Quote from: Oasis Nadrama on Oct 02, 2024, 09:19:01 AMThe word "Alien" is an adjective evoking the strange and the unknown. You empty the title more of its sense by obstinately featuring the exact same creature and biological processes over and over again than by looking for different kinds of entities and body horror.
Furthermore, it is not inimaginable to do a movie in the Alien universe without the Alien title. And in fact, that may be preferrable.
Numerotation of distinct movies leads towards serial production. Independent title leads towards new stories.
That's exactly what Scott had planned and implemented with Prometheus.
(or had Lindelhof persuaded him, I'm not sure)
he thought the xenomorph had been shown enough times and then went the other way.
a film that belongs to the alien universe but has a different focus.
The original plan was to make at least 3 films with the last one building a bridge to Alien1 at the end.
I think I would have liked that even better. As the very last scene, the space jockeys' ship crashing on LV-426.
Despite the many negative reviews, Prometheus was already quite successful.
Actually, nothing stood in the way of Scott's plan. except many fans and fox.
I once heard somewhere that Scott in Covenant might have used David as a metaphor for himself.
"I'm not allowed to expand the engineers any further? OK, then they have to be buried."
Doesn't a tear fall down David's face when he does that?
hmmmm...
sorry for deviating from the actual topic