Well, the word “sigh” comes to mind. Following on with Predators, Fox are going even further by remaking Alien according to Bloody Disgusting. What a lovely 30th anniversary gift. Thanks guys:
“Michael Costigan, Ridley Scott and even Tony Scott are all on board to produce and have tapped Carl Rinsch to get beyond the camera and bring a new Ripley to the big screen. Who is Carl Rinsch? I’m being told he’s a commercial/music video director and does work for Scott Free Productions, who is also producing the remake.”
I suppose that Ridley being on board is a good thing but…damn. I do not want this. You can read more details over at Bloody Disgusting. Thanks to Zwecky for the news.
EDIT: They updated their article with: We just heard from a separate reliable source that Fox is possibly working on an origins story, as opposed to a straight-up remake. Still…
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A Legends Death! :'(
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aliens and Predator and AvP were epic in the 90's
Omg please god no it's over thats it :'( there goes my childhood memories
Can't say I'm surprised this has happened, an origin story would be interesting but i still think the alien film franchise is best left alone.
For f**k SAKE! Someone needs to slap the CEO of Fox. This is going to be awful, none of us should see it...not a single person. If it makes f**k all at the box office then maybe Fox might start to realise that they need original stories. And shame on you Ridley for going along with this!
For some reason a reboot of Predator makes sense to me. Not an Alien reboot. There is no reason for that. If Alien was released now it would still be a box office hit. I am very surprised that Ridley Scott wants to do this. God help us if Tony Scott has anything to do with a remake. You know what, I love Fox but if they make a reboot of Alien I will not watch another Fox movie or show, and I am a huge fan of Fringe. Please leave well enough alone. Please.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :'(
To be honest if Ridley Scott is on board it might be alright. He knows what he wants and how he wants it. Blade Runner and Alien are probably the best sci-fi films ever.
Those films might be some of the better Sci-Fi films, that does NOT mean that we should update them with random hot tween idols and crappy effects. Speaking of which, I am willing to bet that if Alien is remade or rebooted or reraped, whatever you want to call it, the Alien will look better in the original movie than whatever is put out in the new one.
No, No no no ... HELL Nooo... No Remake!!! Even a Sequel is very difficult, but a Remake?! No, its even harder ... and shouldnt be even an option.
It better be an origin story because I will not see a remake.
A Remake does mean a new Ripley is needed. I be afraid they let Angelina Jolie do the Job. I think Michelle Rodriguez would be a better choice. ;D
I'm not surprised and I can't say I'm disappointed. If we don't like it it won't be the end of the world. The original movies will still be there.
Well if Scott is in that has to be a good sign.People's negativity is out of proportion these days. Besides are you REALLY surprised because of this? :P
Not really surprised, just disappointed. :-\
NO, I repeat, NO REMAKE. There is absoloutely no point in remaking this... "Alien" is a classic, easily available on DVD and soon on blu-ray... why would you want to remake it when the original is held in such high regard?! I'm all for a prequel/origins story not certainly NOT a remake with some other girl playing Ripley. It's beyond stupid.
In light of that update I feel....somewhat less dirty. With an announcement of an Alien remake, I wanted to rip out the spine of the head of Fox and use the skull as a trophy. As for the origin story...there is potential there however the novels and comics have expanded on the Space Jockey which I think is whats referred to in the origins. On the other hand if they decide to do the origins of the xenomorph and go to the home planet, go fourth and reek havoc!! But screw it up and I will burn Fox's studios
A remake no... But every story that has a backstory deserves an origin story. It can't be kept secret forever.
Strange, 20th Centry Fox sed that we did'nt wont to do a remake of the Original ! :(
If they remake this I will make it my personal mission to take down Hollywood, end the remakes!
@ Rob That was until they thought about the insane amount of money they'd get from it.
:'(
With ridley and tony scott on board, it could be very good. Iets see what they come up with over the comming months, im really looking forward to predators. Not much news on whats happening with that though.
Poop.
An orgin story on the space jockey would be cool, but a remake HELL NO!
All I have to say is....NOPE.
Please no more Music/Tv Commercial Directors, most of them have no idea about good acting, plot, building tension, suspence and telling a great story. :o
How long can you keep the aliens series untouched? Come on Im dieing to see new alien movies. Im all for this and very excited that there is a new predator movie and now an alien movie. As long as ADI doesn't touch these movies I dont care what director does these movies. Just sick of the characters looking so embarrassing for this generation.
two words: NO REMAKE! Is that simple enough to understand or should fans find a Fox CEO to beat it into?
NO REMAKE!!! DAMN YOU TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX!!! DAMN YOU!!!
Sounds to me like the judgment day in T3: "That was simply inevitable"
If Ridley Scott is involved i doubt this will be a remake. This is a guy who thought the theatrical release was his perfect vision and refused a "directors cut" treatment re release. He's gone on record along with Sigourney Weaver stating a film focusing on the xenomorph origins or the space jockeys would be something he would pursue. The glass is half full....the glass is half full...
will you make up your f**king minds (yes im talking to you people on this site) do you want and movie explaining the homeworld or planet or not??? This is what we're waiting for not some stupid Predator reboot. jesus even Ridley Scott is on there.....you guys dont know what you want. ::)
Wow.....just when I think FOX cant shuv their heads any further up their ass, they come and prove me wrong.
Hey rycher, get some respect ok? People has right to be disapointed. If you're Ok with Fox way, you can say it. But get some respect for people and for predator fans either!
I agree wth rycher apart from predator reboot, i cant wait for predtors. Another aliein movie YES BRING IT ON! were being spoilt with avp game the colonial marines, predators now an alien movie with ridley and tony scott involved COME ON thats what i say. Weve got to have some faith with fox, remember they did bring us the classic predator 1 and aliens. And yes i know they screwed up with the avp movies to a point. Have faith boys and girls.
8) at last! a A L I E N remake in the works! now all i have to do is whether wait for ALL Alien movies and this one to be all one cool complete box set. but i rather get the A-P TOTAL DESTRUCTION and get only this one when it comes out. I'm surprised that Ridley is on the job for this remake. Finally, he get to work on it now. i knew this will happen. its time i tell my friends. well some of them. GO, A L I E N.
Whether Ridley Scott is involved with this film or not, Fox are going to do it, so I say, good on Ridley Scott for watching over his own. If I made such a great film, I'd definitely want to keep a close eye on any sort of remake. No matter how bad this film is (it WILL be bad), I would guarantee it would be a hundred times worse if Ridley Scott had no involvement. I would be getting more excited if they got Giger involved.
BASTARDS!
Oh dear, I just read the bit about the "origin story". They can't do that, they just can't do that, they mustn't do that. If they explain away the last ever mystery of the Alien franchise, there'll be absolutely nothing left to work with, it will genuinely destroy the mystery of the first Alien film, and I don't think anybody would be able to watch Alien in the same way again. This is not a move for fans. This is not a move to make a good film. This is a move to make money, they're not planning on making a good film, they're planning on wrecking a franchise. If they even show, for a brief second, even a moment, what the Pilot from Alien looks like in the flesh, or even try to explain where the Alien comes from, I will have completely lost faith in the film industry, because nobody, not even Scott, not even Cameron, nobody can pull that off and make it good. The fact that you don't know MAKES it good. A sequel, maybe, a side-plot, a different film in the same universe, sure, maybe, a prequel, in the same universe, sure, maybe, but don't mess with the mystery, good God.
@ Neon_Knight: I think we need to wait for more info to start crying that theres no hope for this. Im more than cautiously optimistic I know but this type of post is totally unfounded really.
I wish people would stop moaning about a remake,it wont be a remake for f**k sake,do really think Ridley would attach himself to a remake of his own work ?(which is perfect already). If its true and Ridley is involved im officailly interested,as for the Director? Fincher anyone?Like it or not,we're getting an origins story..........bring it i say
We'll live and see what is gonna come out of this. :-\
I know you're probably right, but I was cautiously optimistic about AvP-R and most remakes/sequels/prequels that are coming out these days. I've learned my lesson, they've all been awful, they've all bitterly destroyed something. The only one so far that's been good was Star Trek. I'd like to be cautiously optimistic, I'd LOVE to be cautiously optimistic - hell, I can see ways that a re-make could actually be really good. (Can't say the same for an origin story) But it won't happen that way, it really won't. Even if the film is awful, if it gets 0/100 on RT, it'll make a profit. And that's all that really matters.
Remaking ALIEN is the last straw in this hollywood world of endless damn remakes. Remaking THE THING again is already bad news, but touching the holy grail of ALIEN is just sheer stupid greed. Hollywood remakes movies because they think American audiences are all teens, willing to shell out endless dollars to see their crap. It is our fault for spending so much money watching these damn remakes and sequels. Stop spending more money on watching remakes and sequels and maybe they would think better than to destroy the ALIEN sacred position in movie history.
@ eyes of the demon An origins story would be awful though. Really, it would be awful. Beyond awful. Who really wants to see what the "Space Jokey" (what a stupid name) really looks like? I certainly don't, it would look ridiculous, it would be hilarious, that's not frightening at all. Have you seen the comics, the artist's impressions of the Pilot in the flesh? They look hilarious. You can't make a horror film with that in it, you just can't. Keep it as a skeleton, for goodness' sake. It'd have to be an origins story that retains the mystery of the Pilot, and retains the mystery of the aliens as a whole - which would make it an utterly pointless, boring film. There is no way an origins story could be good, no way in hell. I stand by that. And I will stand by that with a smirk when everyone here runs crying from the cinema after an abomination of a film comes out.
neon knight: very good point. damn Ridley Scott for allowing this. i mean the guy also seems to getting worse as a filmmaker. his best days were over a long time ago, and BLACK HAWK DOWN and GLADIATOR were so so. BTW, wasn't ALIEN 5 supposedly centered on some trip to the home planet of these aliens? do they mean orgins of the space jockey or the aliens..? either way, it sounds very very precarious, when it will in all likelihood fail and the ALIEN name will forever be tarnished. ALIEN 4 already did a lot of damage. do we need more damage from music video directors??? come on, people. we must do something and protest to Fox.
@ orange_hates_remakes The only point I disagree with you, it's regarding Gladiator. But you damn right! Stop spending money on watching sequel and prequel. I've already banished super-hero movies and other remake, those are simply insulting people! But Pred and Alien... I have to admit, I would be so happy. Damn Fox!
I also read that there's a possibility of a story focused on Ripley 8 that has no xenos in it... I agree with the comedy space jockey thought N_K and to a certain extent your origin story point of view too. I guess what i would like to see most would be a reboot in the line of setting up a new story arch with new characters and keeping with canon or the expanded universe set up by the DH comics.
A reboot is a ridiculous notion. And an origin story would just ruin the mystery behind the Pilot and the Alien. Better we just get another Alien movie set in the timeframe of the first three. Something gritty and dark, without clones, bullets bouncing off walls and ugly pasty white alien/human hybrids. How hard can it be to make another Alien film without resorting to prequels and reboots?
The only thing I could actually support is, as Peteysodes said, a new story arc, brand new characters, keeping with canon of the original Alien films. Stop flogging the current story arc horse, it's been dead a long time. Something completely isolated, Alien eggs discovered in a completely different location unconnected to LV-426 (obviously still in space though), but they ultimately result in the same thing - Alien starts om nom nomming on humans, a struggle between those who want to keep it alive for study and those who want to kill it - and somehow keep it fresh and surprising. I'm sure there are 100 ways that an Alien can kill a human that we've not yet seen before. I think it's possible, but we'll never see it, because it's phenomenally difficult to do that without making it feel old and predictable.
@ "Me" - "if it has an alien in it, it's going to be good" Did you actually watch AvP-R? If you thought that was good, you have absolutely no respect for the Alien franchise, or good films at all for that matter. That hospital scene, with the tongue, really? Honestly? :-\ And at "you're still going to see it so what's the difference" - the difference is, whether I go to see a good film, or a bad film. And in all likelihood I'm going to look at some reviews and see whether I actually pay to see it or if I decide Fox don't deserve my money, and I spitefully pirate it instead.
RYCHER WHAT MOST PEOPLE WANT IS A PROPER SEQUEL TO ALIENS NOT A SMEGGING REMAKE OR BLOODY PREQUAL THE CEO AT FOX IS AN ASSHOLE LOOK WHAT THEY DID TO AVP MOVIES .I BET U THAT THE BUDGET WILL BE DONE ON THE CHEAP.JAMES CAMERON HELP US AND DO YOUR MOVIE AND WHO THE HELL CAN REPLACE SIGOURNEY ANSWER NOBODY CAN I 4 1 WILL NOT GO NEAR THE CINEMA 2 WATCH A PILE OF CRAP 1 ANGRY ALIEN FAN >:(
"thats the way the Predalien breeds, its diffrent yes. but they cant do the same shit or they get riddiculed, they do something diffrent they get riddiculed." No, see, I'm not ridiculing them because they're doing something different, I'm ridiculing because what they came up with was just pathetic, completely and utterly vile. It wasn't frightening, it was hilarious, it was so cheap, it was so pathetic the way they tried to portray it as frightening, instead it was just hilariously awful. It was bad, it was really bad. It looked so cheap and tacky, it was just so frigging bad. It was so bad, that my mind actually blocked that scene from my head until I was reminded of it. The whole concept is so goddamn awful. And I'm saying the concept for this new alien film "origin story" is flawed, because it can *not* be done well, it simply can't, no matter who does it, or in what way. There is no plausible way that it can be done well, because the very idea destroys what made the franchise good in the first place. Any other alien film, a sequel, hell, I'll even take a remake over an "origin story".
I don't even know what to say to this. :'( I just don't get it? ??? This is really a big kick into the grind. Sigh. :'(
"Origin story?" There is no origin story. F*ck you Fox.
I would be OK with a prequel, just not a remake. :-\
Bullshit
The Alien franchise is F--KED!
be interesting to see how they deal with the space jockey or jockeys if thats going to be one of the main patrts of the film. cant see it being very good, but atleast ridley scott is on it, so u never know... see wa they come up with ;)
Oh this is rich...I can already see it..now all Fox needs to do is hire Christian Bale as their main character maybe throw in jennifer anniston as a colonial marine and then throw samuel L. Jackson in the meat grinder!!!
U boys at avp galaxy are going to busy bringing us fans plenty of gossip. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK BOYS.
Hollywood saw the success of the Batman reboot series, and now want to cash in. Fox is notorious for recently putting nothing but garbage movies out. The fact that Scott is involved is the only hope we may have to a credible Alien film being made. If its a reboot I hate that idea. If its an origins story...well that is a little better.
A new Ripley?... Yeeeeeah, don't think so. Don't need to see some "hot" teen encounter Aliens years before she encounters one... for the first time... What kinda memory erasing BS they gonna try there? And a music video director taking on ALIEN?... Why don't you just kill us all now and get it over with, Fox?! Who's gonna be the new Ripley? Britney Spears?? f**k.
Alien remake? NO >:( Alien prequel/origin? YES :)
BRITNEY SPEARS AS RIPLEY HEY WOT A COOL IDEA MAYBE SHE CAN SING TO THE ALIEN AND BORE THE THING 2 DEATH BEFORE SOMEONE TWATS HER ONE OOPS SORRY I HAVE WOKEN UP AND REGAINED MY SENSES. TALK ABOUT JUMPING ON THE REMAKE BANDWAGON AS ONE GEORDIE 2 ANOTHER DON'T DO IT RIDLEY IT'S A STUPID IDEA FOR CHRIST SAKE LISTEN TO THE FANS AND NOT THE SUITS >:( >:( >:(
The end is nigh
I for one would love an origins story. i hate mysterys. I want to know everything about aliens, including how they were form, not some stupid comic book interpretation...
Wow. I don't know if I'm dissapointed, or exited. I'll just wait for more news. :-\
Correct me if I'm wrong but hasn't the origin of the xenomorph been explored in the comics and graphic novels? It involved Ripley and a ragtag bunch of marines and dreamers and they went to the Aliens' planet in search of the Queen of Queens and had a really awesome story. If that is what Fox is talking about, they'd better get a visionary to lens it and not some half-assed commercial/music video wanker director.
as long as ridley is on board then i have faith it will be good.
Does Fox will annuanciate that the next step on the production is a Sigourney Weaver cameo? I hope she'll take her close entirely off this time! ...Or maybe she'll portrayed a sexy-old-xenomorphe coooollllll
Change the character names. It can still be a continuation of the series, with a similar story, without being a remake.
If they're going to remake this, they better change the hell out of it and not involve the same characters. Remakes like The Omen, Psycho, and Amityville Horror are pointless and insulting. If they give us another Nostromo, another Ripley, another first encounter with the same crew, basically the same script but with added modern flare, it's like saying they can do better than Ridley did it the first time. I'm hoping the new Alien and Predator are very different from the old series, so they can be set apart.
This is a bad idea man, game over man!!! :'(
@ Neon_Knight: we have much to discuss my friend lol ;D
Great, an "attention deficit dissorder friendly" Alien movie. All we need.
Its happend to the texas chainsaw massiquer, halloween,friday the 13th, and now its happening to us, I say we just suck it up and hope for the best cus theres not much we can do about it.
In the the second Alien movie "Aliens"... I like to Imagine that the crashed Alien ship near the start was a Predator ship with a Predator pilot. The Predators planned on using the colony for their ritual, but they died in the crash. And the Aliens were left to roam free. Theres so much that can be done with Alien and Predator. Just need the right guy to come up with something. Bring back James Cameron!!!
i dunno. don't like how it sounds but at least Ridley's involved.
I've paid attention to this series far more so than any healthy human should and I can't help but feel a little disgusted at Hollywoods general lack of creativity nowadays, and a vague excitement........ sigh.
Do we all agree that if Alien gets the reboot/remake treatment we will all boycott it?
just add colonial marines fux i mean fox.
I hope the world ends in 2012 so this doesnt get made.
...god damn it...
I must be honest.....this is pathetic.....not the news (Granted, the news is still pathetic) No, i mean the reaction to the news. People, its just a movie, just pretend it doesnt exist.....Thought i cant blame you for feeling this way, its not that big of a deal.
@ Its Game Time pretend its not there? I had to do that with that shitty reunion of Indiana Jones 4! I cant stand shitty reunion, reboots and remakes anymore! Let the Alien franchise what it is!
Hey guys let's do this why don't we send to FOX a lot of suggestions since they are goint to f**k up this franchise too...maybe they can keep it in mind like. An alien musical ..broadway style with exploding chestbusters singing and predators dancing, :o why not an alien soap opera ..NO WAIT even better Alien vs ugly betty.. cool. Why not I mean they are going to f**k this up anyway.
What. The. f**k?! I'm all aboard for n origin story, but HELL NO f**kING REMAKE! This is a dark day, my friends, they're about to kill the Alien...
nooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! >:( >:( >:( >:(
I rather liked indiana jones 4!
Im all up for a prequel to alien, providing the story is epic. If Ripley & Cameron were behind this project, then it could be something great, i agree with some comments about ruining the mystery of 'the pilot' (space jockey) but I think providing its done well, the whole thing, story, script, cast, director etc then it could be fantastic!
meant to say Ridley not ripley lol
well this is just bloody disgusting!
haha im suprise how ppl exaggerate these days if you dont like then dont watch it, commit suicide, become homosexual or whatever you want but the world isnt gonna end. The originals will still be there. Suckers >:D
No predator without arnold, no terminator with out arnold, no alien without ripley.
well, Neon, Ridley and his bro' IS involved with the new remake prequel "Alien". they're working together. whose not? not US? Your call now.Even though i read the storyline on aliens novel. its really the opening, and can't really say to anyone whats the storyline. well, almost not everyone.
hell no alien films are lelegend remake will be shit im not cing it