Alien Prequel

[Sandman]

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006722.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

[Adam Cameron]

Post by Sandman
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What? Is that a joke?

[Sandman]

Post by Adam Cameron

Post by Sandman
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What? Is that a joke?

If I was joking I would say: "A horse walks into a bar. The bartender
says, 'Why the long face?'"

[Adam Cameron]

Post by Sandman

Post by Adam Cameron

Post by Sandman
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What? Is that a joke?

If I was joking I would say: "A horse walks into a bar. The bartender
says, 'Why the long face?'"

Did anyone else just hear a whooshing noise?

[Covenant]

Post by Sandman
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Yeah, this has been in the pipeline for a little while now.

Nothing seems to say what its actually going to be *about* though.

(There are also rumours that it will just be a re-make.)

[Adam Cameron]

Post by Covenant
(There are also rumours that it will just be a re-make.)

I'd be surprisd if Scott thinks there's a point in *remaking* Alien. he
said on the DVD commentary for the rerelease they did a while back (the one
with a bit of the cocoon sequence, and the new shot of the alien watching
Brett from above), that he still considers the 1979 theatrical release to
be his idea of the "director's cut". He wasn't really saying "yeah, I wish
I had a chance to do [this] differently", he was suggesting along the lines
"I've already done it rigth once, there was no need for this so-called
director's cut".

I would guess the prequel woudld detail how the company found out about the
derelict in the first place. Although how that ends up being something
other than "Alien with a different crew", I dunno. At least there was
nothing really in Alien to suggest how the previous mission ended up, so
it's not like the ending will be predictable.

At least with Scott involved, it should be treated seriously though, and he
generally turns out good films, so this could be a good thing. If it does
eventuate (it is seeming more likely, granted).

[Covenant]

Post by Adam Cameron

Post by Covenant
(There are also rumours that it will just be a re-make.)

I'd be surprisd if Scott thinks there's a point in *remaking* Alien. he
said on the DVD commentary for the rerelease they did a while back (the one
with a bit of the cocoon sequence, and the new shot of the alien watching
Brett from above), that he still considers the 1979 theatrical release to
be his idea of the "director's cut". He wasn't really saying "yeah, I wish
I had a chance to do [this] differently", he was suggesting along the lines
"I've already done it rigth once, there was no need for this so-called
director's cut".
I would guess the prequel woudld detail how the company found out about the
derelict in the first place. Although how that ends up being something
other than "Alien with a different crew", I dunno. At least there was
nothing really in Alien to suggest how the previous mission ended up, so
it's not like the ending will be predictable.
At least with Scott involved, it should be treated seriously though, and he
generally turns out good films, so this could be a good thing. If it does
eventuate (it is seeming more likely, granted).

Not much I can add to that.
They're the main reasons *I* thought it surely couldn't be a re-make either
!

And, as you say, the fact that Ridley is on board does bode well.

But, isn't the big fear now, that... he screws it !!
(Surely not !!)

[Adam Cameron]

Post by Covenant
Not much I can add to that.
They're the main reasons *I* thought it surely couldn't be a re-make either
!

There's also the issue that a remake is usually done because the producers
think there's something to be had from updating the production values of
the original work.

But other than some haircuts - Dallas, Ripley, Parker - and some of the
ways computers were represented (neither of which really matter), what
would one change there?

The main special effects are the spaceships, which still stand up just fine
to anything else done since; and the alien, which doesn't so much "still
stand up" to subsequent offerings, the alien in Alien remains the best
implementation of "freaky weird shit" that's been committed to celluloid, I
think. Nothing before or after - including the various renditions of the
ants^h^h^h^haliens in subsequent movies - has been such an "alien"
organism, and so creepily presented. A remake would want to show more of
it, but that would be counter-productive, and reduce its impact as a scary
creature.

I guess the chest-burster sliding off the table, and the adult alien
outside the Narcissus @ the end looked a bit hokey, but I think the rest of
it was fine.

But for a thirty-year-old (!!!) film it stands up pretty well. Not enough
explosions for the sort of thing that gets wide release in summer these
days, but I don't see that as an indictment. Although it could be a
warning sign, if Fox are wanting to make it a *big* film, which they
probably are if RS is directing. I think he's probably one of those few
directors who would pretty much have complete control over what he does
though?

I guess we'll know in a few years time. I won't really accept that it's
definitely going to happen until it goes into production though.