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

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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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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

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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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That's insane. Has anyone here seen it?

it can't be much worse than the one that actually came out

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.

I think this is true, and comic book superheroes is a good example. The actual superhero comic books are protected by copyright laws, and at the moment it's still a couple of decades before even the oldest of them fall into public domain. (However, apparently works copyrighted in the US before 1964 had to have their copyright renewed during the 28th year of their copyright term, otherwise they fell into the public domain. This has happened with at least some comics, records, and movies.) The names of superheroes are trademarks though, and trademark law is quite different from copyright. In order for a company to have the rigth to exclusive use of a trademark, the trademark has to be in active use. If the trademark isn't in active use for a certain period of time (in the US this is 5 years), it is considered public domain, and someone else can then register it. This, I think, is the reason DC comics has continuosly kept churning out Wonder Woman comic books throughout the decades, even during times when Wonder Woman has been quite unpopular. They don't want loose the trademark "Wonder Woman", so they have to have it in active use even if it means putting out comics that don't sell much. I'm not totally sure about this, but I assume the names "Alien" and "Predator" are similarly trademarked, so the same would apply to them as to Wonder Woman. I think there's been longer than a 5 year gap between Alien and Predator movies, but the various Alien and Predator comic books, books, and toys must've kept the trademarks in active use.

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.