They're Remaking 'Alien' -- the 'Prometheus' thread

xpost - same thing.

http://www.nndb.com/people/104/000025029/mary-hart-sized.jpg

see post at the tippy-top o' the thread;-)

I want to cry.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/16328

In January we broke the news that Robert Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios would be producing a reboot of Predator for 20th Century Fox. Our regular tipster was proven correct once again as the story was confirmed in April. Our tipster even scooped us on who would be penning the remake, now titled Predators.

So Mr. Anonymous is back again. And being that 20th Century Fox is remaking Predator, it doesn't surprise me at all that Fox is also going back to their catalog for a reboot of Ridley Scott's Alien.

What our tipster informed us is that - opposite the Predator situation - the plan is to stick with the original concept of only one alien on the ship.

Michael Costigan, Ridley Scott and even Tony Scott are all on board to produce and have tapped Carl Rinsch to get beyond the camera and bring a new Ripley to the big screen.

Who is Carl Rinsch? I'm being told he's a commercial/music video director and does work for Scott Free Productions, who is also producing the remake.

In the original, the terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet, and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. One by one, each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left, leading to an explosive conclusion that sets the stage for its stunning sequel, Aliens (my favorite film of all-time).

We'll keep you posted on any updates, but that's what we got for you this evening. Remember to take it as rumor until confirmed as many projects change through the course of development.

look what you did

shia lebeouf will def be alien

I figured this would happen, being that after all the bad sequels and AVP flicks the only logical way to milk the series was to go back to square one. But it doesn't hurt any less.

What is the purpose of this?

Predator, who cares. It was stupid to begin with and can probably only improve in Rodriguez's hands. But Alien was absolutely perfect as is. Waaaaaah!

However, if Pat O'Brien is actually cast as the Alien this will become a must-see

robert rodriguez isn't 1/10th the director that mctiernan is

Alien 3D

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Who won when Alien fought Predator?

i hope this is like star trek, showing how the young version of the original alien learned how to become the alien he is today

also i hope it is set at alien academy

do you mean the lumen of a person's gut???

also i hope it is set at alien academy

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What's that company that makes knockoff movies to coincide with releases? I have this theory that the only way to stop this revival madness is to saturate the market with so many degraded versions that any public appetite for them would be obliterated. ALIEN FANFICTION TO THE RESCUE

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It could be like a more tragic Top Gun, where a fresh young facehugger falls in love with his instructor, a human woman. She dies in an accident, but a hundred years later he meets her great-graddaughter in the events of the first Alien.

that granddaughter? veronica cartright.

Legally Blonde Alien, with Reese Witherspoon

When a blonde sorority queen alien is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to his planet to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined.

Alien Brockovich, with Julia Roberts

An unemployed single alien mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a global power company accused of polluting a planet's water supply.

Wasn't that the plot of Erin Brockovich?

It's a tribute script.

How's this for high-concept: A remake of Predator starring the Alien as Predator.

re: alien brockovic -- I was making bad joke about Julia Roberts looking not quite human, having second mouth.

Would pay to see Ordinary Aliens dir. by Redford.

Chestburst On The 4th Of July

AVPVSW

Alien vs Predator vs Sand Worms (from Dune)

all human roles portrayed by Tracy Morgan

Who won when Alien fought Predator?

the predalien, duh

i would like to see a movie about an alien-human war done in the style of the thin red line

Why is it that every movie franchise is all about remakes and reboots these days? Doesn't anybody believe in sequels anymore? Personally, I would've wanted to know what happened after the ending of Alien 4, but apparently no one else cares.

I did like the design of David's lair. Film was pretty weak overall but had some good visuals

Lol I remember pretty much nothing of this one, except maybe the flute and also ... nah, I think that's it. I don't even remember the cast, beyond Fassbender. Maybe some Frankenstein vibes?

I watched Prometheus and Covenant for the first time a couple years ago. Viewed back-to-back, Covenant seemed like a gahdamn masterpiece in comparison.

That is the last film with the Xenomorph in so far isn't it? You might think if Prey can revitalise the Predator somewhat after a series of b movie takes on it something similar could be done with the Xenomorph. While trying to avoid that being an identikit genre in itself.
Or somebody who didn't want to make schlock could step into the Alien franchise. I thought the premise of seeing the background of the story could have been handled a lot better. & it was the way that it was handled that was the problem.
But I Think I did enjoy bits of the film when I first saw it and have now heard several people say its a really good film which isn't the way I remember it on rewatching it. That the stupid bits outweigh everything else, like.

There’s a TV series of Alien being (verrrrrrrry slowly) made, which caused a pause on any idiotic film projects for the moment.

apparently there was an alien v predator series that was actually made and edited and then put on a shelf for 7 years (and counting)

I think the fundamentals of the alien are sound, the problem with most of the sequels is that they either lean too hard toward mythology (who cares?) or, more commonly, they're just astoundingly stupid/silly. The "Predator" movies, for example, are actually all mostly good. First is great, second OK, "Predators" not bad (iirc), "Prey" is good. Only outlier (crossovers aside) is "The Predator," which is terrible. "Alien" movies are suited to the same simple more or less horror movie/action model: drop alien in with people/drop people in with alien. I suppose the last couple Ridley movies get points for novelty, since the whole time you're asking yourself what the fuck is going on and why, at least when you're not rolling your eyes at how amazingly dumb the characters are.

Then again, thinking out loud, the alien franchise quickly backed itself into a corner, because the alien (even one) is simply too powerful an enemy. The awesome "Alien: Isolation" game got it right: you don't beat the alien, you *avoid* the alien while doing other shit, like fixing the ship or outsmarting robots.

i may have missed one of the crossover films but am i right that there still is no 'Alien on the loose on Earth' movie? it would be so mega

Yeah, the second AvP film was basically that. I'm one of the only people on earth who thought it was decent (if deeply flawed). But you should probably go with the consensus opinion that it's a cinematic unflushed toilet.

= better than prometheus :D

i’m going to invite you all to a double feature of Solo and Prometheus and explain in a very irritating voice exactly why each one is good, while we’re watching it

I never saw "Solo," but if it went the way of "Willow" on Disney+, would anyone notice?

Well I'd have to find something else to do at 11pm every night of the week

You could watch "Free Solo," alone, while drinking beer from a red Solo cup.

Still impressed that stupid Prometheus was basically the exact same plot as stupid Alien vs Predator, just with alien planet instead of Antarctica, and weird playdo men instead of Predators. Otherwise all the same (alien temple, messianic Weyland, fuckwit scientists, weirdly invulnerable female lead, etc).

this fathead futzing around with origin stories and metaphysics when we could STILL HAVE THIS

The full-grown aliens were originally going to be transparent and their heads full of maggots. This was too hard to pull off though. And, originally, the alien Giger designed had eyes. He asked for the eyes to be removed when the effects team started building it.

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original is 44 today, and this thread is grebt: i wanna see the robert altman version

Alternately, Tarkovsky.

Alien with eyes definitely paved the way for his ELP cover:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0d/ELP_-_Brain_Salad_Surgery.jpg/220px-ELP_-_Brain_Salad_Surgery.jpg

This cover was from 1974, though!

Oh shit, so ELP invented the alien!

I may have been thinking of the Debbie Harry album.

Hahaha

The Alien was spawned on Love Beach.

they used the skull/eye socket version in alien: resurrection! pretty well, imo. the scene where the more-human alien is sniffing ripley/mom is creepy

There’s a TV series of Alien being (verrrrrrrry slowly) made, which caused a pause on any idiotic film projects for the moment.

There's a film, directed by Fede Alvarez, shooting as we speak. From the little info there is about it, it does sound like a Prey-style b-movie take

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2edS2FlrK4

There’s a TV series of Alien being (verrrrrrrry slowly) made

Well it's finally almost here, for better or for worse. I slightly suspect the latter:

Alien: Earth is set in 2120, just two years before the events of the original film, and follows life on Earth as it is dominated by the corporate interests of five governing companies: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold.

I presume the first one is around having defeated the nefarious Compuserve at long last.

Cast is kinda legit insane, though:

Sydney Chandler as Wendy
Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh
Alex Lawther as Hermit
Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier
Babou Ceesay as Morrow
Adrian Edmondson as Atom Eins
David Rysdahl as Arthur Sylvia
Essie Davis as Dame Sylvia
Lily Newmark as Nibs
Erana James as Curly
Adarsh Gourav as Slightly
Jonathan Ajayi as Smee
Kit Young as Tootles
Diêm Camille as Siberian
Moe Bar-El as Rashidi
Sandra Yi Sencindiver as Yutani

I always enjoy Noah Hawley shows even when they're at a low ebb, so I'm in.

Wish he would have pulled in Fargo alum David Thewlis, that guy has a classic Alien vibe.

Kit Young as Tootles

It'll be interesting to see how they reinterpret Arthur Malet's timeless performance in Hook to this rather different milieu.

I just mentioned it on the Streaming Media thread, but the first episode of the new "Alien" series is great.

Never let a perfectly good monster go underutilized.

i started a thread

“ALIEN: EARTH” on FX: Peter Pan, Wendy & Albino Timothy Olyphant

excited to watch this tonight

Somehow hadn't seen Prometheus before. Would have been better if I'd kept it that way. Absolutely terrible pretty much across the board.

It gave us this thread and for that I treasure it

I had avoided thread until now, only 5000 ish posts to catch up on.

*this thread

I've not felt so immediately fiercely negative about a film in a long time. Awful wooden performances from some potentially good actors (Idris Elba and Kate Dickie especially stood out), so I have to blame the abysmal script and the wider production.

I think that's kind of the major shortcoming of Ridley Scott's "I don't need to shoot the movie for more than a month" or whatever approach is that he decides what parts of the movie he is most invested in and then just doesn't flesh out characters or shoot a lot of coverage, meaning you can't insert any more of that later

I think he just said "fuck it" with Alien: Covenant and there's a character that only appears in a non-movie teaser prologue who is not in the actual movie at all. Just a big "this main character's husband was mentioned in the marketing but oops they died before the beginning of the actual movie, sorry"

they should have done that with James Franco in a lot more movies, though

It's wild, because iirc Prometheus *looks* great, which you'd imagine would be the hard part.

Making it look great shouldn't be hard when the budget was over $100 million.

i have some thoughts about what constitutes "looking great" but they're boring thoughts and not worth thinking about.

anyway none of this shit looks great

does it look great? i think it looks dumb

this is a good thread tho lol

I watched it on a laptop, so the judgement should be qualified by that, but it looked quite unremarkable to me. The landscapes were more impressive than any of the spaceship or alien elements, which were nothing one couldn't see in any number of other films or tv shows.

I really like this movie and I genuinely think the C-section scene might be the best scene in the whole franchise

I like all the SJ/Engineer scenes in Prometheus (like the musical activation of the console, that's the stuff) - probably just the relative novelty. They looked terrible in their brief Covenant scene tho.

The reboot was worth it for David

lol, can't remember anything else about it, that's for sure. Clearly, given the show and the most recent movie, they're leaning into the aliens being the least compelling component and the robots the most.