Alien 'Quadrilogy'

Kane in the Nostromo suit looks like one of the dancers from the "True Faith" video.

http://vincentwardfilms.com/concepts/alien-3/unrequited-visio/

http://avp.wikia.com/wiki/Alien_III_(Vincent_Ward)

knew those were going to be about the wood-structured satellite thingy

they threw away more interesting ideas making this series than some movies have ever had

wood moon is a trippy idea that should not have made it past the drug session. i'm glad fincher changed it.

films never made and the documentary/speculation bits prob lend well to the imagination, may not have done well on film

the jodorowsky/dune doc being prime territory for that

has anyone seen aliens on 70mm? is it special?

I watched the Alien 3 "assembly cut" once and thought it was OK. Am I misremembering?

I don't know if this was discussed in another thread, but last month the North Bergen, NJ high school put on a stage production of Alien that very quickly went viral. They apparently had zero budget, so they built all their own props and costumes, which all turned out to be very clever. It got some attention from both Ridley Scott, who offered his congratulations and future assistance; and Sigourney Weaver, who recorded a video thanking the school and then attended an encore performance.

Sigourney Weaver visiting the NBHS cast and crew at their encore performance of Alien after national media recognition was unbelievable!! #alien #Alien40th pic.twitter.com/2UXL0v1H3X

— Nicholas J. Sacco (@NicholasJSacco) April 27, 2019

The whole thing is now available on YouTube, and it's really nicely done. The special effects and staging are clever, they use pieces of Jerry Goldsmith's score and some video elements from the movie, and for not having any budget, accomplish some really great things on the stage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX3VaFG7AvU

omg this rules

I've only just heard of Alien Romulus, due August this year. It looks like some schoolchildren and an AI remaking the first film.

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

Posted on the "KH Studio" YouTube channel....

thank god

directed by fede álvarez, who did the evil dead remake. i’m stoked bc i love that movie and ive been wanting something new from him and it’s an alien movie! hooray

So - real film, fake trailer?

I've found some other trailers and I don't know what's real any more. I feel like someone's granddad on facebook.

oh i didn't even watch the trailer, but yeah this is obv fanmade AI nonsense. i don't think there is an official trailer yet

there is also a tv series coming out that is a prequel which will be inconsistent with prometheus/covenant.

It would be even better if it pretended they’d never happened.

Ok for real this time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTNMt84KT0k

Interview with Alvarez. I did like this:

Q. The synopsis involves a group of young space colonizers and scavengers who encounter “the most terrifying life form in the universe” inside a run-down space station. Did you choose to focus on a younger cast just because that’s a relatively new dynamic for the franchise?

A. I wish there was some sort of deep-thinking strategy about it. It was really more based on Aliens. I remember watching an extended cut of Aliens, and there’s a moment where you see a bunch of kids running [and riding a big wheel] around the corridors of this colony. And I thought, “Wow, what would it be like for those kids to grow up in a colony that still needs another 50 years to terraform? There’s no sunlight and there’s no real life, except to just take the place of a parent and do the same job they did.” In my movies, I’m always interested in those characters. Maybe it’s because I grew up in the small country of Uruguay. I think it connects to a lot of people who grew up in small towns and think that all the important things are happening somewhere else.

Both Scott and Cameron allegedly love it to bits. (I guess Fincher and Jeunet don't count.)

Plus looks like all the blood in the first tracking shot is the aftermath of...something:

I’ll tell you more without spoiling too much. It takes place in [the teaser’s] first shot. There’s a tiny hint in there, and it has to do with that scene that Isabela talked about, which is great. When you manage to have an idea or concept that has not been seen before in any Alien movie — and it’s also something that has never happened before in the history of movies and science fiction — my first test usually when I shoot it is to just look at the boom mic guy. He has no idea what’s about to happen, and then I see his face completely in shock over what he’s witnessing. So that is, for me, the biggest reward, and when you know that there’s something special, then you just can’t wait for opening night. I’ll sit in the front and turn around to see people’s reactions to those moments.

To be fair, Scott's opinion on what makes these films good or bad has taken some punishment.

Cameron yassifying Aliens and True Lies in his latest remasters indicates that the man may not be totally trustworthy now.

lol at him finding inspiration in the 10 minutes or whatever cut from theatrical version of Aliens.

The final trailer for #AlienRomulus has arrived.

Get tickets now and experience it in IMAX. In theaters everywhere August 16. https://t.co/N35mxAEvS8 pic.twitter.com/IsBESsLPbg

— Alien: Romulus (@AlienAnthology) July 18, 2024

very spoilery but looks good

Oh no! I sure hope there's no aliens on that derelict spaceship

Huge, if True.

all this characters better be making smart decisions or ILX is going to come down on this movie like a mountain

Oh when will they make something interesting again from this franchise, they could go in all sorts of directions but instead we get 'this could be our ticket out of here...' and 'da fuck was that?'

it has been forty fucking five years since ALIEN (1979), if we must continue to make these movies can we find another story to tell other than 'space chumps learn a hard lesson about exobiology'

or what maresnest said

or what i said

sorry tracer i have u on mute

it looks even less interesting than that fake AI generated trailer upthread. I thought the franchise had gone full in on the engineers and all that shit.

nooo nothing new must ever happen

while it is true that there’s something comforting about the elements of every alien movie - a woman turning her face away from a drooling alien, everyone just trying to escape, face hugging, implantation, an android with white fluids, the danger of an alien hitching a ride, etc - much like the familiar comforts of a sade song or a baseball game, you do sort of wonder if at some point an ai could if not make the film then at least have a good go at the script

need one from the alien's pov

surely all these future astronauts must have seen the movie by now

i genuinely don’t understand why they haven’t let the alien loose on earth yet, it would be so sick

the lizard people who rule us wouldn't allow that

this movie is going to be dope, you nerds

they did! it was called ALIEN VS PREDATOR: REQUIEM (2007) and it was sick alright xxp

but not in a good way

the engineers: origin story

before becoming a genocidal god cult they made some magnificent bridges

lol i think i did used to know there was an alien v pred on earth and until now i had successfully blocked it from my mind

i agree with ivy i think there is a very good chance this is going to be an excellent kinda back to basics reboot with a like, rizzed up cast (am i using this word right)

i think alvarez is probably going to play with the alien toy set in a fun way, but i do hope it's got something, anything to offer beyond a remix of some very creaky ideas

maybe the trailer is designed to make it look bog-standard - so when it turns to be slightly above average for this type of thing - then your mind is blown!

the engineers: origin story

before becoming a genocidal god cult they made some magnificent bridges

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), 19. juli 2024 17:18 (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Infrastructure week!

it's got its virtues for sure. i mean, Alien 3 is also over-hated as well

Some really great imaginative setpieces. Some excellent acting, especially Weaver. And just the right amount of grubbiness. Yeah the script needed a second pair of eyes, but other than that I found it fun and solid

I saw these in the theater and I remember liking 3 & 4. I was a teen though, so I have no idea how they would hold up. By 4 I was skeptical of never-ending Ripley.

xp That said, anyone else agree it was a little hard to follow? Maybe I was tired but the version I saw seemed strangely cut so it wasn't entirely obvious exactly what was going on or why people were doing the things they were

Could have done with fewer characters i reckon. Occasionally a crew member would appear on screen and I'd be like "Wait... have we seen him before?"

Yeah the script needed a second pair of eyes, but other than that I found it fun and solid

It had at least six extra specific eyes and however many pairs any individual studio directive counts as.

(Giler and Hill thought the idea of a fourth film was bad and damaging to the completed arc, but suggested it be about a clone of Newt to stay connected to the existing series. After Whedon wrote this, the studio insisted he rework the entire thing to be about a clone of Ripley instead, which he found bad and ill-fitting. Jeunet wasn’t impressed with Whedon’s script in general, and rewrote parts of it himself. There was also intended to be a third act with a climactic battle set on Earth, five different versions of which were written to accommodate different production facility availability or budget levels, and eventually hived off to be in a fifth movie.

(Whedon, establishing a standard practice, said the final film was unwatchably bad, especially because JPJ* didn’t direct the jokes in his dialogue properly.)

*who was not fluent in English and required a translator on set

Who wereyouexPECting, SantaCLAUS?!?

Reappraisals disallowed for no. 4. It is bad!!!!

It might have been a good Resident Evil movie though.

Whedon’s sense of humor being completely inscrutable to Jeunet is funny but also Jeunet mostly otm