Quote from: Magegg on Feb 26, 2015, 02:01:32 AM
Ripley 8 could simply use her genetic memory powers to send her consciousness back into the body of her original and prevent the rogue xeno from causing the wreck of the Sulaco.
that or how's this for a batshit idea?
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SOMETIME IN THE FUTURE - SPACE
Silent and endless. The stars shine like the love of God...cold and remote. Against them drifts a tiny chip of technology.
CLOSER: It is the BETTY, drifting lifelessly. Without interior or running lights, it seems devoid of life. The ships computer comes to life. The screen flashes PROXIMITY ALERT and the coordinates of the intruder. The PING of a ranging RADAR grows louder, closer. A shadow engulfs The Betty. The tiny ship is put into perspective as a MASSIVE DARK HULL descends toward it.
There we go. Open up
Alien 5 in a eerily similar way that parallels
Aliens. Plot points:
- A deep salvage team finds the Betty. In it, a passed out Ripley 8 and a dead Johner. Vriess and Call are M.I.A. The salvage team is surprised to see it is Ellen Ripley. HINT: "Didn't a salvage team find her a few months ago?" Total coincidence. A Ripley is found floating in space again.
- Cut to, Ripley 8 awakening in setting similar to Gateway Station. She's immediately questioned by a Corporate Suit. "You were on a, unknown, unregistered ship called The Betty. How did you get there? Why was the colony on LV-426 destroyed?"
- FLASHBACK w/ Voiceover. A confused Ripley 8 tells a story that takes place not long after the events of
Alien:Resurrection. She speaks of finding the Alien's home planet--something she's longed for since the Alien DNA in her yearns to find its origin. In her mind, it's like some sort of calling. Johner, Call and Vriess decide to accompany her with the intent to obliterate the planet. Based on records, possible coordinates and files Call had previously hijacked from the mainframe, they set out on a mission to where the Alien planet might be. Call and Vriess take a separate ship, while Ripley and Johner follow in the Betty (as a precaution and to have a second ship). Ripley mentions that they are attacked by a strange spacecraft (a derelict) which leads to a chase. During the pursuit, they encounter a wormhole, almost as if the derelict is pushing them towards it. In a realistic,
INTERSTELLAR sort of way, The Betty is sucked into the vortex and teleported through to the other end AND through TIME. Johner does
not survive.
- FLASHBACK TO PRESENT. The Corporate Suit is baffled by Ripley's story. He reveals to her that his name is Michael Bishop, that it is July 28th, 2179 and that they are on the Patna, along with a few military escorts, and heading intercept the USS Sulaco. He believes she's deserted her mission on LV426 and that they received satellite imagery of Hadley's Hope being destroyed. A Medical Officer, pulls Michael aside to talk to him about his strange, test result findings while examining Ripley 8. Meanwhile, the ship gets to the Sulaco and, to the crew's amazement, they find the real Ripley, Hicks, Bishop and Newt in hypersleep--the battle with the Queen has already happened but the egg has not hatched....
just yet. While exploring the ship, one of the military escorts finds the egg, but before he can alert anyone, he gets facehugged. Meanwhile, the others awaken the real Ripley from hypersleep. Ripley meets Ripley 8 and a new adventure begins.
Boom, new timeline started. Alien 3 and 4 happened, but we're getting a sequel that acts as a new Alien 3, sort of. There's cool potential here. Two Ripleys, a dual performance by Weaver (with some CGI de-aging for the real Ripley of course). Cool scenes of Ripley-8 meeting Newt, which could be pretty haunting of executed correctly. With Ripley 8's knowledge of the Alien Homeworld whereabouts, they set out on a new mission. Ripley-8 can even be killed off within the first half of the movie since so many seem to dislike the character.
