Whoa...
Ridley Scott, the amazing director of such films as "Alien," "Blade Runner," "Black Hawk Down," and "Gladiator" has committed to direct a prequel to the original Alien with a script by Jon Spaihts ("Passengers,") from his own original pitch. This is big, big news. Alien is one of those films that set a standard and created a cultural phenomenon that other sci-fi films would have to follow. The story will supposedly tell the story of the ship that first landed on the planet and had the original encounter with... the eggs.
Cooly developing...
Hat Tip to /Film.
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That would have to be the ship with the giant creatures that we discover in the early scenes of Alien. Not sure if there is a story there, or if this is even necessary. When the crew of the Nostromo discovered the ship with the giant creatures, it was foreshadowing their own eventual attack and battles with the alien creature. A prequel would just be telling the same story again, but from the point of view of the first contact with the alien. Why bother Ridley, leave it alone.
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It has the potential to be interesting, since obviously none of the sentinent beings from other worlds speak English. Their ships, for lack of a better world, were startling in their "organic" look (as opposed to all sleek metal). It would be interesting to see from what kind of societies such beings came.
And it would be very interesting if it pursued the angle from where aliens came/were created.
.....then again, choosing to get so very specific about the origins of the unknown robs good fiction of one of its gifts: the reader/viewer's ability to graft personal experinces/fears/unconscious onto it, thereby making it a much more frightening experience for a mass audience.
And regarding the current franchise: I would have much rather wanted more backstory on the corporation that would have programmed the Nostromo to divert its mission in the first place, that would have chosen to colonize an alien-infested outpost. While I enjoyed the series (a little less with each new film), there were a few holes which--had they been filled--would have made it a much better series, in my opinion.
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I thought the first film implied that this was an ancient alien ship that had been derelect for centuries? It's quite possible that race became extinct, n doubt because all of the xenomorph Aliens had taken them over. Anyway,, the aspect I loved about the original film was the mystery of some ancient alien race. We don't need to see where they came from. That would rob our vivid imaginations of whatever explanation we fill in the plot with. The problem with all prequels *cough* George Lucas *cough* is that whatever precognitions we have had about these background expositions are destroyed when the filmaker decides to explain everything and making it fit into the jigsaw puzzle of their expository continuity. Some things are just better left alone. You wouldn't want a sequel to Blade Runner now do you? No. No you don't.
OK, that's TERRIBLE!
I never really liked the movie Alien. It was a great plot, but FAR too violent. I'm like, at the very end, and it was the same with my dad, "PANT PANT PANT!"
Can someone give a Darth Vader "No" scream?
Like you wouldn't want to see a sequel to Blade Runner, you wouldn't want to see a sequel to Beverly Hills Chiuauah (sorry, I don't know how to spell it), even though I liked the first one, nor would you want to see a trilogy of the horrid Haunting in Conneticut, which is a possibility, I learned a month ago. I wouldn't want to see a sequel to The Hangover, nor would you want to see a sequel to Space Chimps. (Actually, I liked Space Chimps, but everyone else is such a sourpuss about it.)
Here's the thing, is this movie necessary? Not at all. But another Ridley Scott directed science fiction film is pretty cool any way you look at it.
Personally I would've much rather see him finally make "The Forever War", but we all know the studio was going to make another Alien film eventually, and I for one am grateful to have Ridley behind the helm instead of the sorts of hacks who made the AvP films.
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