Alien 5 won't be titled Alien 5, won't tread on Prometheus 2

[HuDaFuK]

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯]

With SM AWOL could Nightmare be persuaded to take on the role of AvPG Canonizer™?

[RakaiThwei]

Found some conflicting reports which covers this.. Ropes of Silicon's report seems to suggest the movie is ignoring Alien 3 and Resurrection and even include's Blomkamp's statement on where the film fits, but CinemaBlend's report suggest that it's not ignoring Alien 3 and doesn't even include Blomkamp's statement. Curious why CinemaBlend would omit that... Anyway, see for yourselves.

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/blomkamps-alien-5-had-to-be-changed-to-satisfy-prometheus-2/
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Why-Alien-5-Had-Make-One-Change-Its-Story-70438.html

It makes me wonder if some of these would be journalist are in the know of detail as much as we are. I mean CinemaBlend's article links to only their own articles, and one article which the one I've linked to, links to another that Ripley and Hicks might be clones.. but from what I remember, Blomkamp says he's not using any clones for his movie.

[oduodu]

When it comes down to it the big problem is that this AMAZINGNESS
http://i.stack.imgur.com/5AGwh.jpg

Became THIS dogshit
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/StBMEpWreGk/hqdefault.jpg

Not to mention how unbelievably generic and unoriginal the Engineer design became
http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/game-hunters/2009/10/21/seth-sfivx-large.jpg

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080724142111/watchmen/images/7/7c/Doctor_Manhattan_(movie).jpg

Lol, this is just too dumb, I need to take a break from this discount forum.

Agreed. If people see the Engineers like that - ie nothing much like the Engineers at all, then they're missing the point.

The one definite plus this film has, is Scott as producer. But I'm expecting more from Prom 2 than Alien: whatever.

Well said.

[acrediblesource]

There's a shitload missing as a fan that I would want to see".

EXPLAIN!!!!
Because as far as Alien 3 goes we as people of this space time continuum understood as that being the sequel to Aliens. So...whatever that was missing certain is new to us..

[T Dog]

When it comes down to it the big problem is that this AMAZINGNESS
http://i.stack.imgur.com/5AGwh.jpg

Became THIS dogshit
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/StBMEpWreGk/hqdefault.jpg

Not to mention how unbelievably generic and unoriginal the Engineer design became
http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/game-hunters/2009/10/21/seth-sfivx-large.jpg

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080724142111/watchmen/images/7/7c/Doctor_Manhattan_(movie).jpg

Lol, this is just too dumb, I need to take a break from this discount forum.

Agreed. If people see the Engineers like that - ie nothing much like the Engineers at all, then they're missing the point.

The one definite plus this film has, is Scott as producer. But I'm expecting more from Prom 2 than Alien: whatever.

Well said.

Have your own smug opinions if you want but encouraging mediocre designs and the de-Gigerisation of this series will be detrimental to it!

[Son Of Kane]

Thing is though it isn't mediocre, it's even Giger-esqué just in a different manner than his biomechanics.

Look at some of his human figures, although as stated it's more William Blake than Giger- also Prometheus has Giger in it- just not in certain places.

[OmegaZilla]

They actively wanted to stray from Giger's style.

[T Dog]

They actively wanted to stray from Giger's style.

Ridley Scott wanted to stray from Giger and change the original Jockey design - EVERYBODY else said it was a bad idea - they even say so in the making of documentary.

I just think - if it's not broken then don't make something that has about a tenth of the imagination of the original. Don't just change something for the sake of change (which is what Scott did). He has an AWFUL track record these days and shouldn't be f**king with his past magic!

[Son Of Kane]

They actively wanted to stray from Giger's style.

They meaning who- Ridley- yes, the artists didn't. Thus we've got a strange mesh of both.

[Born Of Cold Light]

While I liked the Engineers and the general direction Prometheus went, I have to agree that moving so far away from Giger's vision was a mistake.  Carlos Huante had some amazing designs and we didn't get to see any of them.

[T Dog]

Here is a video that Carlos Huante made of his unused Prometheus designs. Some awesomeness in there.
https://vimeo.com/55398895

And it's also a shame that it looks like Ridley Scott won't be allowing Blomkamp to touch the derelict in his Alien movie! Well that's what I assume is off limits as is mentioned in the new interview.

[Tough little S.O.B.]

They already had an awesome design, the space jokey! no need to redesign anything...

[Nightmare Asylum]

I was watching Furious Gods a couple weeks back, and I couldn't help but think about how rushed/awkward the Giger segment was. It's like they brought him in, showed him some designs, and pushed him out the door.

[Born Of Cold Light]

Here is a video that Carlos Huante made of his unused Prometheus designs. Some awesomeness in there.
https://vimeo.com/55398895

And it's also a shame that it looks like Ridley Scott won't be allowing Blomkamp to touch the derelict in his Alien movie! Well that's what I assume is off limits as is mentioned in the new interview.

Some of that stuff, like the Engineer with underarm wings, is a bit too silly, but shit, there is so much amazing stuff there; the bioships, the incredibly creepy cave creatures, the different ultramorphs.  I was especially intrigued at seeing a variety of Engineer which appeared to have a neanderthal-style head.  I seriously hope Ridley takes up some of this stuff in the next movie, as it would be a terribly shame for it all to go to waste.