Ridley Scott promises 'tough' Alien prequel

[Toke_Stanley]

Taken from the BBC's website 28th April 2010

Director Sir Ridley Scott has revealed that his 3D Alien prequel will be "really nasty" and will respond to the standard set by James Cameron's Avatar.
Speaking to Screen Daily, the film-maker said the movie, set in 2085, would be "the dark side of the moon".
Sir Ridley, who directed the original Alien film in 1979, paid tribute to Cameron's technological innovation.
"Jim's raised the bar and I've got to jump to it," said the 72-year-old. "He's not going to get away with it."
'Gods and engineers'
Sir Ridley's latest film, Robin Hood - starring Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett, will open the Cannes Film Festival on 12 May.
Speaking about the Alien prequel, which is set five years before the original, the British film-maker said it is about "gods and engineers... engineers of space".
"And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would actually go in and clean up a planet?"
"It will take place in the years before that, when they first come across this thing on a planet called Zeta Reticuli, he added.
"And it will ask who was that guy in the first film lying in a chair with his chest blown outwards when they first go into the giant spacecraft."
Sir Ridley has not made a sci-fi movie since 1982's Blade Runner and was not involved in any of the Alien sequels or two Alien vs Predator spin-off films.
The original Alien movie, which starred Sigourney Weaver, won the Oscar for best visual effects in 1980.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8644051.stm

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

A prequel? Not like AVP please!

[TordelBack]

Why I am imagining cruelly betrayed Decanus Ellenus Ripleyus fighting the evil Wayland-Yutani Coproration for the right of xenomorphs to raise their crops in peace?

[dweezil2]

With Ridley Scott behind these productions, I'll be glad to finally banish the memories of those appaling AvP movies.

[Devons Daddy]

72 years old!

this could be a swan song or a death nell to a superb carrear.
he gets it right LEGEND! screws it up, not a great epitath.

[dweezil2]

His age shouldn't be a concern. Scott's recent output shows he still has the vitality to produce exceptional movies.Few(if any)current directors possess his keen visual sense and the thought of him returning to the Sci-Fi genre just fills me with excitement.

[Colin YNWA]

Apparently its set something like 50 years before the first over (or something it might be more) and will explain where the 'Space Jockey' corpse from Alien, with the burst chest came from.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Would like to see the horse shoe shaped ship before it was grounded.

[Zarjazzer]

Weyland- Yutani will "deal" with Sir Ridley Scott soon enough...

[Keef Monkey]

Thinking this could be pretty interesting, will be hard to pull off if I understand where he wants to go with it. Showing the space jockey's story and setting it before humans encountered the alien (and setting it mainly on the Alien homeworld I think) means there won't be any human dialogue in the movie, which will be odd. Could be great, I trust him.

[Peter Wolf]

His age shouldn't be a concern.

Exactly.

[Colin YNWA]

I believe there will be human contact as I think he's mentioned that he sets up whats been long speculated that everything that happened in Alien was calculated as 'the Company' knew about the 'Space Jockey's' encounter. Not sure how or anything?

[Mardroid]

I read elsewhere it would be set 30 years before. And the company will be Weyland, before joining to form Weyland-Yutani.

I also read on Den of Geek that there will be two prequels.

Here's the source of their info.
And here.

[Adrian Bamforth]

He's 72? I bet the prequel will just be fields.

[JOE SOAP]

Director Sir Ridley Scott has revealed that his 3D Alien prequel will be "really nasty" and will respond to the standard set by James Cameron's Avatar.

...so he's bringing the standard set by Alien down to that of  Avatar, sounds great.