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Last week, MTV brought us some factoids about the forthcoming ALIEN prequel that Ridley Scott's currently putting together (HERE).
Over the weekend, Matt at Collider assembled information gleaned from Sir Ridley during a direct interview/junketish type thing for ROBIN HOOD. You can find his piece HERE.
Highlights include...
** There are two prequels being mulled...
** Prequel #2 would lead into his original ALIEN film...
** The screenplay for the Prequel is already on draft number four...
** The project will be shot in 3D, which poses challenges in the franchise's iconic low-light situations (this will necessitate some post production lighting tweaks).
** Scott also said he'd been approached to 3Dimensionalize some of his eariler work (BLADE RUNNER?) but said he'd rather spend his energy on something new.
I found this exchange particularly interesting:
Can you now make an Alien movie that has the patience and same style as the first movie and it’ll still work for audiences?
Scott: I think it’ll work. Don’t you?
This is directly inferring that Sir Ridley's looking to make an ALIEN film that is closer in tone/approach to his original 1979 movie than anything else we've seen from the franchise to date - a notion which I find tremendously exciting. It's not altogether unexpected, but...at the same time...it wasn't a foregone conclusion, either (so far, each of the ALIEN films have looked/felt, quite different from the others - which I really appreciate). This said, as much as I enjoyed them, I always missed Scott's...Scottness...in the later three pictures. Although, the Ridley Scott from back then and the Ridley Scott making movies today feel like completely different directors in my book, so I'm curious as to how everything will land here.
By the way, Austin folks, the ALIEN Director's Cut will play the Paramount Theater's Summer Film Series this year (looks like July 2 & 3 - details HERE).
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I found this exchange particularly interesting:
Can you now make an Alien movie that has the patience and same style as the first movie and it’ll still work for audiences? Scott: I think it’ll work. Don’t you?This is directly inferring that Sir Ridley's looking to make an ALIEN film that is closer in tone/approach to his original 1979 movie than anything else we've seen from the franchise to date - a notion which I find tremendously exciting. It's not altogether unexpected, but...at the same time...it wasn't a foregone conclusion, either (so far, each of the ALIEN films have looked/felt, quite different from the others - which I really appreciate). This said, as much as I enjoyed them, I always missed Scott's...Scottness...in the later three pictures. Although, the Ridley Scott from back then and the Ridley Scott making movies today feel like completely different directors in my book, so I'm curious as to how everything will land here. By the way, Austin folks, the ALIEN Director's Cut will play the Paramount Theater's Summer Film Series this year (looks like July 2 & 3 - details HERE).
