Alien V - Facts and Rumors Compilation (Provide Links)

[Immortan Jonesy]

Yisus! 🙏 Beyond how bad it is, the idea is beyond bizarre....It may sound sacrilege but it almost reminds me of Dan O'Bannon's concept of the Alien as an organism that continued to change until it became a sapien being responsible for a civilization that lost the ability to reproduce sexually. But not! This is much more controversial and sick in a not good way

The Alien wanted to become the elephant man ...and in a way the Kenerisation of the Tyranids!

The idea is crazy enough that one wants to see it in the of a 'what if' comic form lol Kener stuff is a small thing now, and that includes David as the creator of the Alien😅👉👈

[[cancerblack]]

But having the Aliens be responsible for building them...

[SiL]

I always liked the idea the ship was grown.

Just ... not like that.

[skhellter]

having the engineers reuse alien created nests to build their own ships out of? ehhh. sure.. i'll allow that. It's weird and alien. Makes sense with the engineer ships looking GROWN and consistent with the alien exoskeleton aesthetic.

having the aliens themselves create ships AND ENGINES with the goal to GO INTO OUTER SPACE? that's a pass, Neill. That's going from cool into straight crazy town.

do you know which version of the idea were they going for, Mike? Closer to my interpretation of it?

[bob]

Just terrible idea after terrible idea.  Glad this was cancelled.

[SiL]

Bingo!

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Talk about keeping true to the originals, right?

In a roundabout way, it's actually pretty true to O'Bannon's original concept of the Aliens becoming an intelligent, scholarly species as they aged.

The more I think about it, if I'm honest with myself I don't think it's any worse than the idea Aliens were made last weekend by a sexually frustrated Android.

Hell I think I'd rather go with spaceship-goo-making-Aliens than what we got in Covenant if we're dead set on saying "f**k it".

[Nightmare Asylum]

Huh. Honestly, while I don't know how much I like the sound of the specifics of the details regarding the Aliens/Derelict here, exactly, I also have to begrudgingly say, regarding this new info Mike shared here, I don't actually hate this! It flirts with and presents ideas much more interesting than what I was expecting from Blomkamp, and like was mentioned in some of the posts above, it feels very O'Bannon (and even very Ridley, circa 1979). I think, pending the execution, I coulda rolled with this...

Still do not like the Queen Alien exo-suit shenanigans at all, though!

[skhellter]

i could roll with the queen alien exo suit if the final aesthetic would look very different from the revealed concept art. That one just looks like the Atax toy.

[SiL]

The Queen suit can go in the bin

[[cancerblack]]

I'd almost bet that the Ripley queen suit and the four armed bigchap tie into some nonsense about the queen itself being a mecha suit for Aliens.

[Local Trouble]

Inspired by this, no doubt:

[Nightmare Asylum]

Also, not shocked to hear it wasn't Ridley that binned this. I know Blomkamp had his snarky remark about how maybe Ridley saw Chappie and decided he wanted nothing to do with it anymore, but it always seemed to me that Fox was the one that snuffed this out, which Mike's confirmed now.

I can see this playing nicely overall with the prequels, honestly, pending whatever "Alien: Destiny" was planning to do I guess.

Do away with the Kenner nonsense, scale the idea back to remove Ripley & Hicks, but keep some of the other ideas (the grown Derelicts/Juggernauts, O'Bannon-esque intelligent/evolved Aliens, even the inverted Chestburster/Facehugger process which could be neat) and... I could see this being mined for parts to make something maybe not great but, definitely interesting.

[XENOMORPHOSIS]

In ways these ideas are absurd but in another perspective intriguing, could've been atrocious, could've been solid it's a question how it's executed. We've had our share of mediocre Alien movies that other fans have found value in and the franchise has kept going. Was half and half about the retcon decision, partly due to it being hard to make a satisfying continuation to Alien3 and Resurrection after how those films are regarded, the continuity was already thrown into split timelines with Williams Gibson's treatment being adapted into a comic and audio drama. Some fans lament this movie didn't happen whereas others are relieved. Theres a guarantee there will be other later Alien Legacy Sequels Reboots in the future, some films will be mediocre others will be competent. Like this Xenomorph itself it's endures.

[SiL]

I'd read it as a novel or comic.

[Nightmare Asylum]

I'd read it as a novel or comic.

Aye, same.

Preferably with real art, if they go the comic route.