In Space, No One Can Hear You Scream...

[Goaty]

Hicks back!

http://www.total-geeks.com/michael-biehn-confirmed-for-alien-sequel/

[Link Prime]

Hicks back!

http://www.total-geeks.com/michael-biehn-confirmed-for-alien-sequel/

So will they ignore the (admittedly lame) Hicks resurrection story from Colonial Marines?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mquByeLRYNM

[IAMTHESYSTEM]

Ah, curiouser and curiouser. This gets more interesting as it goes along he certainly featured in the Concept art  Perhaps they'll bring back Newt as a sort of younger version of Ripley someone a teenage audience could identify with. I assume this takes place a few years after Aliens and I don't think you actually saw Newt and Hicks in Alien 3 though their deaths were mentioned.

Link to artwork below.Don't know if this was for a film but what the hell it's great.Think it's Marek Okon but might be wrong there.

http://40.media.tumblr.com/e3c0f8f15c1eaceb8a6de6546bea8c6c/tumblr_nkys1fxeQQ1qflgwpo3_1280.jpg

[Keef Monkey]

Hicks back!

http://www.total-geeks.com/michael-biehn-confirmed-for-alien-sequel/

So will they ignore the (admittedly lame) Hicks resurrection story from Colonial Marines?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mquByeLRYNM

Oh god, I just remembered that in the run-up to that game they talked it up as canon, officially sanctioned by Fox and everything. After the reception to the game that now seems mental.

His performance bothered me in it too, totally flat. With any luck that's not an indication of what he'll be like as Hicks in the movie.

[Link Prime]

His performance bothered me in it too, totally flat. With any luck that's not an indication of what he'll be like as Hicks in the movie.

I don't think his heart was in it, Keef; http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/07/27/aliens-colonial-marines-actor-michael-biehn-says-working-on-the-game-wasnt-fun-at-all/

[Keef Monkey]

His performance bothered me in it too, totally flat. With any luck that's not an indication of what he'll be like as Hicks in the movie.

I don't think his heart was in it, Keef; http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2013/07/27/aliens-colonial-marines-actor-michael-biehn-says-working-on-the-game-wasnt-fun-at-all/

Thanks for the link! That's quite reassuring, part of me thought that would be what we'd get on his return as Hicks, and part of me was worried he gave a really flat reading because he just didn't care about videogames (sometimes great actors put in poor videogame performances, seemingly seeing it as beneath them - I really hoped he wasn't of that attitude)!

Passionless sums it up, hopefully he throws himself into the movie role.

[Theblazeuk]

Michael Beihn is great as Sgt. Rex 'Power' Colt in the ludicrously 80s Far Cry: Blood Dragon.

[radiator]

The Projection Booth have just done a tremendous episode examining the troubled production of Alien 3, featuring an extensive interview with Vincent Ward about his aborted vision of the film (the infamous, intriguing 'wooden monastery planet' concept).

http://projection-booth.blogspot.com/2015/07/episode-228-alien3.html

Which in turn led me to yet again reading up on all the abandoned concepts and various script treatments for the film.

While Alien 3 is a very flawed film, I still like it, because it at least tried to do something original, rather than just trying to rehash or go one better than Aliens (as William Gibson's script did, and which I think will be the problem with Blomkamp's take), which I think is a fool's errand.

It struck me as I was reading through all these aborted attempts though, that the plot of the 2000ad series Kingdom could be repurposed into an excellent premise for an Alien sequel. You wouldn't even have to change it much.

[Professor Bear]

I didn't like Alien 3 precisely because it didn't try anything different - after Cameron's ballsy reinvention of the property as an action movie, A3 retreated back to the "haunted house in space" guff.  Shite as it was, Aliens Versus Predator was a far more adventurous, distinctive and inventive sequel than Alien 3.

[JamesC]

I like the idea of a Kingdom-esque Alien film!

[ThryllSeekyr]

I remember when I saw that film for the first time n city cinemas.

I had finished work for the day and was still my work uniform. I was a railway worker, but that was just over 15 years ago now.

There was huge billboard advertising the film  in the seedier part of town. It had picture of Ripley with her head shaved on the front.

As a the cinema used be right in the basement level of the Myer Centre building, there was a food court with a MacDonalds just out side the huge alcove where the box office was.

I brought my self one of Quarter-Pounder meals and finished off the soft-drink and fries right away before seeing the film. It wasn't until I hopped off the train back home (It's about a hours journey....), that I found the still slightly warm burger still wrapped up in the paper bag in my back pack.

I can still taste that right now, as I ate it walking home.

Not everything I did that night was mentioned here 

[Goaty]

Wooah!

Neill Blomkamp post this;

https://instagram.com/p/83mcFbqhBk/

[Bolt-01]

Oh, that is lovely...

[von Boom]

Mmmmm... Happiness is a hot muzzle.

[Spikes]

Just need them to bring back the power-loader, Alien queen, and the drop ship, and all the fans will be so happy....