I never liked the idea of Amanda Ripley being the protagonist, but looking back on the concept (with the arrival of the new game images) could the story work?
I don't know if I'm stating the obvious here, but perhaps Amanda encountering the alien isn't such a stupid coincidence after all - I think it's pretty likely an older Amanda would want to find her mother, which would lead her to infiltrate Weyland-Yutani and maybe even follow the Nostromo's footprints and track down the derelict's signal (the lava flow wouldn't have wrecked that yet). There's a lot of story potential for finding out more about order 937 or Ash (whether or not you'd want to, on the other hand...) I, for one am intrigued by this possibility, presuming they have the same premise idea I do.
Please don't suck.