You missed the one from the alien POV, where they need to defend themselves and their alien families from human interlopers. Makes you think!
I'm also polishing a pitch right now that's a Stagecoach update, with wagon-trainers making their way across America, defending themselves from attacking aliens. Also, an animated Cartoon Network kids Aliens called Alienz (don't worry, it'll have in-jokes fro parents, too!).
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:54 (seven years ago) link
Also, hip-hop/sci-fi "urban" spinoff (called ATLiens, of course) reuniting Big Boi and Andre for the first time since Idlewild.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:56 (seven years ago) link
(Big Boi and Andre play aliens in Atlanta.)
would watch "jones the movie"
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
Why does the unstated premise of most franchise attempts seem to be 'let's see how much we can make the fans hate this thing and let's see how quickly we can do it'?
― The twin snake of violence and sex is more like a sick wolf. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
Because every sequel development starts with the cunts question "what can we do differently?"
― The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:58 (seven years ago) link
Ageing Alien's last day on the job and he's paired with wacky Mel Gibson
― The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
c'mon every sequel development starts with "how much money can we make"
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LwR6n_vULM
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
Xps well yeah, eg what market did we not gross well in last time? Let's please them
― The Perks of Being a Wall St R (darraghmac), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 18:01 (seven years ago) link
I look forward to the Aliens sequel that finally targets the untapped Hispanic septuagenarian and hearing impaired pre-teen demographics.
― The twin snake of violence and sex is more like a sick wolf. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Ridley is joking of course, there will not be six films. the last two films will be split into two parts each so there will be nine films.
― nomar, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 18:08 (seven years ago) link
There is actually a really good short story written from the point of view of the creature in The Thing!
Time is ripe for an adaptation of this: http://alienlovespredator.com/
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 18:22 (seven years ago) link
The Thing became an even better movie once I realized that the eponymous Thing was the actual protagonist.
I harbor no expectations of anything half that interesting coming from the Alien franchise.
― The twin snake of violence and sex is more like a sick wolf. (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link
Thing/Alien crossover where a crew of relatabley grouchy, working-class xenomorphs grow paranoid wondering which of them has been impregnated by a horrifying alien monster.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link
horrifying alien monster is a human baby
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 18:39 (seven years ago) link
second and third films in this series are critically panned but financially successful rewrites of the "three men and a baby" ouevre
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
"Look Who's Talking!" except the baby is a xenomorph.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 18:43 (seven years ago) link
Better: "Alien," but dubbed over with various Bruce Willis lines from "Look Who's Talking."
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 18:45 (seven years ago) link
Clearly we need an on the nose allegory, where the Aliens have populated south and central America, and the United States needs to build and man a giant border wall to keep them out.
(Wasn't this the plot of Monsters?)
Anyway, wtf with this shameless echo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQjEonI7lDA
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 21:04 (seven years ago) link
(Warning^ Entire film, more or less)
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
It's ALIEN... in space!
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 8 March 2017 21:23 (seven years ago) link
I see, they put a twist on it! Clever.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
"what if... my two favorite words... what if... ALIEN met GRAVITY? hmm? hmm? think about it"
― Larry Elleison (rogermexico.), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:34 (seven years ago) link
i mean, it's gonna be better than prometheus
'It's Prometheus...but worse!'
― The twin snake of violence and sex is more like a sick wolf. (Old Lunch), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:35 (seven years ago) link
Ender's Alien
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Thursday, 9 March 2017 00:42 (seven years ago) link
They should have the alien teaching tough inner city kids. They could call it ... Alien On Me.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:54 (seven years ago) link
Meantime -- in the same way they had a 'David' video out before Prometheus, here's a 'Walter' one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Cmf4BuNgg
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 March 2017 16:02 (seven years ago) link
Related:
https://meetwalter.com/
Hoos, our viral king, should look into this.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 March 2017 16:03 (seven years ago) link
guys i've cracked the code - this is all misdirection to divert our attention away from judge dredd showing up in the third act to kick some alien ass with his buddy walter
http://static3.comicvine.com/uploads/square_medium/2/27783/857636-walter.jpg
― im a male feminist, i have a fleshlight just to eat it out (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 10 March 2017 16:06 (seven years ago) link
I love all this stuff. Cannot wait. Finally watched the long clip from a couple of weeks ago and it is great!! omg @ Danny McBride. If he doesn't say "Game Over" at some point I will cry. The choking joke is masterful trolling A+. I loved Prometheus but what it didn't have was this sort of cameraderie, which, when the shit goes down, makes everything 1000 times more intense
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 March 2017 16:21 (seven years ago) link
Oooooooooookay
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Saturday, 11 March 2017 02:38 (seven years ago) link
guys is tracer ok
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 March 2017 04:41 (seven years ago) link
Last time I checked it's ok to like things! Even if it's Orometheud
― Fiddle Catstro (latebloomer), Saturday, 11 March 2017 04:51 (seven years ago) link
LOL Prometheus I mean
Even my phone is being snarky
― Fiddle Catstro (latebloomer), Saturday, 11 March 2017 04:52 (seven years ago) link
Lartbloomper
― waht, I am true black metal worrior (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 March 2017 04:58 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Fiddle Catstro (latebloomer), Saturday, 11 March 2017 05:01 (seven years ago) link
well i for one am i looking forward to ridley scott's Orometheud
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:14 (seven years ago) link
Oromotheud for Presidetn
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 11 March 2017 07:26 (seven years ago) link
James you disagree that tight emotional connections between characters raise the stakes in a horror movie? You don't like Danny McBride? You thought the chestburster fakeout was lame? Trying to parse your snark
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 March 2017 11:01 (seven years ago) link
I don't like mcbride. I thought the fakeout lame. Prometheus was balls. The colonists in the trailer seems as clueless and dumbarsed as the scientists in prometheus. James franco is shitty and smug.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Saturday, 11 March 2017 11:09 (seven years ago) link
Also, mcbride saying game over would be the sort of shitty in-joking i would be happy to never see in any movie ever again
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Saturday, 11 March 2017 11:11 (seven years ago) link
Ooooooookay
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 March 2017 11:15 (seven years ago) link
I was kinda joking about "game over" - it would be dumm - but I'm just happy that they've refound a bit of that Thing-ness of funny people who care about each other. Not all Alien movies need to be like that (remember I like Prometheus!) but it's nice (for me) to see
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 March 2017 11:45 (seven years ago) link
"that Thing-ness of funny people who care about each other": this would be wildly different from oromotheud
― mark s, Saturday, 11 March 2017 11:48 (seven years ago) link
Orometheud 2: Orome Theuder
― DG, Saturday, 11 March 2017 11:59 (seven years ago) link
McBride and Franco are big anti-selling points for me too.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 11 March 2017 12:34 (seven years ago) link
"they cast Chet from Weird Science????"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 11 March 2017 12:36 (seven years ago) link
enough of your shitty in-joking
― mark s, Saturday, 11 March 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link