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

Charlize Theron to star in Alien prequels?

[...] we?re told that Fox is having the role rewritten so that it?s larger and befitting, if not of Theron, then at least of someone of Theron?s stature. We're also told that the South African beauty should get the new version of the Alien script sometime this week and make her decision soon.

 

If this is remotely true then I just hope Charlize has the brains to realise the world wants Ridley's vision brought to the screen, not the result of studio executives worrying they won't get a large pay cheque at the end of production, and she'll just say no.

 

I think it was a mistake, but "bought" to the screen...no large cheque?

I think she's a fine choice...but i'm worried if Robin Hood is any indication of where this director is going with this whole "prequel" thing..

 

Would you believe me if I blamed the keyboard for any spelling errors?

 

I just hope Theron has a similar underwear scene.

 

Anybody else really bored/tired of news outlets referring to female movie stars as "the such and such beauty", as if that's the only thing worth describing them?

EDIT: Also, I love that in that link to the Spacejockey concept art the movie is referred to as "the long awaited prequel to Alien". Frankly that makes me laugh. Nobody but nobody has been "waiting" for this movie.

 

lol...What did you think of "Monster"?

 

Do I even have to say THIS?

 

Has anyone read the reportedly "leaked" Alien: Harvest .pdf?

I cant link to it because of the language, but a google search will suffice.

Not sure if its legit...but it does have a lot of the elements that Ridley Scott has already mentioned.
I'm currently reading it now, and here's what its got so far....
1. The Spacey Jockeys are a peaceful race of telepathic terraformers. The xenomorphs are a product of their terraforming experiments gone wrong.
2. They do in fact have two human guys (crash survivors) in their employ/benevolent enslavement (they only work once a week for four hours and all their needs are taken care of, but the jockeys dont want them to leave), and the space jockeys do make the men have sex with each other, trying to breed them.
3. There is a third crash survivor, a cat named Oleo, who winds up being the victim of a miniature face hugger.
4. Miniature cat-sized face hugger? Yep. And miniature xenomorphs. They are described as an "ant" alien, keeping only the head of the original monster.

Meanwhile, back at LV-426....
5. The Space Jockey vessel crashes into the planet because the pilot *surprise* has a larger alien burst out of its chest.
6. There is a crew of a spacecraft nearby. Two females, five males. Sound familiar? Oh and theres a lot of lesbian jokes.

So far....its BORING. It doesnt inspire terror (the planet that the space jockeys are terraforming sounds like Kansas and the two human guys keep talking about how good they have it there, while the ship crew seems more than content to check their emails and play cards....the tone is ALL WRONG. Remember the first shots of Alien...we were treated to the Nostromo being a dark labyrinth of piples and computers until the crew woke up? None of that here), and the way the telepathically-induced homosexual breeding scene is intercut with Oleo's death throes REEKS of Alien 3, where the funeral for Hicks and Newt was intercut with the alien bursting out of the dog.
I'll keep reading, but so far, I am far less than impressed, and hope to God this is nothing more than bad fanfiction.

 

By the way, thet concept art has been debunked: it's just fan art.

 

Further reading...
- The space jockeys are referred to as "growers". There is a smaller subspecies called "grunts".

- The appearance of a cat-alien from Oleo. Just like the dog-alien in Alien3. Only the size of a bobcat and it almost sounds like Ravage from the Transformers movie.

- The cat-alien is killed after a brief struggle. They then turn it into mulch.

- One of the human guys has a genetically-engineered third nipple that secretes "nature's lip balm". He urges the other guy to try it.

 

Sounds like Ridley Scott is pandering to the slash crowd...

 

Oh, and the two guys names are Adam and Steve.
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But they are referred to in the script by their last names, Fin and Karik.

Look...the amount of sexuality in the first Alien movie was awesome in that it hit you on a subconscious level. The Alien Harvest treatment seems to be more of a farce.

PLEASE let this be fanfic.


EDIT --

ANd also a nod to the Aliens deleted "Ripley's Daughter" scene.
The lead female, Oliver is crying over the fact that due to the time it takes to get back home, her children will be teenagers. "They are only children once"

 

Probably is.

At the least I hear they're working from scratch on a new draft, which I doubt has leaked out yet.

 

I thought this was supposed to be about those space jocky giant guys?

 

It is, or haven't you been reading any previous posts?

 

Okay, so now Ridley Scott is saying it's not a prequel or a sequel.
A stand alone film inspired by Alien, titled Prometheus.

 

I am pleased. This bodes well for for Hollywood.

 

Fantastic news indeed.

 

Amen....

Wait WHAT? what the hell is Prometheus? Is it going to use the aliens or is it a whole new thing?

 

Whole new thing:

While Alien was indeed the jumping off point for this project, out of the creative process evolved a new, grand mythology and universe in which this original story takes place. The keen fan will recognize strands of Alien?s DNA, so to speak, but the ideas tackled in this film are unique, large and provocative. I couldn?t be more pleased to have found the singular tale I?d been searching for, and finally return to this genre that?s so close to my heart.

 

ooh, that does sound promising.

 

I don't remember rattling your cage for a response, and look at this now, it has nothing to do with what was once put out?

I won't even wait for dvd.

 

You got told Juli.

 

WTF. Does this mean no Xenomorphs?!