I hope he has better script writers than Scott.
Alien had a right to be a B movie in 79 and 86. A simple slasher movie because that's all it really was. A "pretty" slasher movie because of Scott and Cameron but a simple blood and guts survival movie and nothing more.
It doesn't have this right in 2022. We are sick and tired of YET ANOTHER group of people get eaten. That's all it is. People get eaten, blood and guts, roll credits. Think about it. It's all it is. You'd almost be ashamed in admitting you are a fan because of the base simplicity.
The only movie that (nearly) broke this mold was Prometheus.
Just when you thought the producers had woken up to the potential that was there, it went downhill.
Where they could have expanded on the scripts of 79 and 86 and grown the franchise -exponentially- they actually shrunk their own universe by saying an angry robot made that mysterious creature using lab experiments.
It's highschool level script writing.
Imagine if they had used the design language of Giger. Examined why the shapes are so vile and disgusting and beautiful and pleasing at the same time. Satiating the human mind. Repulsive and attractive at the same time. Two opposing emotions felt simultaneously, the base level paradox for a human. A taste of something higher than the processing capacity of the human mind.
Imagine if like Event Horizon the franchise had steered into the realm where the xenomorph originated. Perhaps outside the universe, a realm of pure consciousness and emotion, no memories, no logic, just being. Perhaps where the creator(s) of the universe originate. Perhaps a higher step on the matter-information-consciousness ladder. Perhaps a place where the base level understanding is paradox and all "logic" lies above it. A stupendous shock to our "thinking" the same way it is a stupendous shock to the senses in moving to a 4D world from 3D.
The engineers having tapped into this realm during their toying with genetics.
Imagine a movie not about the simple fear of being eaten, but of the fear of to be or not, to choose between thinking and feeling.
Perhaps to be able to ask the entity there about the dichotomy between emotion and logic.
So much could have been made of this franchise. An examination of the essence of what it means to exist as a consciousness in this universe ALONGSIDE being a slasher movie for the B crowd that like that.