Blomkamp is officially making an Alien film

[Perfect-Organism]

Rumours say it will be connected to Prom 2 and 1 retroactively, which would mean this:

Alien, Aliens, Alien3, A:R.

&

Prometheus, Prometheus sequel, Alien, Aliens, Neill Blompkamp's Alien.


Sounds good to me.

I certainly hope this is not the case.  It should be:

Prom 1, Prom 2, Alien, Aliens, Blomkamp's Alien

Hopefully there will be a final installment near the end that will tie the Prometheus and Alien storyline together.  Bald headed engineers rock.  They are so much more meaningful and compelling than elephant-nosed Space Jockeys.  They raise the stakes for humanity so much higher.

Anyway, its all opinion based at this point.

[SpreadEagleBeagle]

Rumours say it will be connected to Prom 2 and 1 retroactively, which would mean this:

Alien, Aliens, Alien3, A:R.

&

Prometheus, Prometheus sequel, Alien, Aliens, Neill Blompkamp's Alien.


Sounds good to me.

I certainly hope this is not the case.  It should be:

Prom 1, Prom 2, Alien, Aliens, Blomkamp's Alien

Hopefully there will be a final installment near the end that will tie the Prometheus and Alien storyline together.  Bald headed engineers rock.  They are so much more meaningful and compelling than elephant-nosed Space Jockeys.  They raise the stakes for humanity so much higher.

Anyway, its all opinion based at this point.

Am I missing something?

[Gash]

I don't think any convincing rumours have connected it to Prom 2.

I think that stems from the announcement that Blomkamp's film will be shot after Prom 2 and it'll be produced by Scott Free. But that's about it so far.

[Xenomrph]

I don't think any convincing rumours have connected it to Prom 2.

I think that stems from the announcement that Blomkamp's film will be shot after Prom 2 and it'll be produced by Scott Free. But that's about it so far.

That might be what I was thinking of.

[Perfect-Organism]

I'm not sure that they need to directly link Prometheus 1 or 2 with Alien 5, but to contradict it would be beyond stupid.  Alien 3 and AR can be dropped but I would not drop the Ridley Scott film.  Partly because it's Ridley Scott, but mostly because I'm in the camp that thinks Prometheus is brilliant.  Prometheus is actually very rich in what it offers the franchise.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Unfortunately it's really sloppily put together, especially in the second half of the film.

And it does, in a lot of ways, thematically contradict the ideas established in Alien and expanded on in its sequels. I genuinely like a lot of the ideas that Prometheus put forward, but not so much the fact that they were tackled in this universe. Or at least, not the fact that they were tackled with the Space Jockey.

[Xenomrph]

Unfortunately it's really sloppily put together, especially in the second half of the film.

And it does, in a lot of ways, thematically contradict the ideas established in Alien and expanded on in its sequels. I genuinely like a lot of the ideas that Prometheus put forward, but not so much the fact that they were tackled in this universe. Or at least, not the fact that they were tackled with the Space Jockey.

Ditto. I said pretty much exactly the same thing in the "flow chart" thread just now.

[HuDaFuK]

People keep saying Prometheus 2 will link to the new film when everything Ridley has said implies Prometheus 2 will have even less to do with the Alien films than the first.

[Nightmare Asylum]

Has the video in this article been posted? It's my first time seeing it, at least.

http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/markcassidycbm/news/?a=116031

[HuDaFuK]

The Aliens: Colonial Marines video game came up with a reasonably plausible explanation for Hicks' survival...

NO.

[DoomRulz]

As I understand it, Alienkamp is supposed to be released after Prometheus 2, and I'm starting to wonder if this will be film that bridges both franchises. Has anyone hypothesized that one of the juggernauts seen in Prometheus will act as the catalyst for Blomkamp's film?

[Magegg]

As I understand it, Alienkamp is supposed to be released after Prometheus 2, and I'm starting to wonder if this will be film that bridges both franchises. Has anyone hypothesized that one of the juggernauts seen in Prometheus will act as the catalyst for Blomkamp's film?

Well, for what we've seen in concept art, the Engineer technology is prominent in this movie, I think there are good chances of a connection between the Aliens and Prometheus mythos in this movie.

What I don't want them to do is to use Prometheus 2 stuff as a plot device to retcon Alien 3 and 4... That would be just lazy.

[Russ]

wha? wait? wut? How 

Forget lazy, how do you figure?

[DoomRulz]

As I understand it, Alienkamp is supposed to be released after Prometheus 2, and I'm starting to wonder if this will be film that bridges both franchises. Has anyone hypothesized that one of the juggernauts seen in Prometheus will act as the catalyst for Blomkamp's film?

Well, for what we've seen in concept art, the Engineer technology is prominent in this movie, I think there are good chances of a connection between the Aliens and Prometheus mythos in this movie.

What I don't want them to do is to use Prometheus 2 stuff as a plot device to retcon Alien 3 and 4... That would be just lazy.

A retcon like that wouldn't be possible, unless the Engineer's have time travel tech we haven't been exposed to yet.

[Magegg]

As I understand it, Alienkamp is supposed to be released after Prometheus 2, and I'm starting to wonder if this will be film that bridges both franchises. Has anyone hypothesized that one of the juggernauts seen in Prometheus will act as the catalyst for Blomkamp's film?

Well, for what we've seen in concept art, the Engineer technology is prominent in this movie, I think there are good chances of a connection between the Aliens and Prometheus mythos in this movie.

What I don't want them to do is to use Prometheus 2 stuff as a plot device to retcon Alien 3 and 4... That would be just lazy.

A retcon like that wouldn't be possible, unless the Engineer's have time travel tech we haven't been exposed to yet.

No, it can be possible, if they explain some xenomorph "secret technology" like saying xenos are digital creatures and the DNA of everyone infected by them is sent to the Engineers planet and they use it to resurrect that people or something, I mean, it would be horrible, but it can be done...