Quote from: orchidal on Apr 08, 2013, 01:47:07 PM
Keeping in line with the comments re: engineer suits, above, I agree and would add that this would be an interesting means to develope the engineers in a more aparently alien form and function. I can imagine some true biomech/mutantion horrors coming out of these concepts.
It seems that the 'God' the Engineers worship is also humanoid - based on the giant head. I am wondering if the BIOMECH difference between the Derelict in ALIEN vrs the more mechanical stuff in PROMETHEUS is actually this other race, that created the Engineers and if maybe the Engineers on LV223 were using us to create a monster to destroy them.
Quote from: CONKERSBADFURDAY on Apr 03, 2013, 09:50:21 PM
Quote from: CainsSon on Apr 03, 2013, 07:10:02 PM
I just want to add that I think the series is in some serious danger. Not because PROMETHEUS 2 will not happen. Which is what evryone seems to think the major threat is here... But rather because with where PROMETHEUS left off, it is extremely easy for FOX to just make PROMETHEUS 2, a reboot of ALIEN that 'ALSO acts as a SEQUEL'
I'd pretty much rather see anything else than a ship investigating LV223 and taking off with a redesigned alien on board, and that is the easiest route to take. So, here's hoping anyone comes up with, or comes back to write something different.
Hmm. I hadn't thought of that, though I'm not sure it's that valid of a fear. If Ridley Scott is still in the works and if he does have some vision that supposedly spans more than one movie, we really shouldn't need to worry about this as an outcome.
Of course money is money and reboots are the damned rage right now...but I won't lose sleep over this.
I def agree that this reboot thing will most likely NOT be the case so long as Ridley Scott in on board, but as the original thread reported:
"Devin Faraci confirms Fox have been talking to many screenwriters in his report:
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I can't verify everything in BD's report, but I can tell you I know that Fox has been taking many, many meetings with screenwriters, and that screenwriters have been pretty much bringing in their own pitches, not working within an established frame. I actually don't think this is a bad thing, and the Exquisite Corpse nature of the sequel could give the new writers a chance to make serious course corrections. But that's on the creative end - on the studio end the up-in-the-air nature of the sequel really opens the door for tons of terrible ideas, executive tinkering and Ridley Scott dithering. Maybe Prometheus 2 will die on the vine. More likely, Prometheus 2 will end up being really rushed and half-assed."
It seems like FOX is not entirely sold or keen to move forward with the ideas Scott developed exclusively. And if that makes Scott's interest 'dither' then it would be very very easy for FOX to just say, "Do what worked before. Fans want an ALIEN film."
So when I hear they are taking all kinds of pitches and aren't set on anything... I think Scott's leaving the project is a very real possibility. Especially if the studio finds a pitch they like that he isn't so much on board with.
Im not trying to be pessimistic, I'm just trying to be realistic and sort of maybe warn people against all the complaints. You have to ask yourself what the reaction will be. THERE ABSOLUTELY WILL BE ANOTHER ALIEN FILM. Whether it is PROMETHEUS 2 or an ALIEN reboot... So the question becomes, well, "What would you rather see?" because right now it is far more rare and exciting that a new expansive story is being considered, when the easiest and most popular thing to do is just to reboot ALIEN. What's more is, I would argue that the people at FOX were keenly aware that PROMETHEUS provided this set-up. It is almost remarkably easy to just say the PROMETHEUS mission caused the merger b/w Weyland and Yutani and basically tell the same story as ALIEN only with a rescue party on LV223, 2 years later or whatever. Then package it as a PREQUEL/REBOOT hybrid.
This is the ACE IN THE HOLE for FOX. We should do anything we can not to encourage them by complaining too much, IMO.