Concept art from a new (presumably cancelled) ALIEN film

[tegan]

I feel like a lot of these aren't just trying to appeal to nostalgia; but pull in new audiences into known, safe franchises by abandoning canon.

[Merus]

I'm surprisingly okay with them rebooting Terminator so that it can work as a franchise, because it is and they'll keep making them and I'm certainly okay in theory with the idea, but Terminator was a one-and-done and Terminator 2 made it clear that a Terminator 3 couldn't work.

 

An Alien reboot, on the other hand... there's no reason why new Alien stories can't be made, it's just that making them good is hard enough that people shouldn't try.

[tegan]

The new Terminator also feels like kind of a transparent way to get Schwarzenegger back, even though he was always a terrible actor and will contribute nothing now that he's no longer as physically imposing as he once was.

 

I'd prefer it if they didn't make more Alien; because the more details you learn about the Alien, the less scary it gets.

[J.C.]

This is apparently officially confirmed now!

[Ben X]

Yessss, head-canon vindicated. Really hope it starts with Ripley waking up from a bad hypersleep dream looking confused and disappointed.

[Dewar]

I still like Alien 3

[Ben X]

Okay, now he's said that he doesn't want "to undo 3 and Resuurection", just stay close spiritually to the first two. So it's unclear what he's going to do...

[Ben X]

"Alien is kinda holding/pending Prometheus 2," tweets Blomkamp. Article posits that as The Martian did well and Chappie was shit, studio favour has swung back over to Scott.

[Dewar]

That's a shame. District 9 was one of the best movies I've ever seen, but his follow ups haven't interested me.

[Merus]

So what we're hearing here is that movie studios aren't as dumb as they look: if Ridley Scott gets a good script he'll deliver a good movie, but Neill Blomkamp had one good movie in him and everyone was wary about giving him Alien.

[Mawd]

I'm still buying the narrative that Blomkamp has some really good ideas and abilities. He just needs a Peter Jackson or a Del Toro to hang around and give him advice. Kinda like what some people are saying about David Cage right now.

 

I mean District 9 is great and this sci fi focus on Johannesburg has been really cool but I feel like if Halo the movie hadn't tanked and PJ + Wingnut Films + Weta weren't sitting around wanting to make a sci fi film District 9 could have just been another almost good sci fi film. 

 

Slightly related I got to see the Weta workshop tour and they have a stuffed Sam Niell sitting in a fully functional Warthog that can go 50kph sideways (it might have been mph actually). Oh and all the District 9 guns were really cool to look at/hold.

[namman siggins]

Good.

Blomkamp has been in a downhill slope since District 9 and his recon of Aliens 3 would have pissed me off.

3 is criminally underrated and I think they should just have a new character with history of the alien franchise looming over the new protagonist. Leave Ripely dead, I enjoyed her death I. 3

[Ben X]

Apparently he wasn't going to retcon Alien³ so much as circumvent it, though I don't know how the hell he was planning on that. I won't get back into arguments about whether 3 was good or not, but Resurrection already shit the bed with regards to Ripley's death, the franchise, etc. So I'm with Moddy - Blomkamp just needs a good script and producer to focus him and he could turn out some (more, after District Nine) top-notch sci-fi.