What we know – Ridley Scott is doing a two part prequels to Alien in 3D. They are set a good few years before LV-426 is found by Ripley, Dallas and the rest, but they will show more about the Space Jockey.
In an interview with The Independent, Scott talks about many of his films and has this to say about the Alien prequels. It’s not that much, but gives us an idea of the feel he is going for.
The anticipation for his next project is building to fever pitch: it will be a two-part prequel to Alien, shot in 3D. Scott was never asked to make a sequel to Alien; that honour went to James Cameron, before a further two sequels and two Alien vs Predator spin-offs milked the franchise dry. But with the Lost co-creator Damon Lindoff polishing the first prequel’s script, you can sense the competitor in Scott, desperate to put his stamp back on the film series that launched him. “Jim’s raised the bar and I’ve got to jump to it,” he says, in a friendly jibe at Cameron. “He’s not going to get away with it.”
Set 30 years before the 1979 original, so with no room for Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley, the prequels will explore the origins of the deadly aliens. “The film will be really tough, really nasty,” he notes. “It’s the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?”
Anybody excited about the prequels? Have Scott’s past few films shown evidence that the 72 year old director still has what it takes for iconic cinema?
Source: STYD
