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Alien: Covenant Will Be Coming to Your Home as a VR Experience

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Game over, man. Game over. Fox Innovation Lab has just announced that Alien: Covenant will be coming to your home as a virtual reality experience.

Variety has reported that Fox Innovation Lab will team up with Ridley Scott, serving as executive producer, and David Karlak, who will direct. I should note that this isn’t Ridley Scott’s first foray into the world of gaming; he previously worked on Call of Duty and The Martian VR experience in 2015. That being said, it’s wonderful to hear that he’ll have a hand in making this. Obviously, as a fan, you’d want the man behind the madness to be involved.

We don’t have a lot of details at this time, but we do know that it will be released as a paid title on most VR platforms. There’s no exact date for the release, but with the film coming out on May 19, it’s possible that the VR experience will try to sync up. Right to your home and ready to scare your pants off.

Considering how ultra-immersive and hyper-realistic the virtual reality system can be, you can bet this is going to be terrifying. It’s been described by the studio as a “dread-inducing” experience. Players will “navigate through horrifying alien environments and a story where every decision could mean the difference between life and death”. Spooky.

From the sounds of it, Fox wants to embrace the future of the VR experience, using it for more than just advertising their movies. In an interview with Variety, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Fox Innovation Lab President Mike Dunn stated “We see VR as a new media opportunity… Our intention from the moment we developed our business plan was to be in the commercial VR business”. We hope that means that they’ll be bringing that enthusiasm to the Alien: Covenant VR project.

Following the success of 2014’s Alien: Isolation, we can imagine this will be the same type of survival horror gameplay. If Alien: Covenant can move beyond the movie-as-a-game curse, this has a lot of potential. The tension and terror of the survival horror genre is palpable even when playing on a console, so hopefully, bringing the Alien experience to VR is going to be insane.

Be wary though, because in a VR headset, everyone can hear you scream.

Want more gaming? Check out this list of 5 Must-Play Horror Games Releasing in 2017.

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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments

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It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.

We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.

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“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”

That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”

Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:

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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening

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Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.

Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.

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Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.

Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.

Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.

The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date

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Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.

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Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.

These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:

According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”

Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.

Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.

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