Sounds great, but i'm still sceptical about the whole "Hard R" thing.
With a reported budget of 150 Million it's hard to believe FOX will go with an R Rating, especially since Prometheus didn't set the boxoffice on fire.
I still remember Ridley in 2011 saying "I want to scare the living shit out of the audience", well... that was exactly what was missing in the first movie, and de-Alien it and putting in a giant octopus and bold muscular dudes didn't really help it either.
This one has Alien in the title, so i'm expecting something in the way and style of the first movie, and not some pseudo religious bullshit, that pretended too hard to be something else and in the end pleased no one.