I will never say that Ridley Scott can do no wrong, but I will definitely give this a chance.

I don't care if he doesn't make any more Aliens, the first one was all I needed. But, another Sci Fi film is very appealing. Ridley definitely has the chops. Let's just hope he doesn't pull a George.

ChainsawAsh said:

It's my understanding that it's a dark science fiction film taking place in the same universe as the Alien films, set years before the first Alien film.  It's not a "prequel" per se in that it isn't directly connected to the events of the main series.

It was implied that the origins of both the 'xenomorphs' and 'space jockey' would be revealed in the 2 prequels that were originally planned.  But with this latest 'Prometheus' proposal, there's a possibility that both these elements will remain a mystery now, if they even feature at all...

I'm interested to see if this will be the case...but if it is, then I sure hope some inferior, hack director isn't given the opportunity to follow-up this latest movie of Ridley's with the actual 'explanations' of how they came about...

EyeShotFirst said:

I will never say that Ridley Scott can do no wrong, but I will definitely give this a chance.

 If he screws it up, he'll just the latest in a long line of formerly golden movie directors gone to carp.

You know whom I mean.

I'm sorry, I must be confused.  I thought this thread was about Terminator 5.

Maybe it will be in a few months.

http://io9.com/5745619/ridley-scotts-prometheus-could-still-have-xenomorphs

Now it looks like it WILL be set in the Alien Universe, but I think they're trying to avoid the prequel moniker, probably due to people like us (and AvP). I'm imagining that Scott is going to make a movie that takes place in the same universe, but doesn't require having seen the Alien movies. Or maybe it will ignore the sequels and just be a movie-that-takes-place-before Alien.

Be warned if you follow the link you will get very minor spoilers (including not too revealing set photos until 20th Century Fox catches up with the site and asks them to take them down).

Licensing
International
Expo

^ Did they do that on purpose?

Consider me now a bit more intrigued about this movie. With this new information about the project that you have posted above, I think this film will be quite worth a full ticket price. I can't see myself missing even a fairly decent Scott film on the big screen. His visual story telling will be worth it alone for me. I think he is in a good state in his life right now, and wants to make this a great film and a money maker for his production partners. That sends good signals. He seemed motivated from the start to make this a good one, and I think it will be possibly another carrier milestone from what I know so far.

I hope the connections in this film and the original Alien are done with supreme tact, and also made to be only obscure nods to the supper hard core fans. Something clever and almost subliminal that a commonplace fan would need to see a few times to catch as a connection, but yet it is still something important to what is going on in the story. Please don't let it be just some set dressing or company logo (or seeing the Death Star being built out a window) type thing. To me, those type of continuity references are no longer clever, and have been done to death in the Alien series already. Just don't want the script and production design to play to the lower I.Q. folks in the theaters.        

I'd only watch an "Alien" prequel if it were humanless (or nearly humanless, anyway). Otherwise I have no interest in seeing it.

More stuff popped up over recent weeks.

Some leaked set pictures.

An official high rez picture.

An on location interview with Ridley in Iceland.

And some footage was shown at comic con described here which I assume will leak eventually.

As always click at your own risk spoiler wise.

Ridley Scott on Prometheus:

“While Alien was indeed the jumping off point for this project, out of the creative process evolved a new, grand mythology and universe in which this original story takes place. The keen fan will recognize strands of Alien’s DNA, so to speak, but the ideas tackled in this film are unique, large and provocative. I couldn't be more pleased to have found the singular tale I'd been searching for, and finally return to this genre that's so close to my heart.”

So it will be in the same universe as the previous films, but will deviate from it in most other ways.  Sounds better than ever if you ask me!

As someone who only liked Aliens as an action film and not as a continuation of the story of Alien I would hope for something better than that fun but overrated film.

Bingowings said:

As someone who only liked Aliens as an action film and not as a continuation of the story of Alien I would hope for something better than that fun but overrated film.

YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH!

I do often, in fact I'd estimate it's closed most of the time but my opinion stands.

Bingowings said:

I do often, in fact I'd estimate it's closed most of the time but my opinion stands.

 

Your opinion is WONG and holds no water.

TV's Frink said:

Bingowings said:

I do often, in fact I'd estimate it's closed most of the time but my opinion stands.

 

Your opinion is WONG and holds no water.

Generally speaking Wong is Wrong, Wang is right.

You only say Wong when you are in Hong Kong or Guangdong which cater for the elderly and infirm so I recommend a visit.

I also think Aliens is overrated.

You have to have been alive when it was released to have an opinion in this matter. :p

EDIT: Holy carp, it was 25 years ago!