Ridley Scott to direct ‘Alien’ prequel

[IndianaGreen]

August 3, 2009

Ridley Scott to direct ‘Alien’ prequel

Posted: 10:47 AM ET

Face-huggers, a killer creature with way too many teeth and, of course, the chest-bursting scene.

Ridley Scott unleashed a monster that’s been scaring fans for 30 years when he directed the sci-fi classic “Alien” in 1979.

The film spawned three sequels and a couple of “Alien vs. Predator” movies.

Now Scott has signed up to direct a prequel to “Alien,” Variety reports.

The original, starring Sigourney Weaver and Tom Skerritt, followed the crew of the commercial space ship Nostromo as it responds to a beacon from a mysterious planet and finds itself becoming prey to a parasitic monster.

In the film’s most infamous scene, John Hurt’s character Kane, seen in the photo on the right, “gives birth” to the creature.

Now word yet on the plot of the prequel, but fans are speculating whether the movie would focus on the crashed alien spaceship and the giant skeletonized “space jockey” the Nostromo crew encounters on the planet.

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/03/ridley-scott-to-direct-%E2%80%98alien%E2%80%99-prequel/

[onehandle]

1. Pretty sure that story ends badly.

Pass.

[Orrex]

2. There is no story so respected that Ridley Scott can't fuck it up

I'll bet we learn that Ripley's a Replicant.

[shadowknows69]

3. Ok, that was funny. But I confess I'm a fan of most of Scott's work.

[Orrex]

4. LOL. I was exaggerating somewhat, I admit.

Alien is an indisputable masterpiece, of course, and I've always loved the original Director's Cut of Blade Runner, but the twelve different definitive Director's Cuts since then have made me a bit leery.

I also feel that he tends to succumb to the temptation to seem artsy-fartsy.


A solid director, to be sure, but I prefer his older stuff.

[shadowknows69]

5. The way I look at this project is this.

If it's going to be a complete disaster at least it's the original creator destroying it this time. Alien Resurrection was bad. The Alien/Predator movies were a great concept given to a hack director and they were just plain awful in every way.

Scott's, Cameron's and Fincher's are the only "Alien" stories I acknowledge.

[closeupready]

6. Ooooo, looking forward to THAT, big time!

:)

[NashVegas]

7. Do We Still Care?

Seems the franchise got a little excessive and irrelevant a long time ago.

[lovecanada56035]

8. Hope it's better than the last two Alien sequels

They were true turkeys.