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Ridley Scott Directing Alien Prequel
brumgrunt writes "After three decades of speculation, original Alien director Ridley Scott has signed on to the new Fox sequel. 'Nothing is known about the set-up of the new movie, except that chronologically it precedes the plight of the Nostromo. Since it's obviously going to involve the human race [...] Writer Jon Spaihts successfully pitched to Fox and Scott Free Productions, and is working on the script.'"
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"I don't know if you've been keeping score... But we're getting our asses kicked, here!" I love it and can't wait.
At least I had a few years without Xenomorphs showing up in my nightmare.
(IIRC, the nightmares involved having a pulse rifle that ran out of ammo.)
Funny, I would have thought the most recent ones would have involved Jean-Pierre Jeunet directing another movie. :)
What do you mean, "*They* cut the power"? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!
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I heard they were going to do that, but they couldn't get Rosanne Barr to play the lead roll.
One would hope not -- those movies were worse than AIDS.
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At least I had a few years without Xenomorphs showing up in my nightmare.
(IIRC, the nightmares involved having a pulse rifle that ran out of ammo.)
Funny, I would have thought the most recent ones would have involved Jean-Pierre Jeunet directing another movie. :)
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What do you mean, "*They* cut the power"? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
if it was a vision should you not have jabbed out your visual cortex instead?
This story should make sense because the original story directly implied prior knowledge of the Alien organism prior to its "discovery" in the movie--although why anyone thought it needed "protecting" is beyond me. It always seemed quite capable of protecting itself.
Best alien joke: The cartoon of the Imperial Storm Trooper with a face-grabber on its face saying, "I hate being the one to have to walk Lord Darth Vader's pet."
And yes, after seeing the original Alien in an evening movie showing without knowing what it was really about ahead of time, I left the bathroom light on that night afterwards just in case. I'm sure I wasn't the only one.
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Since it's obviously going to involve the human race [...] Writer Jon Spaihts successfully pitched to Fox
So...it was successfully pitched to Fox because...it will involve the human race? Only Fox greenlights movies involving humans? Or do they always greenlight movies involving humans?
I've been prepping my sons (3.5 years and 7 months) for their first viewing of Alien/Aliens since birth by grabbing their entire face with my hand. They think its funny... at least for now.
"Aliens versus Swine Flu"?
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I've been prepping my sons (3.5 years and 7 months) for their first viewing of Alien/Aliens since birth by grabbing their entire face with my hand. They think its funny... at least for now.
I hope you're done having kids. Because if you ever explain that that the baby will come out of mommy's belly...
The first movie was about a single alien, the second was about about many aliens. If this is a prequel, it will have to be about the egg of that first alien before it hatched.
"Hey, what's that?"
"I dunno, man, but it looks pretty strange."
"I've got a bad feeling about this..."
(spooky music)
Dude! How can we get Samuel L. Jackson involved? ("I am so m-f'ing sick of these m-f'ing aliens on this m-f'ing spaceship!")
...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...
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in the original Ripley shot first.
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i have an inside track on the ideas they are basing the prequel on, and it harkens back to classic themes in shockingly new and original ways, not at all feeling like some high school sophomore clicked around a bit on wikipedia and retread tired, stale ideas
for example, the story of the alien in the prequel will revolve around important rules that one should never break, which of course get inevitably broken:
1. don't get the alien wet, or it immediately reproduces more of its kind asexually by budding from its back
3. keep the alien away from bright lights... especially sunlight. this will kill it
4. and don't ever feed the alien after midnight
i think this is a brilliant and entirely original idea
furthermore, the movie will start with a crashed ship full of religious pilgrims, a stowaway, a dangerous criminal, etc. the alien hunts them all down relentlessly one by one whenever the planet falls into eclipse and darkness. but the fearless criminal has special surgically altered eyes that allows him to see in pitch black, so he turns the tables and hunts the alien instead
again, a brilliant and entirely original idea from hollywood for the alien prequel!
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I hope you're done having kids. Because if you ever explain that that the baby will come out of mommy's belly...
Shit, my sister and I were both c-sections and the scar was ginormous. Being a Christian household, we weren't told that much about the birds and the bees but I did happen to see Alien one night when trying to catch a rerun of Fraggle Rock on HBO late at night and put two and two together... Gave me creepy visions of my little baby sister bursting out of the tummy, all blood and gnashing teeth.
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All the space marines in that movie died. Do you still want to be one? Me, I'd rather be a little girl.
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Thanks you just ruined that movie for me, whenever it's made.
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Is this going to be a stand-up film, sir, or another bug hunt?
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I've been prepping my sons (3.5 years and 7 months) for their first viewing of Alien/Aliens since birth by grabbing their entire face with my hand. They think its funny... at least for now.
This reminds me of when my parents took me to see Alien when I was 5. Good time had by all due to a weeks worth of sleep deprivation.
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intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Really?
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That'd be more of a sequel to "Aliens versus Bacteria" though (aka "The War of the Worlds")
Maybe because I'm still scarred from the Star Wars Prequels. Though I'd pay to watch Jar Jar get killed by one of em.
Only if Jar Jar Binks feels the wrath of the aliens... Then it truly would be a Merry Christmas for all!
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I had been hoping for this I figure it's high time the ALIEN visited the Dentist ?!?!?!
The Rippley character could be the HOT dental assistent !!!
The ALIEN is hatched out in an millitary lab, Ripply takes him to the base dentist when he develops his first tooth ache.
First the denist breaks all his human designed tools on the ALIENS teeth.
Ripply has sex with the ALIEN !!
The dentist locks down the ALIEN and pulls out a government issue prototype plasma laser, the ALIEN struggles ...
Ripply gets HOT and has sex with the ALIEN !
The dentist discovers the ALIEN has more teath in it's URANIS and starts working there ...
Ripply gets REALLY EXCITED and has sex with the ALIEN ...