Via BD:"Alien is getting the ol' reboot treatment, courtesy of the fine folks at 20th Century Fox.
... being that 20th Century Fox is remaking Predator, it doesn't surprise me at all that Fox is also going back to their catalog for a reboot of Ridley Scott's Alien.
What our tipster informed us is that - opposite the Predator situation - the plan is to stick with the original concept of only one alien on the ship.
Michael Costigan, Ridley Scott and even Tony Scott are all on board to produce and have tapped Carl Rinsch to get beyond the camera and bring a new Ripley to the big screen.
Who is Carl Rinsch? I'm being told he's a commercial/music video director and does work for Scott Free Productions, who is also producing the remake.
... Update: We just heard from a separate reliable source that Fox is possibly working on an origins story, as opposed to a straight-up remake"
I would be angrier about this if it weren't something that'd been sitting at the back of my brain for years really as a very real, approaching possibility. But I really can't picture an Alien movie succeeding without Sigourney, without Ripley. They are gonna have to be serious about this. It can't be a cash-grab, which it most assuredly is. It can't be just a cash-grab, I guess. I love the Alien monster, I think it's perhaps the greatest designed monster of all movie history really. And I love watching it on the screen.
May it be an actual physical puppet though and not some ridiculous CG nonsense like we've gotten in Ressurection and AVP.
I don't know. I don't have the fight in me over this one right now. It was inevitable. Maybe they can do a good job, and then I can go home and rewatch Alien and Aliens for the thousandth time apiece and everything will be okay.
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but unfortunately such a film as "Alien", that will cost lots of money and be an inevitable draw at the box office, only by a miracle will it be good... but don't I hope so... though it's tougher the fact that what made Alien so good, besides sigorney/scott, was the sort of "existential terror", quiet, thoughtful patience, that made part 1 so good... now that's not likely to show up here.
Patience is sorely lacking from big money movies anymore, you're so right, Matt. This will doubtlessly be LOUD and overly edited like every damn thing else these days.
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