Ridley Scott Will Direct the Alien Prequel

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Variey is reporting (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006722.html?categoryid=13&cs=1) that director Ridley Scott will return to direct the Alien prequel.

Twentieth Century Fox is resuscitating its "Alien" franchise. The studio has hired Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott attached to return as director.

Spaihts got the job after pitching the studio and Scott Free, which will produce the film.

The film is set up to be a prequel to the groundbreaking 1979 film that Scott directed. It will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them.

A prequel? Um... there were no humans in the story prior to Alien. Only the Aliens and the Space Jockey.

[Valar Morghulis]

Oh, I bet they'll add more [I]intrigue[I] by having an earlier group of W-Y Corp employees stumble upon it. Thus the company being fully aware of what they were sending Ripley's group into the clutches of in the orig.

[Justin_Bailey]

Um... there were no humans in the story prior to Alien. Only the Aliens and the Space Jockey.

Space Jockeys. The term apparently refers to the entire species of big-headed aliens in the Alien universe.

And wasn't it implied by Ash's actions that The Company knew all about the alien and that's why the Nostromo went to investigate?

[KlausFlouride]

This is gonna be the shit when it comes out. I love the whole Aliens series. The only thing that sucks is I got the super mega box set a couple years ago for Christmas. That joker was $150.

[impodoom]

This franchise gives me battered wife syndrome. He hits me because he loves me! Maybe with enough counseling they can make me forget all the terrible things that have been done to me. I'm looking at you aliens vs predator, aliens 3, and alien resurrection. Hopefully with Scott involved they can do things right again.

[Steve_Erhardt]

Not liking this idea at all because it seems like prequel movies tend to suck, but I guess if anybody can pull it off, it'll be Ridley Scott.

[Vulture]

there were no SURVIVING humans in the story prior to Alien


/Thus the company sent in Ash and the Nostromo. The suuply ship S-mart had already been trashed with no survivors.
/Yes I prefer Raimi and Bruce do the Aliens prequel. Klaatu, Barada, Geiger!

[Jamikazi]

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[bickle]

Yes I prefer Raimi and Bruce do the Aliens prequel. Klaatu, Barada, Geiger!

That's pretty much the worst idea ever.

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It was implied that the company knew something about the situation, had intentionaly planted an "artificial human" on the Nos' and intentionaly awakened the crew early to investigate/evaluate to situation.

[krackmonkey]

there were no SURVIVING humans in the story prior to Alien


/Thus the company sent in Ash and the Nostromo. The suuply ship S-mart had already been trashed with no survivors.
/Yes I prefer Raimi and Bruce do the Aliens prequel. Klaatu, Barada, Geiger!

Sam Raimi died in 1995, after finishing Army Of Darkness. Let his corpse rest or you'll doom us all to yet another damn Kevin Costner baseball movie.

[DeadPixel]

Sam Raimi died in 1995, after finishing Army Of Darkness. Let his corpse rest or you'll doom us all to yet another damn Kevin Costner baseball movie.

I have to admit, you made me chuckle, but I will go head and defend Kevin Costner just a little. He was a total badass in Mr. Smith, I loved the way Kevin portrayed the character and watched the movie several times.

Staying on topic; as much as I want to see this movie, I think it's a very bad idea. Hollywood is simply not brave enough to make it entirely without humans in the picture, which is the only right way to do it. They should just stick to making a decent Alien sequel that would make us forget about Paul Adnerson's butchery. Alien Resurection started out just fine, but turned into a complete mess.

Having said that, I'll be first in line just because it's Ridley Scott.

[modeps]

If you haven't seen it, go check out No Way Out with Kevin Costner. That movie is good. Also, I may be in a minority, but I liked Waterworld and The Postman... Mostly for mindless entertainment. They weren't bad if you suspended your brain for a while. Come to think of it, I don't know of a Costner movie that I don't like (that I've seen... That Swing Vote looks like complete trash).

[walstib]

This franchise gives me battered wife syndrome. He hits me because he loves me! Maybe with enough counseling they can make me forget all the terrible things that have been done to me. I'm looking at you aliens vs predator, aliens 3, and alien resurrection. Hopefully with Scott involved they can do things right again.

alien resurrection was absolute crap. never saw the vs. movies cause it just sounded stupid to begin with.

alien 3 i actually enjoyed. with it was more true to the original concept tho.

[DeadPixel]

You're right No Way Out was pretty good and I also liked Open Range, the gun battles were awesome. I don't get people that bash Kevin Costner, you always get what you expect from him, kinda the same character, same personality. In some movies it works very well, in others it doesn't. The ones where it fits turn out pretty good.

Anyway, I was just thinking it would be nice to see where the Aliens originated from and how they were able to hop on board of the the first ship that came across them. I'm just really hoping they aren't some byproduct of artificial mutation, caused by of a bunch of humans. There are so many cool story lines they could come up with, but my hopes will remain low.

[skinnyboy30]

You do realize that the AvP movies are prequels since they take place on Earth and WAY before the first movie so yeah they can do pretty much anything and just make sure the dates are before the first movie.......

speaking of Kevin Costner go watch Mr Brooks, only time ive ever seen him play a evil motherf@#ker.

[krackmonkey]

I just wanted to mention that I definitely wasn't intending my post to be a bash on Kevin Costner, who has given us a couple of the finest westerns ever made. I merely loathe his obsession with baseball movies.

But yes, I welcome and fear this Alien prequel. The only thing that makes me less worried is the knowledge that they're also making "Predators", using the 10+ year old Robert Rodriguez script that was originally deemed way too violent to film and that "no female would ever go see this movie if it were made". It looks like sci-fi may be heading back into happy times for a spell.

[Chimpbot]

You do realize that the AvP movies are prequels since they take place on Earth and WAY before the first movie so yeah they can do pretty much anything and just make sure the dates are before the first movie.......

speaking of Kevin Costner go watch Mr Brooks, only time ive ever seen him play a evil motherf@#ker.

It's really, really easy to retcon and just plain ignore entries in a series. They did it with the Superman series, they did it with the second Hulk film and they can certainly do it with Aliens.

It's as simple as saying, "That shit didn't happen. It was merely swamp gas reflecting off of a weather balloon." Problem solved.

[Evil Avatar]

speaking of Kevin Costner go watch Mr Brooks, only time ive ever seen him play a evil motherf@#ker.

That is a great flick. Open Range is super slow, but the gunfight at the end totally makes it worthwhile.

Costner isn't bad, I think he is one of those actors who seems to have a reputation for being a bad actor even though he seldom makes a bad film. Tom Cruise is almost the same. I suspect it is more about the idea that they tend to be the headliner instead of the movie being the headliner.

ie, 'A Tom Cruise film.' 'A Kevin Costner film.'

We don't want to go see specific actors, we want to go see great films. This is probably why Adam Sandler and Eddie Murphy haven't made a good film in years. They are too focused on being the star and not focused enough on making great films.



I would need to go back and see the first film again. I was under the impression that the company knew about the SIGNAL and woke up the crew to investigate because Mother reported the signal back to them, but no one at the company knew about the Aliens.

They certainly didn't know about the Aliens 50+ years later when Ripley was rescued. No one believe her and it was Burke who sent the colonists out to the derelict to investigate, not the company.

I'm sure they will do the Hollywood trick of ignoring the previous movies and show some other humans encountering the derelict before the Nostromo even though that makes no sense at all from a storyline point of view and I'm also sure that with Scott at the helm that the movie will be awesome.

You could easily have a story where another space ship encounters the derelict while it is still in space, their whole ship becomes infected and at the end they push the derelict away from them and it crash lands on LV426. Problem solved.

However, it would be a better film without the humans. :p

[Methos]

"That shit didn't happen. It was merely swamp gas reflecting off of a weather balloon."

Also known as the "Highlander" saga. Planet Zeist?

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Also known as the "Highlander" saga. Planet Zeist?

The worst part about Highlander 2 is that it was directed by the same guy, and the screenplay was written by Peter Bellwood, who co-wrote the scteenplay for the first film. When I first saw the second movie, I was like "WTF I got duped! They should have hired some of the people who worked on the first film and not these knob ends who buy the rights to stuff and ruin it!" Then I read the credits and lost faith in humanity.

[Chimpbot]

I would need to go back and see the first film again. I was under the impression that the company knew about the SIGNAL and woke up the crew to investigate because Mother reported the signal back to them, but no one at the company knew about the Aliens.

They certainly didn't know about the Aliens 50+ years later when Ripley was rescued. No one believe her and it was Burke who sent the colonists out to the derelict to investigate, not the company.

Go back and watch those first two movies again; the company knew about the Aliens, which is why Ash was sent aboard the Nostromo. His mission was to retreive a sample of the species at all costs; they made it a point to hammer down the fact that the entire crew was expendable because of this.

In Aliens, the company definitely knew about them. If I recall correctly, that was the whole reason why they planted a colony on the derelict ship's planet.

This prequel could easily deal with the company initially finding out about the xenomorphs. It'd be entirely plausible and wouldn't require any retconning outside of ignoring the AvP series.

[Justin_Bailey]

This prequel could easily deal with the company initially finding out about the xenomorphs. It'd be entirely plausible and wouldn't require any retconning outside of ignoring the AvP series.

And even then, the AvP series does little more than suggest that Weyland and Yutani exist in the early 21st century. Yutani gets a hold of a Predator blaster at the end of AvP2, but that's it.

[Evil Avatar]

In Aliens, the company definitely knew about them. If I recall correctly, that was the whole reason why they planted a colony on the derelict ship's planet.

This one I'm gonig to have to call you on. Can't you remember when Burke gives the big speech to Ripley talking about 'Exclusive Rights' and how he wanted to infect Ripley and Newt to get the Alien back through quarantine? The company didn't know about the Aliens, they only knew what Ripley told them and they didn't believe her and closed the book on the case and she couldn't get a job as a result.

[Justin_Bailey]

This one I'm gonig to have to call you on. Can't you remember when Burke gives the big speech to Ripley talking about 'Exclusive Rights' and how he wanted to infect Ripley and Newt to get the Alien back through quarantine? The company didn't know about the Aliens, they only knew what Ripley told them and they didn't believe her and closed the book on the case and she couldn't get a job as a result.

But that completely ignores Alien where The Company clearly knew what they were looking for. Why would Ash have orders that everyone else was expendable if they didn't know what was in the derelict?

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This one I'm gonig to have to call you on. Can't you remember when Burke gives the big speech to Ripley talking about 'Exclusive Rights' and how he wanted to infect Ripley and Newt to get the Alien back through quarantine? The company didn't know about the Aliens, they only knew what Ripley told them and they didn't believe her and closed the book on the case and she couldn't get a job as a result.

I always took that as if the company knew what was going on, but they still needed to pass certain government checkpoints (like the quarentine, colonist saftey, ect) to get the alien back to earth.

[lalarka]

> A prequel? Um... there were no humans in the story prior to Alien. Only the Aliens and the Space Jockey.

Hey, dumb ass. The Company sent the Nostromo to LV-486(by dint of including Ash and it's programming). That posits that the Company had some contact prior to the movie Alien.

[Jadbalja]

Sam Raimi died in 1995, after finishing Army Of Darkness. Let his corpse rest or you'll doom us all to yet another damn Kevin Costner baseball movie.

You obviously haven't seen Drag Me to Hell...