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

"Henriksen has said he dislikes the film for its nihilistic themes"

so he then went off and made Millenium?

...so then he disavowed his career and spent the remainder of his years playing Van Helsing-esque characters in direct to video monster movies.

seriously, that's all he ever does now.

and Alien vs. Predator...

so he then went off and made Millenium?

lol, was gonna say

well huh: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2093965/

And Scream 3.

Who wrote this one?

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, March 20, 2012 2:30 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Crap. Lindelof is one red flag. The other guy is ... the other.

As a screenwriter Spaihts became known in the film industry as a "go-to-guy for space thrillers"[citation needed] when his science fiction romance Passengers was included on the 2007 Black List of unproduced high-value screenplays.[2] Keanu Reeves had hired Spaihts to write the film after originally becoming attached to Spaihts' now abandoned science fiction script Shadow 19.[3] After Reeves agreed to produce and star in Passengers,[4] Spaihts was commissioned by Scott Free Productions to write the next installments in the Alien saga, two prequel films to be directed by Ridley Scott for a release in 2012.
Spaihts rewrote the alien invasion thriller The Darkest Hour for New Regency Productions[5] and worked on a film version of St. George and the Dragon for Sony Pictures Entertainment. As main screenwriter Spaihts is also attached to a Disney film project called Children of Mars. He is currently engaged in a two-picture deal at Bruckheimer Films.

"go-to-guy for space thrillers"

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, March 20, 2012 2:32 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Spaights wrote a pretty good spec script a few years ago called Shadow 19. It's got some cheesy dialog in it, but also some really neat sci-fi ideas in it. It reads like how Avatar would have been written by the younger, more R-rated James Cameron.

So maybe he was the crazy idea guy, Lindelof is the script polisher, and Ridley is there to tell Lindelof what parts need rewrites and throw shit

So if you call **WEYLAND on your smartphone, you get the on-hold message from Weyland Industries, along with a text that has a link to a little Weyland commercial about their new androids.

Cute trick.

what's the number for tyrell corp

When ESPN gives you money to talk about whatever.

And Empire frame-by-frames the US trailer

Wheres the shot of the Derelict winding up in the same position as first encountered later in the earlier film?

I rather suspect there isn't one.

ugh that grantland piece

I was reading that thinking "You know, any one of us could have done better..."

we could have done 'word at a time' collectively and done better

Wait, what's a Space Jockey? Do they go over that in the films?

Wait, nvmd. Memory failure.

The Space Jockey AKA The Pilot AKA The Big Dental Patient

AKA the disguised Predator

xxpost underpants iirc

Gunna be pissed if the SJ we know & love turns out to be a mutated michael fassbender who climbs into the seat in the last scene before a chestburster erupts

Then again, I like stories about xenoarcheology. I still hold that StarGate was a great movie up until the point they actually went thru the stargate.

haha so true

i like stories about xenodemocracy, i still hold that the star wars prequels were great when they were focused on senate proceedings

Coming in late, but would have gone to see a 1979 Ridley Scott version of this...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2468/4045426675_5dc35b74c6.jpg

lolol "John Thomas"

http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/ping0/coward.jpg

lolol "John Thomas had a most unusual pet..."

oo er

i totally want that multisaurus taxi thing tho

http://www.patchesnpins.com/images/ALIEN%20001.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1YOUc.jpg

More SJ action, or rather a loop of the few frames we see in the trailer:

http://i.imgur.com/7ycQu.gif

that's what I mistook for chestbursting until I noticed the shoulder harness retracting

I do what I can to feed wild speculation and spread disinformation

Good interviews with Fassbender and Lindelof: http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2012/03/20/wondercon-scott-lindelof-and-fassbender-discuss-prometheus/

When they were asked if that film would veer further into Alien territory or explore new ground, Lindelof replied, “If we’re fortunate enough to be able to do a sequel to Prometheus, it will actually, I think, tangentialize even further away from the original Alien.”

That being said, the filmmakers demonstrated they understand what fans are clamoring to see. “When you go to the concert that is this movie, you want the Stones to play ’Satisfaction,’” Lindelof said. “So there is this sense of us [the audience] saying, ‘We want you to do something new, Ridley, but just give us a little bit of ‘Space Jockey.’ C’mon, just play it — even in the encore!’”

You mean til i disabused you of the notion Edward ;)

crazy that satisfaction is gonna play over the opening titles

(my take-away from that)

Ridley Scott stealing ideas from John Carpenter's "Starman" smdh

number none w/ the eagle eye

xps

Cross posting this from The Thing thread:

This is one of my main apprehensions about Prometheus: that they'll succumb to idiot studio or fanboy pressure or something and do the medichlorian thing. Where they feel the need to over explain some thing irrelevant to the actual story and in doing so fuck up and ruin some of the core mystique or vibe that helped made the franchise interesting in the first place.

They're already treading on dangerous ground by having an entire flick dealing with the Derelict and the Space Jockey, two things that still have some coolness because of the awesome design mixed with us knowing fuckall about it.

So how do you thread that needle where you show a little to scratch the itch of necessary backstory or exposition to make the flick compelling without going overboard and over-explanatory? Hell, John Carpenter couldnt do this nowadays, can Ridley Scott? Hell, can any major 21st-C American summer blockbuster do this?

im a bit skeptical.

you're more than likely correct. Much like The Phantom Menace, the trailers will prove to be the best thing about the movie

Right. I'm a massive Aliens fan and I'm just to the point of having a repeated internal chanted mantra of "please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck"

they shoulda Christoper Nolan amirite guys

shoulda got