Ridley Scott Talks Prequels

Posted June 14, 2010 6:57 PM Darkness 20 Comments

Ridley Scott was answering questions in LA during the Hero Complex Film Festival on Sunday. The Alien Prequels came up, of course. You can find a report on AICN. Here’s the main points. Beware, some spoilers.

The scripts for both Prequels are complete.
You’ll find out who the Space Jockey is and where he originally came from.
The Prequel will go further into terraforming and focus on the reality of what it takes to leave for another planet.
Ridley Scott also implied that the the Space Jockey isn’t a creature itself, it’s a suit with a being inside.
Collider also posted their report and mentioned that he had done a lot of underwater research for the movies.

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Posted Jun 25, 2010, 02:18:39 AM

Honorless_Predator... Ridley Scott made the first Alien film, Blade Runner, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down. He is a good director mainly when it comes to sci-fi.
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Honorless_Predator
Posted Jun 24, 2010, 07:56:06 AM

After robin hood. i hope to god he doesnt direct this movie, he is a terrible director. bring in james cameron
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Posted Jun 20, 2010, 08:36:28 AM

The space jockey suit WILL be made up of organic flesh likes the ones from Independance day. Years ago ridley scott said that the space jockey's space ship was a war ship that dropped the Alien eggs on enemy worlds to destroy them. I wonder if these new Aliens films could also be war films
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XENOMORPH ALIENS
Posted Jun 20, 2010, 04:35:04 AM

i'm all for this idea of Ridley Scott directing the 2 prequels to the Alien movies. i cant wait to see the space jockeys and i'm sure Ridley is doing his best to get H.R. Giger on board to create the look of the space jockey. its true about the space jockey that is a bio-mechanical suit and that there is an humaniod lifeform inside the suit. which i believe that their world was very toxic and why they had to have those bio-mechanical suits on to survive and is what led them to create the galaxies ultimate weapon the XENOMORPHS!!
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Rikomaru
Posted Jun 19, 2010, 12:44:53 AM

Not the creature but the suit was grown on the chair !
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xenomorphine117
Posted Jun 18, 2010, 08:58:22 PM

sweet lol
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Goji62
Posted Jun 15, 2010, 03:58:21 PM

Hey, Kimarhi, start with yourself. Still, you are right in one way - that would be horrible. GrimyGhost - VERY good point. It WAS fossilized, according to on screen dialogue! And it's ribs were burst outward... There was no sign of ribs within ribs, but you know, if the creature inside was permanently inside, I could forgive a bit. It was grown into the chair, after all...
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TerminatorRoyce
Posted Jun 15, 2010, 01:44:32 PM

Maybe these suits are bio-mechanoid things.. Or am I wrong?
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GrimyGhost
Posted Jun 15, 2010, 10:33:04 AM

a Suit... i didnt know suits had bones... it was f'ing fosilized...
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Space Disc Jockey
Posted Jun 15, 2010, 07:40:22 AM

"...Excellent!"
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Dallas001
Posted Jun 15, 2010, 06:41:39 AM

I wonder who will be doing the creature fx. I hope with Giger and Stan Winston/Legacy FX they can do it. Otherwise we will get the cheap ADI looking stuff again.
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frostedone
Posted Jun 15, 2010, 04:53:24 AM

Cool! This is awesome. Finally the mystery of the Jockey will be revealed!
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Kimarhi
Posted Jun 15, 2010, 12:35:50 AM

if the great twist was that there was a human inside the whole time I will kill everyone.
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Ephemeriis
Posted Jun 14, 2010, 11:35:45 PM

Didn't we already kind of know the Space Jockey was a suit?

I thought it was described as having an air hose, not a trunk.
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Alien³
Posted Jun 14, 2010, 10:43:31 PM

Sweet, I'm slowly warming to the idea that we're going to learn more about the space jockeys.
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DarthSidious
Posted Jun 14, 2010, 10:36:46 PM

These are going to completely destroy those comics featuring space jocks... Im so happy
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RazorSlash
Posted Jun 14, 2010, 09:47:15 PM

Sounds cool. If both scripts are complete, does that mean they're going to start casting soon?
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Corey1
Posted Jun 14, 2010, 09:20:09 PM

"Ridley Scott also implied that the the Space Jockey isn't a creature itself, it's a suit with a being inside."

OMG
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gyro
Posted Jun 14, 2010, 09:16:14 PM

2 movies very nice
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RoaryUK
Posted Jun 14, 2010, 09:06:56 PM

"Ridley Scott also implied that the the Space Jockey isn't a creature itself, it's a suit with a being inside."
Kinda saw this one coming ages ago, probably an idea Scott derived from Indepedance Day. Ok that's fine... so long is the guy in the suit wasn't human the whole time, lol.
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