Especially the devastated Earth we saw in the expanded ending.
ALIEN prequal is confirmed.
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Especially the devastated Earth we saw in the expanded ending.
They should have an Alien/Terminator crossover, with Catherine Weaver instead of Sigourney Weaver.
How about a Matrix/Terminator crossover too?
I will be happy with this movie if it shows me one thing in particular: an Alien Queen kicking ass. We've been getting ripped off on Queen action since she first appeared and it would be excellent to see what kind of actual damage one could do.
Consider:
Aliens: she damages Bishop and snarls and snaps a lot before Ripley throws her ass out the door.
Alien3: appears for a second freshly born before getting a lava bath.
Resurrection: Grows a vagina (I wish I was joking) and gives birth to a really ugly pseudo-alien thing that kills her immediately. This queen never even moves.
AvP: Finally, some action! A mature queen that looks absolutely huge and runs around knocking buildings down and stuff. Unfortunately does very little other damage but does kill a Predator in classic Bishop style. Gets punked by a water tower and some handy chain. She does take a lot of punishment (the Predator slices her up and breaks his pimp cane off in her face) but it seemed like she still had some fight left in her. Too bad we never get to see it.
So I don't really care what else they do with this Alien movie, just give me a queen kicking ass and it's all good.
Consider:
Aliens: she damages Bishop and snarls and snaps a lot before Ripley throws her ass out the door.
Alien3: appears for a second freshly born before getting a lava bath.
Resurrection: Grows a vagina (I wish I was joking) and gives birth to a really ugly pseudo-alien thing that kills her immediately. This queen never even moves.
AvP: Finally, some action! A mature queen that looks absolutely huge and runs around knocking buildings down and stuff. Unfortunately does very little other damage but does kill a Predator in classic Bishop style. Gets punked by a water tower and some handy chain. She does take a lot of punishment (the Predator slices her up and breaks his pimp cane off in her face) but it seemed like she still had some fight left in her. Too bad we never get to see it.
So I don't really care what else they do with this Alien movie, just give me a queen kicking ass and it's all good.
Nope, not interested in devastated Earth. It's too old hat. Better an Earth that is realistic - covered in water, plants and living things.
I kind of wonder what they'll do with the prequel. The first AVP film kind of indicated that was first contact, so what do they do ... make it after that but before Alien? Seems a little silly unless you take humans out of the equation and focus on the space jockey race. But I doubt audiences would be receptive to that...
I'd say there's an outside chance that this could actually be a good movie. I think there's probably an interesting story to be had here if they don't waste the opportunity. Ash's knowledge of the xenomorph did seem to imply some kind of previous contact.
I'm not overly hopeful, given the recent handling of the franchise. But, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt until we see some trailers or some more information on what they're doing with the premise exactly.
I'm not overly hopeful, given the recent handling of the franchise. But, I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt until we see some trailers or some more information on what they're doing with the premise exactly.
Most likely, what will happen, is they'll go forward with another WY ship receiving the distress call and being ordered to recover the alien directly. When they fail the Nostromo is sent.
Personally, I'm more interested in what happened during the gap between Alien 3 & Alien Resurrection. I've thought that a 3rd AVP movie would be the perfect vehicle in which to explore the fall of the Weyland-Yutani Corp.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I..WANT..THE...SPACE JOCKEY!
Yeah, we know.
We could imply that there were no Xenomorph encounters in that time from dialogue in Alien Resurrection. General Perez says when he, Wren and Gedimen are discussing Ripley that for all intents and purposes she wiped them all out.
In Resurrection, we're told they were bought out by Wallmart. This always pissed me off, because Whedon obviously thought it would be funny, but I found it insulting.
I'd ignore the AVP movies if I were them.
It says Ridley Scott will produce, not direct.
This is a mistake, the studios have been fiddling around looking for that 'right' formula to re-boot, reimagine, restart this franchise by trying to once more catch ligthning in the bottle.
Alien scared the pants off of us in 1979 (yes I saw it in theaters, snuck in at the ripe old age of 12 and had the airvent thing seared into my memory :P )
Aliens was an exciting anticapated 'payback' film that had some scary moments but was mostly a rollercoaster ride. It was a fun film that even did the opposite of the first film by allowing more than just Ripley surive.
Then the wheels came off the wagon, somehow it was decided that Ripley was the star just by the nature of her being the only survivor from the first film. Alien3 was VERY atmoshperic, I did love some of it though it was an attempt to recapture the dark perpetually dismal feel to the first whch was NOT the theme of the first film, not everyone has to die,,,but alas still a fun movie to watch...but not what the masses wanted...
So that brings us to Alien 4 and then later the AVP series...all attempts by those who seek to revitalize what was still a very closed story (Alien, Aliens and Aliens3 was neatly sewn up) so what can hollywood do but go backwards....epic fail. Some neat scenes and characters here and there (I did like the 'Wolf' Predator from the AVP:R) but really nothing has worked to re- whatever this franchise.
For this to ever work you must do what Scott and then later Cameron did, know the central character is not Ripley, it is the Alien itself. Just retel a new alien story with new original characters. A New setting, a new chornicle that has been established in Alien and respected to a degree in Aliens.
God Pitch Black almost suceeded in being what a great alien sequel could be like. No more fantastic trips(beyond the futre date given really...im talking about A4's leap by several centuries) to the future, or ignoring established canon, just tell a horror story within a given setting alredy established. I agree with an earlier poster who said no more screwed up Earths , its a cliche i'm growing tired of too...just stick to Space, the less shown the more the mind fills in and that is key to really good horror.
The alien has always been the creature under your bed, or stalking you in the dark shadow filled haunted house (ala the Nostromo)
Just give us a great BOO and you should be fine.
Alien scared the pants off of us in 1979 (yes I saw it in theaters, snuck in at the ripe old age of 12 and had the airvent thing seared into my memory :P )
Aliens was an exciting anticapated 'payback' film that had some scary moments but was mostly a rollercoaster ride. It was a fun film that even did the opposite of the first film by allowing more than just Ripley surive.
Then the wheels came off the wagon, somehow it was decided that Ripley was the star just by the nature of her being the only survivor from the first film. Alien3 was VERY atmoshperic, I did love some of it though it was an attempt to recapture the dark perpetually dismal feel to the first whch was NOT the theme of the first film, not everyone has to die,,,but alas still a fun movie to watch...but not what the masses wanted...
So that brings us to Alien 4 and then later the AVP series...all attempts by those who seek to revitalize what was still a very closed story (Alien, Aliens and Aliens3 was neatly sewn up) so what can hollywood do but go backwards....epic fail. Some neat scenes and characters here and there (I did like the 'Wolf' Predator from the AVP:R) but really nothing has worked to re- whatever this franchise.
For this to ever work you must do what Scott and then later Cameron did, know the central character is not Ripley, it is the Alien itself. Just retel a new alien story with new original characters. A New setting, a new chornicle that has been established in Alien and respected to a degree in Aliens.
God Pitch Black almost suceeded in being what a great alien sequel could be like. No more fantastic trips(beyond the futre date given really...im talking about A4's leap by several centuries) to the future, or ignoring established canon, just tell a horror story within a given setting alredy established. I agree with an earlier poster who said no more screwed up Earths , its a cliche i'm growing tired of too...just stick to Space, the less shown the more the mind fills in and that is key to really good horror.
The alien has always been the creature under your bed, or stalking you in the dark shadow filled haunted house (ala the Nostromo)
Just give us a great BOO and you should be fine.
