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.'"

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:Great!

[Tumbleweed]

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!

Somebody wake up Hicks.

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:Who cares about the humans

[Evildonald]

AvP? That rubbish series doesn't even count as part of the real Alien series.

Re:Great!

[schon]

Alien is a suspense/thriller.

Aliens is an action movie.

Alien3 was a drama.

Alien4 was a bad comedy.

Specialized team? Not necessarily

[Dr. Manhattan]

If the company had known about it, they would have sent a specialized team there instead of diverting a freighter.

Not necessarily. In the film, they use hypersleep - suspended animation - because even at whatever multiple of the speed of light the ships move at, trips still take months. (Script [dailyscript.com] says they're near Zeta II Reticuli, 39 light years from Earth, and they still have ten months to go.) If they can transmit data faster than ships move (or unmanned ships can move faster) then mobilizing a specialist team might take more time than they want to spend, when they can divert a freighter going by anyway.

The novelization (non-canon, but working from the shooting script) had Ash saying that the beacon had a fairly detailed warning, so the Company may well have known that parasitic aliens were there. No biggie, let the crew get infected and the ship return on autopilot.

Re:Who cares about the humans

[mosb1000]

What you say is true, but I don't know how informative it is. You've definitely got some captain obvious points going on here.

Make your own machinima

[rwa2]

Why wait for another Aliens movie? Grab your copy of Tremulous [tremulous.net] and get going! Pronto!

My nightmares involve not being able to pounce away from a chainsuit fast enough.

Re:oblig.

[sarahbau]

They don't only come at night. They mostly come at night...mostly.

Re:Meh, Alien was your basic horror movie

[pavon]

Yeah, it beat the 80's Horror Film Peak, but there were plenty before that. Ridley himself pitched the movie as "Texas Chainsaw Massacre in Space" when trying to sign on people who were initially not enthused about doing a SciFi film.

But wasn't "just" a horror movie. It was an awesome horror movie.

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:only on slashdot

[drinkypoo]

Only on slashdot is the moderation system so broken that you can get modded as +1 Funny and -1 Overrated and actually lose something.

Re:oblig.

[mfnickster]

It's a pity that they don't come out at night and tear Ridley Scott in twain.
...
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?