Alien Prequel.....is dead.....
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alyssa_jones,
Posted on: 2011-01-14 17:18 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Somebody ought to tell the production office at Pinewood Studios because as far as I know the guys there are still working on it! - lol !.
Could be misdirection from Fox tbh, the leaked scripts were probably getting too close to the truth. Paradise is the production codeword.
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Originally Posted by Mothers_Love
Somebody ought to tell the production office at Pinewood Studios because as far as I know the guys there are still working on it! - lol !
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Fox's 'Alien' Prequel Dead, 'Prometheus' Rises The Alien prequel is dead and a new Ridley Scott project has been reborn. Fox has announced that instead of making a much-talked about Alien movie, the project has been reconfigured as an original sci-fi movie, titled Prometheus, with Scott still at the helm and with Noomi Rapace to star. Showing how serious it is about the movie, Fox has set a March 9, 2012 release date. Damon Lindelof is working together with Scott on the new script, which was originally written by Jon Spaihts and based on an idea by Scott. It was under Lindelof that the project morphed into something more original.{...} |
As i said, don't believe the misdirection. If this press-release were true, there would be no way the Alien prequel set-constructions would currently be taking up half a dozen valuable stages at Pinewood.
[EDIT]: Remember, film (& videogame companies) do this to throw newshounds off the scent.
Remember when everyone from Lucasarts and Bioware (right up to senior management level) swore blind there was no such thing as a KoToR MMO, and then announced shortly before the project's unveiling that they've had 12 writers writing it for the last seven years and it had been in serious game-content production for years as well.
Good. I hope it's dead, buried and eternally forgotten. Alien doesn't need a prequel. It doesn't need a remake, a reboot or a revitalization. Hollywood needs to learn to let perfection stand on its own. Alien was perfect. Leave it alone.
Alien needs to be digitally remastered and the big scary alien replaced with something more politically correct and fuzzy. Like Barney.
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Originally Posted by Luminara
Good. I hope it's dead, buried and eternally forgotten. Alien doesn't need a prequel. It doesn't need a remake, a reboot or a revitalization. Hollywood needs to learn to let perfection stand on its own. Alien was perfect. Leave it alone.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Alien needs to be digitally remastered and the big scary alien replaced with something more politically correct and fuzzy. Like Barney.
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Yeah because they haven't made any sequels to said film....oh wait they made 3 sequels and 2 spin offs. I fail see how them making a prequel or not will muck up things any further. there's always the chance it might be good. (unlike the so so aliens 3, and the quite bad 4.) This series is far from a sacred cow. It's not like they re trying make a sequel to a movie that was never intented to have one...( they already did that with 4 hehe.)
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Originally Posted by Luminara
Good. I hope it's dead, buried and eternally forgotten. Alien doesn't need a prequel. It doesn't need a remake, a reboot or a revitalization. Hollywood needs to learn to let perfection stand on its own. Alien was perfect. Leave it alone.
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I'm not gonna cry about this as I was actually hoping it wouldn't happen. The Alien franchise was good for about 3 movies and then tanked (Alien Resurrection was ridiculous!). Every time they add to it, it gets worse. Now, if they wanted to clean the movies up and make them look better, that is something I am all for.
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Or Fox is simply going to repurpose the inventory at Pinewood for Scott's movie the same way Scott and Lindelof are reworking the script. Scott can do as he pleases on this project (Walter Hill is out, and Dan O'Bannon's no longer with us), and the casting is barely underway. Given the diminishing returns on the Alien "franchise", Fox and Scott may have simply come to an understanding that his very expensive science fiction movie would fare better with a wide audience on its own merits instead of trying to go back to the fans' well yet again.|
Originally Posted by Mothers_Love
As i said, don't believe the misdirection. If this press-release were true, there would be no way the Alien prequel set-constructions would currently be taking up half a dozen valuable stages at Pinewood.
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This isn't a case of a film company denying rumors of an announced project to throw fans/spies off the scent. Scott has been officially working on the project for some time but now has clearly stated he wants to do something different with it. For my part, a fresh and unencumbered story wins out over something gratuitously shoehorned into the legacy of a three-decade-year-old movie (to say nothing of three sequels and two crossovers of increasingly poor quality).
This doesn't seem like a conspiracy theory, I think they are done with the Aliens franchise for now.
Honestly, a little more backstory into the Aliens, where they came from etc could be interesting, but who knows, I never got much into the Aliens flicks.
I have to wonder how good this new thing is going to be though, re-purposing a script from Aliens in a new direction sounds like a good way to end up with a movie with crappy plot and writing, but I suppose time will tell.
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A shame. I too would have liked more backstory on the Xenos. I've posted here before how I just can't wrap my head around how they could have developed naturally on their home planet. They're simply too effective an apex predator to not have extincted themselves by eating/reproducing through everything of a suitable size.
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Originally Posted by alyssa_jones
I'm not gonna cry about this as I was actually hoping it wouldn't happen. The Alien franchise was good for EXACTLY TWO movies and then tanked.
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Honestly, I'm gonna say this... I liked 4 more than 3.
(not that either hold a candle to 1 or 2)
I'm not sure why movie fans are distraught when producers and directors start new projects instead of rehashing the same-old same-old. Alien has run its course.
If James Cameron had continued in the Terminator rut we'd never have gotten Avatar. If Lucas had gotten stuck on American Graffiti sequels we'd never have gotten Star Wars. If Spielberg had gotten stuck on Close Encounters we'd never have gotten Raiders of the Lost Ark.
After a sequel or two it's time to give franchises a rest. The cast and crew lose interest and quality declines. It's best to end on an up note.
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Or as Sigourney Weaver put it re: the Aliens-Predators crossovers;
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Originally Posted by alyssa_jones
I'm not gonna cry about this as I was actually hoping it wouldn't happen. The Alien franchise was good for about 3 movies and then tanked (Alien Resurrection was ridiculous!). Every time they add to it, it gets worse. Now, if they wanted to clean the movies up and make them look better, that is something I am all for.
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In a director's commentary to Alien, Scott suggested that a later sequel (Alien 5 or 6) would revolve around visiting the Space Jockey's home planet and that the crashed ship was the equivalent of an aircraft carrier, except instead of aircraft, the xenomorphs' eggs were the attack vehicles. Then again, O'Bannon's original script had the xenomorphs originating on the crash-planet LV-426 and evolving enough to build monumental architecture (a primitive pyramid/temple), so who knows what direction the ultimate sequel for Alien would take?|
Originally Posted by Furio
A shame. I too would have liked more backstory on the Xenos. I've posted here before how I just can't wrap my head around how they could have developed naturally on their home planet. They're simply too effective an apex predator to not have extincted themselves by eating/reproducing through everything of a suitable size.
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Originally Posted by Ice_Wall
I have to wonder how good this new thing is going to be though, re-purposing a script from Aliens in a new direction sounds like a good way to end up with a movie with crappy plot and writing, but I suppose time will tell.
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