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

remember when Warren Ellis used an Aliens crossover as an opportunity to kill off most of the cast of an Image series

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The 90s were a strange fuckin' time.

then we get into the 2000s

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More fun here: http://www.ferretpress.com/weblog/labels/weekend%20versus.html

want an archie vs punisher logo shirt

RIVERDALE HIGH
COCK HOP

The look on the Punisher's face makes it seem like it might be his first high school dance.

automatic weapon + high school setting means a sequel is unlikely i guess

The Punisher's Prom Journal

timely

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America's favorite teen meets the galaxy's fiercest hunter! Archie and friends hit Costa Rica for Spring Break, where party games and beach games are soon replaced by the Most Dangerous Game! What mysterious attraction does the gang hold for the trophy-collecting Predator, and will the kids even realize they're in danger before it claims them all?

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I bought this for a friend last Christmas. I was going to quickly read it myself before I wrapped it, but I couldn't be bothered. Supposed to be good, though.

really good writer/artist list and Dredd vs Predator is a good pitch

alien vs predator vs robocop vs batman vs terminator vs archie vs judge dredd vs superman vs vs jla vs stormwatch vs charles barkley

we had a great thread on that once

So I finally just got around to watching this. And

I liked it a lot. As an Alien fan I was satisfied with the story behind the Engineers, and how it linked (from what we know so far) to the Alien species.

My only complaint comes with some of the characters - felt like there was an imbalance in their 'use' in the movie. And also, who chose this team for the mission ?! Some of them seemed completely incompetent in their roles, or they just didn't give a shit about anything.

But generally yeah really enjoyed it, look forward to the next one.

who chose the team? an incompetent megalomaniac iirc

Yeah I wasn't sure if it was him or Theron's character.

(X) Guy with mohawk, attitude

"Okay welcome, we're on this rather quite exciting mission with the potential to discover other alien beings and..."
"YEAH WHATEVS, *EYE ROLL* ROFL, JEES"

http://comicbook.com/2015/09/24/prometheus-2-to-be-called-alien-paradise-lost/

should have just gone with Alien vs. Paradise imho

Fantasy Alien
"Look Boss! The Predator Ship! The Predator Ship!"

They should drop the colon and do a straight adaptation of Paradise Lost featuring a cast of xenomorphs.

Paradise Lost... In Space!

Notable for its sympathetic portrayal of Space Satan.

One of the few musical adaptations where the lyrics consist entirely of hissing noises.

So who else just wants an Alien movie set after IV that shows the Aliens coming to earth and then maybe another one that shows them running rampant? Along the lines of the Apes reboots, but way crazier and more global on a World War Z scale. That's all I've wanted since 'Aliens'.

i don't think i want another alien movie at all and, based on the comic series they did based on Earth War, it would not be much fun
i would be down for a complete reboot of the whole fuckin' franchise. nu-ripley. otherwise, enough already.

Oh man, Earth War. What a disappointment that one was.

Scott just did Robinson Crusoe on Mars with a different name, so he gets to use a literary name this time.

You guys what if ALIENS came to earth
and they like wiped out humanity?
and everyone wound up living underground and stuff
and then SKYNET comes online
and TERMINATORS VERSUS ALIENS

spencer chow otm

So who else just wants an Alien movie set after IV that shows the Aliens coming to earth and then maybe another one that shows them running rampant? Along the lines of the Apes reboots, but way crazier and more global on a World War Z scale. That's all I've wanted since 'Aliens'.

This is pretty much the plot of the Alien comics that Dark Horse released after "Aliens", which follow the events of that movie. (The protagonist is an adult Newt, and Hicks has a large role too. IIRC Ripley is dead, probably because they didn't get the rights to use Weaver's likeness in the comics.) At the time I thought they were pretty good, though obviously Alien 3 made that whole continuity obsolete.

Anyway, shouldn't the new movie be called...

[drumroll]

...Parasite Lost!

Sorry, I didn't notice Forks and Sparkle already mentioned those Dark Horse comics.

would like a crossover that explores what happens if a facehugger gets a mogwai. do the mogwai rules carry over to the resultant hybrid?

ffs can a mod pls close Tuomas' drumroll tags I opened this thread in the library

lol

xxxp and the Dark Horse comics posited that the species of the Space Jockey looked like the thing in the chair, not like a guy in a suit, and was a screen-accurate 12-15 feet tall rather than 7 ft. as in Prometheus.

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Would love to read a capsule description of what their deal was in the comics.

Mark Verheiden's first Aliens comic book series (aka Aliens: Book One) depicts a living member of the Space Jockey's race as malevolent. Revealed to be alive 13–15 years after the events of Aliens, this Pilot is called a partner to the one from LV-426, and at first refrains from attacking humans due to its apparent immense hatred of their common enemy, the Xenomorphs, saving the story's protagonists on their mission to the Xenomorph homeworld. But it is then revealed the Space Jockey intends to wipe out and/or enslave humanity and conquer the Earth once its joint war with the Xenomorphs is over and that it is using a beam from space to begin terraforming the Earth into a cold and uninviting environment like LV-426. The Space Jockey creature in the series communicates telepathically with humans.

disappointing, barely preferable to lindelhof's nonsense.

I do like how much it looks like an angry Snuffleupagus in that last panel, though.

I would pay to watch Roberto Spiralli's mogwai/alien film and also TERMINATOR VS ALIENS

It's a trip to see those pages in color. That series made excellent use of halftone B&W.

there's (nearly) a comic for you, mh

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I should've known.

terminator's a paper tiger in this fight, way clumsier than predator and the acid for blood thing doesnt bode well re: alien.

SKYNET

does Bill Paxton star in that comic story? Because, you know.

would be cool if the predators are only after terminator because of its uncanny resemblance to "dutch" schaefer, and they get more than they bargained for in a wacky case of mistaken identity

Caught this again on film4 the other night, I thought

- seemed much more coherent on a second watch on TV, than it did first time at cinema
- even so it keeps leaving things unanswered, in a way that does not entrance, but merely aggravates the viewer
- not just bad acting but the wrong type of acting
- they're in and out of that tomb like nobody's business, compare with Jurassic Park's strict day/night/day sequence
- when I say the wrong type of acting I mean the actors should have stayed on an oil rig for six months, trying to catch the ordinariness, and small tics and tells of people in a confined space
- there's a Lovecraft story called The Nameless City where our narrator wanders down into a ruined city discovering things about the civilisation that lived there, its rise and fall, going deeper until he falls into a pit at the bottom where they've all turned into lizards ... that's the plot they should have gone for right there

OTM. Especially about the Nameless City, which is exactly what this film should have been. Instead it's much more 'hey here's another cool-looking but totally random occurrence, whatever'. i saw prometheus before really having watched any of the other Alien movies, and enjoyed it enough at the cinema to go back and watch the first two. I'd dismissed Alien/Aliens before, thinking that I'd basically seen enough spoofs and references to them that I didn't need to watch them. But they really are masterpieces, and watching back Prometheus the other night I could see two things: a. it is a very frustrating film, especially if you're familiar with the Alien backstory; and b: it's still a good laugh, a fun action film with enough cool bits to keep it from flailing under its own implausibility.