Ridley Scott to direct Alien prequel

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=13&cs=1

Why does this need a prequel?

Well that's weird. They could just make an AVP movie like the video games with Colonial Marines and that would be perfectly entertaining methinks.

Originally Posted by Captain Jin

Well that's weird. They could just make an AVP movie like the video games with Colonial Marines and that would be perfectly entertaining methinks.

Yes they also could have just done that with the two movies they made on AvP already, so you see how that's worked out.

I rather see Scott doing a prequel on the dark original than another hack pretending to know "what the fans want".

Originally Posted by Rapax

Yes they also could have just done that with the two movies they made on AvP already, so you see how that's worked out.

They were both crap

Originally Posted by Captain Jin

Well that's weird. They could just make an AVP movie like the video games with Colonial Marines and that would be perfectly entertaining methinks.

Yeah in my opinion this is what the AvP movies should have been all along.

Is nothing sacred?

Atleast it's not a re-make and atleast it's Ridley Scott.
He made the first alien movie so he atleast know how to make a good alien movie.

Yeah but the studio will want to cater to an audience as broad as possible

Yeah but the studio will want to cater to an audience as broad as possible

That is true for anything.

Scott says on the commentary track for 'Alien' that he wanted to make this movie for a long time, which seemed like a stupid idea to me, but for some reason he didn't want my opinion.

He has enough clout and has earned enough money in the business for Fox to give him free rein... I think.

I just don't like AVP. It doesn't make sense. Isn't Alien set 150 years in the future and Predator set in the past?

I reckon this has potentual to be alright, but it will probably turn out to be a disappointment

Originally Posted by Azog 150

I just don't like AVP. It doesn't make sense. Isn't Alien set 150 years in the future and Predator set in the past?

The Predator movies, at the time of release, were set in the present or near future. With the Predator established as being an alien hunter coming from a space faring civilization possibly millenia old, it can easily be used in past, present or future settings because it's "timeless".

^also they were based on comic books

How will this work exactly then. If in Aliens 1 that was the first time they met the aliens.


The prequel will involve everyone dieing in the end then?

Originally Posted by Space Wolves

The prequel will involve everyone dieing in the end then?

Sure why not, it's not like they have to worry about sequels.

Scott has said that he wants it to take place a good deal before Alien, something like 30 years. It's supposed to explain a bit where the Aliens came from, what the crashed space ship is about a.s.o.

Originally Posted by Rapax

Sure why not, it's not like they have to worry about sequels.

Scott has said that he wants it to take place a good deal before Alien, something like 30 years. It's supposed to explain a bit where the Aliens came from, what the crashed space ship is about a.s.o.

Sounds interesting

Ridley Scott going back to direct Science fiction?! Hurray!

Originally Posted by sabaku_no_gaara

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=13&cs=1

Why does this need a prequel?

Why not? Alien was an amazing movie. And if the prequel is done by Ridley Scott, it's going to be good. He practically invented the franchise. He knows what he's doing, folks.

Originally Posted by MaximiIian

Why not? Alien was an amazing movie. And if the prequel is done by Ridley Scott, it's going to be good. He practically invented the franchise. He knows what he's doing, folks.

Do you realize that Alien was a rip off of It! The Terror From Beyond Space?