*Spoliers*
Prometheous/Covenant apart from being not very good, suffers from the same issues that crept into a lot of franchises lately trying to create a back story to the orginal that didn't need to exsit. What was wrong with a crew finding a crashed spaceship that had been infected by an alien. We didn't need a contived backstory that the aliens were created by a robot with daddy issues that belonged to the founder of their company. I'm sure in the next sequel we'll find that the Nostromo didn't happend across the crashed ship by accident so that everything can be tied up nicely
Other examples see spectre - every bad thing that happended to Bond was due to a jealous step brother.
Sherlock replace step brother with secret sister.
P.S Love Alien 3 first saw it on a pirate VHS shot in the with the wrong aspect ratio. Since then its star has been known to us as "gorney wea".
bikebouy - Member
You do know the film was on last night don’t you
Bollocks.
Oh well, if you've seen prometheus and thought it was shit, watch AGENT 9's fan-edit instead. So much better.
I have seen Promethues before but happened across it last night and remembered almost none of it. Thank you brain - you clearly know how to do your job correctly and filter out all the shit.
See also: Terminator [any of them after Terminator 2]
Personally I think the worst thing about Covenant is that Scott (it seems anyway) Killed off Neill Blomkamp's Alien film
Wait, what? It's been cancelled?
Cougar - Moderator
Personally I think the worst thing about Covenant is that Scott (it seems anyway) Killed off Neill Blomkamp's Alien film
Wait, what? It's been cancelled?
Last I heard deader than a dead thing.
Neill was never actually asked to produce it, but he put a few ideas / storyboards he had on Insta and got enough exposure to get the nod to start pre-production.
Sadly for him and us Scott got pushed to make Covenant, a mostly Alien type film rather than Prometheus 2, at first they met up to make sure nothing in either film was going to clause continuity issues and Neill changed the script slightly, the they didn't want 2 Alien films bookending the story coming out in the same year so Aliens 2 got delayed and then killed, maybe in part because after his initial success with District 9, his fist big budget film Elysium didn't do as well as expected, it made money but took a looong time to do so and Chappie did worse.
He released a couple of shorts on Youtube recently that supposedly use bits he would have used in Aliens.
Damn it. I was looking forward to that, it could've been awesome.
The last I heard was that NB had agreed to delay his Alien movie so that it didn't clash with Scott's. But that was forever ago.
P-Jay - MemberSadly for him and us Scott got pushed to make Covenant, a mostly Alien type film rather than Prometheus 2
I have a hard time believing that 80 year old Ridley, with $150million in the bank got pushed to do anything. They couldn't make a Prometheus sequel because Noomi Rapace stated she wanted nothing more to do with the franchise, and even if she had agreed to be involved much of the film would have centred around a Swedish lady and a broken robot talking to big blue aliens.
More than likely he just acquiesced to any and all of the studio's requests, he takes no part in the writing of his films and is little more than an eye for hire.
The last I heard was that NB had agreed to delay his Alien movie so that it didn't clash with Scott's. But that was forever ago.
Nope, it’s deader than a used facehugger
That’s been nuked from orbit
Just to be sure
More than likely he just acquiesced to any and all of the studio's requests, he takes no part in the writing of his films and is little more than an eye for hire.
He’s a brilliant cinematographer, see the Martian & Prometheus
He just can’t tell a good script from a bad one
Also see the Martian Vs Prometheus
I'm waiting for Dredd v Aliens.
jonnyboi - MemberHe’s a brilliant cinematographer, see the Martian & Prometheus
That would be the work of cinematographer Dariusz Wolski.
That would be the work of cinematographer Dariusz Wolski.
I stand corrected.
Corrrr wot? NB was going to make an Alien film?
Blooming ek... I’m so out of it it’s untrue.
I’m a huge fan of his, although chappie was a teeny bit commercial at times.. but both district9 and elysium were fine movies.
It was going to be set after aliens, basically pretending alien 3 onwards didn’t happen
m sure in the next sequel we'll find that the Nostromo didn't happend across the crashed ship by accident
Erm, I hate to break this to you...
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I still think a much better sequel to prometheus would've been a body horror, telling the story of David's experiments with the woman he escaped with.
PrinceJohn - MemberI still think a much better sequel to prometheus would've been a body horror, telling the story of David's experiments with the woman he escaped with.
The same woman who said she had no interest in returning to the franchise which I mentioned just up there ^^^^^?
The same woman who said she had no interest in returning to the franchise which I mentioned just up there ^^^^^?
Yup, that's her. Would've made for a better film.
And it's not like actors haven't been changed in film franchises before.
RE: Neill Blomkamp’s Alien Film and the 3rd Ridley Scott prequal...
Before I start, I’m bored as hell during this Merrymium and I’m stuck in the house looking after a poorly 3 year old so I’m hunting around the odder ends of the web
Yesterday it was ‘announced’ aka rumoured that 20th Century has cancelled the next Alien prequal a few days before it was supposed to start pre-production in Sydney after the Cmas break.
Also yesterday Neill Blomkamp releases another batch of art work for his Alien film (which he also noted wasn’t going to be made).
2+2=5 but maybe they’ve ditched the “arty but less mainstream” 3rd prequal for a much easier to sell straight up Aliens sequel?
I thought prometheus was OK, good even.
Covenant, I've attempted to watch about three times and got distracted or fell asleep.
Is it on again already? 😯
Interesting PJay
Disney have just paid $40bn for Fox so I imagine they want to get some returns on.
Another snoozefest Ridley Scott Prometheus being ditched for a straight up Aliens sequel directed by Blomkamp, makes some sense
