PROMETHEUS was (Alien 0?) NOW NO LONGER SPOILER FREE.

Could this work?

Excited or worried?

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

The real problem with a prequel is how to get humans in there.

If the suits had a problem with a wooden planet full of space monks I doubt if they would put money into a 2 hr movie with just Giger's designs wiggling about on a bone ship.

These issues are discussed rather well in this article :

http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/259949/the_plotobstacles_to_an_alien_prequel.html

I don't have the same problem about the Company knowing that the ship is there and sending the Nostromo out to investigate with Ash onboard as the author of the article has.

Burke in Aliens wasn't very high up in the chain of command and sent the colonists out to the co-ordinates in Ripley's report to feather his own nest so clearly information is passed around on a need to know basis, with in house rivals tending to their own pet projects.

Perhaps there was a previous encounter which someone in the Company wanted to capitalise on and sent the Nostromo out in the same way that Burke does 57 years later.

If this was a personal project of a Company stooge when the ship vanished the perpetrator may have covered his or her failiure up not knowing that Ripley was still floating out there waiting to awake company interest again almost six decades down the line.

I quite like the idea suggested by O'Bannon that the eggs were the remains of a civilised race and the Jockey's crew woke them without adults to provide the education necessary to turn them into anything more than very dangerous feral children.

My better half maintains that the space jokey was a cosmic pizza delivery boy and that the eggs were a strange delicacy from a very dangerous world were the xenomorphs are relatively harmless compared to the other nightmarish creatures that keep their numbers in check .

I'd be intrigued by an Alien only movie but I just can't see it happening, these are the same people who pulled Vincent Ward's less daring Alien 3 plan appart and Ridley isn't as daring a film maker as he was was many years ago.

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!

I bit of a recent update that some people may have missed.

The anticipation for his next project is building to fever pitch: it will be a two-part prequel to Alien, shot in 3D. Scott was never asked to make a sequel to Alien; that honour went to James Cameron, before a further two sequels and two Alien vs Predator spin-offs milked the franchise dry. But with the Lost co-creator Damon Lindoff polishing the first prequel's script, you can sense the competitor in Scott, desperate to put his stamp back on the film series that launched him. "Jim's raised the bar and I've got to jump to it," he says, in a friendly jibe at Cameron. "He's not going to get away with it." Set 30 years before the 1979 original, so with no room for Sigourney Weaver's Ripley, the prequels will explore the origins of the deadly aliens. "The film will be really tough, really nasty," he notes. "It's the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?"

Ziz said:

Jezuz tapdanding Christ.

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

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.

Probably old news to the rest of you but this is an interesting twist.

"We had a bunch of good ideas and decided they were better than just a prequel."

THAT'S what I call art.

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.

Frankly, I think this is a great idea, and I'm looking forward to it more since I heard about this.

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.

^Put the knife back in the drawer, Mrs Sharp!

It could be argued that Blade Runner is already a dark Ridley Scott science fiction film set in the same universe as Alien.

Retroactively you could compile a list of films that could be slotted into that universe (Android for example).

I was amused as a Doctor Who fan to note that the main character is to be called Elizabeth Shaw.

Back in his youth Ridley was an in house designer for the BBC and just missed designing the Tardis interior and the Daleks by a gnat's whisker.

Bits of the Nostromo set, a chestburster and an Alien egg have all appeared in Doctor Who stories (spread over about two decades) and the plot to The Wheel In Space is rather similar to Alien in places.