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

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

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.

http://www.teako170.com/ffmovie.html

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.

With 'Wonder Woman', too, I believe there was something in the creator (who was a bit of a mad genius)'s contract saying that if she didn't keep being published by DC Comics, the rights would revert to him and his family.

Are you sure about that? Because I can't imagine that back then, decades before the rise of creator-owned comics, any comic publisher would sign a contract like that. In those days pretty much every comic creator signed the copyright away to the company publishing the comic, which lead to cases like Siegel's and Shuster's famous 25-year legal battle to be recognized as the creators of Superman.

Wonder Woman is weird, though, like it was created by someone who wrote child psychology books as their main line or something like that. I guess I could just look it up...

Well, who knows about the rights, this is pretty interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Moulton_Marston

An interesting case depicting the oddities of copyright and trademark law happened in the 1980s, when Malibu published two collections of old Mickey Mouse newspaper strips by Floyd Gottfredson. Apparently the strips themselves had fallen into public domain, probably because Disney hadn't bothered to renew their copyright in due time. However, Disney obviously still owns the trademark for Mickey Mouse, so Malibu couldn't use pictures of Mickey or even the name "Mickey Mouse" in the cover of the book. So they released those collections under the name "The Uncensored Mouse", with a totally black cover. Disney ended up suing them anyway. You can read more about the case here (scroll down a bit to get to the relevant part):

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2007/08/09/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-115/

http://www.collider.com/2009/05/29/exclusive-tony-scott-confirms-carl-rinsch-is-directing-alien-and-its-a-prequel/

A few days ago, Bloody-Disgusting reported that 20th century Fox was going to remake “Alien” and director Carl Rinsch would be helming the movie. Immediately fandom exploded with venom. I think one of the main reasons is that the original is a classic, and 20th Century Fox hasn’t been making films of that caliber recently.

So at today’s junket for Tony Scott’s new film “The Taking of Pelham 123″, I went up Tony after the press conference ended to ask him what was up with the remake.

The big news is he confirmed Carl Rinsch would be directing it and that it’s a prequel to his brother Ridley’s classic!

What Tony told me is after the jump:

Collider: 20th Century Fox is talking about remaking or redoing the original Alien. What’s going on with that?

alien_xenomorph_02.jpgTony Scott: Yes, Carl Rinsch is going to do the prequel to Alien. He’s one of our directors at our company.

Collider: I’m going to be blunt about this. Fox has not been doing a great job recently with their movies. They haven’t been an artist friendly studio. Are you guys going to have some creative control and make this a kick-ass film?

Tony: Yes! But Fox is our home. They finace our production company.

Collider: And I’m very happy that you guys have the financing. But a lot of the films they’ve been doing at the studio level, they’ve been nickel and diming and not giving fandom what they want. So I guess my question for you is…are you a little nervous about reengaging the franchise or are you excited.

Tony: I’m excited cause Ridley created the original and Carl Rinsch is one of the family.

Collider: When do you envision this film getting in front of cameras?

Tony: Hopefully the end of the year.

Collider: Will it be a summer of 2011 movie?

Tony: Honestly, I don’t know.

While I wish I could give you more info, I only had moments to talk with him. Look for more “Alien” info as I get it.

alien academy it is then

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006722.html?categoryid=13&cs=1

'Alien' prequel takes off
Ridley Scott attached to return as director
By MICHAEL FLEMING

Twentieth Century Fox is resuscitating its "Alien" franchise. The studio has hired Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott attached to return as director.

Spaihts got the job after pitching the studio and Scott Free, which will produce the film.

The film is set up to be a prequel to the groundbreaking 1979 film that Scott directed. It will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them.

The deal gives Fox another chance to keep the "Alien" franchise alive. There were three sequels to Scott's original, but it is the first time the director has set his mind on directing one.

Spaihts has become a go-to-guy for space thrillers. After Keanu Reeves became attached to his Warner Bros. sci-fi script "Shadow 19," Reeves hired Spaihts to write the space journey epic "Passengers," which is berthed at Morgan Creek. That script got Spaihts the meeting with Fox and Scott Free, and he won the job with an "Alien" reboot take that the studio and Scott loved.

Fox has separately hired him to rewrite "The Darkest Hour," which Timur Bekmambetov to produce with Tom Jacobson. Spaihts is writing "Children of Mars" for Disney and Scott Rudin, and he will follow by rewriting "St. George and the Dragon" for Sony and Red Wagon.

What a great opportunity to show us the missing alien life stage! We've seen alien babies and adults, but now with today's CGI, we'll be able to see the Alien as a teenager!

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Is he troubled and rambunctious like a young Kirk, or troubled and intense like a young Spock?

"What is the purpose of this?"
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who would play him

Andy Serkis probably

what an opportunity for the rourkester

some early footage from the reamake has leaked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZkSLCqGsiw&feature=player_embedded

Alien with eyes definitely paved the way for his ELP cover:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0d/ELP_-_Brain_Salad_Surgery.jpg/220px-ELP_-_Brain_Salad_Surgery.jpg

This cover was from 1974, though!

Oh shit, so ELP invented the alien!

I may have been thinking of the Debbie Harry album.

Hahaha

The Alien was spawned on Love Beach.

they used the skull/eye socket version in alien: resurrection! pretty well, imo. the scene where the more-human alien is sniffing ripley/mom is creepy

There’s a TV series of Alien being (verrrrrrrry slowly) made, which caused a pause on any idiotic film projects for the moment.

There's a film, directed by Fede Alvarez, shooting as we speak. From the little info there is about it, it does sound like a Prey-style b-movie take

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2edS2FlrK4