Disney & Fox Confirm Alien Series Remains In Development Under New Ownership!

[Kimarhi]

LET'S BE HONEST, spores just straight ripped from Gibson my nugs.

[LastSonofKrypton]

Spores seems to act faster too and therefore much harder to counter.

I wonder, because the spores act much faster, the neomorph pays the price by being much weaker than the protomorph, which in turn is weaker than the xenomorph because the gestation period is sped up.  When I first saw Covenant I was annoyed that David had seemingly created a more effective way of infecting someone, but after some time I realised that his creation suffered because of the way the organism was implanted

[JokersWarPig]

LET'S BE HONEST, spores just straight ripped from Gibson my nugs.

It definitely appears so

[[cancerblack]]

LET'S BE HONEST, spores just straight ripped from Gibson my nugs.

I stole it in 2013 too, it's a fun idea.

[Kimarhi]

Gibson got you by a few decades unless there is some reference I'm not getting

[SM]

LET'S BE HONEST, spores just straight ripped from Gibson my nugs.

Wouldn't have thought so.  More likely it's based on what was written for the Paradise and the swarm of black things we see in the film when the Engineers drinks the bubble tea.

I wonder, because the spores act much faster, the neomorph pays the price by being much weaker than the protomorph, which in turn is weaker than the xenomorph because the gestation period is sped up.

I've often wondered if that was why the Gunnison Aliens were weak as piss. 

[Huggs]

They wiped out that national guard unit pretty damn fast.

[Kimarhi]

Only cuz I wasn't there.

[Huggs]

It's just what happens when Eddie Morales is on the beat.

[Corporal Hicks]

Spores seems to act faster too and therefore much harder to counter.

I wonder, because the spores act much faster, the neomorph pays the price by being much weaker than the protomorph, which in turn is weaker than the xenomorph because the gestation period is sped up.  When I first saw Covenant I was annoyed that David had seemingly created a more effective way of infecting someone, but after some time I realised that his creation suffered because of the way the organism was implanted

I've been thinking lately that perhaps the Neo's also follow that original intent for the Alien, in that it dies off fast too. That'd make a pretty effective tool for cleaning out a planet. They kill everything, then die out themselves which takes no clean-up on the part of the Engineers.

[irn]

I've been thinking lately that perhaps the Neo's also follow that original intent for the Alien, in that it dies off fast too. That'd make a pretty effective tool for cleaning out a planet. They kill everything, then die out themselves which takes no clean-up on the part of the Engineers.

I like to think of those fungal spore things as being what grow from decomposed neomorphs. Just waiting there to re-infect should anything still be alive.

[LastSonofKrypton]

Spores seems to act faster too and therefore much harder to counter.

I wonder, because the spores act much faster, the neomorph pays the price by being much weaker than the protomorph, which in turn is weaker than the xenomorph because the gestation period is sped up.  When I first saw Covenant I was annoyed that David had seemingly created a more effective way of infecting someone, but after some time I realised that his creation suffered because of the way the organism was implanted

I've been thinking lately that perhaps the Neo's also follow that original intent for the Alien, in that it dies off fast too. That'd make a pretty effective tool for cleaning out a planet. They kill everything, then die out themselves which takes no clean-up on the part of the Engineers.

Yeah, the xeno was too difficult to handle once it had wiped out a planet, or perhaps they spread on Engineer worlds when something went wrong, and the Engineers realised that a temporary life span would at the very least decrease some of the risk

[Baron Von Marlon]

Back on topic:

I wasn't aware Sony "rented" Spider-Man out to Disney.
With that being the case, couldn't another studio rent Alien from Disney?

[SiL]

Disney could lease the rights, yes.

[irn]

With that being the case, couldn't another studio rent Alien from Disney?

I suppose they could, but it might be a cost issue. Relatively speaking, the Alien films haven't been big budget productions. So if leasing the rights was say $20 million, then that would take up a huge chunk of the budget. I have no idea how much it would cost of course. It might be way less than that.