They're Remaking 'Alien' -- the 'Prometheus' thread

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.

You missed the one from the alien POV, where they need to defend themselves and their alien families from human interlopers. Makes you think!

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/

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.

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.

horrifying alien monster is a human baby

second and third films in this series are critically panned but financially successful rewrites of the "three men and a baby" ouevre

"Look Who's Talking!" except the baby is a xenomorph.

Better: "Alien," but dubbed over with various Bruce Willis lines from "Look Who's Talking."

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

(Warning^ Entire film, more or less)

It's ALIEN... in space!

I see, they put a twist on it! Clever.

"what if... my two favorite words... what if... ALIEN met GRAVITY? hmm? hmm? think about it"

i mean, it's gonna be better than prometheus

'It's Prometheus...but worse!'

Ender's Alien

They should have the alien teaching tough inner city kids. They could call it ... Alien On Me.

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

Related:

https://meetwalter.com/

Hoos, our viral king, should look into this.

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

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

Oooooooooookay

guys is tracer ok

Last time I checked it's ok to like things! Even if it's Orometheud

LOL Prometheus I mean

Even my phone is being snarky

Lartbloomper

lol

well i for one am i looking forward to ridley scott's Orometheud

Oromotheud for Presidetn

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

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.

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

Ooooooookay

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

"that Thing-ness of funny people who care about each other": this would be wildly different from oromotheud

Orometheud 2: Orome Theuder

McBride and Franco are big anti-selling points for me too.

"they cast Chet from Weird Science????"

enough of your shitty in-joking

I just googled "oromotheud" and v. disappointed

i too hate j franks but if you're looking to cast a kind of sniffy wet blanket you could do a whole lot worse

plus it looks like he's going to be literally hibernating for some part of the runtime here

not sure about these comedy actors in a bad film about people who can't turn left

otm very concerned about this tarnishing the legacy of Prometheus

I just googled "oromotheud" and v. disappointed

Ha, me too. Once autocorrect gave me this totally weird word that I googled, and it turned out to be some obscure regional Russian dialect. And I thought, 1) why would autocorrect assume I was typing this word that has probably been typed minimally throughout history, let alone in English? And then I thought, 2) if anyone was ever going to type this obscure Russian dialect, they were likely going to type it correctly the first time.

Joseph of Oromotheud

Oromotheud
Begat Sigmund Freud
Who specialized in opioids

So, uh, everyone, it could be a lot weirder:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/ridley-scott-keeps-trying-to-revive-gladiator-but-he-p-1793199157

Alien: Covenant wasn’t the only supernatural sequel Ridley Scott discussed at this year’s SXSW. He’s also eager to make another Gladiator film. Only problem is... the main character is dead. But Scott said he knows how to bring him back, and I’m hoping it’s because a bunch of Roman gods want him to kill Jesus. Seriously, that’s a real script, people.

Referring to the legendary Nick Cave script that was never filmed...and which I'm hoping is back in the mix:

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/01/29/the-unbelievably-insane-gladiator-sequel-that-almost-was

this isn't hard, people - pretty sure the black goo can bring people back from the dead. failing that, maximus could always return as a xenomorph. lot of dramatic possibilities there and i think it'd answer the 'big questions' we all had after the first film. at the least it now seems clear that 'oromotheud' is a roman name, or perhaps thracian. all my fanboy hairs are tingling - i'm ready to start camping out for opening night! i'm sure i speak for tracer on this also.