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LOST’s Damon Lindelof Rewriting Ridley Scott’s ALIEN Prequel!!
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Deadline Hollywood reports that “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof has been hired to rewrite the proposed Ridley Scott-directed “Alien” prequel.
Jon Spaihts (“Passengers”) wrote the prior draft of the prequel’s screenplay.
Lindelof, who co-wrote (without a screenwriting credit) J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek” movie and co-wrote Jon Favreau’s upcoming “Cowboys and Aliens,” has surprisingly few credits as a solo screenwriter, but did a bang-up job as solo scripter on Marvel’s Ulimate Hulk Vs. Wolverine funnybook over the past few years.
Lindelof is also working with frequent collaborators Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci on the next “Star Trek” film Abrams is producing. (Actor Bruce Greenwood says that “Trek” is slated to begin production in January.)
Scott, of course, directed the original 1979 "Alien," but has been away from the franchise in the three decades since.
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Shaka.
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After seeing Lost's season ender, that could be a bad thing.
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In Space, no one can hear AsimovLives scream.
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an ORIGINAL alien/sci-fi story scripted by Lindelof and helmed by Scott? Sounds like a good idea to me
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Jul 28, 2010 5:42:18 PM CDT
Oh God. No. Did he write "Across The Sea"?
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
WE ARE ALL DOOMED.
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Also funny since the movie "Passengers" was about a life(...?)-chaning plane crash.
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I can see how everyone may be justified in worrying about the pay off in this film (I was personally satisfied by LOST), but the original Alien is all about tension. You can't deny Lindeloff knows how to create an incredible amount of tension. This ability is the reason all of the talkbackers feel so burned by LOST and the reason they stuck along for the ride for so long.
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As if the ridiculousness of Star Trek wasn't bad enough, now he gets to ruin another iconic franchise. Please no "Black holes" or "red matter." Jeesh.
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Jul 28, 2010 5:47:11 PM CDT
Alienverse=ZZZZZzzzzZZZZZZZZZZzhng... wh...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
by takingscorpioscalls
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why don't they get it?
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Now the script is being re-written? I take it FOX is not gearing up a summer 2011 release date for this anymore?
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all kinds of fucked up nonsense
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Didn't waste my time seeing the Alien vs. Predator movies. The 3rd and 4th movies are crap. And the original is just a haunted house in space movie with one memorable scene.
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Jul 28, 2010 6:00:23 PM CDT
I'm So Disappointed With Ridley About This
by isleptwithkathybatesandallthatigotwasthi
I don't need Ridley Scott's prequel to "Alien". I want a new science fiction movie from him! This is the dude that made "Blade Runner" after all and there are SO many other stories he could adapt or just write himself. There's only so much you can do with a monster after six movies. It's lost its mystery and the surprise is gone. Come up with something new! Hell, look at Cameron. Sure, "Avatar" had its problems but at least he tried something different instead of returning to what he'd already done. Please Ridley - I beg you! Give us something new!
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anyone that says they didn't have a problem with the Lost ending, is an idiot. Anyone can write red herring after red herring after macguffin...the key is the payoff. You don't go pay for an escort, then just ask her to seduce and tease you...you want your dick sucked, want to blow your load, you want the pay-off. My hopes for the prequel are rapidly diminishing...
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Ridley Scott's really getting to be a has-been, isn't he?
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...and sees Newt standing over her, beside a coffin.
"I died, too?"
"Yes."
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This is going to be fucking terrible.
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At least not with Scott at the helm.
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It's been bad since Alien 3. At least you guys finally woke up.
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You're seriously less interested in this movie now than when you thought it was being written by some random dude? Or is this just an impromptu "indirectly vent about the ending of Lost" TalkBack?
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just bury the fucking franchise already.its rotten corpse has already started to stink and the butt-raping by Ridley Scott with his shitty sequels isnt going to revive it.bury it ffs.
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Jul 28, 2010 6:16:23 PM CDT
At least we know Alien Harvest was bogus
by bp_drills_america_a_new_asshole
That's a crumb of comfort. Lindelof is probably just doing touch ups on Spaight's script. Its typical for geeks to get hysterical. Lindelof will inject more tension and mystery. Hardly a bad thing.
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Could be Kurtzman and Orci.
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I have been skeptical about these prequels, but Ridley Scott making another Sci-Fi film excited me, but I'm worried by this news. As fun as the last Star Trek film was, the script was the least impressive aspect of the production. The fact that the guy who wrote (some of) it, and hearing what he did with Lost, this news has taken a big chunk out of my interest in this project.
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and Transformer with Nu-Trek are good entertaining movies because mindless fun is acceptable.right.
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Sure, Lost had a disappointing ending, but it also had some great seasons. I'm pretty ambivalent about the Alien prequels. Ridley Scott's work hasn't interested me in years, but I still am completely enamored of the first two films.
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What did everyone talk about after reading Alien Harvest? The part where the Space Jockey made two dudes fuck each other! In the Butt! With it's mind!!! You want people talking about that movie? Leave that scene in!
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Fuck you all...especially RPLockesbrokenlegdouche.
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Yeah, that's not a good line in a Star Trek movie. No, sir. Don't put that line in a Star Trek flick. Doesn't fit at all. Right. I buy that.
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I'm talking about JJ's 'Star Trek'.
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That line is in the movie, and it's a great Star Trek line. Because you can't fit that line in any other movie. But a Star Trek movie. So it worked. Duh.
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And what little story it will contain, will be completely made up as they go along. ....Ultimately leaving the audience struggling to remember anything at all about what happened in it.
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It would be super if you actually remembered it. Yeesh. But that's asking for a bit more rationality than your garden variety talkbacker.
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Oh, is it? In which case they lifted it from Wrath of Khan.
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...nothing to me. I never watched LOST. Star Trek was alright, not great but alright.
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Biggest overexaggerated bullshit.
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So, any great lines of dialogue in JJ's Star Trek? Aside from those lifted frm Wrath of Khan?
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Jul 28, 2010 6:32:35 PM CDT
No, that line has been a staple of Star trek since the 60s
by tall_boy66
Newsflash, Bones has been saying, "Are you out of your Vulcan mind" since the 60s series and it's a iconic Trek line you use because that's what he fucking says. Of course, if anyone who apparently hate the latest Star Trek movie actually WATCHED the 60s TV series, they would know that. But Talkbackers are fucking tards who don't know anything about the subject they're railing against. So it goes.
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There goes any interest I had in this...
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Okay, if you call yourself a Star Trek fan and don't like Bones "Don't preach to me, kid." speech when he first popped up - you're a liar and you don't like Star Trek. Fact.
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...then I'd want my contribution to be uncredited also! But that aside, I like Damon and hope he can add value to Alien.
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Yeah I know its a Trek saying idiot. But i'm still waiting for great dialogue that Lindelof and co actually came up with themselves for their Star Trek film. That's the entire point get it? To judge the quality of the writer who's going to be doing the Alien film?
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Well there go my plans for the opening weekend.
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In other news, sky is still blue. Water still wet. Film at 11.
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...Alien was never about the alien.
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Jul 28, 2010 6:37:09 PM CDT
Also: Talkback rallies against subject has no knowledge against
by tall_boy66
Of course, if said talkbacker had actually watched any of the dozens of Lost episodes Lindeolf penned, they would still rage against it anyway. Because they don't know what the fuck they're talking about. Life goes on.
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I'm not a big Trek fan per se, I like some of the episodes and some of the movies. We're drifting from my point, that Lindelof is not a great writer and therefore the script for the new Alien film is likely to be forgettable.
Of course if you found the script for Star Trek to be memorable that's another bag entirely.
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Followed by a strawman argument.
Then a paragraph break
To make one's argument seem more prominent. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you every single one of that dude's posts. -
..it was a 2 hour movie Tall_Boy. What were your favourite lines? Apart from the one they didn't create themselves?
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pretty sure a producer has confirmed.
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I have a feeling this prequel isn't going to turn out the way Ridley Scott promised.
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...how a crew of people can bond together when they go through a difficult situation together.
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Jul 28, 2010 6:42:49 PM CDT
Listen, dipshit, you don't know ANYTHING about what you're hatin
by tall_boy66
Seriously, if you're saying that you don't like the character exchanges in Star Trek, go ahead and watch the goddamn movie first. If you don't like anything Bones says in the film, you don't know A) anything about how the characters in Star Trek are supposed to talk B) how these characters are presented C) what they're supposed to sound like. Therefore, if you don't like anything Bones says in the movie, it's because you don't KNOW anything about the character in the first place. Jackass.
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...one alien always leads to another alien anyway.
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They could of asked Jettl93 to write it!.
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Jul 28, 2010 6:45:14 PM CDT
Please, kwisbalhblabblah, I'm not falling into your retard trap
by tall_boy66
Here's what's going to happen: I post a piece of dialouge, you proceed to tear it apart. WHY IN THE FUCKING NAME OF HEAVEN WOULD I BE STUPID ENOUGH TO DO THAT?! Because if you hated Shaksepere, I could post chapter and verse Hamlet's speech to the players, and you would then post A paragraph break And say that you find it not memorable. Give me a good reason to try to respond to your idiocy. Go ahead. I'll wait.
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...wife got the planet in the divorce. I remember that one pretty easy.
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I'm just asking for memorable lines of dialogue. It looks like you can't give me any. I saw Star Trek once. No sane person would ever sit through it again. Presumably in the new Alien film the hero will be thrown off a ship, crashland on a planet, be chased by an Alien and end up in a cave where a 70 year old version of Ripley will procede to deliver several pages of exposition via the use of flashbacks.
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But kwsiramalamadingdong can't put two and two together and actually comprehend how these characters are supposed to sound and how it works in the context of Star Trek. Instead, it's Paragraph break Strawman argument.
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there's no way I would tear it apart. But there isn't any in that film.
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Wow. Great line!
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you're coming at whatever someone says from a contrarian position. Do you know what a contrarian is? It's what you are. Whatever one says, you are intransigent and contrary. Because you like to be. Engaging in discourse with you, engaging in your little game, is about as intellectually fulfilling as banging my head against the wall.Because you're a killjoy douche. Get it?
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You know your argument is on shaky ground when all you can do is take the piss out of me instead of responding and discussing. Whatever. You clearly aren't read up on film. I'm outta here. Enjoy.
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I'm interested, it's potentially amazing, but it's old ground.... I vote for a new Ridley Sci-fi
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You are coming at this argument from a logical fallacy: "Every single line of dialogue in that movie is awful." Do you understand that if one tries to engage in a discourse with you your inherently flawed position would lead to no result whatsoever? Go ahead, tell me that you actually KNOW anything about what constitutes good dialogue in a Star Trek movie. OH OH OH!! AND MAKE A REFERENCE TO LOST AND FLASHBACKS!!!! IT'S REALLY WITTY!!!
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get in Monahan, somebody who actually understands drama and great dialogue. Tall_Boy, hire the Kingdom of Heaven Dir Cut and watch any of the Edward Norton scenes for some great dialogue and screenwriting from Monahan. Something that Kurtzman, Orci and Lindelof wouldn't know how to do in a million years.
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Have you seen any of the ten Trek movies prior to Abram's Trek? I don't think you have. They are crammed with wooden dialog that makes you cringe. How you can bitch about the dialog in Abram's Trek is beyond me.
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except for grainy black and white behind the scenes pics.
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Basically anything from Wrath of Khan, Voyage Home and Undiscovered Country. They're all well written Trek movies.
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Remember all the great dialogue in Inception? "Whose subconscious are we going to now?" Wow! It's really deep and well written! Iconic line. It'll live forever!
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I have to go, but seriously watch Wrath of Khan and JJ's film back to back and come back and tell me they're on the same level.
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When Nic Meyer picks up the football for the scenes in the past, the bookend scenes are by Harve Bennet and it's basically franchise housekeeping.
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Haven't seen it yet.
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Agree with you there. Do you think anything in JJ's film is as well written as the scenes in the past in IV though?
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Jul 28, 2010 6:57:33 PM CDT
Not exactly. the first Alien was about the fascination and the
by killik
horror that the Unknown brings to the humans.Thats why this movie is never going to be surpassed in its genre,because it perfectly demonstrated the above truth in its cinematic storytelling.Cameron,as a genius that he was,he understood that he could never reach what Alien had already achieved if he was going to approach and explore the same subject about the Unknown.That story had already been told in the most perfect way.So he wisely deciced to approach the universe and its characters from a different angle,to aim for a totally different type/genre of a film,to tell his own story which would be more about how people bond together when they have to solve a life-treating problem.and he made a new different but perfect story in that same universe.
and now comes Ridley Scott and what he wants to do? to explain the Unknown.he wants to dismiss what was the heart,the soul,the cornerstone of his original masterpiece.I suppose wisdom doesnt come with age as they say. -
...for a memorable one. I remember it. I remember a few others, too. Does it have the kind of writing Casablanca or The Godfather or His Girl Friday had? No Is it a movie that will be added to the storied lists of all time film classics? No. Is the script filled with some unlikely, illogical and just plain silly action? Yes. But there's that line of dialogue and it sounded just like McCoy, and Karl Urban was the very best choice in a cast where a whole lot of good choices were made, and he delivered it in a way that made me see and hear Bones. And I grew up on repeats of the original series, in those years before the Next Generation decided that a starship was just a great big office building in space. So yeah, I remember it.
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"Fucking dog bit me" --William Monahan in Body of Lies. Holy shit, what a fucking genius! See? YOU CAN PICK APART ANYTHING LINE BY LINE, WHICH IS WHAT YOUR ENTIRE ARGUMENT IS BASED AROUND
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...I don't agree with you all the time but that was pretty spot on.
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I'm not trying to get in the way of... whatever's going on here, but that guy seriously writes amazing dialogue. The Departed, anyone? "I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy."
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Whatever. We'll have to disagree. I'd rather Monahan wrote a draft of the new Alien. I guess we'll all see how the Lindelof one turns out...
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... and we all know it.
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The hell I can't.
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But braver writers than he have stepped into the maw that is the Aliens franchise. Even with Ridley Scott at the helm, this could get ugly.
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I read the original Alien script that you can download pretty much anywhere off the of web. I'm talking the StarBeast version. Whoa, talk about a steaming pile of crap! Had I read that script before Alien came out I would have not thought, in a million years, it could have evolved into something as magnificent as Alien. I reckon the only reason that may be is because it had Walter Hill involved who was actually a very good writer and of course, Scott as director. After the movie comes out and I've watched it I'll say my two cents and move on.
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Guffaw!
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from Children of Men? How about Moon? District 9? The Wrestler? Zodiac? Memorable dialogue does not a great movie make. It can elevate, it can detract, but 'quotables' aren't the end-all, be-all of any great cinematic experience.
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Over a couple of years is right! Took the guy THREE YEARS to write a six-issue mini series. That also happened to be complete shit. I once sat down and wrote out a 22 page comic book script at Denny's in three HOURS, fer heaven's sake!
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a cat alien, chillaxing space jockeys psychically making gay fanfic, and weyland-yutani folks spending a needlessly dramatic hour taking a botched shot at a jockey ship.
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All of you. The Star Trek reboot was fucking awesome. What's with this knee-jerk "this will suck" attitude? You're all (well most) pussies.
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Agreed. The Star Beast script was awful, and was only with some pretty serious rewrites that Dan o Bannon's script became presentable. What people forget is that Ridly Scott took a rote haunted house in outer space script and made it his own. The writing wasn't particularly great - it had one gunuinely good concept, the alien life cycle. But Scott MADE it his own. He made it great. And lest we forget, Scott hired David Peoples to rewrite Hampton Fancher's Blade Runner script. And that didn't turn out too shabby. A rewrite isn't the end of the world. But would I prefer someone like Jonathon Nolan to do it instead of Lindelof? Hell yeah.
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the city and all that.the original script didnt have the city in it.
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...it's obtuse to argue that this means there was nothing well written about the series. Lindelof wrote some of the series best episodes even if he wrote some of the weakest, and he's got enough talent to write a good script or re-write a bad one. I have no idea if he'll do anything good with an Alien prequel or not but it's more than possible that the Lindelof who wrote "The Constant" and "Through the Looking Glass" still has good stuff in him.
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they aren't giving jobs to the most qualified people
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Gladiator and all the other "meh" stuff Scott's done lately, this could be a good thing. Props to Alien and Blade Runner though, too bad THAT Ridley Scott is long dead. Still not sure I want someone to ruin the Space Jockey.
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It got 12 nomiations!! Yeah, that's really ending badly. Damon is a breath of life for this shitty franchise!!
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I enjoyed most of LOST, and what I didn't like was Ok, thanks to the great characters the series built. What, did everybody love AvP?
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Jul 28, 2010 8:01:25 PM CDT
Then perhaps they should get the GLEE writers to tackle it
by mockingbird girl
'Cos if we're measuring quality in Emmy nominations, they kicked LOST's ass. Just sayin'.
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Just wondering how DO you measure quality, because according to you guys you don't measure it by box office, or writers or nominations.
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for one simple reason: FLYING JACK-FACE! The second reason is because it was good. In my opinion. See? I said it was my opinion. Didn't state it as fact beyond reproach. Just how I feel. Me. My own. My precious opinion.
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Zack Snyder, Speed Racer, X-men 3 (and I'm a comic nerd), JJ's Trek, Avatar, Ewoks, and boobies. Let the bile spew forth. It's cathartic.
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...we determine quality by what I say, Looky. I'm a judicious man, Riplo, and when I've made up my mind you can be sure I've logicked and ciphered and considerated on the subject until a final, just and ineffable opinion has formed. You just come to me, Cke-Cke. I'll whisper it in your ear.
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Ripley at a church with Newt, Bishop Hicks and Dallas and an alien drone tells her that LV-426 was a place they created so they can find each other and move on!
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...cat has to tell her, though. Then it tenses and hisses. Ben Linus bursts through her chest and she wakes up in the hospital screaming.
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is that everybody ends up in a tacky Burbank chapel near the ABC backlot dressed in Sunday brunch attire.
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BROTHA!!
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is to explain why it's okay now for Spock and Uhuara to get in on in the turboshaft.
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without the other coming into the discussion.
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be kissing his ass.
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get into a catfight while the guys are watching. Spock:fascinating captain, McCoy: Damnit Jim I'm getting horny, Kirk: Trio
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After McCoy knocks Kirk out, he runs by and asks for Nurse Chapel but the scene cuts to the bridge.
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and "boom" went to next scene as you mentioned RP.
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Jul 28, 2010 9:00:20 PM CDT
"let's try and capture that magic one more time" - an accountant
by oogles
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Slated for 2011 starring Keanu Reeves. Not the Anne Hathaway one from 2008 that was oddly similar to the Lost finale...
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instead of fucking up the ending to Lost, he's been hired on to fuck up the beginning of Alien..LOL!
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He did such an excellent balance of chewing up the scenery and being serious. Like when he told Spock to keep Kirk on board because: "There's a saying where I come from. You ride the horse that got you here." Then it went on yadayada.
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Haha! With its mind!!! God, Alien Harvest was beyond ridiculous.
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Was it any different from the original dialogue? If anything they made a throwback by giving an homage to the cheesy dialogue. Ohh you talkbackers and your cynical outlook on EVERYTHING NEW!
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I saw it four times in theaters. I haven't done that with a Trek movie since Trek VI.
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As long as Lindelhof gives Charles Weyland his proper due, it'll be good.
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There is way too much hate for this. After Alien Resurrection and two godawful AvP movies, the guy that started the franchise comes back and hires a writer with some serious cred to work on his script (if you think Lost or Star Trek sucked, then you're wrong) and all you nerds can do is complain? What the hell do you people want?
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Jul 28, 2010 9:21:23 PM CDT
Lindelof is going to be sent to Alien's past....
by ooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuutttttlllllaaaaa
Lindelof is going to be sent to Alien's past to retroactively ruin the entire Alien chronological future.
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...contain that awful ice cave exposition, recycled for the fourth straight time ending, and a soundtrack that is outshined by an outsourced track used in it's trailer.
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At least it is from where I sit.
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New stuff worth watching that goes beyond bright colors and shiny stuff.
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Every Trek had bad exposition. Shit, Nemesis made a movie out of it.
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There is no audience to be milked for seven years.
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Ripley, Newt, Higgs, Bishop, The Alien Queen, and the rest will end up in some psudo-limbo church construct and pass on to the afterlife at the end?
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I watched very little of Lost, so I guess I shouldn't judge, but this does not feel like excellent or even good news to me. I liked Star Trek, but Alien is a totally different beast. Just because he wrote a movie that took place in space does not mean that, well, you see where I'm going with this.
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Why would Damon write Alien like Lost? There were many people involved with Lost. I'm sure Alien 5 will be the same crapfest movie you guys are used to.
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Mhuhaha! Space Jockey is Samuel(whatever) Just kidding. Mostly. I'd be more impressed if he "ghost" wrote it, and knocked our socks off... and later revealed his cred.
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dissapoint. Scott isnt on his game that much these days imho, and prequals almost always suck/dissapoint in large part because they remove the mystery from things we love. We do not, I reapt DO NOT need to know where the xenomorphs come from....
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I can't think of any off-hand. Did anyone else wish he woulda dove over that butcher's counter and souplexed the old lady into a stack of cans?
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Here is the thing Nice Gayus. Don Murphy is the air that you breathe and the food that you chew. Before Don Murphy you sold pencils on the freeway. Now you get to clean out public lavatories. One day you will even have a brush. Apologize to Don Murphy. He won't forgive you or even like you but maybe you could learn to like yourself.
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The space jockey has been there so long it's fossilized! It's older than humanity! Hopefully it's not some time travel bullshit like that lame trek movie.
None of these studios would ever greenlight a movie that doesn't have people in it. So this won't be a simply a movie about space jockey's vs. aliens, humans will have to figure into it, which means time travel. Fuck hollywood and fuck this movie. -
with daddy issues that starts fights in bars.
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Technically, the term should be "mummified". Even Kane got it wrong in the movie. Or the script got it wrong, to be exact.
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It's as if you are saying.." I can't afford to hire the "Hot at the moment" HACK A-list writers so I'll hire their go'fer!"?This is like hiring the fluffers fluffer.
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some alien fucking. or something like that. sounded well weird. glad he's rewriting it
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I don't feel like an idiot for liking the Lost ending. The series built to an epic conclusion, and answered most of the on-Island questions throughout season six. The Jack-Locke fight was great and the character arcs paid off. The white light/limbo stuff wasn't amazing, but that wasn't hinted at throughout the entire series, just season six. With the exception of a few lingering questions, they did a nice wrap up. I think Lindelof has it in him to knock this one solidly out of the park.
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anyone knows that's a good idea...and have widmore say you damn dirty aliens sunk my battleship
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While the lost finale was halfway decent, overall season 6 was the biggest letdown final season in tv history.
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There's a video on College Humor that will change your mind.
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the way J.J.'s Spock said "Live Long and prosper" as a way of saying fuck you to the counsel was fucking cool. So to Kwitsackherderback, live long and prosper, you fucking geek.
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or Alien VS Predator 1 through 10, or Predators?
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I hope they show a blooper reel of Ridley Scott actually throwing up after reading a script from the Abrams school of film writing.
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Yeah, thats an awesome piece of screenwriting dickhead.
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Yep, that's right...go and choose a writer who'll not only confuse himself, but everyone else as well...I'm sure they could have asked Chris Nolan's brother to write it instead...(miles better)...and for the final time, quit it with the sodding prequels...I'm happy to watch Mary Elizabeth Winstead frolicing around, but NOT in the bloody 'The Thing Prequel' (what did the Norwegians do?) which is currently being shot...and NO Predators / Fishburne prequel that's being mooted....plus when is the last time Ridders made a really good movie - American Gangster ?
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Perhaps they can bring out of retirement, the dude (s) who wrote an entire season of Dallas, where the series finale was Bobby Ewing and Pammy realising it was all a dream...or was that pre-pubescent Lindelof (????)
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In thirteen letters - D-A-M-O-N L-I-N-D-E-L-O-F. The last season of "Lost" fucking sealed your fate with me, Ass Clown.And thanks for mentioning that he co-wrote "Cowboys and Aliens." Now I'll be avoiding that, too.
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I agree with some talkbackers that the franchise has been milked to its last drop. There's nothing new and interesting to explore with the Aliens. Gimmicks, at best. The monster has been denatured into a mere dangerous animal by Alien Resurrection. Compare that to the crap-in-your-pants-ness of the invulnerable force of nature that it was in the first movie. Heck, Ripley only could get rid of it in space, where it still was pretty much a happy camper. We've seen aliens slaughtered, breeded and somewhat tamed since. Move on, sadly these creatures have lost their nightmare-inducing nature.
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...the mooted Ridley/Cameron team-up after ALIENS would have taken...Would it have involved this kind of 'prequel'-esque storyline, or would it have been the kickass, Earth-bound ALIEN 3 that the early teasers for that hinted at?Still not convinced that this intended 'backstory' of 'planet terraforming'/'explaining the Space Jockey's suit origins' idea is best way for Ridley to go...but I guess I'm still willing to wait and see what he can come up with concerning anything ALIEN-related whatsoever.It's got to be far better than some talentless hack being given another shot at the franchise again surely?
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NOW WE CAN START OFF WITH A COOL BEGINNING OF THE MOVIE AND THEN GO INTO WTF TERRITORY WHERE EVERYTHING DOESN'T MAKE SENSE AND THE CHARACTERS BEHAVE IN WAYS THAT ARE CONTRIVED BUT FORWARD THE RIMBALDI PROPHECY PLOT BUT THEY WON'T TELL THE OTHER CHARACTERS FOR SOME WEIRD REASON AND THEN AT THE END IT'S ALL WRAPPED UP AND IT WAS A DREAM IN THE AFTERLIFE, JUST A DREAM
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... and all the Alien films were just him in the afterlife.
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the alien prequel will make alien 4 look like alien 2
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No Mel Gibson, no ALIEN!
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flashbacks up the ass of this film.
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I'd rather see a sequel to Aliens (ignoring 3 + 4) rather than a prequel. Colonial Marines, Alien homeworld etc. Not going to happen I know but I wouldn't have worried about timelines and continuity etc - the whole thing has already been buggered up and you may as well go all out and make a really cool action/horror film.
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"Lost" is, was, and will always be a complete piece of shit.
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Please scrap the whole Mecha Suit for the jockey pilot. No one wants an actor with cute little star trek nose ridges clamoring out of what should be left as an enigma. I mean for Dagon's sakes someone tried to burn the Jockey's prop because they thought it was the work of the Devil! Don't fuck up a great story device. I fucking hate Hollywood for all it's betrayals you whore!
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No where in the promos will they say this movie is from the writer of Lost. People may not know Lindelof's name but they know Lost sucked. No Studio would want their movie associated with Lost.
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Yawn, move on with your lives already. Kate shot first. Hahahahhahahahahaha.
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This is not my opinion. This is FACT. Now shut the fuck up you sad motherfuckers.
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of Lost. If you did, good for you. That's your opinion and you are welcome to it. I however, did not and as such I won't be seeing anything else with Lindlehof involved in it. I don't care if it's good. I don't care if it's bad. I don't care if it's the second coming of Marlon Brando with Marylin Monroe sucking his dick. If it's got this guy's name on it. I won't pay money for it. That's how I vote.
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Anybody involved with Lost is an interest killer in my book
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All fun popcorn flicks in my opinion. By no means good movies like Alien 1-3 or the first 2 pred movies.
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Scott is a rudderless ship.
get me a writer. a good writer that people like. i make pretty pictures.
get me someone who can tell a good story. because i have no idea what that is. -
earning your name with each and every post
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why not a garbage Alien prequel too?
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Despite Lost's shockingly poor 6th season.
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... to crack any joke. Bugger!!!!
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I had been an avid LOST fan until its ending, that pissed me off even more than Galactica did. I mean: I HATED it! The lack of respect for the audience was so total that I felt shocked.
I had no hopes for this movie, as Scott, in my eyes, stopped directing good movies after Thelma & Louise. This just confirms me that the old man is just milking a dead cow. Now, there's only 1 thing I fear even more: Scott touching Blade Runner... -
And God created the Aliens with a mysterious life force pool.
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Either way, I'm done with the whole Alien/Predator series anyway... There's really not much more you can do with the franchise...
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You guys are fucking idiots...but Lindelof isn't an idiot...he knows what Alien is...it's not going to be Lost or Star Trek you clowns
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I love it when idiots call people "haters" because something is being criticized. First of all, the word is fucked out. Second, it doesn't apply in the situation of fans criticizing Lost.
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is getting remade. by les wisemen. i cant see anyone else doing the line if im not doug quaid, den who de hell i am.
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is getting remade. by les wisemen. i cant see anyone else doing the line if im not doug quaid, den who de hell i am. like arnie
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Standard useless "producer" move . . . supposedly to inspire investor confidence.
Is this site slow today or do I have a dirty keyboard? -
Spock tries to save the Romulan planet. In return for this Eric Bana decides to hunt him down and kill him?
Huh? How about a thank you.
Can someone explain this? -
Will spoil the original.
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If I were writing this new Alien film, I'd approach it like this:-Colonists terraforming new world far from Earth, find ancient alien architecture, or another derelict ship, etc...-They could find another jockey or maybe more than one, but they would all be fossilized and long dead.-One of the colonists gets raped by the facehugger, and well, you all know the rest...-The colonists have to either hunt down the alien(s), or fortify their colony ala the colonists in Aliens before the Colonial Marines arrived.Either way, the film could be more about the horror and mood like the original Alien, just instead of on a ship, it would be on a terraforming colony. Maybe they'll talk about the terraforming stuff in the first act, while they are setting things up and building the characters up? I think as along as the jockeys are dead like in the first film, then it would be cool to see them again.I really do like the idea of seeing a film that sort of recounts the ordeal the colonists on LV-426 had to go through in the Aliens backstory. Not that I'd want to see a film of that particular incident, but one that takes that idea and does it on another planet. That would actually be a pretty good setup, especially if they don't have a ship and are stuck unless someone comes along to rescue them. I think they need to go back to a simpler setup, similar to the first film for something like this to work.
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Wow, a frequent collaborator of the Idiot Abrams, Porki Orci and Clueless Kurtzman writing the script, and Ridley no longer confirmed to direct. Goodbye, Alien Prequel!
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urg....I....dont...want...agree...asiidiot....I liked star trek alot and saw it twice. I think JJ did a great job of re-launching star trek. but the vulcan/romulan plot made no sense. I and seriously wanted to punch simon pegg.
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are always mentioned by lots of random talkbackers everytime an Alien-related topic comes up. Seriously, Fox is either blind or being stubborn by not accepting the fact that a huge portion of the Alien fans want to see some space marines throw down with some xenomorphs.Oh well... hopefully someday a Starcraft movie will get made, and we'll finally see some epic space marines vs hordes of hungry angry aliens action on the the big screen?
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Jul 29, 2010 6:37:27 PM CDT
This will be the "Across The Sea" of Alien movies
by christian_bale_trashed_my_lights
After watching it, an entire audience will shit into a bucket and then rub it in their own faces in an attempt to create a situation more nightmarish than the one they've just experienced.Don't do it Ridley Scott!
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That shit was fun-nay! For realz LOL!
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that doesn't take an hour to explain, and doesn't leave several plot threads hanging with the writer passing off as "ambiguous" or "open to interpretation." Cause if that happens it will REALLY piss me off. On it's most basic level, the first Alien film was a slasher film with a simple Roger Corman formula: Taken seven people to a house and chop them up. Substitute the spaceship for a house and the Alien for a slasher. As the twist you make the least likely person to survive the one who survives. Keep it simple people. I'm not saying repeat the formula but maybe switch it up a bit. Boy meet girl. Boy loses girl on Alien planet. Boy blows S@#! up.
If you don't agree with me fine, that's some something to think about. -
Sorry.
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Sorry.
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There is not one film ever made that's any good. It's all crap. If any of you like anything, you're fucking retarded.
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"only a complete idiot would ever sit through it again."
Give me a break. Like it's Manos: Hands Of Fate now or something. The imagination on some of you tools. -
Yeah, just a *few* lingering questions. Like the 100 they crammed Micro-Machines-Talker-style into that 5 minute College Humor video. But other than that, everything made perfect sense.
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