These 'Alien Appendix' compilations have been really great. Nice to see yet another one completed. :)
As far as the forthcoming Blu-ray compilation goes, it's looking like an even better package than the excellent 'Quadrilogy' compilation was, where extras are concerned! However, as a fan of the 'Theatrical' cut of ALIEN, rather than the 'Director's Cut', I'm really hacked off that it's likely to be presented in the same 'stylised' re-colouration that was done for the 'Director's Cut'!
The original 'Theatrical' version had a vibrant, natural colouration that was already perfect where the look of Ridley's classic visuals are concerned. Personally, I really dislike the murky, overly-dark 'grading' that Ridley did for his 'Director's Cut', when he messed about with things at that point. But annoyingly, the original 'Theatrical' version ended up with the same overly-dark 'grading'-revision on the 'Quadrilogy' set too, totally changing how it had previously looked!
Unfortunately, I have no doubt this re-colouration is going to be the DE FACTO 'look' for the forthcoming Blu-ray release too... Furthermore, Ridley also ended up doing the same thing to his BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT too...giving it a more 'stylised', overly-dark colour compared to it's original 'Theatrical' look. This also turned out for the worse, as far as I'm concerned, since the original 'Theatrical' version had a perfect-looking, vibrant, naturalistic colouration to it, compared to the latest version's altered hues.
I think the 're-mastered', darkened, 'stylised' colour given to these two movies have really spoiled the look of them now, when compared with how their originals looked. This seems to be an unfortunate 'trend' in 're-mastering', as I recall a certain popular franchise also ended up with some dubious colour-meddling for the worse... It's also happening with various other titles too, unfortunately...