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

He was no longer surrounded by talented writers designers and actors who were not in awe of his presence.

yeah DC i don't think shaw knows what david's up to, really. she just thinks he's a bit of an idiot robot (which he is) and doesn't really understand how desperately she needs this thing out of her, so she kicks ass and takes matters into her own hands.

agreed that some of the supporting cast are like..... who? one of the co-pilots who crashes heroically with idris elba into the side of the alien ship, i swear it was the first time i'd seen him on screen for the whole movie.

i did miss glasses/hoodie hipster guy. he should have stuck around for longer. i would have liked to see a long tense 'here kitty' scene with him. part of the reason this movie doesn't end with the visceral satisfaction of the others imo is that you never get a good old fashioned human-vs-alien throwdown, which is what forms the centerpiece of the climaxes of the first two movies. noomi just sets the alien and engineer against each other. which is kind of brilliant and amazing - and you do get the odd sense of rooting for the alien here, the same way i rooted for Houston in the World Series, even though they'd squashed the Red Sox over and over - but doesn't carry the same catharsis. that said i can't quite get the image out of my head of the alien octopus thing slumped over the defeated engineer. truly evil shit

yeah images are where this is strongest imo. i even like the pale, weird, deep-sea-cave-creature designs for the monsters. Scott has done fantastic-looking bad movies before - i always think of Black Rain, which has the most mediocre generic "80s cop movie in Japan" script imaginable (i'm sure i've posted about this somewhere), but is still kinda worth watching for the nighttime scenes in Osaka. i assume he's got a really visual imagination, he gets drawn to projects where he can picture great shots on film, and he makes those shots happen. to be clear, of what i've seen of his filmography (which isn't much!), most of em he's also got a good script and great leads.

Earth you say

Alien is currently in development at @FXNetworks. The first TV series based on the classic film series is helmed by Fargo and Legion's @noahhawley. Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth. pic.twitter.com/jZe1CRFAZD

— Disney (@Disney) December 10, 2020

"Noah Hawley Alien series set on Earth" is a phrase designed to irk me

i didn't know who noah hawley was so i was like "i hope this is absolute nonsense!!!" maybe it still will be

fuksake

Kurt Sutter Alien or GTFO

The mommy issues possibilities are RIGHT THERE ffs

https://i.imgur.com/HoPXUME.jpg

i am told this is a test audience viewing the chest bursting scene in Alien

lol at the two guys

I just watched this for the first time. It was sooo fuuucking stuuupid. Bulk of this thread otm.

Maybe if Scott had bothered to actually watch AvP he could've avoided making a movie as bad as AvP.

"Noah Hawley Alien series set on Earth" is a phrase designed to irk me
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Friday, December 11, 2020

In hell, hopefully.

Tony Scott’s Prometheus would have ruled.

avp is a really good movie

um

The FX series, for which Hawley says he’s finished the first two scripts, will tackle class warfare and “what happens when the inequality we’re struggling with now isn’t resolved.”

“If we as a society can’t figure out how to prop each other up and spread the wealth, then what’s going to happen to us?” he teased.

also:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/ridley-scott-interview-last-duel-b1936054.html

The franchise is now being rebooted as a TV series by Noah Hawley (who successfully turned Fargo into a long-running show). Wherever they go, whatever they do, “It’ll never be as good as the first one,” Scott grins. “That’s what I’ll say.”

Is there a Raised By Wolves thread? Search is failing me.

two great flavours together at last

A new Ridley Scott produced ALIEN movie will start shooting in 🇭🇺 Budapest in the next days pic.twitter.com/5FmYEptISR

— Eduard Habsburg (@EduardHabsburg) March 4, 2023

Hopefully we'll finally find out how the aliens became ... oh, wait, I guess they already went over that.

Recently rewatched Prometheus and its sequel hoping desperately they weren’t as bad as I remembered, but they were significantly worse.

Prometheus might be the best looking worst movie of all time.

https://media.tenor.com/q7WUir_uNhAAAAAM/smile-happy.gif

That’s how I remembered it, but it wasn’t even as pretty as I’d thought.

i think more fondly of Prometheus when i look back and remember the laughter

i will always love this stupid movie

ok so i literally just unplugged my wifi for the last time in my hackney home (moving out forever tomorrow) then PLUGGED IT BACK IN to post this important thought

upthread i muse and lament on why -- when pondering how the alien came to be -- we have never yet seen a film that explores the nature of xenomorph society over several evolving generations. well buckle up fucklecups

i: the habsburg dynasty (cf edmund tweeting above, he is a poster but not a *poster* iykwim) has lasted for more than a thousand years, that's plenty of generations
ii: the founder of the dynasty = RADBOT GRAF VON KLETTGAU (c.985-1045)
iii: he is called RADBOT he is a FASSBENDER
iv: qed it is time for the franchise to be good again, tales of the high rhine in medieval swabia is the shit that ridley loves

eduard not edmund sorry to screw up the lore

both prometheus and covenant are good, actually covenant is great

http://www.tom.ledger.name/img/engineer.jpg

brad and tracer itt

https://i.imgur.com/LpibnKl.jpeg

never knew these movies were considered bad until recently, guess I watched them both in the glow of Ebert's Prometheus review

Is that some sort of powerful drug?

Drug + lobotomy

I’m rewatching all these now (Aliens last night) and everyone I’ve mentioned this project to has commented how much they love Prometheus. Looking forward to re-visiting it.

You know some weird people.

🤘

Weyland's method of death in Prometheus is one of the funniest metaphor spurring action scenes in film

time to rewatch ALIEN: COVENANT (2017)

this was a mistake

lol think i might only have watched this from like halfway thru the first time

i missed nothing

the bit where David drops the black goo on an entire crowd of the progenitor species is still pretty amazing

i'm bailing, i'm too sleepy for this nonsense

xpost Only good scene, surely. Well that and Fassbender telling himself how to handle his flute.

the flute scene

discovering david's weird art documenting his experiences hybridizing the aliens

the bit where david regurgitates his little alien eggs to put into the human embryo store

haven't watched it in a while and these still stick in my mind!

I did like the design of David's lair. Film was pretty weak overall but had some good visuals

Lol I remember pretty much nothing of this one, except maybe the flute and also ... nah, I think that's it. I don't even remember the cast, beyond Fassbender. Maybe some Frankenstein vibes?

I watched Prometheus and Covenant for the first time a couple years ago. Viewed back-to-back, Covenant seemed like a gahdamn masterpiece in comparison.

That is the last film with the Xenomorph in so far isn't it? You might think if Prey can revitalise the Predator somewhat after a series of b movie takes on it something similar could be done with the Xenomorph. While trying to avoid that being an identikit genre in itself.
Or somebody who didn't want to make schlock could step into the Alien franchise. I thought the premise of seeing the background of the story could have been handled a lot better. & it was the way that it was handled that was the problem.
But I Think I did enjoy bits of the film when I first saw it and have now heard several people say its a really good film which isn't the way I remember it on rewatching it. That the stupid bits outweigh everything else, like.

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