacked three high. The centre of gravity around which everything orbits: Ridley Scott, the eclectic Brit filmmaker and seventy nine yearold workhorse who’s presiding over sets as
staggeringly huge as SFX has ever seen. And it all started with a flaky pastry. Sort of.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in SFX July 2017.