20th Century Fox & Tongal Announce Alien Short Film Contest!

[Delta Echo Alpha Delta]

The directors and cast are getting together this weekend to watch a director's cut of Alien: Alone. I was invited, but obviously I can't go. Dammit, sometimes being in Oz sucks.

[Prez]

@muthur9000 Logistics ... 

I love this country but yer we're literally as far as away from everyone else as possible ...

[Corporal Hicks]

We were also invited but unfortunately RidgeTop refuses to move to LA and I canne afford it. 

[HuDaFuK]

Shit like that is why you never made Sergeant.

Hope this gets a wider release at some point! Can't imagine there'd be much issue putting it up on the official Alien website.

[Corporal Hicks]

I managed to catch a glimpse of the Alone extended cut and thoroughly enjoyed it. 

[HuDaFuK]

Tease

[[cancerblack]]

I managed to catch a glimpse of the Alone extended cut and thoroughly enjoyed it. 

Any notes on what it adds? Or is it just longer and moodier?

[TC]

It would be interesting to know who owns this extended cut. Presumably Fox.

I'm guessing that the contracted filmmakers signed agreements stipulating that Fox would own the characters, the music, the designs (e.g. costumes, spacecraft), maybe even early script drafts, along with the final story (so it could be further exploited in other films and media). Possibly all the out-takes and deleted scenes had to be handed over as part of the completion package of deliverables, too. I think this is what you would expect in a commissioned work of this type, i.e. a complete buyout of all the filmmakers' creative endeavours, but it would be interesting to know for sure.

So Fox knows about this extended cut and gave it their blessing?

TC

[SiL]

It was said in the entry conditions that Fox owns all of the material produced, much like any film they make. It also said they had final say over the edit.

[The Old One]

And so, I wonder the content the extended version entailed.

[TC]

It was said in the entry conditions that Fox owns all of the material produced, much like any film they make. It also said they had final say over the edit.

Yes. What I'm getting around to is this: how "official" is this cut? Is it for private viewing only, not intended for the public? If Fox release an official compilation of all 6 films, will Noah expect that his extended version be included instead of his 12:24 original? If so, maybe all the other teams would like the opportunity to recut their films too.

One of the first things I noted was that all the films overshot their 9 min. max running time, some by a little, some by a lot. So it's obvious everyone had difficulty making a sub-9 minute story. If Fox/Tongal do this again (maybe Aliens 35th anniversary, 2021?    ) I hope they extend the running time to more like 15 to 20 minutes. (Along with a commensurate boost in budget.)

Of course all the producer/director/editor teams ignored the running time stipulation anyway, but even so they would have all felt pressure to keep whittling their edits further and further back, possibly even beyond what they felt was good for the storytelling.

I think only Specimen was a good fit for its 10:24 running time, for what its story had to say. To me, the others felt like they suffered a bit from having chunks of story missing.

TC

[The Old One]

Try contacting the Director.

[Corporal Hicks]

My impression is it's not official, nor is it going to get released to the public for a good while. It was pretty much just for that event. I'll rewatch them both again when I get chance and I'll post up the differences.

[The Old One]

Looking forward to it.