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

I'd be down with a film about Bishop learning the knife trick.

"Oops."
"Fix that programming error, would you? And clean up the blood."

Why Isn't There An Extraterrestrial Aliens Day?

But what about the knife itself, how it was forged, the adventures it's seen, we can expand into an entire spin-off franchise centered around seemingly random objects with surprisingly complex backstories, maybe the very oxygen pumped into the Nostromo is an untapped narrative wonderland.

xpost -- That'll be the one scripted by Dinesh D'Souza.

JONES! The Movie

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nwAAHHE7YwA/T4n8H_HvTiI/AAAAAAAADvM/Fmon6I7QY1c/s1600/Puss%2BKitty.jpg

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!).

Also, hip-hop/sci-fi "urban" spinoff (called ATLiens, of course) reuniting Big Boi and Andre for the first time since Idlewild.

(Big Boi and Andre play aliens in Atlanta.)

would watch "jones the movie"

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'?

Because every sequel development starts with the cunts question "what can we do differently?"

Ageing Alien's last day on the job and he's paired with wacky Mel Gibson

c'mon every sequel development starts with "how much money can we make"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LwR6n_vULM

Xps well yeah, eg what market did we not gross well in last time? Let's please them

I look forward to the Aliens sequel that finally targets the untapped Hispanic septuagenarian and hearing impaired pre-teen demographics.

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