Amph On Earth, Everyone Can Hear You Scream: The Prometheus / Alien Discussion Thread (Romulus, Earth)

I miss read that as a finnish series. Now I’m a little disappointed it’s not

 

Neat stack from Alien director Fede Alvarez

 

Yeah, stuff like the original comic and novel trilogy.

 

An English grammar course book

 

Apparently Scott loves the new Alien film

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_Adventure_Game

 

I had no idea there was a new Alien movie coming out.

 

Romulus star Cailee Spaeny confirms that the film is set between Alien and Aliens

“It’s supposed to slot in between the first movie and the second movie,” Spaney tells Variety’s Michaela Zee. “They brought the same team from ‘Aliens,’ the James Cameron film. The same people who built those xenomorphs actually came on and built ours. So getting to see the original design with the original people who have been working on these films for 45-plus years and has been so much of their life has been really incredible.”

 

I am more excited for the new Alien show on FX than I am for the movie.

I believe it was a greatly missed opportunity for Ridley Scott to make his Prometheus sequel trilogy and follow up Covenant with another 2 movies. Or at least one final movie, to wrap up all loose ends. Say what you will about Prometheus and Covenant, but the stories in both movies are freaking great. And all the plot twists, and how it opened up a whole new world to explore. I wonder if we will ever get another chapter after the end of Covenant. The only thing I didn't like was Elizabeth Shaw's off screen death. I really wish she had survived and become the protagonist of all of those films (including potential sequels I mean).

I also hope Romulus proves to be a great movie.

 

She's not going to go out with you just because you "well, actually'd" her, Pro Scoundrel

 

This sounds quite promising.

 

Sounds promising

The tv show is just gonna ignore all that Prometheus stuff.

 

I suppose. Though the best thing about Prometheus was the visuals. Possibly the best-looking Alien film of all. So not too thrilled about that being one of the main things he’s rejecting.

Though I agree with him that the evolutionary aspect is more interesting than the bioweapon one. Even though bioweaponry is a big topic today.

 

The Alien RPG has the xenomorphs existing independently from the Engineers, indicating that the Engineers were so enamored with them that they tried to make them as well. It's heavily implied that the "black oil" was derived from the xenomorphs.

Even the tech reversion is explained; an anti-space terrorist group unleashes EMPs and such on Earth that wrecks technology, so there's a movement back to more 'analog' equipment being safer and more reliable.

From an aesthetic standpoint, reverting the style is a good choice, as it really worked in Alien:Isolation.

 

I think I confused the new movie with the Hawley series - but they are apparently not connected in any way?

Hawley's most recent season of Fargo is really top notch. I'm glad he's doing this.