Fede Alvarez working on new Alien film!

[Nelostic]

I hope there will be David and Aliens attack on engineer's planet in final!

[Thatguy2068]

Should we be worried about this  Director because he made a couple of stinkers movies in the past

[SiL]

He's made some great tense movies.

[Acid_Reign161]

Should we be worried about this  Director because he made a couple of stinkers movies in the past

Fede Alvarez?

Not at all - quite the opposite actually. As a huge fan of 'The Evil Dead' I was incredibly apprehensive about anyone doing a remake (especially some guy with nothing behind his name at the time but a YouTube cgi demo showing robots attacking a city) - but Evil Dead 2013 (which thankfully turned out to be a reboot/sequel rather than a remake) was amazing! And I'm incredibly hard to please when it comes to Evil Dead.

I thought 'Don't Breathe' was a bit "ok but blah" - mainly because it had been so overhyped by the media that we were expecting something "out there" and when it turned out to be just

Spoiler

just the Turkey baster scene

[close]

I think my partner and I were "oh..was that it" but the film on its own merits wasn't bad at all (though I haven't seen the sequel).

In Netflix's 'Texas Chainsaw', Fede was back on form. Whilst the movie doesn't even begin to contend with the original, I feel it surpassed any of the sequels and reboots we'd had over the years and felt like the natural progression from the original (cast choices were on point!)

I had actually said in chat only days before the announcement that I'd love Fede to do an 'Alien' movie, as he handles established franchises he enjoys well... and then the announcement came that he was attached an I was overjoyed.

What are the stinkers you are referring to?

[Thatguy2068]

Should we be worried about this  Director because he made a couple of stinkers movies in the past

Fede Alvarez?

Not at all - quite the opposite actually. As a huge fan of 'The Evil Dead' I was incredibly apprehensive about anyone doing a remake (especially some guy with nothing behind his name at the time but a YouTube cgi demo showing robots attacking a city) - but Evil Dead 2013 (which thankfully turned out to be a reboot/sequel rather than a remake) was amazing! And I'm incredibly hard to please when it comes to Evil Dead.

I thought 'Don't Breathe' was a bit "ok but blah" - mainly because it had been so overhyped by the media that we were expecting something "out there" and when it turned out to be just

Spoiler

just the Turkey baster scene

[close]

I think my partner and I were "oh..was that it" but the film on its own merits wasn't bad at all (though I haven't seen the sequel).

In Netflix's 'Texas Chainsaw', Fede was back on form. Whilst the movie doesn't even begin to contend with the original, I feel it surpassed any of the sequels and reboots we'd had over the years and felt like the natural progression from the original (cast choices were on point!)

I had actually said in chat only days before the announcement that I'd love Fede to do an 'Alien' movie, as he handles established franchises he enjoys well... and then the announcement came that he was attached an I was overjoyed.

What are the stinkers you are referring to?

I actually did some more research and I found out that he only made 5 movie in total and a TV show, 3 movie and the tv show was received praise. the only movies, they receive bad reviews is Texas chainsaw and a girl in a spider web, and that's about it.

[Mike’s Monsters]

So therefore, his track record is mostly positive and any claims that we should be worried shouldn't hold any weight.