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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Yeah, may not be so great.

[Anonymous Coward]

IMDB currently lists him having FOURTEEN projects "in development". So either he spends barely any time at all on any of them (and they all suck) or this movie will not come out until sometime in the 2020's (and we will all be dead from swine flu).

Re:Who cares about the humans

[TinBromide]

aliens attack, everybody dies.

Re:Great!

[deft]

amen to that. 1979's 'alien' is good, but the 1986 'aliens' is what made my heart thump and want to be a space marine.

GAME OVER MAN! GAME OVER!

Re:Who cares about the humans

[FreekyGeek]

As the owner of a couple cats, I can say that the easiest way to find any cat in the dark is to simply walk around until they run in front of you, and you either step on them or trip on them.

Re:Specialized team? Not necessarily

[Sir_Lewk]

Um, weren't the Aliens found on a planet being terraformed? Remember, shooting up the guaranteed a big bang and everybody loses, including the Company.

At the time of Alien the planet wasn't being terraformed. The events of Alien and Aliens were seperated by nearly 60 years, Ripley having been suspended in hypersleep between them.

And the beacon, wasn't that the terraformers asking for help, or warning off any rescuers? A distress beacon, I thought.

No, the distress beacon was coming from the crashed alien ship that was infected by xenomorphs.

So the freighter charges in to save the day, not being told of the Aliens, which the Company wanted to monetize. See how stupid that sounds? Sending in amateurs was a safe bet to get an Alien back. They didn't account for Ripley.

The freighter was sent in with the mission of investigating whatever the beacon was. The company possibly already knew about the beacon and what it meant though the official story on the Nostromo was that they were just investigating a mysterious distress beacon.

Not much help from the androld except at the end, being a company machine and all. He spent all his time entertaining the Marines and trying to get someone infected and on the way back to Earth, as if that was so hard to do.

The android from Alien (the science officer) was trying to get someone infected and returned to earth. However the android from Aliens (Bishop) wasn't, rather it was a company man (human) that was actively trying to get humans infected and back to earth.

Re:oblig.

[mfnickster]

It's a pity that they don't come out at night and tear Ridley Scott in twain.
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I respect what he did in Alien, but his recent works are the biggest loads of shite around. I wish he'd left the Alien series well enough alone.

You're kidding, right? You do know that after the first film, Ridley had nothing to do with the Alien series?

I'll hazard a guess that the movie will be yet another ad for America's army. There will be strategic deaths to ensure that the soldiers want revenge, but all in all they'll survive because they're so fucking good.

Um... are you referring to Black Hawk Down, in which the people who died/survived in the film are the ones who died/survived in real life?