Remake, reboot? Think none of it. 20th Century Fox is proving that they're producing an honest-to-God prequel to Alien by tapping Ridley Scott to direct. Scott directed the groundbreaking 1979 sci-fi horror movie that proclaimed "In space no one can hear you scream." It spawned three sequels and two spin-offs. If there's one way to win over the fans, it's to bring the original helmer back onboard with his blessings. Read on for the amazing news. Could this be the start of something new at Fox? Can we start praying now?
Twentieth Century Fox is resuscitating its "Alien" franchise. The studio has hired Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott attached to return as director.
Spaihts got the job after pitching the studio and Scott Free, which will produce the film.
The film is set up to be a prequel to the groundbreaking 1979 film that Scott directed. It will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them.
The deal gives Fox another chance to keep the "Alien" franchise alive. There were three sequels to Scott's original, but it is the first time the director has set his mind on directing one.
Spaihts has become a go-to-guy for space thrillers. After Keanu Reeves became attached to his Warner Bros. sci-fi script "Shadow 19," Reeves hired Spaihts to write the space journey epic "Passengers," which is berthed at Morgan Creek. That script got Spaihts the meeting with Fox and Scott Free, and he won the job with an "Alien" reboot take that the studio and Scott loved.
Fox has separately hired him to rewrite "The Darkest Hour," which Timur Bekmambetov to produce with Tom Jacobson. Spaihts is writing "Children of Mars" for Disney and Scott Rudin, and he will follow by rewriting "St. George and the Dragon" for Sony and Red Wagon.
I read "Ridley Scott" and I wet myself. I read "prequel" and I want to throw up. What's there to tell in a prequel that would involve any human characters? And how do you do a survival horror pic about elephant aliens?
Good to know this Prequel/Reboot/Remake or whatever the fuck it is, it's in very good hands. Just his name attached alone proves this has alot of potential. But then again, FOX vomits out Hollywood shit, they better not fuck this up!
deadlover --- Why does it not have to include humans? To me the logical prequel story would be about the ship that the crew of the Nostromo found.
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Nice. I was hoping this would come to pass. And I have no issues with this being a "prequel" to the original whatsoever. Just because the xenomorphs had never been reported before the Nostromo incident, doesn't mean they were never encountered by humans before.
I don't know if it has been reported here yet but according to Cinema Today, George A. Romero's latest Zombie picture will be presented at the 66th Venice International Film Festival and the official title is "Survival of the Dead."
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Twentieth Century Fox is resuscitating its "Alien" franchise. The studio has hired Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott attached to return as director.
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