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Wonder if certain things Easter eggs or connectivity will lean exclusively to the first Alien and avoid references to other elements of the Alien sequels lore, seeing as this is set before AleinS

We do know that there will be some form of prequel acknowledgement in Romulus, and according to this, Fede did consult with James Cameron in some capacity, so I wouldn't be shocked if there's some element at play here that functions as a bit of connective tissue to Aliens.

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@Nightnare Asylum was partially of the impression that because Ridley was executive producer there'd be an en emphasis to acknowledge Alien but sidleline stuff that addressed things in the sequels. Honestly Ridley expressed some respect towards the subsequent directors of the sequels but that the series as in his words "rung it dry" particularly AVP, I have some impression that contributed to the prequels conveying a soft reboot impression, being another entry in the saga but feeing fresh, why he went for making a prequel rather than doing an Alien 5 that carried baggage from how complicated the previous movies were getting.

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@Nightnare Asylum was partially of the impression that because Ridley was executive producer there'd be an en emphasis to acknowledge Alien but sidleline stuff that addressed things in the sequels. Honestly Ridley expressed some respect towards the subsequent directors of the sequels but that the series as in his words "rung it dry" particularly AVP, I have some impression that contributed to the prequels conveying a soft reboot impression, being another entry in the saga but feeing fresh, why he went for making a prequel rather than doing an Alien 5 that carried baggage from how complicated the previous movies were getting.

As far back as things go, Ridley's interest in returning to the series had always involved looking more at "the guy in the chair." What that exactly meant obviously changed and mutated over time, eventually evolving into what we got in Prometheus (which was then was further redefined during the development of Alien: Covenant).

Ridley has always seemed to have a certain degree of aversion towards Alien as a franchise and what it grew into over the years (though he seems to be fond of Cameron's Aliens as a film, if not necessarily the concept of the Queen), but I think that his desire to go back in time with Prometheus was more so just a result of where his particular interests lied than it really was a response to his aversion to those latter films. If he wanted to steamroll over Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection to do his own thing later on in the timeline, I don't think Fox would have stopped him (they were willing to play along with Blomkamp on that path for long enough before pulling the rug out from underneath him). I believe the Scott-directed, Cameron-written "Alien 5" that was snuffed out when Alien vs Predator came along would have dealt with the Space Jockey in some capacity as well.

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True a good amount of what motivated Ridley to do prequels was explore the back story of the Space Jockey, he didn't seem to have a very defined idea of what that entailed (other than they were explorers and used Alien eggs as weapons) so Jon Spaihts came up with the addition of humanoid Engineers in order to humanise them an to tie their storyline to humanity's history and creation. Not  sure if the Ridley directed Cameron written Alien 5 was going to be a sequel continuation or prequel. Somewhere Mike's Monsters spoke that what detail he was privy to with Blomkamps project he expressed would have ruined the series, Alien saga survived the divisive Alien3 which hated a first buts garnered a cult following, the trash to some entertaining to others Alien Resurrection, the critically panned yet guilty pleasure Alien vs Predator films, the polarising Prequels whose creative choices though bold did minimised the scope of the universe. To what degree how much a disaster Blomkamp's movie could have been Mike's Monsters can't elaborate until perhaps some years from now, the initial concept art for that idea dated from March 2014 so that's about 10 years ago. I doubt Blomkamp would participate I'd imagined they'd make a documentary on the whole Alien movie that nearly was but didn't happen.

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@Mike's Monsters would it be possible in the future that a intricate documentary can be made covering the development on the unmade Alien3, the unmade Joss Whedon earth set Alien 5 allegedly called "Alien Revelation script" the early developed Alien vs Predator story drafts, the early version of Prometheus known as Alien Engineers, to the early version of the sequel Paradise Lost and finally the Blomkamp Alien Awakening, does it require a space of time to pass to for unmade projects to be elaborated on and non disclosure agreements to expire. Is a documentary very unlikely?

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@Mike's Monsters would it be possible in the future that a intricate documentary can be made covering the development on the unmade Alien3, the unmade Joss Whedon earth set Alien 5 allegedly called "Alien Revelation script" the early developed Alien vs Predator story drafts, the early version of Prometheus known as Alien Engineers, to the early version of the sequel Paradise Lost and finally the Blomkamp Alien Awakening, does it require a space of time to pass to for unmade projects to be elaborated on and non disclosure agreements to expire. Is a documentary very unlikely?

At this point, I think an official documentary like Charles de Lauzirika is out of the question. Even speaking to him about that topic at the premiere for PREY in 2022 he said he hadn't been asked for future installments and doesn't have as much interest anymore.

On the other hand, fans could easily make those things if we get the approval and okay to say what we know. I'd love to make a video talking about everything I know one day, and am trying to make that a possibility, but can't make any promises or give any timelines.

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@Mike's Monsters this might be odd to ask and low-key related to fan documentaries are 20th century studios (formerly 20th century fox)Disney touchy when it concerns fan films? I posted this previous question, if why the fan film they make is put to YouTube is the Adsense something the channel would be denied if said video involved copyrighted characters and elements from a studio's I.P. intellectual property? Certain things like music and movie clips get you in trouble with copyright or is an example of a fan film safe under fair use?

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@Mike's Monsters this might be odd to ask and low-key related to fan documentaries are 20th century studios (formerly 20th century fox)Disney touchy when it concerns fan films? I posted this previous question, if why the fan film they make is put to YouTube is the Adsense something the channel would be denied if said video involved copyrighted characters and elements from a studio's I.P. intellectual property? Certain things like music and movie clips get you in trouble with copyright or is an example of a fan film safe under fair use?

Unfortunately I don't have an answer for most of this.

Things like music from movies are copyrighted, so it would make sense that it's not able to be used. If they were used in the fan films for the 40th anniversary, those are technically officially made by the studio. The fans were hired to make them via winning a contest to make the films. So in that sense, they are official fan films, more than just fan films. Therefore they'd be able to use official music and sounds, as they were likely provided by Fox. I'm not sure if that answers some of the question.