Well color us shocked. It seems as though a new Alien film is in development by 20th Century Studios for release on the streaming platform Hulu! This coming exclusively from The Hollywood Reporter, Director Fede Alvarez, who helmed the Evil Dead remake, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, and Don’t Breathe, is set to write and direct the film.
Ridley Scott and production house Scott Free are set to produce. Apparently Alvarez casually pitched an idea to Scott a while back, and Scott more recently approached him regarding it:
Alvarez’s take is being kept deep inside the studio’s chest, but sources describe it as unconnected to the previous movies.
According to sources, Alvarez is a rabid fan of the franchise and casually pitched a take to Scott many years ago. The idea remained implanted in Scott’s brain until late last year when he called Alvarez out of the blue and asked him if the younger filmmaker was still up for it. Alvarez didn’t have to be asked twice.
20th Century picked up the project “purely off the strength of Fede’s pitch,” said division president Steve Asbell. “It was just a really good story with a bunch of characters you haven’t seen before.”
Image Credit: Adam Zeller
20th Century Studios president Steve Asbell, who also recently spoke to The Hollywood Reporter regarding the time period of Prey, relayed some information to them regarding this film:
Asbell, who recently spoke to THR about the future of 20th Century Studios, said by doing the project for Hulu, there wouldn’t be the pressure to whittle down the potential edginess that could come with theatrical considerations. “It’s not a film that has to be all things to all people with those gargantuan budgets. They get to be authentically what they are. And this is closer to its genre roots.”
Just like the upcoming FX Alien series, this film is to be released on the Hulu streaming platform, which is looking more and more likely to be the premier destination for Alien & Predator content.
We’ll be watching for more developments on this exciting news! Thanks to Mike’s Monsters and MudButt for the news.
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FEDE ALVAREZ TALKS ALIEN AND HORROR WITH PERFECT ORGANISM
https://www.perfectorganism.com/blog/2022/11/7/fede-alvarez-talks-alien-and-horror-with-perfect-organism
Bite sized, but a few insights into his mind. Nothing about his film, though.
Seems like a reasonable shout it's Fede's film. I'm pretty damn excited to have Dane back!
https://i.ibb.co/B29z9ZP/Screenshot-20221102-073348.jpg
Not saying it's not happening, I'd just like some receipts.
ex: the new Jonathan Glazer movie. Nobody knows the cast in it.
Sure, i'll trust the podcast for now.
On the off chance this is true, I have to wonder just how tiny this movie actually is. Very small budget, very small in scale, totally under the radar.
My gut inclination is to not believe this. But, hey, I guess stranger things have happened, so I'm not going to totally close the book on it...
There's nothing anywhere about this. And I'm not talking online or media, I mean production news.
A new comment from JM on their latest episode is now saying that they're now filming in Australia too.
Just laying down a summoning circle of urns in an attempt to manifest some actual information about this film at the 20th Century Studios D23 panel on Saturday...
Curious about this, though...
If this is true, from what I'm seeing Puerto Rico's film commission doesn't really seem to be boasting any soundstage/studio space, so if it is shooting there then I'd imagine the reason would be that they want to make some use of the area itself.
https://puertoricofilm.ddec.pr.gov/
Puerto Rico??
That's a Caribbean island. Probably some kind of tropical/jungle setting then IF true?
The Blue Beetle production is the only major film that I'm currently picking up on radar there.
there's got to be some production article somewhere, probably in spanish.
Even the pitying expression on her face annoys me.
Hope Alvarez doesn't have the same problem, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't. Scott's god complex began pretty late in his career.
Just for the record; I was using that image ironically. I also think that it's a terrible line of dialogue and in that moment, it makes Shaw deeply unlikable as a character.
That's why it's funny!
Precisely.
Pretentious substitute for "non-negotiable personal opinion."
Often used by academics, this is a convenient phrase for avoiding arguments because people can contradict your opinion but not your "truth."
The phrase is often used when seeking to justify a controversial personal stance or action because people are not allowed to argue with "your truth."
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=My%20Truth
Especially from a scientist character. The whole point of science is to challenge and reevaluate and learn. I just find her and that so frustrating.
I've actually read general commentary like this for Alien Covenant, sans the sarcasm.
Jun 01, 2022, 01:05:21 PM
"My truth"?
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Prometheus. The plot is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of metaphysics most of the story will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Davids's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these themes, to realise that they're not just macabre- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Prometheus truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the nuance in Shaw's existential catchphrase "It's what I choose to believe," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Damon Lindelof's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them.
Right? Way to torpedo your main character's credibility thirteen minutes in.
https://i.imgur.com/2mZkQOJ.jpg
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That's sounds more to me like the writers intended it and Ridley just never picked up on it. If that is the case, then maybe he shouldn't have been given quite so much control over the franchise.
I'm always thinking of a junket interview where Scott was asked about the Hill/Giler thing and said no, but he was going to start telling people that it was because he liked it. But I've never been able to find it since.
Yeah, during one of the earlier Covenant press junkets, Scott was asked whether David and Walter were a nod to David Giler and Walter Hill who originally came up with the idea of making Ash an android. To which Scott emphatically replied with "no".
Then in a slightly later Covenant interview, Scott goes on about how David and Walter were named after Giler and Hill and how clever that is.
Dr. Manhattan?
Double plot twist, they're actually both Michael Fassbender, who's confused as to why he's there, and why there are two of him. Dan and Ron are the names of the twin aliens who burst out of both actors at the same time, smoking cigars.