Comments on: Ridley Scott Back With ‘Alien’ Prequel

By: kow626

kow626 — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:45:25 +0000

although i like ridley scott, i think the first movie sucked and the sequels were far better. i do like the idea of the prequel though. bout time.

By: Sabmiqys

Sabmiqys — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:01:06 +0000

“To be honest I have always wondered about that race that the “alien gunner” or “space-jockey” belongs to. The one that we see in the banner for this article.”

It would be interesting to see this, but only if it is given minimal attention. The movie would fail if they made the space jockey too pivotal. Still, I’m with you. I’d love to see where it came from and if they can incorporate it into the greater story.

By: lordhart

lordhart — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:28:45 +0000

snikt snakt: take a look at the special edition of Alien3. It works so much better, considering it adds something like 20-30 minutes of footage cut from the theatrical release. I liked so much that it is probably my second favourite of the films after Aliens.

By: Woofus

Woofus — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:33:37 +0000

I think the aliens should be portrayed as generally peaceable–it’s just a few bad apples give them all a bad name. On their own planet, elaborate social controls must be in place that would not exist in deep space. We’ve just been meeting the alien equivalent of our bandit gangs and pirates.

I wonder what receiving fellatio from an alien would feel like? Probably like one of those “Rapex” South African rape-prevention devices. Oh well, I’ll stick to E.T. in my fantasies.

By: Dan C.

Dan C. — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:50:33 +0000

I guess everything is getting a prequel lately, but I at least hope Scott and company don’t probe far enough into the origins of these creatures that pseudoscience replaces subtext completely. One of the things I like about the second film especially is that it rides the line between science fiction and folk fables, with a changeling child rescued from a dark fairy queen, but without becoming distant in the way that many fantasies do. A film set too much among alien species, gunner-race or not, will risk contracting the same problem that sunk AvP: plenty of picturesque happenings but without any naturalistic motivation for any of it. As for Ridley Scott, he’s not a shot-by-shot craftsman to match Cameron or (recently) Fincher, but I don’t think he’s ever made a film without solid production design and art direction. The man can outsource.

By: Blasterman

Blasterman — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 22:18:16 +0000

Can’t wait!!

Watched Alien and Aliens again recently and both are still masterpieces of sci-fi cinema!!

Too bad it won’t be with Ripley but it can be good too!

By: Hypestyle

Hypestyle — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 21:33:13 +0000

interesting… But as the movie develops further, I wonder when fanboys will start trying to roast Scott as an aging hack who should never have returned to the franchise?

By: Sevedris

Sevedris — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:54:19 +0000

Well, if Scott himself said on the Alien DVD that exploring the Space Jockey’s backstory would make for an interesting movie, then what the hay, I’m in.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:41:03 +0000

This is really cool news. I’ve always wanted to see the Aliens’ past explored. Ridley Scott being involved is awesome!

By: Shaun Reid

Shaun Reid — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:37:49 +0000

Looking forward to this.

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:53:40 +0000

What if it starts off looking a little different as we all know that aliens can takes favorable traits from it’s prey and what if this alien race created them or engineered them. What if in the begining there’s only one alien and we see this one alien escape and wreak havok and result in a becoming a huge threat?

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:48:10 +0000

Dark Horse touched the race already with a comic. And male aliens peaceful? Worst idea ever. They behave in a hive mind mentality like ants or bees and live to serve the whole and the queen.

By: Crimsonrain

Crimsonrain — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:46:19 +0000

I’m not sure what is true continuity for the the Aliens and the Preditors but don’t they touch on the “space jocky” race in the Dark Horse comic books? for some reason I was thinking they did a storyline that featured that race. I could be wrong though.

By: TFitz

TFitz — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:51:44 +0000

With Ridley, I’m hoping for the best. Give me a 2 t o2 1/2 hour epic like the first two movies. Don’t try to cram a million things in 1 1/2 hours like the AVP movies.

By: snikt snakt

snikt snakt — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:38:27 +0000

Any ALIEN is good alien…except for #3!

By: BookWyrm

BookWyrm — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:14:28 +0000

Well, with Ridley Scott helming it, this news bit just got a slightly better nod in my book than most. But as is customary, I’m waiting for a trailer.

The ‘space jockeys’ were also touched on in the early Aliens comics from Dark Horse. It seemed that they used some of the Xenos to cleanse a potential planet, then wipe them out so they can colonise it for themselves….

Here’s the Wiki entry;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jockey_(Alien)

By: Sevedris

Sevedris — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:07:35 +0000

A prequel is what AvP were. They weren’t that good.

Elaborating on the origin of the mysterious spacecraft will remove some of the intrigue of Alien. I mean, half the fun is having no clue why its there, what it is, and all that. It’s like making a prequel of The Thing. Who wants that?

Then again, who knows? I suppose it could be alot like Alien, with the space jockies dying one by one with an alien loose. I mean, that’s as much as we can infer from the evidence. Should be interesting, to say the least.

…man, Giger always creeps me out.

By: Mr Wesley

Mr Wesley — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:45:35 +0000

I just rewatched Alien this afternoon, because of this announcement and because it was on commercial TV yesterday. I should go back and re-watch the director’s cut, to see if they made a bigger deal about the gunner.

Honestly, I think the LAST thing you want to do is make the aliens sympathetic. They work best as an amusment park dark ride, where you just wait for one of them to jump out of the shadows. They tried to make the aliens more sympathetic in Resurrection, and look how well that turned out… and that was from Joss Whedon.

By: Henry Chamberlain

Henry Chamberlain — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:56:50 +0000

Excellent point, Bullet Train. I agree. That would be an perfect point of entry for this new movie. Wouldn’t that be just the thing to bring all this back to a higher level? We can only assume the best with whatever Scott and company come up with.

By: r

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 07:55:50 +0000

I think an interesting way to approach this would be to have a human crew terrorizing the aliens- kind of a reverse of the original storyline. To make the audience sympathize with the aliens and make the humans terrifying would be a challenge and bring something different to the franchise

By: Bullet_Train

Bullet_Train — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 00:49:11 +0000

To be honest I have always wondered about that race that the “alien gunner” or “space-jockey” belongs to. The one that we see in the banner for this article. I wanted to know more about them. None of the crew seemed that surprised that a massive creature lay dead and no one wondered what it was or how they lived or where they came from. Sure, they didn’t have time LATER ON, but during the initial discovery it always seemed like a “Oh wow, look at that. That’s interesting” more so than a “Oh my god! It’s huge! I’ve never seen that shit ever!” which is usually the most likely response. So hopefully that creatures origin will be discussed.

By: chrisb

chrisb — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:13:19 +0000

Sounds great. I’m looking forward to this.