New "Alien" Movie (Page 1 of 2)

I'm not sure how they would do that, she is a future character. I liked AvP and would like to see the woman character continue from that one, she was cool.

I did like AVP and dispite Fox keeping the sequel under tight lock and key....i have hope for it.

Weaver said that when AVP was announced as finally greenlit, she apparently said she thought it was a very bad idea...so doubt she will even cameo.

well I hope one day "Alien" comes back with anoher smash and Ripley will also with a title like "Alien" Reinforced or something and we get to see Ripley play again. I really liked the parts in AvP how they improved the Alien and the Predator (although the Predator wasn't my fav. movie) but what they did with "Alien" was brilliant and very realistic, and I hope very much that in the second part they will show more blood, and scences that will keep us, the audiences in suspense, cos for example to me Jason vs Freddy it was a parody or something, I mean come on a little bug getting high on weed it's like watching "Scary Movie". The first part I loved, when I watched it for the first time at my friends house I was afraid to go home cos I was so fucken scared.

Best, Michael

sorry from jumping from Alien to Freddy

I remember AMC had a Alien documentary about the whole of the series, I think it mentioned to get her on board for Ressurection, they gave her exective producer credit and an $11 million dollar check...and she only got paid $30,000 for the first and $1 million for 2..dunno how much for 3.

I really wanna see Colonial Marines invade the Alien homeworld and have an epic battle there.  Maybe dow what sMart says and not include Ripley and for this create a whole new trilogy with a whole new cast of high quality characters like her and make it an epic trilogy of the battle.  I recall when Renny Harlin was attached to Alien 3 the script was gonna be set on the alien homeworld but budget was a big problem and after a year he left.

Would have also loved to see the 2nd director's vision.  Vincient Something, gone blank on his name.  Such a unquie take on it.  If you have the Alien Quadrilogy box set or planning to get it, definatly listen in on his vision...that would have been one kick ass and different enough to make it worthy.

I recall Ridley Scott and James Cameron at one point were interested in teaming up for an ALIEN 5 and apparently Fox (and I think Weaver) was interested in the team up but after Paul W.S Anderson was able to convince Fox to finally go ahead with AVP they thought they didn't need to do an Alien 5.

I hadn't thought about an Alien (only) movie without Ripley. Damn, seems like I must open my mind a little bit more.

The idea of invading Alien's planet seems good but do you really want to fight against those things in their own backyard?????? And why fight them in their own planet if you can just nuke the whole planet and erase it from the galaxy?

Yeah I'm up for another Alien but not for AVP 2 or a remake

That's the thing that always bothered me about Starship Troopers.  We'd rather kill off a generation of young people then nuke these infested planets from orbit.

I finally decided that there must have been two reasons for this.

1.  The bugs dug deep and there was no guarantee that the nukes would get them.  In the meantime, you're making the planet hostile to human life.  If the bugs survived the bombardment and could survive those conditions, they were still a threat.  And in the meantime it would be that much more difficult to launch a ground attack.

2.  I can't imagine that there are many planets in the galaxy that could support human life.  Perhaps we wanted the planet to be available for colonization at some point.  Though with an entire generation pretty much wiped out, who would've done it? 

I don't think we could destroy an entire planet.  Not with the technology I observed in Starship Troopers.  Nor the technology I observed in the Alien franchise.  And even if we could, I'm not sure we'd go that way anyway.  We'd disrupt an entire solar system, including what may well be valuable natural resources and perhaps other habitable planets in the system if we destroyed a world.  The dynamics of gravity can be a tricky thing.  Plus, I would think that doing such a thing would be a suicide mission for those involved. 

I think about this stuff way too much.

Side note:  I'd love to see a true film adaptation of Starship Troopers. 

P.S.  I know I'll probably get lynched for this, but I rather enjoyed the DTV sequel to Starship Troopers. 

I love the Aliens franchise, and can find good in all of the movies.  And despite the similarity of the ending of the third movie with that of Terminator 2, I thought it was a fitting end for the character of Ripley.  Which is why despite the goodness of Alien Resurrection, I was quite disappointed that the producers brought her back.  It felt forced and unnecessary, particularly because there were so many other interesting characters to play with. 

I think the Alien franchise can survive without Ellen Ripley.  I was hoping 3 would go in another direction, because I still can't figure out how the Alien queen was able to implant Ellen, nor can I figure out how or when the queen laid that egg.  I was very unhappy that they killed Newt and Hicks off-camera. 

As far as AvP, before viewing it, I woulda thought that the entire concept was bulletproof.  There are some things I like about it.  The PG-13 rating isn't one of them.  The bullet time face huggers isn't one of them.  The present day scenario isn't one of them.  The Tyrannosaurus Queen isn't one of 'em.  The chunky Predators....But I love both franchises, and seeing them together, finally was still quite the thrill.  I'm a fan of the Area 51 series of books, which posits the theory that aliens have been living amongst us since the dawn of history, and their influence could be felt by humanity.  So I was fine with the concept that Predators would seed our world with a colony of Aliens and then do a bug hunt as a rite of passage into adulthood.  It's too bad the execution of the concept was done so poorly.  Those are nit picks, I suppose, but taken as a whole with the other things I wasn't too happy with, the AvP movie wasn't quite as satisfying as I wanted it to be.  As it could have been.

There are so many stories that could be told in both franchises.  And you don't need Ripley or Dutch to tell them.  In the latter case, I felt that was proven anyway in Predator 2.  Danny Glover at first worried me.  But in the end, he did convince me that he was a bad ass.  I was convinced that he could win.   

Personally, I'd love to see a Predator western.  Or see a group of colonists fight off an Alien infestation.  So many stories, so little time.

Last edited by sMart (2007-02-21 09:47:31)

Yep goon is right, Alien 5 was going to happen, I think it was going to go something like Ripley and another crew go back to the alien's home planet to take them out for good, But it turns out that Weaver backed out saying she is too old or some shit, So as of right now i don't think we will be seeing Alien 5 anytime soon. Truth is AVP is about the only thing these outerworld monsters have got going for them & if AVP2 is no better then the first one they could both fade away for a long time, Unless Fox slaps us with some of that starght to DVD shit.

I think an "Alien 5" would be exceptable.  That is, if Ridley Scott was to direct and Sigourney Weaver was to return and play Ripley.

Sounds a little like the U. S. invading foreign homelands just for kicks and giggles?
Why on earth would "we" want to invade their homeland? What right do we have? Unless of course they attacked us first. Then we could send in ALL American Troops and hopefully they will be annihilated by the Aliens and free up the earth of them.

War is not good folks!

Have a social commentary in an Alien movie?  Would be interesting.

But, it would make sense to hit the Alien homeworld.  They don't care about anything, you can't reason with them.  Wipe them off the face of the universe.