Quote from: Fleshwound on Sep 16, 2018, 07:41:25 PM
Quote from: Naginata on Sep 16, 2018, 07:33:44 PM
Quote from: Fleshwound on Sep 16, 2018, 07:26:48 PM
The David stuff needs to die off.
You leave my fictional sociopathic android boyfriend out of this! 
Spin him off into his own franchise and let the Alien one have, you know, aliens in it.
At this point David is Alien. IMO, this is the best direction the series could have taken. My theory is that David is trying to build himself a biological body via the xenomorph. I wouldn't be surprised if we learn that his inserts a part of himself into the entire batch of eggs we see in the original Alien, essentially becoming born again as Kane's son ( and whoever else gets facehugged later on ). There is so much potential with David and the xenomorph. I know some people are disappointed that Covenant heavily implies he's the creator of the xenomorph, but ultimately, the xenomorph has always been an engineered species. It's head always features a human skull for instance, no matter what type of animal it incubates in. Just my two cents.
Alien is not dead. Predator is pretty much done unless a talented filmmaker can start making Predator movies for $25-30 million, and make them good. I think it's doable. Predator doesn't have to be an "event" movie. The scariest aspect of the creature is that it can be invisible. Theoretically you could make an entire Predator movie without a single special effects shot if you know how to build tension with cinematography, music, and suspense.
If they really wanted to challenge viewers, they could even start giving us new creatures that hunt humans for sport just to keep it fresh. No rule says that a Predator film has to be based around yautja. That'd be a fresh angle. New types of tech, traps, perspective etc. People bash on the new Alien movies, but look at how much money they make in comparison to Predator movies. Big ideas and intelligent risk taking can be profitable. I urge whoever ultimately lands the Predator franchise to think outside the box.
FWIW, I wish the makers of Jurassic Park would think outside the box also. They've essentially remade Lost World 3x now. Want to talk about a series that went off the rails, Jurassic Park is it imo. Yea, the movies make money, but they get worse and worse. We could have had a dinosaur hunting people using vocal mimicking like a freaking parrot. They sold us on the birds idea in the first movie and then just completely abandoned it for being chased around by t-rexes and frankenstein monsters.
Hollywood is creatively bankrupt for the most part.
