'Alien' prequel takes off Ridley Scott attached to return as director

**Brandon191** · 06-01-2012, 02:34 PM

The Alien Anthology is on sale for $40 on Amazon.ca. http://www.amazon.ca/Alien-Anthology...8590045&sr=8-1

**Dr. Chaos** · 06-01-2012, 02:40 PM

So whats the last scene? Something like one of those face hugger eggs starting to hatch before the credits come up?

**Gunk** · 06-01-2012, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by Stupendous Man

I finished watching 3 last night. I don't know if it's just that my expectations were so low, but I kind of enjoyed it. Nowhere near as good as the first two, but not the abomination that I heard it made out to have been.

I've been listening to the Fuzzy Typewriter Podcast's analyses of the films and for 3 they've been talking about the development process and all of the earlier drafts that sound far more interesting than what ended up getting shot. I printed out the Wooden Monastery one. I'm excited to read it.

I remember hearing Patton Oswalt on Fresh Air on NPR years ago talking about scripts that he'd been hired to punch up. Terry Gross asked him what the best screenplay he'd ever read was and he said Alien 3. He added that the movie kept almost none of what made it great.

**cmoney** · 06-01-2012, 04:16 PM

No reviews yet from overseas? I'm hearing "don't expect Alien" so far, which is fair but also, if I'm being honest, kind of exactly what I was not wanting to hear.

Still can't wait for next Friday though.

**Garth** · 06-01-2012, 06:41 PM

Weird, Amazon already has the pre-order up for the DVD/Blu-ray combo.

**Petey Parker** · 06-01-2012, 07:06 PM

Originally Posted by Garth

Weird, Amazon already has the pre-order up for the DVD/Blu-ray combo.

First 5000 people to pre-order get a free ticket to the movie (and by that I mean don't bother at this point because it was probably gone hours ago even though there is still a link saying the first 5000 people to pre-order get a free ticket) I pre-ordered just in case and didn't get shit.

**Andrew** · 06-02-2012, 06:20 AM

Originally Posted by Garth

Weird, Amazon already has the pre-order up for the DVD/Blu-ray combo.

**Thudpucker** · 06-02-2012, 06:55 AM

Originally Posted by Andrew

This was by far the biggest atrocity committed in Alien 3:

Spoiler:

Yes. It's tragic that he went from being the main character to having no appearance at all.

The original script was going to split the story into two films, Hicks was going to be the main character in Aliens 3 and then Ripley would return as the main character in Aliens 4. William Gibson wrote the first script, Ripley was going to be injured at the start of the film leaving Hicks as the star:

The storyline for the film picked up after Aliens, as the Sulaco drifts into an area of space claimed by the "Union of Progressive Peoples", due to a navigational error. The ship is boarded by people from the U.P.P, who are attacked by a facehugger, hiding in the entrails of Bishop's mangled body. The soldiers blast the facehugger into space and take Bishop with them for further study. The Sulaco then arrives at Anchorpoint, which is a Company run space station/mall. A fire on the ship caused by remaining Aliens puts Ripley into a coma and Hicks is left to investigate if the rumors are true that Weyland-Yutani are developing alien warriors (which they are). The U.P.P. is also doing their own research, due to custody of Bishop. After they have finished with Bishop, they repair him (albeit with cheap parts) and return him to Anchorpoint in a show of good will. Eventually Anchorpoint and the U.P.P stations are overrun with the parasite and Hicks must team up with the survivors to destroy the aliens. The film ends with a teaser for Alien 4 in which Bishop suggest to Hicks that humans are united against a common enemy and they must track the aliens to their source and destroy them. The screenplay was very action oriented, containing 8 marine vs alien battle scenes whereas its predecessor James Cameron's contained only 2 such scenes.

I mourn what might have been.

**Foolish Mortal** · 06-02-2012, 07:56 AM

This is why I'm all for the idea of pretending Alien 3 & 4 didn't happen, or happened in an alternate reality, and just doing a new sequel starting from the end of Aliens.

**Garth** · 06-02-2012, 11:41 AM

I've been looking in this thread all the time and even posted in it a couple of times. But every once in a while when I look at the title, I read it as "Alien prequel takes off Ridley Scott as director" and I get flustered and think they fired him or something.