Can Ridley Scott recapture the magic of ‘Alien’? I hope so…
04th August 2009
Den of Geek – His first sci-fi movie for 27 years and the long-rumoured return to the franchise he established…but will Alien 0 be ‘one for the money’…?
The news that Ridley Scott is to direct another movie in the Alien series that he kicked off in 1979 is bound to be interesting to true fans of the movie series in general, and the luminous original in particular. From the early 1980s I can remember articles, rumours and conversations speculating on this subject. Scott, Sigourney Weaver and so many others have put forward their own flights of fancy about a new Ridley Scott Alien movie, that it can scarcely be imagined that the new film live up to the weight of expectation.
As one commenter on our article about the news mentioned, it’s guaranteed at the very least that the movie is going to look fantastic; Scott’s visual stylings have influenced a generation of film-makers. Blade Runner alone remains a continuing source of inspiration for science-fiction movies and SF production design.
Alien 5? Will it ever happen and will they ruin it? As long as they don’t cast Winona Ryder in anything. She was horrible.
01st February 2009
Den of Geek.com – Will there ever be a fully fledged fifth entry in the Alien franchise? We’ve been looking over the rumours and speculation of the past few years to find out more…
It was hard to tell, when the first Alien vs Predator movie came out back in 2004, whether it was a good or bad thing for those of us eagerly looking forward to a fifth Alien movie.
On one hand, it was promising to see cinema’s most iconic aliens back on screen again after a near-seven year absence, and if they could bring home the financial bacon, then that too could help get things into gear at Fox. But on the other hand, the slam-bang, empty shell of a film they inhabited was as far removed from Ridley Scott’s classic as it was possible to get.
Cut to the last twelve months, where The Brothers Strause, with AvP 2, happily banged through what it took Scott most of a film to do in five minutes flat, and you couldn’t help but wonder if the proper Alien franchise was best left buried. After all, Alien Resurrection was a fairly clumsy fourth entry in the series – albeit one with some masterful moments – and its box office performance and insistence on hanging onto Sigourney Weaver seemed to signal the end of the main cinematic series.
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