I'm so glad they are not doing the remake. The original Alien is as close to near perfect moviemaking as there was back then and no remake would ever top it

That is awesome news! It's cool that the original guys are making this..A prequel sounds very very interesting.....

Will they stick to H. R. Giger's vision?

How does this news confirm that there will be a remake? How is a prequel a remake, or even a reboot for that matter??? Was Phantom Menace a remake of A New Hope? Thank god the answer is NO.

At least Ridley Scott is involved, otherwise this could have turned out to be yet another lame "re-imagining'" by some clueless director who thinks they can do better than the classic original.

The blogs are just stirring up people with false lingo. I'm totally for a true alien prequel!!!!!

Carl who? I'm sorry, but this is an Epic Fail in the making.

HRR Giger didn't have anything to do with the "vision" of Alien. he didn't create anything. It was Ridley who took a book of Giger's paintings and told Giger what he wanted to mix in order to create the creature.
Then Giger went into a warehouse and built the alien (with his artist expertise of course) according to that.
So, It is Scott's vision what filtered Giger's paintings (Which had nothing to do with the alien concept in origin) and created the creature.

Ergo: Yes it will have the original vision. Ridley Scott has talked a lot about how he wanted to do this thoughout the years.

Ok im more interested in the space Jockey. I mean one of the biggest questions about the first alien film is what was that thing, was it another aline or some kind of Bio-mech lifeform?
Id rather see a movie where theres very few humans, or even better a different version of an alien coming from something other then human. Alien 3 attempted that but didnt go much into considering it was an alien dog. And most people said the Pred-Alien was a wasted opportunity.
But I remember the alien toys, I liked it how they made different versions of aliens from different species.

^^^ I agree with REDante. The jockey raises so many questions. It would be some interesting ground to explore.

I'd like to see them do the story of the crashed ship and the original colony of humans (Newt's family) on LV-426

Everything old is new again. I'll keep an open mind about this one, and hope for the best.

As i saw in a making of, one of the movies. They spoke to the creators, and they said that they had everything in place for the movie, but didn't know what the creature would look like. While at an art gallery, where H.R. Giger had an exibit, they saw Necronom IV, and said there's our creature. Then the started talking to Giger. So they actually took one of Giger's paintings, and went from there. Call it Serendipity at it's best.

I'm all for this as long as it's a true SciFi/suspense flick like the first three and not another addition to the gore-fest/SFX playground that the franchise has turned into. Like the first 2 (or 3, in my opinion,) concentrate on telling a cool story and on scaring us with what we don't see onscreen.

I'd like to see them do the story of the crashed ship and the original colony of humans (Newt's family) on LV-426
that is an excellent comment by mhochman

i would second that.i would not support any YARM (yet another remake/reboot) as i am fed up with that but a new original Alien film is great.that is if it is also R cause if it is PG13 like T4 is I boycottt it.

a prequel again..oh f*ck you hollywood!

Thank F*** for this!

@gorehound696

Come on, that whole rating issue is so overblown! Everyone knows that the MPAA's rating system has evolved over the years in response to changes in society. Realistically, I seriously doubt that the original Alien film (theatrical release) would receive an R today. It was purely an incredible suspense story, whose violence was no more severe than any modern PG-13 film. Unless I'm mistaken, the only nudity (which is what you often need to pull an R) is semi-visible posters in the crew quarters. In fact, I believe I remember hearing that the primary reason for the rating it originally received was the strong overtones of attempted rape in the scene when Ash forces a porno magazine into Ripley's mouth. Today, it's probably even odds whether or not that would garner an R.

So, if you are arguing that you would boycott a film exactly identical to the original, based not on content but on a decision made by some suits on the ratings board, you obviously are not the target audience of such a movie.

ANOTHER Alien prequel? There have already been two. Both AVP movies were set centuries before the original Alien.

"Everything old is new again".

WRONG - use your brains and imagination to come up with NEW ideas.

Everything old is still old.

Stop pretending we are all sheep, Hollywood...

Well, that's different! A prequel would be awesome! There's so much unexplored story between AVP2 and Alien even if a new prequel doesn't jibe perfectly with continuity.

I can honestly say that there is no movie that I have looked forward to ever. I have been saying for nearly 30 years that I want to know more about the origins of the space jockey and the aliens in general. I hope this is done right, as i have told my friends countless times that I wanted to make this movie!

I'd say NO WAY if the Ridley Brothers were not involved, but I'd rather see Scott take the Helm and have H.R. Gieger as the Art director. Yes, NO RIPLEY please and if this Prequel had NO Humans in it and they made it work, Bravo!
I too am interested where the derilect Ship comes from and the and Space Jockey's "story", but our imaginations are more powerful than anyones take. So I will be reserved until more word. I and II are enough and Hollywood messing up the Comic/Graphic Novel of Alien vs Predator (bloody script was ALREADY there!) was already a let down.
I have a GREAT idea though, why not a BRAND NEW IDEA in Sci-Fi!!!! Think of the possibilities (they are in fact, INFINITE :P) . . . we shall see.

opps! I meant the Scott Bros. and "Ridley" to the Helm of Directing.

maybe no one is coming up with any good orignal ideas.i mean a lot of original stuff has been crap lately.at least ths is the Scotts adding to their franchise and not someone else.

Very cool. The Alien movies are my fav sci-fi and the 1st one is the best. My wife and I saw it in the theater and when we did we chose the name Ripley for a daughter. Well flash forward to now (we are in our 40s now), we are having a boy and naming him Logan Joseph. We will have to wait for Ripley Ann.

will only bother with if Sigourney is involved.
those other so called 'Alien' movies were an insult to what little intelligence i have left.

What is ther Space Jockey? Was that the ET in the original derilect ship on Lv-426?

Prequels, remakes, reboots....it's all the same sh*t. Unfortunately, sh*t sells. Just look at the new Star Trek film. Some people will pay to see any old crap. And some people are too young to know any difference.

"will only bother with if Sigourney is involved. those other so called 'Alien' movies were an insult to what little intelligence i have left."

Uh, I agree that they were bad, but Sigourney Weaver was in both those films. In fact, she had a lot more creative control on 3 and 4 than what little she did on the first two, so I don't count her presence in any for much. To me it is all about the writers and the directors.

@splinter:
i meant the 2 alien vs. predator garbage,
though i agree alien 3 and 4 were hardly classics, and of course the writing and directing has alot to do with how good this
'prequel' will be.

I am truely excited about a prequel to Alien, it is about time they aborted that AVP nonsense. As a true fan of the alien series, I hope they can get the franchise back on track. For everyone discussing timelines between AVP and Alien, they are completely unrelated in my book. AVP is a comic book!!!

I believe the alien pilot in the crashed ship is the alien from the"Species" franchise (also an H.R. Giger styled alien (SYL), but the male version (Species 2)).
Also I think a prequel should deal with the origins of the aliens, which I believe IS the alien from "Species". With what happened in "Species" it was a combination of both human & alien dna that created SYL, maybe the aliens are somehow the origin of that same dna manipulation.
And it all started with "SPECIES".

If you think about it.

Every classic sci-fi/fantasy film will either be REMADE like Superman, Alien, or a PREQUEL/altered will be made like Star Trek. This is how franchises will continue forward.

I am currently writing my own view of "Blade Runner" (not completely copying it) because I always wanted to go back to that dark world where life was so bleak. Life now is both bleak and hopeful so the time is ripe to re-visit the world of "Blade Runner."

Markus McLaughlin
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Now, don't get me wrong, I am all for "fleshing" out finer points of the series. (I loved the fan-dom fiction of the Star Wars series written after the original three films, Being the areas when they flesh out Boba Fette to be the ultimate space bad@ss). I would be all for the Scott brothers taking ideas from the Fan-dom for the Alien franchise, and building on what was established. I fear that this will not be the case with the prequel. Similar to the Star Wars "downfall prequels", they will more than likely ignore all fan-dom and write the story however they see fit. As the original creators of Aliens, they have the full right to do these kind of alterations to the Origin. But imagine a Galaxy where Aliens and Predators do not co-exist at all, or a universe when none of the oh so many comic books and novels are stepped over and written off. I always prefer that the writers take any established literary works and design there story to include smaller points form the other works, thus tying the entire "Aliens Universe" together. Once again, I fear they will NOT do this.

I though the space jockey was explained in one of the comic books, there was some sort of alien race that ate the "Aliens". It had a mouth that counteracted the face hugger. There was some sort of market where a parent and children were getting the eggs for dinner and then you followed them home for dinner. Or was this a dream?

They cant do a movie about LV426 - we saw that in Aliens and even more in the Directors cut.. what more is there to say? I really like the sound of a prequel to the original Alien.. find out what was on that ship.

I hope Geiger works on the art design of the new movie. For those that don't know, the Alien creature is based on one of his original works of art that Ridley thought was a perfect basis for the Alien. Like all movies, the final product is a highly collaborative work of art.

A prequel is actually a good idea for an Alien movie because there is a lot of unexplored ideas about the species, and what happened to the Alien ship that crash landed. Ash's behavior strongly suggested that both him and company knew more about the alien ship and the warning message than they said. As long as it's not another piece of junk Alien vs. Predator movie I'll be happy. This sounds like an honest attempt to make a good movie with a real story. Not some cheap effort at entertainment and money.

What is ther Space Jockey? Was that the ET in the original derilect ship on Lv-426?

Correct.

A prequel is a brilliant idea as there are many questions to be answered.

First, as Robert stated, The Weyland-Yutani Corporation had to have known something very dangerous was on LV 426. When Ripley tried to get some information from Mother, she found the message; "Special Order 937 - Science Officer Eyes Only." She is able to override the command and found "Nostromo rerouted to new co-ordinates. Investigate life form. Gather specimen. Priority One. Insure return of organism for analysis. All other considerations secondary. Crew expendable". Sounds like "The Company" knew something.

Secondly, we are fairly certain that the Alien wasn't indigenous to LV 426. If was discovered on a derelict ship. Was this ship supposed to land on LV 426? Did is crash on LV 426? Where was if before LV 426? Was it even a ship? Was LV 426 something else before it was first discovered?

Thirdly, what was the thing driving the ship? Was the "Space Jockey" another Alien life form?

Finally, where did those Aliens come from? Is there a home world?

I think the Scott Brothers Development Team have a great idea to actually "re-boot" this thing and give us one great monster film. After seeing Carl Rinsch's work, I bet it will look amazing! Who knows, maybe the real monsters are us.

Please Ridley, do me a favour and skip the idea of an Alien reboot/prequel. Enough crap is out there named AvP1&2.

TIA

I hate to admit (as a true Alien franchise fan) that I did like AVP. The idea of the alien and predator battle and sacrificial rituals was a good one, but the film was only made to make a buck. Ridley Scott and especially Sigourney Weaver made Alien what it is today. I think a prequel is a terrible idea. Without Ripley it's not really the same. And of course, like all of you, I have a million amazing ideas for a story. If only the studios would acknowledge what the fans really want. We would all have a perfect Alien movie.

When I first heard about this prequel idea, my first reaction was "really? what a waste of time." Now after thinking about it and thanks to some of the interesting comments above, this prequel sounds like it could be pretty cool.

I agree Sigourney helped make the first 2 movies, no female action hero tops her performance in the 2nd one, with her combo of badassness and maternal instinct. However, a prequel simply cannot involve the character Ripley. Maybe it can involve humans, as The Company did in fact seem to possibly already know about this species, but I wholeheartedly agree with above comments, no humans please!! It could be damn interesting just to see the Aliens origins and the Space Jockey. Hey, we gotta have a little faith in Hollywood, they recently let great directors like Peter Jackson and Chris Nolan work their magic with the scifi/fantasy genre.

Excited for this.
Alien3( the extended cut from the DVD) is underrated as a sequel. The theatrical release was crap.
This new prequel's fate lies in the hands of the writers and Ridley. (fingers crossed!)

I too am interested in the upcoming prequel to Alien. And I do agree the AVP series is getting way out of hand with its stories which are geared more for the comic book person than the real authenticity of a movie.

I found the first Alien movie to be very original and a well drawn out story. At first, it was peace in space, and then suspense and horror with a very nice climatic build with Ripley and her first encounter with the alien. Moreover, this gave the female gender a chance to be the hero in the movie versus the typical male hero. Hence, it was a surprise to see a woman for a change--know how to handle herself in the midst of danger.

A prequel will definitely set a record in the Box Office because even before the idea was suggested for a prequel, people always asked the big question, "Where did the U-Shaped ship come from? Was the alien found by Dallas, Kane, and Lambert its pilot?" If you watch the Alien movie around that part, you'll notice that Dallas sees an injury in the alien's body where it had been punctured from the inside. His words are, "An alien life form, he must have exploded from the inside."
It’s obvious an alien bursts from its body and another possibility that if the “discovered alien” was the ship’s pilot this could’ve caused the crash and eliminated any other crew members, if there were any.

Another question about the movie is Ripley interprets the beacon as a warning rather than a call for help. It’s possible the “discovered alien” may have been meant to fore-warn others in proximity of its ship that—it’s not safe.

I did hear rumors from friends who are into the Alien saga that it is believed the ship is a science vessel. When Kane does go down deeper into the inner part of the ship where Dallas lowers him, he discovers the thousands of eggs he sees to be under a blue beam of light. Almost as if it was a sensor to let the original ship’s crew know if the eggs were being tampered with. But with no crew around to stop Kane, we all know he gets impregnated by the crawler creature that lays the embryo inside him. Which unfortunately leads to his demise, thus the first alien creature is born and then the movie begins its horror.

With the blue beam of light being over the eggs as Kane discovered, it’s apparent the significant cargo was the eggs and a possibility the eggs were the result of an experiment the “discovered alien” may have been working on. Another caption of the “discovered alien” is you’ll notice its features resemble very much the alien Ripley engages in the movie. My theory is—It used its own DNA to manufacture this alien. It could’ve been an experiment the “discovered alien” was working on to clone himself. Only difference is its clone has predatory instincts to others not of its species. The idea for the U-Shaped Ship being a science vessel is high and without more evidence in the movie to substantiate its destination, I’m afraid we’ll have to wait for Ridley Scott to present the answer in his prequel.

As long as it is not macho laced like all the sequels, I'll be there. The original was one of the scariest movies I'd ever seen.

Why make a prequel? I believe they should continue with a sequel that uses the same mechanics as, "Aliens." I want colonial marines vs aliens vs predator. Now that would be an awesome movie.

Maybe it won't have anything to do with the Alien at all, but more about Earth pre-Alien. More of a backstory document of the Americas uniting, the history of interstellar spaceflight and Weyland-Yutani's emergence.

Aliens is the best alien movie out there for action, but Alien has all the plot and the storyline.

I do definitely prefer aliens, but Alien was a close second. Alien 3 and 4 sucked, and so did alien vs predator requiem

Im so glad Ridley Scott is invovled, it would not be worth the effort if he was'nt! The only concern i have is that they may pack it full of Special effects/CGI making it seem tacky. They need to use old style special effects exactly how they did it in Alien. Use the 7ft guy in the alien suit, use the scale models of spaceships etc etc,, It's gotta continue the theme/style and feel of Alien to justify it in my opinion.
And if they used Sigourney, wouldnt that seem a bit wierd? i mean this is a prequal so you cant take the charactors from Alien and take them back in time and act as if "they already knew about LV4-26 and the crashed spaceship/jocky, unless im missing something here.
But i agree with most, the story should cover the crashed ship/jocky and it history, how it crashed on the lv426 in the first place, where did it come from etc etc

I hope we can see some of the alien homeworld. I have read several books and they all describe something different.

I hope he ditches that "alien queen" BS and returns to the original cycle as depicted in the "Cocoon Scene" from the original screenplay. The movie seemed more complete (and the creature more insidious) with it included.

Sick of seeing new aliens..I.E lame pred-alien, or half human ripley loving alien, or a queen alien giving birth...or a dog alien. Get some more Marines in there blasting regular aliens like the good ol days.

I'm personally looking forward to this movie, not only because Ridley and Tony Scott are at the helm and I've liked everything they've put out, but because it's in my favorite science fiction franchise. It's a series that tries to realistically portray what humanity will be like during that time frame (i.e. sweaty, grimy, crude and greedy) rather than all 'noble' like the Star Trek series does. Look at any newspaper these days and you'll know that that's just not the case. Given what I've seen in the Marine Corp, this is the way I really believe humanity will act in the future.

It also tries to portray the notion of extraterrestrials as 'alien', not humanocentric sentients with blue skin tints or pointed ears and speaking with an American accent (unless they're evil and speak with a British inflection). The xenomorph was shaped the way it was based on the host body for a reason, not simply 'because'.

I also admit to liking both of the two AVP movies; the reason being is that it tied two awesome creature designs together, explained how we as a culture got so established in space so quickly, and NEITHER of those movies tried to work off the star power of either Weaver or Schwarzenegger. The themes of those two franchises are bigger than either of the two characters those actors portray. They both tell us that we may not be alone in this universe and what we find out there may not be that friendly. We need to be prepared for what we may find. That's why I also enjoyed both the third and fourth movies, even if 'Resurrection' was a little too French slapstick for my tastes.

I don't try to look for things I DON'T like in movies, I try to find things I DO like. Doing it any other way, in my opinion, is just a waste of my time and money.

According to one source I've read, the aliens were created by the Space Jockey race as weapons to fight a civil war that was occurring among them. That would explain their extreme aggressiveness, incredible strength and the capability of adapting to their host body's environment so readily. In Lee Brimmicombe-Woods' ALIENS COLONIAL MARINES TECHNICAL MANUAL, the reason the blood was so caustic was because the creatures' biochemistry was based on fluorocarbons and chlorofluorocarbons, extremely nasty stuff. The Space Jockeys' entire technological platform was based along biological rather than mechanical lines, presumably because of the dearth of mineral resources on their home planet.

This next part is my supposition regarding the life cycle of the creature based on personal observations and hypotheses (mainly because, being a casual writer of science fiction and fantasy, I happen to like a little SCIENCE in my science fiction). The facehugger is a genetic splicer. It implants the embryo into a living host to sample the DNA coding so as to adapt the xenomorph to that environment, while retaining the characteristics necessary to overcome and dominate the target's environment, such as the hostiltiy, the extreme physical strength and quickness and the hostile circulatory fluid. It also adopts the overall morphology of the host on the assumption that that form is the most efficient for that ecological niche. This explains why they were humanoid in shape when the infectees were human, why the one in Alien 3 moved in a quadrupedal fashion (having hosted in a dog or an ox, depending on the version you saw) and why the PredAlien had head tentacles and pincers on its face in AVP Requiem.

Presumably, when the Jockeys wanted to settle an occupied planet, they landed released a few queens, let them dominate the landscape, later released something else that caused the infestation to die out after a certain amount of time, then simply landed and settled the planet. The fact that it got out of control and caused the ship to crash on LV-426 was simply due to the Jockey designing their tools too well.

This is one movie I know I'll enjoy. Kudos if it's dark and gritty and rips the guts from me courage-wise. I hope another android's head gets clubbed off to make another usher faint in the aisles.

Peace.

sounds cool, but they should stick to the books... man those things are a constant adrenaline rush.. and who can go wrong with marines blasting away!