Quote from: Kurai on Jan 31, 2017, 01:20:44 PMQuote from: LCpl. D. Grant on Jan 31, 2017, 08:01:02 AMQuote from: Kurai on Jan 31, 2017, 12:15:09 AM
What? That would be wholly unnecessary. Just bring back the slow, foreboding, ominous sense of dread from Alien. Suspense is key.
I agree whole-heartedly, but history is cruel to sci-fi with wholly inhuman appearences. Look at the Stargate series after the first movie, look at Falling Skys... Heck, look at the Starship Troopers sequels. They'll find a way to replace the Aliens with actors and they'll feature a lot to get the money's worth out of the actors. It would take someone really dedicated to helm the project and chances are they'd be given the sack by executives for going against stupid decisions.
Quote from: Russ on Jan 31, 2017, 09:40:37 AM
I thought a Wey-Yu Files thing would work. Where two company agents start to uncover stuff and get more and more involved. You could have all sorts of fun with that, I reckon, and you could expand the universe beyond Xenos and Predators (so you could also have your cheaper body snatcher guys as well)
Quote from: LCpl. D. Grant on Jan 31, 2017, 08:01:02 AMQuote from: Kurai on Jan 31, 2017, 12:15:09 AM
What? That would be wholly unnecessary. Just bring back the slow, foreboding, ominous sense of dread from Alien. Suspense is key.
Quote from: Russ on Jan 31, 2017, 09:40:37 AM
I thought a Wey-Yu Files thing would work. Where two company agents start to uncover stuff and get more and more involved. You could have all sorts of fun with that, I reckon, and you could expand the universe beyond Xenos and Predators (so you could also have your cheaper body snatcher guys as well)
Quote from: Kurai on Jan 31, 2017, 12:15:09 AM
A TV show based on Aliens would have to be high budget to work, even then it could still come off unintentionally cheesy. That... And we all know some studio exec will just go "Well... Having Aliens on screen costs a lot... How about we make them telepathically posess humans instead, or shapeshift into people and only revert back on season finales?" It always goes that way...
Quote from: Necronomicon II on Jan 31, 2017, 05:05:56 AMNow, where's that Goddammed 'LIKE!' Button?Quote from: SiL on Jan 30, 2017, 02:40:30 AM
Is there a petition to stop the project?
Quote from: SiL on Jan 30, 2017, 02:40:30 AM
Is there a petition to stop the project?
Quote from: Kurai on Jan 31, 2017, 12:15:09 AMSign me up.
... we all know some studio exec will just go "Well... Having Aliens on screen costs a lot... How about we make them telepathically posess humans instead, or shapeshift into people and only revert back on season finales?"
Quote from: LCpl. D. Grant on Jan 30, 2017, 01:06:22 PM
I think a TV Series based around Hicks and Newt and loosely around the Aliens novels by Steve and S.D. Perry would be ideal. I'm sure that, even if this project fell through, Biehn and Sigourney would be all about doing one in the future - of course, due to her age, Ripley would only play a cameo role in the series. But, a Series with Hicks and Newt as the male and female leads respectively with a dark/horror bent to it that preserved the mystery and Lovecraftian beastliness of the Alien would be most ideal.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jan 30, 2017, 11:41:59 AM
Originally he was going to do Covenant first and then they'd work on Alien 3.2. Ridley wanted to take a more hands-on role with executive producing roles on 3.2 and he couldn't do that while working on Covenant and Blade Runner at the same time. I still think there was also a concern about market saturation and seeing how well Covvie performed too.
I think the delay has just meant that timing is now going to get in the way. Blomkamp obviously wasn't going to just sit around and wait and is now working on a new project and Weaver has her Avatar commitments.