Up until now though it's been the Carl guy. Ridley has remained silent on the subject. Whilst his company has been involved his interest has been muted. Even if this does go through we're probably talking 2011 before we see anything at the earliest and this rumour mill gets tired very quickly.

Hell despite this talk I'm doubtful this Alien prequel will come to pass AT ALL. Likewise Predators, with even less chance of them being a step up from the rancid AVP. The trouble they face is the mystery has been removed from these beasts. Less is more with these franchises, but will that fly with audiences that have seen these two creatures now for 20+ and 30+ years respectively?

Studio suits love that. With a commercial director, you often don't have to worry about some egotist who will want to make his vision and is unwilling to compromise. Of course, you also get a bland, by the numbers picture, but that is what the people want.

Think about that for a moment.

But not nearly as impressive as how you taught me how to make the little ³ after ALIEN.

it would be great if he did some new sci-fi and complete a hat-trick of sci-fi masterpieces.

young minds, fresh ideas.

personally I'd like to see a hybrid film of both Alien and Aliens. But ultimately if Ridley Scot is back for another alien film I am a happy lil geek

Stay away from Fox, Ridley. Stay FAR away. Please.

Getting Ridley back to fix/save the franchise by making a prequel is retarded. What if the movie is great? What then? Oh yeah, we know what happens next. If you really want to save/fix the franchise, then bring the original director back to try to salvage this mess with a sequel and try to make the franchise into something great...if that can even be done now.

I think Ridley needs to pass on this one...no mater what the "demands" are.

Lucas returning to Star Wars - FAIL!

leave it to someone else Ridley. Or alternatively - leave the whole franchise alone and DO SOME NEW FILMS FOX.

Imagine how much better No Country for Old men would've been if Morgan Freeman played Anton Chigurh or better yet If he was the voice of Vader instead of James Earl Jones!

What If he would've played Batman? The Joker? Hell, He wouldve been awesome as Riddick! You ever seen Morgan Freeman wearing sunglasses? That a Bad man!

Everything goes better with Morgan Freeman!

My point is every-time I hear ridiculous shit--I'm going to automaticlly suggest that Morgan Freeman be involved somehow----I find it very therapeutic

It's easy being a movie industry butthead.

That's a summer blockbuster right there!

If the Scotts take the ALIEN story back, they'll bring back Giger in some way or another which will be the well worth the price of admission.

I hope they fire those two self-impressed Fox FX guys who have over the course of five films (ALIENS, ALIEN 3, ALIEN 4, AvP & AvP 2) turned Giger's Alien into just another guy in a suit.

Everybody knows that Jar Jar Abrams and his dick nose or Mikey the Gay M&M are the greatest directors of our generation.

Secondly, I think it's pretty hard to separate MOTHER from The Company. Just like you can't really separate HAL from the orders he received from Dr. Floyd. That's the great thing about evil, non-anthropomorphized AI characters, when they're done right. You know, as opposed to Skynet, who just played as a standard "bad guy" when they could have made it a way more interesting character who is just following the programming the humans gave it.

They always decide to make a movie for stupid reasons (it's got a star attached, for example), then hack out a script for it.

No, wait. They set the marketing program before they hack out a script.

When you see dickheads say "I'm a big fan of the series" they don't mean it, they mean "I love Aliens". So they use that as the starting point when they copy it, and make a big fucking mess trying to outdo cameron.

Alien is the film they should be looking at.

When I think about it, I do 'get' OBannon... he's a frustrated screenwriter, he probably wishes that he got to direct the film and believes it would have made his career as a director, he could have done it better than Ridley, blah, blah, blah... I get it. But only if it was actually his and Ron's script that wound up on the screen. How could there even be a question of this? Doesn't the WGA arbitrate for credit in these instances? If so, wouldn't it have to have been their script that made up Alien for them to have the credit?

If that's not the case, then Giler and Carol have a point. So did they really do a substantial rewrite in which they rewrote all the dialogue, all the characters names, etc.? And Ron Schusett came up with the chest burster, correct? Then WHAT THE FUCK did Dan O'Bannon do except come up with the germ of an idea (an alien stalks a crew on a spaceship) and introduce Giger to Ridley? Introducing Giger is obviously a HUGE contribution, but from the way he talks, you'd think he forced the actual movie into existence by concentrating hard enough to burn what was in his mind onto the film as it was going through the camera.

However, what I DO notice is that NOBODY... not Gordon Carol, not David Giler (seems like a fucking douche), nor O'Bannon, or ANYONE ELSE for that matter questions or takes a shot at Ridley Scott (aside from O'Bannon's slight undermining). Further proof that a successful director is pretty much the most powerful person in Hollywood in perpetuity... even high-ranking executives can do little but rattle a director's cage, but if it's someone like Scott or Cameron, that executive will be long gone from their job and those directors will still have power in Hollywood.

But please don't insinuate I'm a homosexual. Actually I consider all that ra ra Cameron/Bay military bullshit to be pretty homo, myself.

Cameron's ALIENS provided the logical response of sending in a lot of over-confident military yahoos with a ton of gear to kick some ass. And as we witnessed, the exact opposite happened and the character of Ripley was allowed to become the supreme female badass we all know and love.

Just let Giger go nuts and BLAM - something original will happen.

Just let Giger go nuts and BLAM - something original will happen.

And now this is a double post because this site has AIDS.

Bada-bing.

Only him and Scott can save Alien now. What's James doing nowadays?

Now someone sober up Chris Cunningham and sit his ass in a director's chair and give us a real reason to use some "spooge" metaphors around here!

Shut the fuck up.

And if you want a laugh, watch that deleted scene with Newt and her family cruising around in their car. That shit is funny.

Jesus...

It's one thing to say you prefer the originals over the sequels. I completely understand that. But declare both T2 and Aliens pieces of shit is incomprehensible.

I don't know, I think it's a fine movie.

Scroll down the following page and tell me this guy wouldn't have been an awesome inspiration for a new, fucked up take on the Alien universe:

http://tinyurl.com/5uq8xz

Hell, I don't even dislike T2 and I actually like all of those films, even T4. Such a shame they botched AvP.

And I can't believe they went with the alien out the airlock - AGAIN! It's like Star Trek and time travel, please stop!

Just do an Alien movie, and remember it has to have Aliens, not so much Ripley. Or some tie to Ripley. I have to assume the prequel will show us Ripley as a punk kid who gets talked into joining the Industrial Space Workforce. Maye somehow, she can have created the Aliens. She probably built the Nostromo. Her future super-self jumped out of the Nexus and raised her.

Man, why am I not in Hollywood!

Never saw Alien IV, it looked-AWFUL. III was OK but not what it shoulda been.

I'm prob. the Biggest Mikey Bay fan here-and good lord, Bay is Lightyears away from being in Cameron's league as a storyteller or whatever. Just hold up these two films: Titanic vs. Pearl Harbor. Do I REALLY need to say anymore? 'Course not.

I'm looking forwards to watching Big Robots Hitting Each Other Once Again in a couple weeks, but I know it for what it is. Big fucking robots doing shit. That's all. And I'm down w/ that.

I don't think a new Alien film has to be a sequel or a prequel or really anything that ties into the Quadrilogy (blech) timeline. At its base, all the franchise requires is the xenomorph design. The story could take place millions of years away from the Ripley timeline. Have characters that have nothing to with Ripley. You only really need the xenomorph and maybe possibly an space/sci fi setting. But even then that isn't quite as necessary.

Which sucks, because no one takes the story seriously anymore and aliens are no longer scary. Hire a sycophantic douchebag like Paul W.S. Anderson, and you get a watered-down Weak Sauce movie. That's a direct reflection of Fox's priorities. Which sucks.

I read the Dark Horse "AvP" comic series myself, and thought they were frighteningly intense, well-written stories with wonderful characters and character arcs. I actually consider The Dark Horse series to be my "Alien 3," since scenes in that comic were FAR more memorable than anything that's been shown in theaters.

Just sayin'.

Bring back Giger and have him make some new alien races, after all....the universe in which Ripley is in has never revealed that there has NOT been contact with other species. I'm sure in Aliens there is reference to other life.

Its use of tension, sound effects, metal clanking, alien blood holes, violently ass-kicking battles ("Let's Rock!"), compelling and memorable characters, unexpected turns of drama and humor, all-time quotable lines, and other iconic place settings gives "Aliens" a "benchmark" label. It's a benchmark science fiction horror film that no director since then has equaled, in style or substance.

Or classic effects.

As far as a movie it is well made, but like I've said before just NOT the story I wanted. No need for me to go into the "everyone dead at the beginning" issues.

Let's see what that story is!

I'm going to go rent Aliens (and The Quiet Man) right now.

I WIN!

(actually no, the last one made me sad)

They used to be terrifying. Now they're not.

And I will bitch slap (somehow) the first person who says "It's too dark." It's a HORROR movie.

Humans had knowledge of the alien species prior and might have even interacted with it before. The Nostromo was scheduled to stop and pick up the Alien.

The problem showing the Space Jockey's backstory with the Alien and then human's first interaction with the Alien has to be far apart in time. The Space Jockey is fossilized in the chair. So the ship has been there for a really long time. The eggs have been preserved probably because of the Space Jockey's containment technology. So there's little chance of human and Space Jockey species ever meeting. So the film would have to jump forward from the Alien and Space Jockey, to Alien and Human.

Is that a reference to other alien races/creatures? Someone fill me in. It confuses me every time I watch that scene.

true story..i was there.

I understand what you are getting at though, modern audiences are desensitized.

2.)Aliens

3.)Alien³

4.)Alien:Resurrection

Hah , who could have guessed?

I guess what I meant to write is that people don't refer to aliens in hushed tones anymore. They're not "Holy Shit" scary at this point. A lot of people think of them in PG-rated terms, not R-rated.

But I probably exaggerated my point based on what I see from people around me. Good point to keep in mind.

AvP: Rectum is an unmitigated piece of shit. "Dark" isn't the problem -- not knowing how to utilize the dark most certainly IS. Alien is also a pretty dark film but the lighting, cinematography and editing are so brilliant that you can see what's going on while at the same time mystery and terror are enhanced by the darkness.

AvP: Rectum, by contrast, hides EVERYTHING in darkness, making it virtually impossible to see what's going on. Pretty much every Alien or Predator scene is a bunch of roaring, hissing, thumping and crunching over black, glistening, writhing... well, what IS that, anyway?

Don't even get me started on the script, the cast, and everything else. There is nothing, absolutely NOTHING, good about AvP: Rectum. It made the first AvP look like Empire Strikes Back.

What's so great about Skerritt's Dallas is that even if he doesn't like his crew very much, hates his job, feels like he's unqualified to deal with the situation, looks like he has a perpetual hangover and just wants to go home, he still mans up and does what the captain has to do. It's a great performance.

However, the style and ethos they keep aiming for is Camerons.

And DocP is 100% correct about that abomination that shall not be named.

Fuck that shit.