Alien Prequel - Prometheus - Page 5

Originally Posted by rezzy

Anyways, Newt's death did nothing to help this movie. But I guess we can console ourselves in the fact that the inmates didn't get their dirty hands on her.

Originally Posted by IAM4UK

Aliens "cheese" was tasty! "Game over, Dude!"

Originally Posted by IAM4UK

Aliens "cheese" was tasty! "Game over, Dude!"

Originally Posted by lordcloud

It wasn't for nothing. Ripley did it because she obviously felt close to Newt, very close. Close enough to risk her life to go back and save her. $hit happens. Newt died.

I like the fact that Newt died to start it off. Her dying was just as probable as her living and it got away from the stupidly positive typical Hollywood movie where all the main characters live to see another day. It almost reminded me of a foreign movie in that way.

It was also a good way to make it not only Ripley vs the alien, but to start off, Ripley vs the inmates, and overall it just made the mood of the movie bleaker and more somber and I think it struck a chord emotionally.

Originally Posted by ChrisMcCarthy

To be fair they were a violent people to everyone, themselves included. Then again, show a successful people of that period which was not violent.

The morally bankrupt period began when they started losing their republic and became an empire. This happened when the government started buying votes through bread and entertainment and was allowed to become completely corrupt....Should sound famaliar.

Chris.

Originally Posted by mproper

I liked A3, and I'm so glad we didn't have to deal with a stupid kid running around, getting into trouble, and needing to be rescued (again).

Originally Posted by rezzy

My last word on this: I wasn't saying I needed to see Newt again, just that her death (to myself) seemed pointless. The story could easily have picked up again some point after the child was returned to the company or family or whatever.

Originally Posted by Josh Z

You say that as though the religious angle automatically makes the plot "lame and flawed". Why?

Originally Posted by jwebb1970

If the cheese is coming from Bill Paxton? Sign me up for a lifetime supply!!

Originally Posted by Raptorsys

Exactly, and I want to know how the company knew about it. Also, make greater use of H.R. Geiger's artwork.


Brian

Originally Posted by Josh Z

You say that as though the religious angle automatically makes the plot "lame and flawed". Why?

Originally Posted by thedeskE

Why Indeed. There were no guards in a tradition sense, so the inmates were free to kill each other. Why not an in house agreement in a form of a Religion of their own making to keep the situation tolerable. Good writing IMO, and well played in spite of the insane situation in production. I often wonder how much of David Twohy's script lived through the many rewrites.

Originally Posted by lwright84

Ridley Scott comments on the timeline of the prequel:

http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/10/29/...alien-prequel/

According to ShadowLocked, STAR WARS and ALIEN art director Roger Christian confirmed that the ALIEN prequel will indeed be in stereoscopic 3D.

Says Christian: "Ridley's doing the next Alien in 3D."

Originally Posted by sb1

Yay.

How about "Alien Prequel Won't Suck"? That would make me way more excited.

Originally Posted by oink

More info:http://www.shadowlocked.com/index.ph...=38:movie-news

Originally Posted by ChrisWiggles

Interesting.

This is more of a chance for Ridley Scott to re-boot his own skills as a director for me than it is to reboot the Alien franchise, IMO. I haven't cared for any of his more recent films. If he manages to pull off the former, then he inherently pulls off the latter, and that will be the major challenge I think. But I do hope he succeeds.

Director Ridley Scottwho's prepping a prequel to his seminal 1979 sci-fi movie Alienis now saying that the movie will indeed deal with the identity of the "space jockey" discovered by the crew of the Nostromo on LV-426 in the original movie.

It's one of the nagging mysteries from the original movie: Who were the race that crashed that giant ship on LV-426 in the first place, leaving a wreckand a bunch of leathery alien eggsfor Ripley and her crew to discover?

Of course, Scott's saying this only after previously telling reporters that the envisioned prequel wouldn't deal with that subject. Sheesh.

Here's what he told MTV:

It's set in 2085, about 30 years before Sigourney [Weaver's character Ellen Ripley]. It's fundamentally about going out to find out 'Who the hell was that Space Jockey?' The guy who was sitting in the chair in the alien vehiclethere was a giant fellow sitting in a seat on what looked to be either a piece of technology or an astronomer's chair. Remember that? ...
And our man [Tom Skerritt as Captain Dallas] climbs up and says "There's been an explosion in his chest from the inside outwhat was that?" I'm basically explaining who that Space Jockeywe call him the Space JockeyI'm explaining who the space jockeys were.


As for the status of the movie? Scott says it's still being written.

As we speak, I've got a pile of pages next to me; it's like the fourth draft. It's a work in progress, but we're not dreaming it up anymore. We know what the story is. We're now actually trying to improve the three acts and make the characters better, build it up to something [we can shoot]. It's a work in progress, but we're actually making the film. There's no question about it, we're going to make the film.
Stay tuned!