'Alien' Prequel Confirmed by Tony Scott

On Thursday, we expressed our unhappiness about Fox seeking to crack open the Alien vault and do either a remake or a prequel. It was well-informed talk from Bloody Disgusting that got it started, and Collider now has confirmed we're getting another Alien movie. It's going to be a prequel, according to Ridley Scott's brother Tony, who, along with Ridley, runs Scott Free, the company that will produce the new movie. "Yes, Carl Rinsch is going to do the prequel to Alien," Scott confirms. Rinsch is a commercial and music video director who works for Scott Free, so Ridley is kind of keeping it in the family. What the prequel would entail is not yet known. We wondered the same thing earlier in the week, and one of our readers, who uses the handle "anybody," wrote, "I could see a different ship, with a different crew stumbling across the aliens before the Nostromo. No Ripley, a whole new cast of characters." Added anybody, "The story would be the reason why nostromo was sent out there, so you could end this flick with the Nostromo crew waking up for their journey." I can definitely see the first half of that story coming into play, because frankly, bringing up Ripley is a bad, bad idea. This movie will already face some resistance, and any hint that it's encroaching on the first film in the series won't be greeted with bouqets of flowers. But how do you end an Alien prequel without leading back into the original? And then what happens? Do they just stop right there or is this the precursor to a remake that nobody, nobody, nobody wants to see?

Comments

[Lengthy Johnson]

Well, ye of liitle faith...

It's interesting enough that the prequel is set in the Alien universe. Whether or not it is concerned with Nostromo or Ripley or neither is iirelevant.

There is however an abvious back-story to explore as Nostromo was deliberately sent to "pick up" the alien beings. Accordingly, there must have been some sort of previous contact.

I am more concerned about letting a relatively inexperienced director do it. Could it be that Ridley wants to avoid comparisons with the first Alien, believing that critics won't readily accept the new movie?

;)

[Loki in Cleveland]

I think this is the straw that broke the camels back. Have we come to the point in the world of imagination that we have to make a prequel. I am going to apologize now and say that I am tired of the aliens movies now.To me the idea of a prequel in trying to squeeze what remaining money out of a already dries out lemon. If this movie does make it to the silver screen, moves your feet fast there movie makers, I am sure you are going to shot it off. Leave a classic movie alone and sit down and enjoy it like the rest of us.

[kkyad]

They should put Jolene Blalock as Ripley's, strong and nice, just like Sigourney Weaver, but 30 years less :)