Bingowings said:

Could this work?

Excited or worried?

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006722.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

With this man at the helm?

I'm EXCITED!

And to make sure it will be FANTASTIC, they just need to get this guy on board too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(franchise)

This news has been out for a while

Future films

Around the release of Alien Resurrection, Joss Whedon wrote an Earth set script for Alien 5, which Weaver disliked.^[9] Before 20th Century Fox greenlit Alien vs. Predator, James Cameron had been working on a story for a fifth Alien film. Alien director Ridley Scott had talked with Cameron, stating "I think it would be a lot of fun, but the most important thing is to get the story right."^[10] In a 2002 interview, Scott's concept for a story was "to go back to where the alien creatures were first found and explain how they were created", however he has not shown interest in pursuing the project.^[10] On learning that Fox intended to pursue Alien vs. Predator, Cameron believed the film would "kill the validity of the franchise" and ceased work on his story, "To me, that was Frankenstein Meets Werewolf. It was Universal just taking their assets and starting to play them off against each other...Milking it."^[11] On December 5, 2008 Sigourney Weaver hinted in an interview with MTV that she and Ridley Scott are working on an Alien spinoff film which will focus on the chronicles of Ellen Ripley rather than the Aliens.^[12]

In May 2009, Carl Rinsch signed on to direct a prequel, which Ridley Scott and Tony Scott will produce. Tony Scott said filming may begin later in 2009.^[13] However, Fox would prefer Ridley Scott direct the film.^[14] In July 2009 it was confirmed that Ridley Scott would be returning to direct an Alien prequel with Jon Spaihts writing the script.^[15]

Not sure he has not done an alien film since 1979, and i've always argued that the second one by Cameron was better when i was younger now i am not too sure.  I think i like them equally.

The first Aliens production is a story unto itself.  You want to talk about development problems.

H.R. Giger and the original writer and producer were supposedly let go.

Did we get the Alien film we should have? Probably not but that is why its "Ridley Scott's Alien".

Not that i'm saying Scott is George Lucas but remember when Lucas returned to star wars and indiana jones nearly twenty years later, the results were less than spectacular in my own humble opinion.

I hope Scott does not somehow have to tie this into the current shit franchise that completely destroyed a pretty neat dark horse comic and made it into 2 stupid movies AVP.

Alien 3 and 4 are so bad i pretend they don't exist like i do with T3 and T4.

Can't think of anyone else I'd rather have to pick up this project more than Ridley.  He's shown that he can continue to make great movies and I have confidence in this being the first man to return to a franchise he started and deliver a great project.

The real question for me is will this prequel contradict the AvP movies?  Not that it would be a huge loss, but the AvP movies are so far removed from the Alien timeline that they fit pretty well.

And I for one would not be against a movie with no humans.

doubleofive said:

...I for one would not be against a movie with no humans.

I'm with you on this.    I would like to see a film that explores a totaly new groundbreaking type of sci-fi alien related storytelling, the way the original had. If that involves making "Alien 0" a powerful non-formula, anti-horror, non-shoot em up, no humans film, I say "GO FOR IT"!

Scott still seems like the type of director up to ploting new territory.  I want to see something totaly new with aliens in it, that somehow logicaly fits in with the established lore.  Let's hope the new script does not start bringing up someting established in a past "AVP" or "Alien" franchise film, just because the audience will like it if you do.  I don't want the expected, I want the unexpected.

Can you imagine the diologue without a human context. Hiss, slobber, gunge. Thats about all we get from the latestest movie releases. Gimme the hiss, slobber and gunge!

Damon Lindof.  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

He will ruin it.

See what he did to star trek.

Jezuz tapdancing Christ.  Is there any movie you think WON'T be ruined by someone other than the original creator?  Maybe Star Wars or Indiana Jones...

oh, wait...

Ziz said:

Jezuz tapdanding Christ.

I can't wrap my head around two of these three words.

'Tapdanding' is what you do when a chick puts her hand down the back of your pants, and sticks a finger inside your 'you-know-what', and pushes down really hard.

'Christ' is a mythical figure that some people made up a few years ago to justify getting a tonne of presents in late December.

'Jezuz' is an alternate spelling of 'Jebus'.

Davnes007 said:

'Tapdanding' is what you do when a chick puts her hand down the back of your pants, and sticks a finger inside your 'you-know-what', and pushes down really hard.

Thanks but I already knew that one.

Typo.  Corrected.

Well I've never really been a fan of the series, but the first film is great.

As long as the story is good-it will be awesome-Rid has still got it.

I'm torn. Part of me really wanted an Alien backstory from the guy who invented it, but removing the Alien connection (and the guarantied money that would bring) and making an all-new universe is so incredibly ballsy that I've got to respect Ridley even more for NOT taking the easy prequel way out. I'm almost more excited for it now.

So it is no longer an alien film, then not interested sorry.

I have been waiting for them to make a good sequel since the first 2.

At least Predators made up for all the bad predator films after the first one.

Have zero interest in a terminator 5.

skyjedi2005 said:

Have zero interest in a terminator 5.

I have a new theory.  You write down about fifty movies on separate pieces of paper.  You then pull one out of a hat, and when you are done with your on-topic post, you write a quick sentence about the movie you pulled out consisting of either

1) Hated it

OR

2) Ruined the franchise

OR

3) Not interested

...

...

Tell me I'm wrong.