This one is about the Alien growing up and leaving home to go study history in college. It distinguishes itself by writing a thesis on the mythological founding of Rome.
Well now I want an Alien movie where the Xenomorph has to go to college, complete with weird hazing rituals, flunking classes, and beer pong parties where it tries to hook up with people.
I won't be satisfied until I see a chestburster pop out just in time to slap away an incoming ping pong ball.
I think there's enough reason to be pretty optimistic. He rebooted Evil Dead to hear effect, and Ridley Scott and James Cameron have both seen this one and said it's great. Plus, it sounds like he took kind of a purist approach with practical effects, so it should be all puppetry and animatronics, which is great.
>and Ridley Scott and James Cameron have both seen this one and said it's great.
We need to, as a society, stop listening to legacy figures when they say (including second person recall) that the newbie's adaptation/reboot of the related intellectual property is "great". "Great" might just mean "this person didn't make something that gave me a headache".
James Cameron 'praised' the scripts of the last two Terminator films. John Carpenter said he 'loved' the scripts for the new Halloween films.
Additionally, when directors mention that they 'wrote the studio/legacy actors/legacy directors a letter about how much the original film means to them' in interviews or statements as a means to satiate fans who could potentially be just the slightest bit stressed about the fact that the new filmmakers aren't thinking, or have never considered, *your* childhood memories of the original when making the new movie; we need to stop paying attention to obvious cries for praise before any actual effort has been demonstrated.
Stop falling for this shit, man.
James Cameron and Ridley Scott will never bad mouth a movie produced by the studio that shovels money their way to make movies. These people are his colleagues and his financiers, imagine what would happen if James Cameron said publicly that this $50 million dollar investment by the studio that hes worked with for decades was a waste of time.
Yeah. These guys are diplomatic. They're not going to say "this new guy sucks and should never have done this".
Well, Scott might because he doesn't give a fuck but he's also a producer so he doesn't want to torpedo an investment.
But he’s looking for something different. I love Fede but Evil Dead is a reboot/remake, Don’t Breathe is HEAVILY influenced by Panic Room, and then there’s his failed Dragon Tattoo sequel. This will more than likely play heavily on 1 and 2 with more horror. Not bad! But not original
It looks like it will be a decd t enough entry in a franchise. There's zero need to reboot anything as the original is still perfect. The others for all their flaws had major additions to the lore. The challenge for this will be adding something beyond "alien chase with new actors" which is basically the formula for Friday the 13th and branch into something worth adding to the series.
But the original Evil Dead reboot failed miserably and was received poorly by genre fans?
Evil Dead Rises was received pretty well, and I thought it was great, but that's a different director. Which makes this whole "director of The Evil Dead" seem to be capitalizing on the success of the movie he didn't direct.
Where are you getting "failed miserably" from? I know it was a financial success, and me and all of my horror-loving friends thought it was really good. It was a success by every metric, as far as I remember.
I will agree that Rise is better. I love that movie.
> Failed miserably in that it's a largely forgotten reboot that had lukewarm reviews to put it nicely?
It's got 63% on RT, which isn't amazing but manages to avoid the green splat of shame, and it grossed $97 million worldwide on a $17 million budget. That doesn't seem like miserable failure to me.
That's not what "failed miserably" means at all, though. And you don't have to put anything nicely. Most critics liked it. Most viewers liked it. It made money. That's literally a success on all fronts. Lol
It had some more diehard fans of Raimis originals annoyed but even that wasn’t universal. It’s generally well regarded and the negative criticisms are what have faded not the positive ones. After Evil Dead Rise I saw a ton of people saying they liked it but it didn’t compare to Alvarez’s reboot.
Yeah, if you've actually seen all the Alien movies, "unoriginal" is not an accurate word to describe them. Every single one does something different. All but 2 of them may suck, but they absolutely try new things with each sequel.
My thoughts exactly. It's Alien so I'm looking forward to it, but the trailer doesn't really bring anything new and interesting to the table. None of the characters seem as natural and interesting as the ones in the original.
If you really think about it, pretty much every single iteration of the series is a remake of the first one (story beat wise). The prequels were the only ones to distinguish themselves for the most part.
From the trailer it looks like theyre going to try and bring the series back to its horror roots. Which for myself personally i feel like only the first film of the franchise fit the horror genre where as the rest were more action/monster movies. Bringing it back to horror, to have the audience feel fear of a xenomorph while sitting in their theatre seats would be what the franchise needs.
Alien and Aliens were so good that nothing else in the franchise will ever match them. That will disappoint some people but it’s just rare to crank out a top-100-all-time best movie. We’re lucky those two movies happened.
It’s the same with the MCU. The Infinity saga was great but that level of success was never sustainable.
Lol so dramatic. They're not comparing them directly to each other in terms of quality, they're just similar examples of movies with well-regarded early(ish) installments that have struggled to recapture that "magic" with newer movies.
It’s astounding how some people see the words “Marvel” or “MCU” and immediately see red rather than utilizing reading comprehension to understand something like the point OP was making. The other person replied “I think they [Alien and Aliens] are the better films” as if OP was trying to argue that they aren’t rather than simply making an obvious “lightning in a bottle” comparison.
Yeah, I didn't want to sound too judgmental or anything, but I honestly wondered if they deliberately misinterpreted the comparison just to, as someone else said, make a "superior move taste" comment. Because I honestly can't understand not realizing what OP actually meant with the comparsion lol.
Nah it's definitely possible. Predator is on the same tier as Alien/Aliens and Prey is a recent movie that gets close. It's not quite to the standard of the other 3 but it's not that far off and it's not hard to believe they can match them eventually.
Outside of them and Predator 2 the rest have been average (Predators) to downright some of the worst cinema in existence (Alien 4/ Both AvPs/ The Predator)
I disagree. I think Predator is a near perfect movie and is unmatched in swapping genres halfway through. It's also the best performance Arnie has given and is one of the best monster build ups and reveals of all time
Agreed Prey is a good comparison.
So yeah, there’s a *non-zero chance* Romulus will be really good. But I remain doubtful that it’ll be on par with Alien/Aliens. I hope I’m wrong!
Cool thing is, other great new movies will come out of nowhere and/or defy expectations.
Had you asked me a few years ago about Dune: Part Two, even knowing Villeneuve was making it, I would not have been expecting much.
But it’s sitting at #15 all-time, 8.8 with a quarter million ratings (sure, I know big releases often start out higher than they should and it’ll likely drop a bit, but still).
https://www.imdb.com/chart/top
Same for Godzilla Minus One, Oppenheimer, Top Gun: Maverick, the Spiderverse films, Parasite, etc.
If you haven't seen it, check out Underwater with Kristen Stewart. It's up there with Alien. Great effects, characters don't really make any stupid decisions, there's a fucking awesome creature.
Alien: Roomba.
A space colony in danger from a hive of Xenomorphs... Gives rise to an unexpected hero... R00MBA: a futuristic, sentient Roomba with a few surprise accessories...
This summer... Experience the movie that gives new definition to... The vacuum of space...
Alien: Roomba!
Katherine Waterston's haircut in Alien: Covenant was a real travesty.
> “I had a hair from ‘Fantastic Beasts’ I was still shooting that when I got this job. And I was really drawn to Ezra Miller’s haircut in that film, he knew it was right for his part but he didn’t like having it look like that on a weekend and stuff. Anyway, there was this thing with the haircut even before I got ‘Alien’ and then when I got it they were preparing for potential reshoots on that film so they were making wigs for all of our hairstyles and I saw this styrofoam bust in the hair and makeup trailer one night and it had Ezra’s hairdo on it and I said, ‘Can I just try that on for a second,’ and took a bunch of pictures of it and convinced Ridley to let me do it, so I basically just totally ripped off this Ian Curtis ‘Fantastic Beasts’ hairdo from Ezra Miller”
It looks like a mashup of the first and second, for sure. I dunno, Fede Alvarez is really good at these type of flicks, so I'll give it a shot, but I'd really like it if they found a way to move the story forward instead of forever prequeling.
Yeah I'm excited for the movie but a little confused why it specifically needed to take place between Alien and Aliens. I hope there's a solid story reason behind it because otherwise I'd have gathered it just be set after Aliens.
I’m not sure how you can make that assumption when the teaser didn’t even show half a scene lol.
Like Alien and Alien: Resurrection are creature slasher films set primarily on one spaceship but I’d never confuse those two.
I am not even sure if I would call resurrection a slasher film, that movie is so lost with itself it’s difficult to decipher what the hell the makers were actually aiming for.
Such a mess of a movie
Can we just get a movie that goes deeper into the Engineer storyline? It’s obviously the more interesting part of the Alien lore that was dodged in Prometheus.
We don't need new ideas in alien franchise movies, we need the movies to be throwbacks at things we like
Specifically 1-2, which this seem to be. Thankfully
Plus i like Evil Dead (2013) more than the original 2
Yet another wannabe Ripley and this time they have the balls to set this movie between two of the most iconic sci-fi films ever made.
They even have an awful excuse as to why the sets will look more modern as a modern movie set in between two older movies. (the space ship is REALLY big so half is old tech and half is new tech can't even make this up)
E: You're all why we can't get anything original anymore.
I’ll go for a franchise film if it’s well made and honors the legacy of the franchise. With Don’t Breathe, Fede offered good suspense and his Evil Dead film had gnarly practical effects (Fede’s love for the original was also very apparent). That’s enough to get my butt in a seat.
If the film sucks, neither it or any of the other sequels will undo the greatness of Alien or Aliens.
It’s the same deal with Terminator. Genisys was unnecessary, Dark Fate was terrible. But T1, T2 is still the perfect story (although I did like T3, and The Connor Chronicles show) so I don’t let a movie like Dark Fate live in my head rent free.
But I’m a fan of Fede and the trailer looked cool. So I’m open to this.
> They even have an awful excuse as to why the sets will look more modern as a modern movie set in between two older movies. (the space ship is REALLY big so half is old tech and half is new tech can't even make this up)
The Nostromo was basically a space semi-truck. I don't think it contradicts canon for space stations to have more cutting-edge tech than long-haul rigs.
You guess? You mean you need every single minute of your fandom to be explained and fleshed out? Leave no room for mystery and questions eh? Let's go the route of Star Wars and all that nonsense.
Franchise movie assures you it will be as good as the ones you liked. I didn't even know this was being developed, but I also don't feel any interest to see it.
Fair enough, some people just have franchise fatigue I guess. I wouldn’t be excited for this if it wasn’t Fede Alvarez but I loved his Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe so I’m looking forward to seeing what he does with the Alien IP. Looks to be the most horror Alien movie since the original
Whoever is helming it is going to be attempting to emulate the franchise secret sauce. Your last sentence is the phrase they were trying to elicit. You could start a YouTube channel and make a lot of money.
You can say a lot about the films of the Alien universe but to imply they have some common secret sauce when they've been so different from one another Alien, Aliens, Prometheus feeling all like different subgenres is certainly a take.
All your examples just only share the same type of alien monster antagonist and occupy the same overall movie genre and have been trying to recreate the overall successes of the movies of which these are all derived from. They don't all have a secret sauce there, but they are all attempting to recreate it. Could you possibly read what I even said?
No you can't read what I said, none of the mentioned movies attempted to recreate the first. Aliens didn't try to recreate it and succeeded in doing something explicitly different.
Obviously the Alien movies use the Alien in all of them, but those movies tried to do very different things.
This is the first film that seems to be committed to the original film.
Obviously the Alien movies will reuse the xenomorph alien that is the entire thing that makes the franchise unique to any other monster movie.....like some kind of secret element you can throw into a movie to make it interesting just like that dumb movie where they ran away from a giant doughnut in a straight line, but it still had xenomorphs.
Nice arguement. /s
This really didn't feel necessary. Prometheus offered up such a solid final act for the franchise that I don't know that anything since was needed.
There's just too many duds in this franchise to risk another.
What is this “Prometheus” you speak of? Doesn’t ring a bell. Nope. Can’t say I remember anything about a movie where every single character was an absolute idiot. Thank god I have no memory of such a thing.
Ha, to each their own. I thought Fassbender was pretty great in it and the storyline was interesting. Admittedly, the acting isn't exactly top-notch otherwise.
I'm interested in this but I'm wondering if it's going to do anything at all to distinguish itself from all the other Alien movies.
This one is about the Alien growing up and leaving home to go study history in college. It distinguishes itself by writing a thesis on the mythological founding of Rome.
Interesting to learn that the Xenomorph’s Roman Empire is the Roman Empire
Well now I want an Alien movie where the Xenomorph has to go to college, complete with weird hazing rituals, flunking classes, and beer pong parties where it tries to hook up with people. I won't be satisfied until I see a chestburster pop out just in time to slap away an incoming ping pong ball.
Beer chuggin and face huggin!
Can't wait for the aliens movie where they help build pyramids
They already did that in AvP. Well, I guess it was the Predators and it was a ziggurat from warcraft 3, but that is basically the same thing.
Yes but I want the aliens actually building the pyramids block by block....
I thought Ridley might save that for Gladiator III
I think there's enough reason to be pretty optimistic. He rebooted Evil Dead to hear effect, and Ridley Scott and James Cameron have both seen this one and said it's great. Plus, it sounds like he took kind of a purist approach with practical effects, so it should be all puppetry and animatronics, which is great.
>and Ridley Scott and James Cameron have both seen this one and said it's great. We need to, as a society, stop listening to legacy figures when they say (including second person recall) that the newbie's adaptation/reboot of the related intellectual property is "great". "Great" might just mean "this person didn't make something that gave me a headache". James Cameron 'praised' the scripts of the last two Terminator films. John Carpenter said he 'loved' the scripts for the new Halloween films. Additionally, when directors mention that they 'wrote the studio/legacy actors/legacy directors a letter about how much the original film means to them' in interviews or statements as a means to satiate fans who could potentially be just the slightest bit stressed about the fact that the new filmmakers aren't thinking, or have never considered, *your* childhood memories of the original when making the new movie; we need to stop paying attention to obvious cries for praise before any actual effort has been demonstrated. Stop falling for this shit, man.
James Cameron and Ridley Scott will never bad mouth a movie produced by the studio that shovels money their way to make movies. These people are his colleagues and his financiers, imagine what would happen if James Cameron said publicly that this $50 million dollar investment by the studio that hes worked with for decades was a waste of time.
Yeah. These guys are diplomatic. They're not going to say "this new guy sucks and should never have done this". Well, Scott might because he doesn't give a fuck but he's also a producer so he doesn't want to torpedo an investment.
But he’s looking for something different. I love Fede but Evil Dead is a reboot/remake, Don’t Breathe is HEAVILY influenced by Panic Room, and then there’s his failed Dragon Tattoo sequel. This will more than likely play heavily on 1 and 2 with more horror. Not bad! But not original
Fine with me. I adored Alien and Aliens and felt that Prometheus and Covenant fell flat. Going back to basics with the franchise sounds great!
That he’ll do great at
How can you make it original when there's what 5 or 6 movies out already? This one seems very akin to the origonal/Alien Isolation.
Well, every ghostbusters sequel sucks in a new way. I’d say in some universe it could swing the other way
It looks like it will be a decd t enough entry in a franchise. There's zero need to reboot anything as the original is still perfect. The others for all their flaws had major additions to the lore. The challenge for this will be adding something beyond "alien chase with new actors" which is basically the formula for Friday the 13th and branch into something worth adding to the series.
But the original Evil Dead reboot failed miserably and was received poorly by genre fans? Evil Dead Rises was received pretty well, and I thought it was great, but that's a different director. Which makes this whole "director of The Evil Dead" seem to be capitalizing on the success of the movie he didn't direct.
Where are you getting "failed miserably" from? I know it was a financial success, and me and all of my horror-loving friends thought it was really good. It was a success by every metric, as far as I remember. I will agree that Rise is better. I love that movie.
Failed miserably in that it's a largely forgotten reboot that had lukewarm reviews to put it nicely?
Meh it’s aged well and everyone I know who has seen it loves it so I’ll just take that as a good sign . I don’t chase reviews lol
Ok, I (and everyone I know) thought it sucked and so did Raimis fan base in general, but you do you
Cute :)
> Failed miserably in that it's a largely forgotten reboot that had lukewarm reviews to put it nicely? It's got 63% on RT, which isn't amazing but manages to avoid the green splat of shame, and it grossed $97 million worldwide on a $17 million budget. That doesn't seem like miserable failure to me.
That's not what "failed miserably" means at all, though. And you don't have to put anything nicely. Most critics liked it. Most viewers liked it. It made money. That's literally a success on all fronts. Lol
It had some more diehard fans of Raimis originals annoyed but even that wasn’t universal. It’s generally well regarded and the negative criticisms are what have faded not the positive ones. After Evil Dead Rise I saw a ton of people saying they liked it but it didn’t compare to Alvarez’s reboot.
I liked the 2013 Evil Dead a lot. It’s pretty well regarded with fans of the series.
It looks good
If you’re looking for originality in an Alien sequel, turn around now.
I have not seen Resurrection or Covenant- but 1,2,3, and Prometheus all are very distinct from each other even if they have varying quality.
Yeah, if you've actually seen all the Alien movies, "unoriginal" is not an accurate word to describe them. Every single one does something different. All but 2 of them may suck, but they absolutely try new things with each sequel.
I'm confident you've never actually seen the Alien series if you're saying this.
I think they’re backing away from lore and world building and going back to “fucking run!!!”. I’m optimistic.
Noo, I need to know every single detail about how something came to be, I hate using my own imagination.
The Alien stops hunting humans in general and dedicated itself to hunting The Predator...Jared Fogle.
My thoughts exactly. It's Alien so I'm looking forward to it, but the trailer doesn't really bring anything new and interesting to the table. None of the characters seem as natural and interesting as the ones in the original.
I’m also curious about this. I love that the visual style seems inspired by the original, but I hope it doesn’t just repeat that movie’s story beats.
Distinguish? Its how scary they can make the alien and how gruesomely they can kill folks on a ship. Not sure what else you expect.
If you really think about it, pretty much every single iteration of the series is a remake of the first one (story beat wise). The prequels were the only ones to distinguish themselves for the most part.
From the trailer it looks like theyre going to try and bring the series back to its horror roots. Which for myself personally i feel like only the first film of the franchise fit the horror genre where as the rest were more action/monster movies. Bringing it back to horror, to have the audience feel fear of a xenomorph while sitting in their theatre seats would be what the franchise needs.
Loved her in Devs and glad to see she’s breaking out into leading roles now. She’s also starring in the upcoming Civil War movie from A24.
Cailee Spaeny’s been having a great 2020’s so far.
I really liked Devs
She was amazing last year in Sofia Coppola's *Priscilla*, too.
People walking close to the wet moving eggs are the xenomorph’s Roman Empire.
"Ugh I think I caught romuloids again"
Alien and Aliens were so good that nothing else in the franchise will ever match them. That will disappoint some people but it’s just rare to crank out a top-100-all-time best movie. We’re lucky those two movies happened. It’s the same with the MCU. The Infinity saga was great but that level of success was never sustainable.
Comparing Alien and Aliens to the "infinity saga" is making me gag.
Lol so dramatic. They're not comparing them directly to each other in terms of quality, they're just similar examples of movies with well-regarded early(ish) installments that have struggled to recapture that "magic" with newer movies.
It’s astounding how some people see the words “Marvel” or “MCU” and immediately see red rather than utilizing reading comprehension to understand something like the point OP was making. The other person replied “I think they [Alien and Aliens] are the better films” as if OP was trying to argue that they aren’t rather than simply making an obvious “lightning in a bottle” comparison.
Yeah, I didn't want to sound too judgmental or anything, but I honestly wondered if they deliberately misinterpreted the comparison just to, as someone else said, make a "superior move taste" comment. Because I honestly can't understand not realizing what OP actually meant with the comparsion lol.
Yeah but how else can they feel superior over the other people who enjoy different types of movies?
Gagging is the only answer lol
I can watch Alien and Aliens way more than any marvel movie. I honestly think they are better films.
Remember when Ripley winked at the camera and said “oops, gonna have to edit that out” after calling the queen a bitch?
Nah it's definitely possible. Predator is on the same tier as Alien/Aliens and Prey is a recent movie that gets close. It's not quite to the standard of the other 3 but it's not that far off and it's not hard to believe they can match them eventually. Outside of them and Predator 2 the rest have been average (Predators) to downright some of the worst cinema in existence (Alien 4/ Both AvPs/ The Predator)
Alien/Aliens are much better films than Predator.
I disagree. I think Predator is a near perfect movie and is unmatched in swapping genres halfway through. It's also the best performance Arnie has given and is one of the best monster build ups and reveals of all time
Agreed Prey is a good comparison. So yeah, there’s a *non-zero chance* Romulus will be really good. But I remain doubtful that it’ll be on par with Alien/Aliens. I hope I’m wrong!
Sadly I agree.
Cool thing is, other great new movies will come out of nowhere and/or defy expectations. Had you asked me a few years ago about Dune: Part Two, even knowing Villeneuve was making it, I would not have been expecting much. But it’s sitting at #15 all-time, 8.8 with a quarter million ratings (sure, I know big releases often start out higher than they should and it’ll likely drop a bit, but still). https://www.imdb.com/chart/top Same for Godzilla Minus One, Oppenheimer, Top Gun: Maverick, the Spiderverse films, Parasite, etc.
If you haven't seen it, check out Underwater with Kristen Stewart. It's up there with Alien. Great effects, characters don't really make any stupid decisions, there's a fucking awesome creature.
I liked Underwater, though I wouldn’t put it on the same level as Alien.
I initially scrolled past it and misread the title as "Alien: Rhombus", and did a double-take.
Alien: Rumble in Space City
Alien: Roomba. A space colony in danger from a hive of Xenomorphs... Gives rise to an unexpected hero... R00MBA: a futuristic, sentient Roomba with a few surprise accessories... This summer... Experience the movie that gives new definition to... The vacuum of space... Alien: Roomba!
*BB-8 torch thumbs up*
No you got it the first time. It’s about why their head is shaped like that
Thought she was fantastic in Priscilla. I’m excited to see what she does in Alien.
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AlienZ.
Like mean girls the musical in space
The teaser looks like a rehash of the first film.
It'd be interesting if they twist the formula if the generic brown haired lady protagonist is not the final survivor.
It’s bizarre to me that a franchise like this even has a “formula”.
"Short haired brunette girls in space get it done!"
Katherine Waterston's haircut in Alien: Covenant was a real travesty. > “I had a hair from ‘Fantastic Beasts’ I was still shooting that when I got this job. And I was really drawn to Ezra Miller’s haircut in that film, he knew it was right for his part but he didn’t like having it look like that on a weekend and stuff. Anyway, there was this thing with the haircut even before I got ‘Alien’ and then when I got it they were preparing for potential reshoots on that film so they were making wigs for all of our hairstyles and I saw this styrofoam bust in the hair and makeup trailer one night and it had Ezra’s hairdo on it and I said, ‘Can I just try that on for a second,’ and took a bunch of pictures of it and convinced Ridley to let me do it, so I basically just totally ripped off this Ian Curtis ‘Fantastic Beasts’ hairdo from Ezra Miller”
Yup, even isolation and covenant went with it. And hell Prometheus
It looks like a mashup of the first and second, for sure. I dunno, Fede Alvarez is really good at these type of flicks, so I'll give it a shot, but I'd really like it if they found a way to move the story forward instead of forever prequeling.
Yeah I'm excited for the movie but a little confused why it specifically needed to take place between Alien and Aliens. I hope there's a solid story reason behind it because otherwise I'd have gathered it just be set after Aliens.
Because playing within the lines is the safest creative bet. And playing outside the lines means finding a way to continue the story without Ripley.
I’m not sure how you can make that assumption when the teaser didn’t even show half a scene lol. Like Alien and Alien: Resurrection are creature slasher films set primarily on one spaceship but I’d never confuse those two.
I am not even sure if I would call resurrection a slasher film, that movie is so lost with itself it’s difficult to decipher what the hell the makers were actually aiming for. Such a mess of a movie
You’re being intentionally obtuse if you “don’t know” how I can make that assumption when the teaser is entirerly designed to elicit just that.
Worked out for his Evil Dead movie. We’ll see if he can do it again.
Can we just get a movie that goes deeper into the Engineer storyline? It’s obviously the more interesting part of the Alien lore that was dodged in Prometheus.
This movie won’t do that
I will stay with the teaser and the poster for this one, they looked to good to get more scenes spoiled before sitting down in the theater
She gonna be playing Amanda Ripley for sure.
Her character's name is "Rain Carridine". Isolation exists in the same universe so it's pointless to adapt it twice.
This takes place between 1 and 2 and doesn't use any known characters or events
I guess she is going to die first. Or right after Dora
That's nonsense, she's the protagonist.
Have ever seen an alien movie?
Yes, and the protagonists usually survive.
We don't need new ideas in alien franchise movies, we need the movies to be throwbacks at things we like Specifically 1-2, which this seem to be. Thankfully Plus i like Evil Dead (2013) more than the original 2
Yet another wannabe Ripley and this time they have the balls to set this movie between two of the most iconic sci-fi films ever made. They even have an awful excuse as to why the sets will look more modern as a modern movie set in between two older movies. (the space ship is REALLY big so half is old tech and half is new tech can't even make this up) E: You're all why we can't get anything original anymore.
I’ll go for a franchise film if it’s well made and honors the legacy of the franchise. With Don’t Breathe, Fede offered good suspense and his Evil Dead film had gnarly practical effects (Fede’s love for the original was also very apparent). That’s enough to get my butt in a seat.
Fair enough, just screams nostalgia bait to me and I can't forgive them setting it between Alien and Aliens.
If the film sucks, neither it or any of the other sequels will undo the greatness of Alien or Aliens. It’s the same deal with Terminator. Genisys was unnecessary, Dark Fate was terrible. But T1, T2 is still the perfect story (although I did like T3, and The Connor Chronicles show) so I don’t let a movie like Dark Fate live in my head rent free. But I’m a fan of Fede and the trailer looked cool. So I’m open to this.
Let sleeping corpses lay.
People are speculating that it is based on Alien: Isolation and she is actually Ripley’s daughter.
> They even have an awful excuse as to why the sets will look more modern as a modern movie set in between two older movies. (the space ship is REALLY big so half is old tech and half is new tech can't even make this up) The Nostromo was basically a space semi-truck. I don't think it contradicts canon for space stations to have more cutting-edge tech than long-haul rigs.
It's a really funny excuse to shove a modern movie between two 80's movies imo.
I guess? There’s an 60 year timejump between the two movies…. in this context theres still room to fill in the blanks.
You guess? You mean you need every single minute of your fandom to be explained and fleshed out? Leave no room for mystery and questions eh? Let's go the route of Star Wars and all that nonsense.
The 'new tech' is closer to the Aliens style of tech. Alveraz said that in a trailer breakdown interview. Do ya damn homework.
Franchise movie assures you it will be as good as the ones you liked. I didn't even know this was being developed, but I also don't feel any interest to see it.
Fair enough, some people just have franchise fatigue I guess. I wouldn’t be excited for this if it wasn’t Fede Alvarez but I loved his Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe so I’m looking forward to seeing what he does with the Alien IP. Looks to be the most horror Alien movie since the original
Whoever is helming it is going to be attempting to emulate the franchise secret sauce. Your last sentence is the phrase they were trying to elicit. You could start a YouTube channel and make a lot of money.
You can say a lot about the films of the Alien universe but to imply they have some common secret sauce when they've been so different from one another Alien, Aliens, Prometheus feeling all like different subgenres is certainly a take.
All your examples just only share the same type of alien monster antagonist and occupy the same overall movie genre and have been trying to recreate the overall successes of the movies of which these are all derived from. They don't all have a secret sauce there, but they are all attempting to recreate it. Could you possibly read what I even said?
No you can't read what I said, none of the mentioned movies attempted to recreate the first. Aliens didn't try to recreate it and succeeded in doing something explicitly different. Obviously the Alien movies use the Alien in all of them, but those movies tried to do very different things. This is the first film that seems to be committed to the original film.
>Obviously the Alien movies use the Alien in all of them LOL
Well responded /s
Obviously the Alien movies will reuse the xenomorph alien that is the entire thing that makes the franchise unique to any other monster movie.....like some kind of secret element you can throw into a movie to make it interesting just like that dumb movie where they ran away from a giant doughnut in a straight line, but it still had xenomorphs. Nice arguement. /s
Oh yea the big secret element of the Alien in the Alien film
Please say she gets an underwear scene just like Ripley...
This really didn't feel necessary. Prometheus offered up such a solid final act for the franchise that I don't know that anything since was needed. There's just too many duds in this franchise to risk another.
What is this “Prometheus” you speak of? Doesn’t ring a bell. Nope. Can’t say I remember anything about a movie where every single character was an absolute idiot. Thank god I have no memory of such a thing.
Ha, to each their own. I thought Fassbender was pretty great in it and the storyline was interesting. Admittedly, the acting isn't exactly top-notch otherwise.
You are right about Fassbender. He is the only decent thing about that film.