Alien Prequel Confirmed

[Skeleon]

No, please, Cthulhu, no!
The Space Jockey was part of the mystery. There were several theories including the "bomber"-story. But now they'll come up with some half-assed explanation that nobody'll really like.
I don't normally use smileys here but what the hell: :,-(

Question though, does the whole implantation of the aliens work on just women or men as well?

It works on anybody. The first human to be implanted was a male, by the way.

 

[Skeleon]

Something completely unrelated: Why is the egg in that picture upside-down?
I had to check my DVD-box right away and, sure enough, it was that way there, too.
What's with that? That'd only work if the egg was dangling from the ceiling or something.

 

[v3n0mat3]

Wonder if Sigourney Weaver will make an appearance in this movie... Not as Ripley, though.

 

[StigmataDiaboli]

Awesome. Well at least it wont be as bad as Alien vs Preadtor 2...can it?

 

[ccesarano]

This is terrible news.

Also, in regards to discussions, the original Alien is by far the best, Alien: Resurrection is absolutely terrible (even though Joss Whedon's original script, pre-douchebag-French-director, was decent, it was in no way really all that good), and people out and out debate the second and third.

Aliens is really not that great. Every time I watch it the film loses more and more of its quality. It's a straight up action flick where the actual Aliens get little screen time.

Alien 3 is not the best, but is overall my favorite. It is certainly better than number two, simply because it is a much more interesting scenario. This time they are isolated on a planet, so there's no "launch it into space" to save them. Ripley is the only woman in a prison full of Double-Y Chromosome males that are encountering their first real temptation since discovering God. There is a race against time as Weyland-Yutani discovers the Alien and Ripley's infection (built upon further in the aforementioned director's cut). The prison also has no weapons, leaving the people to improvise against a killing machine.

In addition, it has a good presence of the Alien itself, and in fact has the most satisfying presence.

The first Alien vs. Predator was fun for the first time, but eventually watching the Aliens and Predators fight loses its touch.

I refuse to see AvP2. The director's cried about nothing but "going back to its roots". I'm sorry, but neither franchise was about endless gore, Rescue Nukes and triplet chest bursters. The brothers Strauss can go to Hell.

Also, the only comic featuring either Aliens or Predators that didn't suck are the Batman vs. Predator comics. All others (and novelizations based upon them) are ass.

 

[smithy1234]

I think this film may have some potential... but it may also suck very hard. One or the other.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

...Once again my youthful optimism will win out.

 

[Satki]

NONONONONONONONO!!!

Don't ruin aliens for me more than 3 and 4 did, just leave it alone!!!

And I'd like to see how humans would appear in the film at all without completely messing up the timeline

 

[Satki]

Snip about Alien^3.

Also, I thought that AVP Ressurection had a neat idea: it showed us what would happen if the Aliens DID reach Earth, something that the Alien movies never really explored. Hint hint: it was a BAD DAY for the humies all around.

You should read the Aliens novels. They're pretty good, and some continued the story of Hicks & Newt, although when they killed them of in A3 they had to re-write and change the characters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Hive

Essentially what happens is Weyland/Yutani or another organisation gets an Alien back to earth, or they bring the orginial Queen Mother (x3 bigger than a normal Queen) back from the Aliens planet of origin. I think in the ensuing chaos the entire Pacific Rim was nuked to kill her and her brood, but there are millions of 'em all over various continents. Humans began fleeing Earth like a sinking ship, making for the colonies in whatever ships they could stowaway on. Back on Earth, a lot of people were left behind, and it became like your atypical zombie holocaust survival scenario.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(novel)
Some I've read:
Nightmare Asylum - Very psychotic, a group of travellers land on a planet and are captured by an Alien brood. This brood is diseased though, and cannot reproduce through normal face-hugger means.
The Female War - Ripley's in it (pre A3), she and a band of people travel to the Alien hive planet to kill a Queen, who they can hear in their dreams. Killing the ruling Queen results in a Princess(slightly different strain), escaping summary execution and establishing a rival hive (red vs black).
Genocide - 1 of my favourites. Clean-up of Alien hive strains almost complete on Earth, people return. A new drug, which uses Alien chemicals from hives, gives people superhuman like abilities. A team of soldiers/mercs is sent to back to the Hive World to get the pure strain of chemicals, as they land they see a landscape of Aliens fighting each other!

But that doesn't work!
In Aliens 3, Ripley was in an escape craft that left the marines ship after aliens 2, and only woke up when the craft landed in the prison, so the female war doesn't work...

 

[Zykon TheLich]

In space, no one can hear you scream...which is just as well, cause I'm screaming some pretty profane shit right now...

Ok, we're not in space, but you get the picture...

 

[Time Travelling Toaster]

Alien: Omg this is awesome!

Aliens 2: Hey this is fun!

Alien 3: Uhh...

Alien 4: OH GOD WHAT?

COMING SOON!

Alien 5: ...*hung self in the back*

This pretty much, after the marines were introduced it slowly declined (After Aliens) and when they introduced the mercs in Resurrection (?) it was to far for me.

 

[Iron Mal]

If they got someone like Ridley Scott to make it then I'm certain that it would actually be quite a good film (James Cameron would also be a good bet), however, if they hand this to someone like Paul Anderson or Ewe Boll then...we may be looking at another AVPR (let us hope it doesn't come to this).

 

[Jharry5]

Why can't they just let the old franchises alone?
Prequels are always a bad idea. The Alien franchise should just be laid to rest...
If you add these together, you'll get a very bad film (in my opinion).

 

[Chris^^]

i loved alien and aliens, but following those (the greatest sci-fi and the greatest sequel ever) the franchise was done, it had reached the end of its decent marketability.

ever subsequent sequel was just another nail in the poor girls coffin.

accept its dead!

 

[Fingerprint]

Hmm... I'm skeptical to say the least. Hollywood always manage to f**k ideas up in a way only they could pull off. However I loved the original series and will watch the prequel, though I won't be expecting much.

 

[Ghost]

at least it wont be as bad as AVP and AVP2....

 

[samsonguy920]

Frankly I like the mystery that was left with the alien ship. Tony Scott does put out some good movies, but with an amateur director at the helm, methinks the mystery is going to get turned into when you find out where it goes when you flush the toilet.
Frankly this is a ripe time for something so original it shocks people into thinking its great to go to the movies again. And by original, I mean something NOT connected to an already existing and overused movie franchise.

 

[Skeleon]

*snip*

Nah, I meant this one:

Spoiler

It's the one from the DVD-box.

Spoiler

 

[Ben Legend]

yay, another boring alien film.

Did they really include the alien pilot that the crew of the Nostromo in the first movie, thinking... "oooooo, we can include this a plot hole so we can make a prequel movie."

I think not, I sense the unnecessary milking of a franchise.

 

[Skeleon]

*snip*

Yeah, I know that.
The only thing I was talking about was that it was upside-down for some weird reason.