Quote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Dec 11, 2011, 04:44:04 AM
The Xenos aren't scary, the formula is tired and worn out.
I'd disagree with that. It depends how it's executed.
They haven't been portrayed with a genuinely menacing presence/atmosphere since 1986, in my view. There's a reason why people keep rewatching the first two films and can still be entertained by them and that they're familiar with what the creatures look like and do doesn't detract from that.
Quote from: nendo on Dec 11, 2011, 11:30:03 AM
I don't think its strange at all. Think about it from Foxs and Ridleys point of view. If they attach it as a prequel to alien there wouldn't be any other place to lead it other than towards the first alien film. I'm thinking both Ridley and Fox would like to have this branch out of the "alien" universe and make a brand new story arc arc wihtout people expecting it to lead directly into the story of alien. It would somewhat limit them into how experimental they could be.
Why? None of that in any way negates it being a prequel.
You can have a film set before '
Jurassic Park' revolving around the race to get all the genetic codes necessary for the park to function. It could be some sort of Tom Clancy-esque techno-thriller, based around corporate espionage, completely different in tone from any of the others made before it.
But just because it wouldn't have the actual dinosaurs in it wouldn't mean it somehow isn't a prequel.
The
only way this isn't a prequel is if they've decided, instead of setting it before '
Alien' to set it either between or after the existing sequels. That way, it's not technically a sequel to the first.
But considering we already know they're using 'Weyland' labels and the director said that's because it's set before the company later becomes Weyland-Yutani, that's not very likely.
QuoteAlso the "alien" franchise has become so tired and old and I think both know that. So why associate it with something that's people are just gonna think "oh that franchise again" which people will think, there's more than us lot on these boards to think about. We are a minority.
You mean like the James Bond films? Because, damn, yeah... No way yet another one of those is ever going to get any interest from the public!
Oh, wait...