It’s been confirmed that there is going to be a new Alien movie, but not in the way we’ve seen them for the last few years. So, not steaming piles of dog shit.
Let’s face it, the original Alien is a true masterpiece. It reinvented like 3 genres of film all at once. No offense to the fun action film that Aliens is, but ever since that, people have been trying (extremely unsuccessfully) to recreate the Alien experience as an action film, when in reality, it should be pure, unadulterated HORROR, as in the first film.
So it’s good news that this new Alien film is going to be a prequel, and will presumably focus on the events leading up to the first film, where the “space jockeys”, the giant alien race whos ship had been taken over by the Aliens in the first film, meet the Aliens we know and get killed by love. Also worth noting is that it’s being produced by Ridley Scott himself, and they’ve chosen a director that does commercials for Scott’s company. I have no doubt that is code for “will do whatever Ridley says,” and that is a good thing.
The trick here is that if they do this story correctly, there really won’t be a single human in it at all, a first for the Alien series. So I imagine they’ll play with the origin story a little bit, to allow some humans in there. They gotta sell tickets, after all, and people don’t really relate as well to gigantic elephant alien men (the picture I’ve included here is from the original film, click here to see concept art of what a live one might look like)
Source: totalfilm
