WOW!! This is gonna be sick

hopefully the people making this film have more knowledge of the series than the 'fans' on this page do..
there is no alien homeworld. the jockeys created the xenomorph as a biological planetary bombardment..
they were in constant civil war and they riddled eggs on enemy planetoids, once infestation had completed, the horde was drawn to a central location and nuked.
a film about the jockeys would be very interesting, but to be good it would have to be very abstract..

I like your OR option Radimus. That's what was always so cool about the Space Jockey. You never knew anything about it. And they should keep it that way. Maybe they'll go to the REAL Xenomorph homeworld which has yet to be seen?

I wonder how they are going to tie in the Alien space ship that was sending out the distress warning signal at the start of Alien. It's pretty obvious that the story is gonna be 80% human characters. So how do they involve a monster space craft with a 40 foot alien at the driver seat?

OR, maybe they won't even bother!

Excellent news! Knowing Riddley Scott he'll only go for it if the story's REALLY good, seeing as many franchise original installment directors refuse to return to said franchises to film sequels no matter how much $$$ they're offered. Also if they keep HRG's artwork from the original intact, then it'll be 50% better.

That's funny cause both of them are some of my favorite actors haha

Jeremy Irons, rules along with Alan Rickman :D
lol just noticed they both are die hard villains lol, and brothers, in the franchise.

I mean come on...Scar from Lion King, is wicked. I want him to do Smaug's voice, but to save production money i bet Andy Serkis will do it

I love Jeremy Irons. I wish we saw more of him actually.

Yep apparently, i never envisioned Bale as Solid, so i have no idea where that rumour about him playing MGS came from, but i did hear about the rumour.
Sorry Hugh Jackman for Solid Snake, all the way.

Maybe JEH or Jeremy Irons for Liquid, but i dont think they have the balls to fill such a character.

Hmmmm i still find Superman doing the matrix dodge very iffy, and i hate that if they do it, it will bombarded with SFX

Haha. Wait J.a... Bale likes Metal Gear Solid? Ahaha. Well if what you say is true and the Wachowskis are leading directors for Supes, I am perfectly fine with that as long as its in their Bound/Matrix style and not Speed racer style.

Why can't they just leave ANYTHING the hell alone!?

And also here is a little interesting tidbit, Angelina Jolie claims she is not allowing Megan Fox to take her role as Lara Croft.
She feels its a character she helped refine and design to the screen and states, that she won't allow anyone to take the character away from her, as she believes that, the connections between her and Foxx, started there with the comparisons that both actresses were up for the role.
But apparently Jolie has first choice, cause she had a 2-film contract with optional decision of renewing the contract for future installments.
So it looks like Jolie is Lara Croft, once again...

And Christian Bale has come forth and denied all the rumours connecting him with the MGS film adaptation, stating that although he loves the game, he has not been offered in any form a role in the film, if it happens, which is unlikely.

Sorry to go off topic

OOOOOOO i figured out Russel Crowe role, finally

Russel Crowe as H.R.Giger (snazzy)

It will be a fuckin rare thing If Crowe aint in this movie coz Mr Scott loves himself some Russell Crowe. I wouldn't doubt his capabilities in makin this movie a fuckin success,he is good.

I bet the main star is gonna be Russell Crowe.

Some new films news

Riddicks sequel news could start filming early 2010
http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=14509&count=0

Jonovich talks Resident Evil 4.D
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Oooooo your like this one
Mcteigue * Wachowski brothers in the lead to reboot the man of steel
http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=14511&count=0

Mad Max 4 news
http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=14512&count=0

Hitman 2 news by Olyphant
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Lindsey Lohan is confirmed in Machete
http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=14510&count=0

I am really excited for this film.

Glad to hear Ridley is doing another Alien movie, I just wish it wasn't a prequel.

This is crazy. I'm stoked.

Good news.

AvP 2 was not as bad as you make it out to be. AvP 1 was much worse. I can't believe you didn't list that but you tell us how much you dislike the 2nd one lol?

Personally, for me, having those TWO alien types in one movie doesn't really need a deep plot. It could probably get one, but realistically though, all it is Predators killing Aliens, plain and simple. I thought AvP2 was bad ass. It was a HUGE step up from the corny AvP 1. I was so happy to see the violence they are known for, and the fact that the new Predator in AvP 2 was done justice, he was bad ass. He killed a lot of fucking aliens lol. Whereas in the first film they did that stupid "they are evenly matched" bullshit by killing Predators. Yes I know some predators would die against hundreds or less of aliens but not a one on one unless they were being sneaky. So definitely a step up in direction for both creatures for sure in AvP2. The plot really didn't bother me cause I didn't care about the people to begin with (which is part of the bad plot I suppose). I just wanted to see some shit get fucked up and it just that, even the military got involved in good ol' aliens fashion and they all got pwned quickly lol.

Ahahah. i was reading you comment Chad. I am with you there, when it comes to screaming at the t.v. Hahaha.

This is fine with me, as long as some sort of justice is done after the complete disaster that AvP2 was. I still don't understand why those iconic figures(Alien and Predator) where put in the hands of ameture filmmakers. There was basically no story in that garbage movie. It was set up like a bad sci-fi soap opra, or some stupid porn movie. Anyway, AvP2 is on my "Worst of 2008" list on my profile. It is also literally, one of the worst movies, I think, ever made.

Granted, mystery is good like you have all said, but then again, there are some interesting questions that are posed, who were on that ship and who was the person who set up that "warning" beacon? And if you were trying to keep people away from that place why would you want something that makes noise and attracts other ships if there nearby lol? I hope they argue about that in this movie when they are turning it on. I also wanna know where the Queen is that layed all those eggs on that ship they went to. There were like no aliens anywhere, just eggs. Don't you think that's kinda weird? Almost like it was a setup by the company (like in Aliens). For all we know that ship that was found by Ripley and crew could have been something important, maybe the people in that ship found an alien hive on the planet or something and they all got cocooned in some underground/cave structures (since the horizon was dangerously windy and you couldn't see anything) and that's where the alien hive is on that planet/rock or whereever they are I can't exactly rememeber lol. I didn't really like the first movie other than the part of the finding of the ship, the facehugger, and that's about it. I don't really like frustrating movies where you're yelling at the tv for the people to do stuff, I hate that lol. You guys know what I'm talking about, especially in todays "horror" movies where the characters are completely fucking retarded and you're like "why would you go IN there?" lol

I know I posted it before, but Cameron was willing to do another Aliens movie based on an idea he had. Fox instead went with those terrible AvP movies and Cameron moved on...such a pity. Though I am pumped for his next project.

I don't know I think the franchise could us a reboot from Scott. Anything is better that doing a follow-up sequel with the Ripley charater. There is plenty of meat for a prequel, and Scott is the man.

WOW!! Finally some good news out of Hollywood!

i'm sick of alien..move on ridley..you could go with predator instead..that franchise is more appealing and have a lot of potential

The prequel needs to end with the ship crashing on the planet and sending a signal for a warning, a time warp, showing the passing of time like a high speed camrea to give time frame from the crash until the first movei,,then like a cameo of the first ship coming for the first movie..

This sounds great. After Aliens, I was not big into it having Ripley as the main character over and over, concidering the possiabillity that the Alien and Aliens had left. Novels wrote about a Alien war, which took place on earth after the Alien-s movies. But there is one called Aliens Harvest, in which the goo they secreat could help cancers and a dieing guy goes with a crew to harvest it from a hive to make alot of money, and there is a robotic Alien invilved. That was good story.

Great news!!

Compared to the book, Zany, it sucked, alot of the character and story was left out.
But to each their own opinion.

If you haven't read the book, highly recommend it, if you like gangster novels.
I'm currently reading what in my opinion is the greatest gangster novel of all time and i'm wondering to myself why the fuck hasn't anyone done a movie on this guy...He demolishes Henry Hill, and makes Godfather look like a playground

I don't see the point in another Alien film, but with Ridley Scott directing, there's some incentive now to see it. And American Gangster was great.

Awesome!

It looks like Ridley is running out of money, explaining why he wants to return to the series again....broke ass.

After Aliens, this franchise turned to shit. I stand by my first comment. I think that the plot will probably involve the earth government somehow discovering the Alien and deciding to send Ash onboard the Nostromo to recover the thing. There's a story there. How did they really know about the Xenomorph? That way you don't even have to mess with the distressed alien ship-corpse.

About time, but I would rather see a sequel than a prequel any day. I don't really care if it is bad or not, it's an Alien film. I all ways thought that these creatures would be created by an old race, to use against their enemies but got out of control and destroyed them selves in the process.

I don't think there is really that much of a mystery behind the Aliens, they came from another freaking planet. How did they get to the planet for the first alien movie? Probably crashed landed there.

awesome!

I can say only one thing...Have you seen Cube triology? I'm not big fan of Cube movies but I thougt that the first Cube was good movie but the thrird one was a prequel that was pretty bad and big dissapointment for me. But there is a good prequel like Underworld: Rise of the Lycans but we all knew what is the story of it from the first movie. In Alien movie we didn't find out anything about alien's history so I think that this is good idea but not neccesery movie. I don't care about Alien sequel but I'm interested in prequel. I so hope that this thing workes out.

Yesss!!!!! :D

I'm with Ottley. Why? One of the greatest things about the original is the mystery and intrigue of the alien spacecraft holding "strange leathery objects...like eggs or something." A prequel will destroy that atmosphere Scott masterfully set up in the original.

I'm not amped for this, I'm sorry but Ridley Scott, has lost his touch in movies, American Gangster & Body Of Lies both sucked.
Robin Hood is looking very good though, from what i saw while on the set at Eton Forest, so that i'm definately intrigued on its final showings.

I just don't think, we need a prequel for this particular franchise, we know what happened to the ship that sent out the warning signal, they got fucked up by Aliens, and well an origin story ain't interesting for this franchise.

This is gonna be like Rob Zombie's Halloween but its Ridley Scott and Aliens.
A prequel/origin story will demolish it and that the mystery out of it.

But that my cents thrown in the well...

Also find this line in this article quite funny...
"The deal gives Fox another chance to keep the Alien franchise alive."
LMAO

thats very good news, but I wonder why a prequel? I hope its not a origin story.

Thank god -_-

Great news,but why a prequel when it could be a sequel

Great news, now it has some promise.

Why a prequel? What's so special about what happened before Ripley and her team first arrived. I know Ridley Scott is a good director, but I'm still not with this.

I so agree with remy!!! This is great news!!