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Alien Prequel Confirmed by Tony Scott!
May 29th, 2009
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The site was reporting that Michael Costigan, Tony Scott and his brother Ridley Scott, who directed the 1979 film, are all attached to produce, with Carl Rinsch set to direct. It was said that Rinsch is a commercial and music video director who also does producing work for Tony and Ridley Scott's production company, Scott Free Productions, who are producing the remake.
UPDATE: (5/29/09 5:45 PM PST) Today Collider was able to confirm this new film will be a prequel from producer Tony Scott, who also confirmed that Carl Rinsch will be directing. Here's an excerpt of what the producer had to say.
Collider: 20th Century Fox is talking about remaking or redoing the original Alien. What's going on with that?
Tony Scott: Yes, Carl Rinsch is going to do the prequel to Alien. He's one of our directors at our company.
Collider: I'm going to be blunt about this. Fox has not been doing a great job recently with their movies. They haven't been an artist friendly studio. Are you guys going to have some creative control and make this a kick-ass film?
Tony: Yes! But Fox is our home. They finace our production company.
Tony Scott: Yes, Carl Rinsch is going to do the prequel to Alien. He's one of our directors at our company.
Collider: I'm going to be blunt about this. Fox has not been doing a great job recently with their movies. They haven't been an artist friendly studio. Are you guys going to have some creative control and make this a kick-ass film?
Tony: Yes! But Fox is our home. They finace our production company.
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This is all for the sakes of three things!
Dolby stereo digital because the studio wants to push the limits of LFE.1 = less bums on seats = disaster!
CGI = totally f%ucking waste of time!
Actors I doubt will even care about!
And Silk, I agree that a full blown remake would be terrible, though at least Giger's famous painting 'Future Kill' which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1985 was quickly forgotten. I did a dot pen & ink on the portrait for an Art class since I liked it so much, point being that it's hard to fuck up a project these days and have it be forgotten cuz of it rather than be forever remembered because of it. I hope that's not the case with this prequel.
Maybe they'll finally touch that untouchable auror of the Space Jockey & its' Derelict Spacecraft?
a better idea would have been to make a prequel to ALIENS! How the creatures attacked the human colony and the battle that ended them.
Or Tim Burton after "Alice In Wonderland?" (May 2010)
the gray: you're absolutely right about everything you said in your comment.
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because of fox
Ridley Scott recently has been a hit and miss, American Gangster & Body of Lies sucked. Hopefully he can redeem himself with Robin Hood.
Tony Scott is a good director, i'm looking forward to Pelham 123
I reckon with Ridley because he is a more bigger known mainstream director, people expect his films to be brilliant and have high expectations, while although Tony is a less unknown than his brother, people dont have such high expectations from a Tony Scott Film, in which they enjoy it more.
Not though The Scott Brothers are producing, not directing though, they are probably producing alongside 20th Century Fox, since ScottsFree is a subsidary of Fox.
I wnat to know what happen to the story about Aliens coming to Earth, well that was the proposed iedea for Aliens 5
Ditto on Ridley being a cool guy, Todd, met him a few weeks back on the set of Centaurion, in which Robin Hood was filming in the same place as well.
This may or may not be good, but I have faith in the Scott brothers. If they can come up with something new and exciting for the aliens then so be it, Ridley is quite a nice person, I met him years ago. But like you I would prefer a sequel than a prequel.
Certainly the new Star Trek proves that a dusty, tainted, mocked property can be rejuvenated...the rebooted Clash of the Titans will bear this out too. Have hope ye naysayers...