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

see post at the tippy-top o' the thread;-)

I want to cry.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/16328

In January we broke the news that Robert Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios would be producing a reboot of Predator for 20th Century Fox. Our regular tipster was proven correct once again as the story was confirmed in April. Our tipster even scooped us on who would be penning the remake, now titled Predators.

So Mr. Anonymous is back again. And being that 20th Century Fox is remaking Predator, it doesn't surprise me at all that Fox is also going back to their catalog for a reboot of Ridley Scott's Alien.

What our tipster informed us is that - opposite the Predator situation - the plan is to stick with the original concept of only one alien on the ship.

Michael Costigan, Ridley Scott and even Tony Scott are all on board to produce and have tapped Carl Rinsch to get beyond the camera and bring a new Ripley to the big screen.

Who is Carl Rinsch? I'm being told he's a commercial/music video director and does work for Scott Free Productions, who is also producing the remake.

In the original, the terror begins when the crew of a spaceship investigates a transmission from a desolate planet, and discovers a life form that is perfectly evolved to annihilate mankind. One by one, each crew member is slain until only Ripley is left, leading to an explosive conclusion that sets the stage for its stunning sequel, Aliens (my favorite film of all-time).

We'll keep you posted on any updates, but that's what we got for you this evening. Remember to take it as rumor until confirmed as many projects change through the course of development.

look what you did

shia lebeouf will def be alien

I figured this would happen, being that after all the bad sequels and AVP flicks the only logical way to milk the series was to go back to square one. But it doesn't hurt any less.

What is the purpose of this?

Predator, who cares. It was stupid to begin with and can probably only improve in Rodriguez's hands. But Alien was absolutely perfect as is. Waaaaaah!

However, if Pat O'Brien is actually cast as the Alien this will become a must-see

robert rodriguez isn't 1/10th the director that mctiernan is

Alien 3D

http://i39.tinypic.com/e80gld.jpg

Who won when Alien fought Predator?

i hope this is like star trek, showing how the young version of the original alien learned how to become the alien he is today

also i hope it is set at alien academy

do you mean the lumen of a person's gut???

also i hope it is set at alien academy

― s1ocki, Thursday, May 28, 2009 6:03 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

What's that company that makes knockoff movies to coincide with releases? I have this theory that the only way to stop this revival madness is to saturate the market with so many degraded versions that any public appetite for them would be obliterated. ALIEN FANFICTION TO THE RESCUE

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It could be like a more tragic Top Gun, where a fresh young facehugger falls in love with his instructor, a human woman. She dies in an accident, but a hundred years later he meets her great-graddaughter in the events of the first Alien.

that granddaughter? veronica cartright.

Legally Blonde Alien, with Reese Witherspoon

When a blonde sorority queen alien is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to his planet to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined.

Alien Brockovich, with Julia Roberts

An unemployed single alien mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a global power company accused of polluting a planet's water supply.

Wasn't that the plot of Erin Brockovich?

It's a tribute script.

How's this for high-concept: A remake of Predator starring the Alien as Predator.

re: alien brockovic -- I was making bad joke about Julia Roberts looking not quite human, having second mouth.

Would pay to see Ordinary Aliens dir. by Redford.

Chestburst On The 4th Of July

AVPVSW

Alien vs Predator vs Sand Worms (from Dune)

all human roles portrayed by Tracy Morgan

Who won when Alien fought Predator?

the predalien, duh

i would like to see a movie about an alien-human war done in the style of the thin red line

Why is it that every movie franchise is all about remakes and reboots these days? Doesn't anybody believe in sequels anymore? Personally, I would've wanted to know what happened after the ending of Alien 4, but apparently no one else cares.

omg yes

that is an xpost

tho pop culture is so weird these days that if someone told me that terrence malick was making the next alien movie i would believe it. i don't know if anything in popcult has the power to surprise me anymore.

will whoever the female lead in this remake wear as ridiculously small panties as Ripley in the remakes denouement?

are you asking me?

I don't know anyone else on ILX we could ask!

i'm asking the universe. plus slocki.

slocki, sloggi - ok, makes sense.

ok well... i might as well just tell you. the answer is yes!

terrence malick is directing the reboot of the first wives club franchise

i believe it, thank you for telling me true new information

https://i.imgur.com/LpibnKl.jpeg

never knew these movies were considered bad until recently, guess I watched them both in the glow of Ebert's Prometheus review

Is that some sort of powerful drug?

Drug + lobotomy

I’m rewatching all these now (Aliens last night) and everyone I’ve mentioned this project to has commented how much they love Prometheus. Looking forward to re-visiting it.

You know some weird people.

🤘

Weyland's method of death in Prometheus is one of the funniest metaphor spurring action scenes in film

time to rewatch ALIEN: COVENANT (2017)

this was a mistake

lol think i might only have watched this from like halfway thru the first time

i missed nothing

the bit where David drops the black goo on an entire crowd of the progenitor species is still pretty amazing

i'm bailing, i'm too sleepy for this nonsense

xpost Only good scene, surely. Well that and Fassbender telling himself how to handle his flute.

the flute scene

discovering david's weird art documenting his experiences hybridizing the aliens

the bit where david regurgitates his little alien eggs to put into the human embryo store

haven't watched it in a while and these still stick in my mind!

I did like the design of David's lair. Film was pretty weak overall but had some good visuals

Lol I remember pretty much nothing of this one, except maybe the flute and also ... nah, I think that's it. I don't even remember the cast, beyond Fassbender. Maybe some Frankenstein vibes?

I watched Prometheus and Covenant for the first time a couple years ago. Viewed back-to-back, Covenant seemed like a gahdamn masterpiece in comparison.

That is the last film with the Xenomorph in so far isn't it? You might think if Prey can revitalise the Predator somewhat after a series of b movie takes on it something similar could be done with the Xenomorph. While trying to avoid that being an identikit genre in itself.
Or somebody who didn't want to make schlock could step into the Alien franchise. I thought the premise of seeing the background of the story could have been handled a lot better. & it was the way that it was handled that was the problem.
But I Think I did enjoy bits of the film when I first saw it and have now heard several people say its a really good film which isn't the way I remember it on rewatching it. That the stupid bits outweigh everything else, like.

There’s a TV series of Alien being (verrrrrrrry slowly) made, which caused a pause on any idiotic film projects for the moment.

apparently there was an alien v predator series that was actually made and edited and then put on a shelf for 7 years (and counting)

I think the fundamentals of the alien are sound, the problem with most of the sequels is that they either lean too hard toward mythology (who cares?) or, more commonly, they're just astoundingly stupid/silly. The "Predator" movies, for example, are actually all mostly good. First is great, second OK, "Predators" not bad (iirc), "Prey" is good. Only outlier (crossovers aside) is "The Predator," which is terrible. "Alien" movies are suited to the same simple more or less horror movie/action model: drop alien in with people/drop people in with alien. I suppose the last couple Ridley movies get points for novelty, since the whole time you're asking yourself what the fuck is going on and why, at least when you're not rolling your eyes at how amazingly dumb the characters are.

Then again, thinking out loud, the alien franchise quickly backed itself into a corner, because the alien (even one) is simply too powerful an enemy. The awesome "Alien: Isolation" game got it right: you don't beat the alien, you *avoid* the alien while doing other shit, like fixing the ship or outsmarting robots.

i may have missed one of the crossover films but am i right that there still is no 'Alien on the loose on Earth' movie? it would be so mega

Yeah, the second AvP film was basically that. I'm one of the only people on earth who thought it was decent (if deeply flawed). But you should probably go with the consensus opinion that it's a cinematic unflushed toilet.

= better than prometheus :D

i’m going to invite you all to a double feature of Solo and Prometheus and explain in a very irritating voice exactly why each one is good, while we’re watching it

I never saw "Solo," but if it went the way of "Willow" on Disney+, would anyone notice?

Well I'd have to find something else to do at 11pm every night of the week

You could watch "Free Solo," alone, while drinking beer from a red Solo cup.

Still impressed that stupid Prometheus was basically the exact same plot as stupid Alien vs Predator, just with alien planet instead of Antarctica, and weird playdo men instead of Predators. Otherwise all the same (alien temple, messianic Weyland, fuckwit scientists, weirdly invulnerable female lead, etc).

this fathead futzing around with origin stories and metaphysics when we could STILL HAVE THIS

The full-grown aliens were originally going to be transparent and their heads full of maggots. This was too hard to pull off though. And, originally, the alien Giger designed had eyes. He asked for the eyes to be removed when the effects team started building it.

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original is 44 today, and this thread is grebt: i wanna see the robert altman version

Alternately, Tarkovsky.

Alien with eyes definitely paved the way for his ELP cover:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0d/ELP_-_Brain_Salad_Surgery.jpg/220px-ELP_-_Brain_Salad_Surgery.jpg

This cover was from 1974, though!

Oh shit, so ELP invented the alien!

I may have been thinking of the Debbie Harry album.

Hahaha

The Alien was spawned on Love Beach.

they used the skull/eye socket version in alien: resurrection! pretty well, imo. the scene where the more-human alien is sniffing ripley/mom is creepy

There’s a TV series of Alien being (verrrrrrrry slowly) made, which caused a pause on any idiotic film projects for the moment.

There's a film, directed by Fede Alvarez, shooting as we speak. From the little info there is about it, it does sound like a Prey-style b-movie take

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2edS2FlrK4