Alien Prequel Confirmed

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Consider me cautiously optimistic.

Game starting, man!

Hm, unnecessary Alien movie being directed by young director who has only done commercials, music videos and short films. Where have I heard that story before?

Oh yeah, Alien 3 with David Fincher.

No. NO no no no NO no no NO.

no.

I think that the problems with Alien 3 were significantly larger than Fincher. The production was a mess from start to finish.

Wouldn't the Alien prequel be, uh, Alien v. Predator? Aliens are lame and only around cuz the Predators want some action!

For the love of dog, come up with a new idea Hollywood!

So... the aliens with some other alien? Whatever dead other alien was on the ship they found at the beginning of Alien?

Aliens vs Aliens!

AustinLiz wrote:

Wouldn't the Alien prequel be, uh, Alien v. Predator? Aliens are lame and only around cuz the Predators want some action!

Alien vs. predator never existed. I dont know what you are talking about.

Well.. I saw aliens in the theater when i was 14. My parents took me and a the time it was an astounding film and break through work at the time.

It is entertainment - I hope this will be entertaining nothing more.

If you are looking for something more, something to touch your soul, I'd suggest that you watch the green mile, or schindlers list.

Otherwise - i hope it's good enough to enjoy. that's all.

hell i love the movie "Feast" because it was entertaining - not great.

So... the aliens with some other alien? Whatever dead other alien was on the ship they found at the beginning of Alien?

Here's where I pull out my Nerd card... That creature's called the Space Jockey. In some of the extended fiction its implied that their race created the aliens as a weapon and terraformer (when a proper hive is built). The ship from the first alien movie was possibly a "bomber" of sorts that would deposit its

God, I am a DORK...

All in all, I kind of don't want this movie to happen. Ridley & Cameron got it right the first time. No need to go back and screw the franchise further.

Yeah, I honestly don't think that at this point anyone can top what Ridley & Cameron did for this franchise. I love the Alien franchise, would love more solid movies from it, but we're at 2 for 6 now. 0 for 4 if you look at attempts to reach the bar set by the first two.

The Space Jockey is solely interesting because it's a mystery. A movie about it/him/her/them would only rob it of it's one defining characteristic.

MikeSands wrote:

Aliens vs Aliens!

That'll be like the Aliens version of Terminator!

BadKen wrote:

Hm, unnecessary Alien movie being directed by young director who has only done commercials, music videos and short films. Where have I heard that story before?

Oh yeah, Alien 3 with David Fincher.

No. NO no no no NO no no NO.

no.

Wait, couldn't this also apply to Ridley Scott too though? Pretty sure he worked in TV and commercials prior to Alien.

Tony/Ridley seem to be involved in this no? The article made it sound like they were producing it. Why the heck do we need a prequel? Are they gonna prequel everything, prequel to prequels with another prequel.

I can't think of any possible interesting story that can be told in a prequel. Who cares about the space jockey!

I'm just happy there's no Ripley. That opens things up a lot. Call me excited. Guarded, but excited.

stevenmack wrote:
BadKen wrote:

Hm, unnecessary Alien movie being directed by young director who has only done commercials, music videos and short films. Where have I heard that story before?

Oh yeah, Alien 3 with David Fincher.

No. NO no no no NO no no NO.

no.

Wait, couldn't this also apply to Ridley Scott too though? Pretty sure he worked in TV and commercials prior to Alien.

Yes, yes it could. And Fincher's career after Alien 3 is proof that the movie's failure to please fans has almost nothing to do with his direction.

Watch it again sometime. In my opinion, Fincher did an excellent job with the parts of the movie that he had direct control over, it's just that he didn't have anything to work with. It's the script that's bad, not the direction. He got good performances from all the actors involved. Some of the camera work is actually really cool. It's just not really a good story.

It's truly major failings for me are killing off all the characters Cameron did such a great job making you love in Aliens, and then failing completely to make Ripley seem like Ripley. It wasn't even the same character as far as I was concerned, and that was entirely the script's fault.

Read up on the production of Alien 3. The entire thing was a mess from start to finish.

*edit*

Good lord. This is what I get for jumping to the bottom of the thread. That last sentence was already said, almost word for word, in the first couple replies.

But it's true I tell you!

Thin_J wrote:

Watch it again sometime. In my opinion, Fincher did an excellent job with the parts of the movie that he had direct control over, it's just that he didn't have anything to work with. It's the script that's bad, not the direction. He got good performances from all the actors involved. Some of the camera work is actually really cool. It's just not really a good story.

It's truly major failings for me are killing off all the characters Cameron did such a great job making you love in Aliens, and then failing completely to make Ripley seem like Ripley. It wasn't even the same character as far as I was concerned, and that was entirely the script's fault.quote]

I'm not a big Alien fan, nothing special, just never got into it. One afternoon I didn't feel like doing anything so I watched Alien, then I watched Alien 3.

Alien 3 is the only movie I have ever stopped watching before it was over because I didn't like the movie. My soul was being crushed watching that movie. It was horrible. Horrible. It was just such a depressing grimy grim dark movie.

(The soul crushing was horrible, not necessarily the movie.)

0kelvin wrote:

The Space Jockey is solely interesting because it's a mystery. A movie about it/him/her/them would only rob it of it's one defining characteristic.

My thoughts as well.

I'm not against the idea of another Alien movie, but it is unnecessary to explain away every little mystery.

If this is really a prequel, then I don't think there would be any human characters in the movie at all, right? I'd probably be about the Aliens running amok on the Jockey ship and then crashing on LV-426 (is that right? im going by memory here)

LockAndLoad wrote:
So... the aliens with some other alien? Whatever dead other alien was on the ship they found at the beginning of Alien?

Here's where I pull out my Nerd card... That creature's called the Space Jockey. In some of the extended fiction its implied that their race created the aliens as a weapon and terraformer (when a proper hive is built). The ship from the first alien movie was possibly a "bomber" of sorts that would deposit its

God, I am a DORK...

All in all, I kind of don't want this movie to happen. Ridley & Cameron got it right the first time. No need to go back and screw the franchise further.

That's why we love you, man.

I hope they do it, if it is as bad as everything that came after Aliens, I'll just pretend it doesn't exist like those films don't. Worth the risk to me.

Barab wrote:

If this is really a prequel, then I don't think there would be any human characters in the movie at all, right? I'd probably be about the Aliens running amok on the Jockey ship and then crashing on LV-426 (is that right? im going by memory here)

You'd think so.

You'd be wrong, of course, because this is Hollywood.

Alien vs Alien: Beyond Space-Jockey Dome
Two aliens enter... one alien leaves...

Actually, I liked Alien 3 quite a bit—possibly because I am entirely too much of a fanboy. It wasn't the strongest film, but it wasn't awful. Alien Resurrection, sadly, was an abomination. (Which is sad, because it could have taken some threads from Alien 3, run with them, and turned the two movies together into a work of genius, instead of trashing everything.)

I enjoyed Alien Resurrection right up until the "birth". From that point on it was simply IMAGE(http://rps.net/QS/Images/Smilies/emotbarf.gif)

Alien 3 went off the rails in the first 2 minutes.

I'm skeptical, despite Ridley's apparent involvement. The Alien franchise has pretty much been milked to the point that Xenomorphs aren't very scary anymore. They could make it into a decent bug hunt I guess.

Also, I'm growing really weary of this prequel malarkey. I don't care about your f*cking backstory, go make a proper story instead of filling in the blanks in your background notes. To quote Patton Oswalt: I don't give a sh*t where the stuff I love comes from! I just love the stuff I love!

Quintin_Stone wrote:
Barab wrote:

If this is really a prequel, then I don't think there would be any human characters in the movie at all, right? I'd probably be about the Aliens running amok on the Jockey ship and then crashing on LV-426 (is that right? im going by memory here)

You'd think so.

You'd be wrong, of course, because this is Hollywood.

Kind of like the concept of an Aliens vs. Predator movie would be the most awesome thing ever made because Aliens and Predators would just f- each other up the whole time, but instead the humans become heroes? And then do it again in a sequel.

Is this the cluster f**k that Hollywood can be that you speak of? If so, I don't know what you mean.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

I enjoyed Alien Resurrection right up until the "birth". From that point on it was simply IMAGE(http://rps.net/QS/Images/Smilies/emotbarf.gif)

Alien 3 went off the rails in the first 2 minutes.

Yeah, Alien Resurrection started off ok. It had a lot of good things going for it: Ron Perlman, Jeunet's direction, Whedon's script, and then suddenly...
GIANT
ALIEN
VAGINA
IMAGE(http://rps.net/QS/Images/Smilies/emotbarf.gif)

I found Jeunet's direction to be one of the biggest problems with Resurrection. He played things like a grotesque black comedy, and it didn't work at all.

Alien Love Gardener wrote:

I found Jeunet's direction to be one of the biggest problems with Resurrection. He played things like a grotesque black comedy, and it didn't work at all.

It was certainly a departure from the previous films. I didn't mind it, but I can see how it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea.

muttonchop wrote:

Yeah, Alien Resurrection started off ok. It had a lot of good things going for it: Ron Perlman, Jeunet's direction, Whedon's script, and then suddenly...
GIANT
ALIEN
VAGINA
IMAGE(http://rps.net/QS/Images/Smilies/emotbarf.gif)

I think i must have blanked this scene from my memory...