ALIEN prequal is confirmed.

[miraclefan]

http://www.collider.com/2009/05/29/...-rinsch-is-directing-alien-and-its-a-prequel/ If it's about those GIGANTIC aliens from the first one I'm all for it, but if it's about a another human crew encountering these Xenomorphs then I want NOTHING to do with it.

 

[Ethros]

Alien Queen- "Ellen Ripley was a great woman... but that was another life!"

 

[miraclefan]

Alien Queen- "Ellen Ripley was a great woman... but that was another life!"

Get away from ME, you BITCH!

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Alien Queen- "Ellen Ripley was a great woman... but that was another life!"

Ironically they already a sequel where that quote was applicable.

"Ripley continues to make us all very proud."

 

[The Evil Dead]

Finally! I have been dying to know how Ellen Ripley first came to meet Jonesy the cat.

 

[bigdaddy]

Prequels are ALWAYS lame, there isn't a single sequel that isn't lame.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Finally! I have been dying to know how Ellen Ripley first came to meet Jonesy the cat.

They'll replace Jonesy with CGI Garfield.

Young Ripley will be played by an actress with the wrong eye and hair color.

Fans will be irate she's not wearing the proper 70's style panties from ALIEN.

 

[Bishbot]

Ok, can ANYONE come up with an "Alien" prequel plot that sounds remotely interesting? I've been giving it some serious thought, but I've got nothing... I suppose The Company knew that the warning signal was there, maybe an earlier vessel encountered it and no-one survived, so they sent The Nostromo, but it seems totally unnecessary.

 

[miraclefan]

Ok, can ANYONE come up with an "Alien" prequel plot that sounds remotely interesting? I've been giving it some serious thought, but I've got nothing... I suppose The Company knew that the warning signal was there, maybe an earlier vessel encountered it and no-one survived, so they sent The Nostromo, but it seems totally unnecessary.

Apparently not. I'm hopeing this Prequal will be about the ''SPACE JOCKEY'' aliens & there relation with all them alien eggs.

 

[barnaclelapse]

Prequels are ALWAYS lame, there isn't a single sequel that isn't lame.

That's a little much.

Still, I guess this could work. I'd rather see a prequel than a reboot for this particular series, and I'm not exactly sure why that is.

 

[miraclefan]

Prequels are ALWAYS lame, there isn't a single sequel that isn't lame.

STAR TREK.

 

[DarKush]

Would the AVP films be considered prequels? I'm curious to see what they're going to do but I'm not burning up to see an Alien prequel, perhaps a continuation of the story after Alien: Resurrection. I'm one of the few people on Earth that actually liked A:R, and I read one of the books that took place after that movie where they introduced a shadowy Earth organization that had allied with the space jockey race. Something perhaps touching on that might be interesting.

 

[Trubinator]

What's with this silliness?

 

[chardman]

Ok, can ANYONE come up with an "Alien" prequel plot that sounds remotely interesting? I've been giving it some serious thought, but I've got nothing... I suppose The Company knew that the warning signal was there, maybe an earlier vessel encountered it and no-one survived, so they sent The Nostromo, but it seems totally unnecessary.

This idea, about an earlier crew discovering the alien xenomorph, is probably the basis of the planned prequel. But I sincerely doubt the "no survivors" angle. Someone survived long enough to bring back the data that convinced the company that sending another ship to investigate (the Nostromo) was in their best interest. And maybe not just data, but perhaps even a specimen.

I figure that this earlier mission probably wouldn't get a whole lot of screen time, as its primary purpose would be delivering the suspended xenomorph specimen to a Company space station in Earth orbit. The specimen is revived, but before The Company learns much of anything of value about it, the xenomorph escapes from quarantine. Dozens die, and The Company finally opts to "sacrifice" the station, and all aboard, to prevent the xenomorph from reaching Earth. (Not to save Earth, mind you, but to prevent a possible asset to fall into the hands of a competitor.)They figure that they'll simply send another ship to acquire a new specimen.

The film would then end with a secret meeting where The Company decides to replace the Nostromo's science officer with an android pre-programmed to obtain a new specimen on the planet where the xenomorph was first encountered.

Speculating further: Maybe that first group to stumble upon the "Space Jockey" ship didn't just bring back a living specimen of the xenomorph, but some space-jockey technology as well. Like maybe that strange vessel's flight recorder, which contains the location of the xenomorph's probable planet of origin. This would set the stage for a later sequel, which might even take place at the same time as the original film, (a plan "B") where another unsuspecting ship is sent to obtain specimens from the alien homeworld itself.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

The film would then end with a secret meeting where The Company decides to replace the Nostromo's science officer with an android pre-programmed to obtain a new specimen on the planet where the xenomorph was first encountered.

We get to see a CGI recreated younger Ian Holm.

AND LANCE HENRICKSON AS BISHOP JR. XXVII.

ALSO RIPLEY HAS SEX WITH AN ALIEN AND DIES...BUT NOT NECESSARILY IN THAT ORDER.

 

[chardman]

We get to see a CGI recreated younger Ian Holm.

Not CGI per se, but that creepy de-aging software like they used on Patrick Stewart in "X-men 3" and "Wolverine".

 

[Cutter John]

Jebus, haven't the studios raped the corpses of the first two movies enough?

 

[Harry Palmer]

Ok, can ANYONE come up with an "Alien" prequel plot that sounds remotely interesting? I've been giving it some serious thought, but I've got nothing... I suppose The Company knew that the warning signal was there, maybe an earlier vessel encountered it and no-one survived, so they sent The Nostromo, but it seems totally unnecessary.

This idea, about an earlier crew discovering the alien xenomorph, is probably the basis of the planned prequel. But I sincerely doubt the "no survivors" angle. Someone survived long enough to bring back the data that convinced the company that sending another ship to investigate (the Nostromo) was in their best interest. And maybe not just data, but perhaps even a specimen.

The company learned about the Aliens from the signal broadcast by the crashed ship on LV-426.

 

[bigdaddy]

Prequels are ALWAYS lame, there isn't a single sequel that isn't lame.

That's a little much.

Still, I guess this could work. I'd rather see a prequel than a reboot for this particular series, and I'm not exactly sure why that is.

Name one that doesn't?

The 4 movies take place in about 350+ years. They could easily make a "prequels" to Aliens 4, or several other ideas.

Jebus, haven't the studios raped the corpses of the first two movies enough?

Of course not! They will rape it until it's dead, than beat it to make sure it's dead, then rape the dead body, and then of course do a reboot!

 

[chardman]

Jebus, haven't the studios raped the corpses of the first two movies enough?

Yup. And now the guys who made the first Alien intend to un-rape it, and breathe new life into those corpses, by essentially rebooting the franchise ala Trek, in a way that permits them to essentially ignore the existing spin-offs, to tell new stories that exist in an "arc" that's separate of the existing spin-offs.

They'd do this by introducing story elements in a prequel which would establish a second story foundation upon which additional stories could be based, in a way which neither violates, nor actually acknowledges, the "canon" of the existing spin-offs.

As I suggested in an earlier post, one way of doing this is for The Company to learn the location of the xenomorph's planet of origin, and to not only send The Nostromo off to explore the derelict "space jockey" ship on LV-426, but also sending a second ship to the alien homeworld itself, as a back-up plan of sorts. This would establish a heretofore unexplored B-plot from which additional stories could be based, which will hopefully be less... stupid... than the current crop of spin-offs has managed.