Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 28, 2010, 05:03:38 PM
Quite positive he only said he was thinking of re-designing the early stages. Whatever that meant.
"The alien in a sense, as a shape, is worn out."
He's said for several years that if he ever did another film, he'd want to completely redesign all of it.
Personally, I don't have any issue with something even nastier being found in the chamber. Back when I was messing around with coming up with a partial prequel to '
Aliens', about the story of Hadley's Hope before those tragic events (this was in the nineties), we decided to imply that the part with the eggs in it was just
one part of the chamber, because we liked how the original scene implied the place could have gone on for miles as it rounded the corner.
So, for me, that works. There's no reason why the Alien should have been the only thing in there. In one of the film novelisations there's actually a character who raises the idea that the Alien could be like the mice of their original world, which I always thought would be a very thought-provoking ideal if raised in an actual future film.
The problem is that, as shown by the 'Newborn' and 'Predalien', if what the story tries to imply as being more vicious and disturbing than the original design, turns out to be crappier, it's a huge anti-climax! Because the film
is a part of an established series, the viewer
would feel disappointed and begin comparing it with the originals and it woudl generate lots of negative publicity.
So, yeah, it could work. The thing is, it would be a gamble.
Quote from: Federick Gonsa on Apr 30, 2010, 01:57:52 AM
Like Scott said, he has to out do Cameron's aliens.
He really doesn't. Especially by this point, where people would be grateful for it to even be at the same level as the first or second film.
Quote from: Blacklabel on May 02, 2010, 05:02:45 AM
Really hope the alien redesign is similar to the unused ones Giger had done for Alien3... those were badass 
I personally disliked them. He did much better stuff for '
Species'. The panther-like creature with blades between its fingers, really didn't work for me.
Quote from: Politikon on May 03, 2010, 11:29:59 PM
Any professional level writer would know this doesn't work. I have worked in the writing dept on Feature Films and TV AT THE GROUND LEVEL and the idea that someone who is a published author wouldn't know they wont even open a transcript is absurd. Aspiring or Professional. Unless he was aspiring as in dreaming and 13 years old.
As a writer, myself, this is
not absurd. Professionals
do not open them, sopecifically because of legal difficulties, unless the stuff's requested.
If you're lucky, you'll get it returned with a small nick in the envelope where the secretary or whoever has looked inside to make sure it is what it is. Otherwise, it'll get discarded.
An examples of why this happens to be, is that, in the nineties, someone was going around and boasting he was going to send Cameron his script for '
Terminator 3', knowing fully well that it wouldn't be made, but with the logic that, by the time Cameron did make one (when people all thought that it was inevitable), he could sue the guy and claim various elements were all in his script. The moment a company opens and looks at a script, they're wide open for
any legal challenge along those lines in the future.
Even if they somehow win the case, they're still going to need to pay lawyers money and it'll take up time. It's never worth it.
That's why you always write a cover letter, first, asking if they're interested at looking at your stuff and what amounts to a miniature contract which basically allows them out of any such legal tangles. If - and only if - they say yes and you've both signed that sort of documentation, will they look at it.
In the above case, I think it's fair to say it just got binned.
That's the trouble with companies who publish artistic material from writers. Most submissions they get don't follow the right procedure! About 90% of what they get, if that, is just chucked away. They could have a masterpiece, but they won't open it.
And, seeing as the company weren't making such a film, even if such a letter had first been sent their way, they'd have just said something to that effect in a reply. At most, possibly said, hey, we're not doing this, but you happen to have caught us at a time when we're accepting stuff from outside writers - send us some original material.
