I'd like to see who the source of this rumour is.
The synopsis written there has potential, but considering how creatively bankrupt '
Colonial Marines' and '
Prometheus' turned out to be, I'd be very apprehensive about this. It'd be a real gamble and the writing would have to be top drawer for the characterisations of Ripley, Hicks and Newt.
Retcons are always a very high stakes game. You could erase something which you consider to have been poorly done, but at the potential expense fo replacing it with something worse.
The synopsis has legs, however... If it's done
right, I wouldn't be averse and the magically appearing egg, Sulaco's cryotubes reverting to he style of the Nostromo's and Ripley's literal metamorphosis into being part-Alien, all have the obvious elements of a dream. '
Isolation' is, if nothing else, also demonstrating there's a large appetite out there for something made in the style of the originals and could easily be used as a stylistic template.
Huge gamble, though. I'm not sure who I'd feel safe with helming such a project.
Honestly, a part of me has always been fond of that original '
Alien 3' trailer: "On Earth,
everyone can hear you scream..."
