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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.'"
I want the story of the ship the Nostromo found.
"To those who are overly cautious, everything is impossible. "
Is "Alien vs. Predator" and "Alien vs. Predator: Requiem" part of the canon? Will it be for this prequel?
I so hope he can pull this off, unfortunately horror/action directors don't seem to age as well as suspense/noir/drama directors do.
OFCS saved me from the latest Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Transformer and Terminator fiascoes, this may be another one I'll have to miss...but I hope not. Ridley Scott may be old, but he has an eye for quality, and he has clout. Here's hoping he can nail this, and give us a proper Alien trilogy (prequel, original, and Aliens of course).
*NOTE TO FOX - please put the money down and hire a talented writer and editor!*
(my other hand has fingers crossed for James Cameron and Avatar)
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I sure hope they throw a bit at the Pilot/Space Jockey subplot.
There's lots already proposed for that item's existence in the story, and I'd be happy with almost any of them.
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.
I first saw this movie when I was entirely too young to be watching such things. It was on TV one night and I was watching it with my father. Unfortunately, my mother decided it was time for bed right about the time Ripley was setting the ship to self-destruct. The last thing I saw, before going to bed, was Ripley stumbling across the Alien as she fled for the lifeboat.
I had horrible nightmares that night.
The first thing I asked my father, upon waking the next morning, was whether they had killed the Alien or not.
That movie continued to haunt my dreams... I eventually decided that wrapping a blanket over my head like a hood would somehow keep the facehuggers from getting a good grip, and started sleeping that way. To this day I feel most comfortable with a blanket looped over my head like a hood.
Interestingly enough, I have since grown to absolutely love both the Alien movies and HR Giger's artwork.
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." -Oscar Wilde
Actually, Giger did more work for the first one where one of the early concepts (from the Criterion laser disc edition) was to show that the Alien was actually a progressive species with a written language and culture. It would be great to show that side of the Alien. Instead of having these dumb feral beasts we could see a society of them. There would be a million possibilities with that story line and one that was obviously considered at one point.
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robert rodriguez is producing a new predator movie, called predators (like alien is to aliens?). perhaps on the predator home planet, again, completely ignoring the whole avp bullshit
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40865
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40879
additionally, the director will be some hotshot hungarian horror director named nimrod antal. aintitcool had an interveiw with rodriguez about the project:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41590
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Each actor's name is a link so
shows 339 individual spoken lines. There's a horizontal rule (width=30%) after each block of dialog and
shows 102 HRs. Each of those numbers may be a bit off (I see at least one other HR on the page; there might be other name links as well)--sometimes you need manual labor, not code, to get exact answers to annoying questions like this.
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When I saw it in the theater, there were scenes where I could not watch it -- I had to cover my eyes. Even when it was on TV, I still did that years later. (Specifically, the scene where Dallas is crawling through the ducts and the alien attacks.)
What made Alien so different from previous monster movies is the alien was so fast. Before Alien filmakers thought it heightened the suspense to show the monster slowly approaching the victims. Ridley Scott realized that if the alien moves quickly, the danger is increased because you are never safe; it can get you at any time.
That's not the only groundbreaking part of the movie. (Spoiler alert!)
Remember when Ripley set the Nostromo to self destruct, but then the alien is blocking her path to the escape pod, so she goes back to cancel the self destruct. How many times have we seen this before? It is such a cliche. So it was astounding when the timer ran down and she could not stop it! I've never seen that before. And I can't think of many movies that have done that since.
Ask your doctor for some sort of drug that works in the brain. They often stimulate remembering dreams. Antidepressants sometimes work. Old beta blockers (a type of blood pressure medication) are pretty good as well.
Better living through chemistry.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
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Feature, not a bug. Funny trolls are still trolls.
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