Ridley Scott Confirmed To Direct Alien Prequel

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In general I do not like prequels… and it’s not just because the Star Wars ones were let downs. With prequels, you already know certain things will happen… and certain things won’t happen… which takes a lot out of a story for me.

Anyway, if you’re going to do a prequel, you might as well put it in the right hands. There is an Alien prequel coming, and it’s been confirmed that director Ridley Scott will be taking the helm for the movie.

Our friends over at Movies Online give us this:

News from Variety has come in that Ridley Scott has been tapped to direct the new Alien prequel which is being planned as a brand new prequel. This is great news for fans looking to get their fix from the franchise, especially after the mess that Alien vs Predator was. The film is set up to be a prequel to the groundbreaking 1979 film that Scott directed.

So will the heroes in this new movie kill the Alien race??? Well obviously no, so there goes any real mystery.

Still… if you’re going to do an Alien prequel… this is the right guy to do it. I just don’t think they should be doing it at all.

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  • Dragonslayer

    Great. Ridley Scott is a beast and one of my favorite directors (even though I wasn’t a huge fan of Kingdom of Heaven and Body of Lies…not a HUGE fan…)

  • http://moviehorizon.wordpress.com Robin

    Wow, so glad Scott decided to take on the role but…what ever happened to Carl Rinsch? IMDB still says he’s directing?

    Although, don’t get me wrong, I’m feeling somewhat relieved Scott is directing.

  • Kaneda979

    THANK GOD! If anyone should be directing this movie, it’s him. So glad that no name director they were saying that they got to do it is out now.

    Really after the AVP movies and Alien 3-4 not being that good or not good at all, in order to get people interested in another Alien film, let alone a prequel, they pretty much HAD to get Ridley Scott at the helm. This makes me so so happy. Ridley Scott’s return to sci-fi and not just any sci-fi, but an Alien movie? Oh hell yes!

    Even though it is a prequel, I’m sure it’s going to be amazing, and little doubt in my mind that he can bring this series back to being one of the best Sci-Fi stories EVER.

    Some people think the Aliens were genetically engineered buy the “Space Jockeys” or some other race. Created as weapons to destroy other planets. That the Space Jockey’s plan back fired on them and that’s why their ship is found crash landed on that planet.

    Who knows though where they really come from or what they really are. But this movie just might finally answer that for all of us… ;P

    • AndyS

      First off David Fincher is one hell of a director and look at what happened to Alien3 thanks for Fox running the show. What makes you think anything will be different with this movie?

      Don’t you see the problem with them answering those specific questions? They’re not going to do justice to the originals intended mystery which allowed the viewer’s imagination to play out.
      The more we see the alien the less alien it becomes and the more familiar it is to us.

    • MladenL

      Agree with Andy, I don’t WANT an answer to that stuff.

      The prequels to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Star Wars added NOTHING to the original film’s mystery. Because WHATEVER they put on film won’t ever be even close to the horrible and exciting/dramatic stuff we imagined from a few lines of dialogue or a badass character.

      When Obi-wan mentioned fighting the Clone Wars with Luke’s dad, kids all over the world imagined the most bad-ass thing possible. It was mysterious, and the name was awesome. Even if Lucas had made Apocalypse Now in space as a prequel, it wouldn’t have been anywhere near as amazing as what we all imagined.

      In this case, the horrible stuff we could imagine with Aliens: What the hell were these huge pilot things? Why were they keeping Alien eggs? A weapon? An experiment? I myself half imagined them as vicious pets for something even more nightmarish. Whatever the prequel movie says about these things, it won’t live up to the crazy stuff we’ve all imagined. And what with Giger’s sexually-charged designs, I imagined some CRAZY stuff.

  • http://www.themoviescene.co.uk TMS

    Well as you say if anyone is going to do it then Ridley would be the best choice. I am of the same mind that some of the entertainment will be lost because we will know certain things won’t happen. But I still reckon it should be one hell of a good film especially if he recaptures then tension and suspense which made Alien great.

  • obi-wan kubrick

    Maybe it will revolve around the alien ship that they discover in the first film with the “Space jockey”.

  • http://chokingonpopcorn.com/popcorn/ Darren J Seeley

    Well, with the Preds going one way and the Aliens another, and the AvP films stand alone non-existent films….

    Good riddance and welcome back.

    • Andy S

      I’d prefer they play catchup with the Predator series and leave the Alien series alone FOREVER.

    • http://greatct.wordpress.com/ Marc

      Well said Andy, I second that motion:)

  • http://www.marqueemag.com DJHIPPIE

    I’m down for it, with today’s sfx and Scott on it it should at least be decent. Not a big fan of “Alien” movies to know that much backstory so as long as it works as a movie I’ll probaly dig it.

  • dax

    Sounds like Ridley Scott is desperate for a hit movie, which is why he is resorting back to the Alien franchise. Scott hasn’t made a hit in a long time now. Gangster was a moderate success, but with 2 huge stars it should’ve done much better than 130 mil. Body of Lies, A good year, Kingdom of Heaven, and Matchstick men were all flops.

    I think they should just lay to rest the Alien franchise. But if Scott believes there’s still something more to tell in that movie world, then I hope he has good judgement on this.

    • SlashBeast

      I actualy think Matchstick Men is highly underrated.

    • Dragonslayer

      Are you kidding me? American Gangster was amazing! Kingdom of Heaven wasn’t bad and neither was Body of Lies, but they are definitely weaker than they should have been.

  • lizardBBQ

    I hope we get to see how the Aliens earn enough money to start their own Taco Bell franchise.

    • bigsampson

      soryy thats illegal aliens…these guys are just as hard of workers but they have other ambitions other then the ones u speak of.

    • http://chokingonpopcorn.com/popcorn/ Darren J Seeley

      Does that come with cheese?

    • Dragonslayer

      Alien vs Predator: Taco Bell

  • EZELL

    In all the alien films the queen and nest are destroyed or what ever we think is the main threat and before it all ends we find out that know there is one last infected.

    I will be interested to see if it will be more like his or Camrons Alines I think it will be more like Aliens lots and lots of alines.

    • AndyS

      Alines FTW!

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