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

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

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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.

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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

hollywood officially sucks from now on

Oh for fuck's sake. [Shoots self]

im not even like a huge alien guy but this is about the most retarded shit ever.

on paper.

five years ago i'd have at least made an effort to say 'hey maybe it'll *exceed* the original'.

but it's a pretty basic story that can't be fucked with, and no-one would get sued if they made a different movie that involved an alien.

(Not That) Alien

industry/business people, do you know if there's some legal reason like company's rights to the franchise expire if they don't keep churning out remakes? I remember there was some bogus fantastic 4 movie made for some weird business-related reason.

Trading Places with a Wall Street player and an Alien switching roles.

Wall Street starring Alien in Gordon Gecko role (and one that pops out of Darryl Hannah at the end).

The fact that Rodriguez is going to remake Predator as Predators gave me major lols. A long running and rubbish joke I have with some friends is to question whether any sequel or remake will be called the name of the original film pluralised. If pluralisation doesn't work I ask if it will be the original title with "another" appended to the start and if that doesn't work I ask if it will be called the original with "again" at the end of it.

So presumably the sequel to Predators will be Another Predators again: the virus takes Manhattan.

Home Alone where the McCauley Culkin role is actually a young alien who discovers its powers while fending off would-be robbers.

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industry/business people, do you know if there's some legal reason like company's rights to the franchise expire if they don't keep churning out remakes? I remember there was some bogus fantastic 4 movie made for some weird business-related reason.

― Philip Nunez, Thursday, 28 May 2009 23:34 (Yesterday) Permalink

ha, yeah Roger Corman made that one! supposedly bootlegs of it were sold at comic conventions for years.

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There’s a TV series of Alien being (verrrrrrrry slowly) made

Well it's finally almost here, for better or for worse. I slightly suspect the latter:

Alien: Earth is set in 2120, just two years before the events of the original film, and follows life on Earth as it is dominated by the corporate interests of five governing companies: Prodigy, Weyland-Yutani, Lynch, Dynamic, and Threshold.

I presume the first one is around having defeated the nefarious Compuserve at long last.

Cast is kinda legit insane, though:

Sydney Chandler as Wendy
Timothy Olyphant as Kirsh
Alex Lawther as Hermit
Samuel Blenkin as Boy Kavalier
Babou Ceesay as Morrow
Adrian Edmondson as Atom Eins
David Rysdahl as Arthur Sylvia
Essie Davis as Dame Sylvia
Lily Newmark as Nibs
Erana James as Curly
Adarsh Gourav as Slightly
Jonathan Ajayi as Smee
Kit Young as Tootles
Diêm Camille as Siberian
Moe Bar-El as Rashidi
Sandra Yi Sencindiver as Yutani

I always enjoy Noah Hawley shows even when they're at a low ebb, so I'm in.

Wish he would have pulled in Fargo alum David Thewlis, that guy has a classic Alien vibe.

Kit Young as Tootles

It'll be interesting to see how they reinterpret Arthur Malet's timeless performance in Hook to this rather different milieu.

I just mentioned it on the Streaming Media thread, but the first episode of the new "Alien" series is great.

Never let a perfectly good monster go underutilized.

i started a thread

“ALIEN: EARTH” on FX: Peter Pan, Wendy & Albino Timothy Olyphant

excited to watch this tonight

Somehow hadn't seen Prometheus before. Would have been better if I'd kept it that way. Absolutely terrible pretty much across the board.

It gave us this thread and for that I treasure it

I had avoided thread until now, only 5000 ish posts to catch up on.

*this thread

I've not felt so immediately fiercely negative about a film in a long time. Awful wooden performances from some potentially good actors (Idris Elba and Kate Dickie especially stood out), so I have to blame the abysmal script and the wider production.

I think that's kind of the major shortcoming of Ridley Scott's "I don't need to shoot the movie for more than a month" or whatever approach is that he decides what parts of the movie he is most invested in and then just doesn't flesh out characters or shoot a lot of coverage, meaning you can't insert any more of that later

I think he just said "fuck it" with Alien: Covenant and there's a character that only appears in a non-movie teaser prologue who is not in the actual movie at all. Just a big "this main character's husband was mentioned in the marketing but oops they died before the beginning of the actual movie, sorry"

they should have done that with James Franco in a lot more movies, though

It's wild, because iirc Prometheus *looks* great, which you'd imagine would be the hard part.

Making it look great shouldn't be hard when the budget was over $100 million.

i have some thoughts about what constitutes "looking great" but they're boring thoughts and not worth thinking about.

anyway none of this shit looks great

does it look great? i think it looks dumb

this is a good thread tho lol

I watched it on a laptop, so the judgement should be qualified by that, but it looked quite unremarkable to me. The landscapes were more impressive than any of the spaceship or alien elements, which were nothing one couldn't see in any number of other films or tv shows.

I really like this movie and I genuinely think the C-section scene might be the best scene in the whole franchise

I like all the SJ/Engineer scenes in Prometheus (like the musical activation of the console, that's the stuff) - probably just the relative novelty. They looked terrible in their brief Covenant scene tho.

The reboot was worth it for David

lol, can't remember anything else about it, that's for sure. Clearly, given the show and the most recent movie, they're leaning into the aliens being the least compelling component and the robots the most.