Quote from: SiL on Mar 29, 2022, 12:41:24 AM
Dan O'Bannon said yes.
Oh yeah, his original idea was that the Space Jockey had nothing to do with the Alien other than being an unlucky victim prior to the encounter with the humans. A civilization developed by a sapien species of ancient parasites, whose adolescent state is a deadly beast.
With that in mind, I was thinking that if we're talking about new ideas for movies, I think this one qualifies as that. I mean,
Prometheus is
AVP's pretty sister, and while
Covenant took a new, albeit controversial, direction with the Alien, at the end of the day it's just another movie where damn humans intercept a signal, bad things happen, licensed ripoff happens and new variants of the same monster see the light of day once again from
Aliens to
Prometheus.
But when was the last time someone really reimagined the Alien? In any case, how an idea works depends on many factors, from execution to format. But it's interesting to think about it. 🤔