Jul 31 2009Ridley Scott on 'Alien' Prequel: "Alright, Guys, I'm In!"
Ridley Scott, who parted from the continually-declining Alien franchise after his first installment, is officially returning to direct that prequel people have been talking about. Says Variety:
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.
Of course, this assumes he'll still have a career after Monopoly: The Movie. Because Ridley Scott is making a Monopoly movie, and you'd think that would be enough of an indicator of dementia people would stop letting him use film cameras.
Reader Comments
1. Nerd - July 31, 2009 2:56 PM
You know what sucks? I heard some song on the radio that had a decent enough beat, and now I have the chorus of it stuck in my head. When the DJ came on and announced the name of the song, it was "Frantic" by Metallica off that album St Anger.
Fuck sakes.
2. The Chief - July 31, 2009 4:01 PM
And this has to do with the Alien franchise or Ridley Scott how?
3. Pat - July 31, 2009 4:29 PM
"continually-declining Alien franchise"
I dunno, Cameron's "Aliens" was pretty freakin' good.
4. DFCtomm - July 31, 2009 4:48 PM
Finally some good news.
5. Dogless - August 1, 2009 2:41 AM
That is a terribly worded synopsis of 'Alien'.
6. Zissou - August 1, 2009 11:35 AM
Hmmm IMDB lists Carl Rinsch as Director, Ridley Scott as Producer.
7. Hemivpr - August 1, 2009 8:30 PM
Finally! I hope this movie is the space jockey species. I don't want to see any humans, evil company, or Ripley. An it should be completely in subtitles as non of these aline races speak ENGLISH (ie Earth language.)
If you really want to make an exciting movie, make the alines go against captain Picard and the Enterprise.
8. NoMoreDouches - August 2, 2009 1:55 PM
#7--non of these aline races speak ENGLISH (ie Earth language.)
If you really want to make an exciting movie, make the alines
THIS IS SO POORLY & STUPIDLY WRITTEN I JUST CAN'T THINK OF WHERE TO BEGIN TO START ???
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU'RE A DOUCHE
VIPER-ASSWIPER
9. Joey Kopf - August 2, 2009 6:42 PM
Yeah, what's up with Metallica? They will always be in the valt as one of my top ten bands, but I have not bought one album since the vomitous Black Album. They might as well start writing jingles for car commercials with the stuff they've been putting out. What happened with their last album? I was hearing all kinds of promises of a throwback to their hayday.
10. Nerd - August 2, 2009 9:46 PM
At least they didn't hire a psychiatrist to help them through "troubled" times, and in the process cry like little girls all over each other.
Oh wait....
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12. olli - August 3, 2009 12:11 PM
Judging by the track record of bullshit hollywood marketability conventions, i think we should brace ourselves for the strong possibility that we're not going to get a whole movie starring space jockey and his band of interstellar warmongers in the leading roles.
Nope, they're probably going to make this thing about a bunch of young, attractive humans-
(From where? The derelict craft appears to have been stuck for at least a good few hundred years, while the original alien flick is set in 2122, thus the ship is likely to have crashed prior to the advent of human space exploration. Maybe they'll have the space jockey land on earth and pick up some specimens for a galactic zoo or something.
Sheesh, that'd be awful. If they go that route, i hope they at least pick some kind of awesome people, like Inuits or Australian aborigines)
-somehow winding up in the soon-to-be-derelict space jockey ship, then inadvertently unleashing the aliens, running around panicking and being picked off for a while, before having to purposefully crash landing it on a seemingly barren planet to keep the aliens from spreading. The end. Snooze.
13. olli - August 3, 2009 12:13 PM
Erm, "before having to purposefully crash LAND it."
D'oh.
14. frank - August 10, 2009 9:17 PM
I would like to see at least some of the race that the Pilot belonged to. Is Giger busy right now? The first Alien had some pretty silly scares, but it was overall very atmospheric and chilling, largely thanks to Ridley, so I'm excited.
15. Dotun - September 30, 2009 12:42 PM
Fantastic news, It would be fantistic to get his take on How the Aliens got on the Wrecked Unknown alien Ship on the Original planet.
Will the Cast be Made Up of different Alien species, i think not cos that might be hard to sell :)