appetite4illusions Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 It probably won't tank. My guess is, they'll be conservative with the budget (80-120 mil) and Xenomorphs will be all over the marketing. FOX is biting their nails and they want their Alien back.Over the years, I'm sure Ridley's had more latitude at times to do what he wants and at others, to kowtow to what the studio needs. He still has a vision that he wants to see through, but like that black goo in Prometheus, it just keeps mutating. The mutation here is the relevancy to ALIEN, which seems to wax and wane. First it was a prequel, then it wasn't a prequel, then it turned out to be a sorta-kinda prequel. Now it needs to be a prequel. There's no gas in Prometheus as a franchise, so in order to do another one and to make some sort of follow-up, it has to be an ALIEN film. People don't want to see beating-around-the-bush. They want the iconic monster, the haunting atmosphere, the terror they remember. Ridley knows he's got to put up or shut-up, so now, the idea that the story he's weaving is part of the ALIEN fabric, doesn't seem like such a compromise.But yeah, I'm totally not down for three of these. One will get made for sure. The success of it will be proportional to how familiar the film is to ALIEN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknroll41 Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 (edited) Kinda sad that we're talking about a Prometheus sequel thats pretending to be an Alien prequel and the start of it's own trilogy, instead of talking about the Blomkamp movie that this thread was originally created for.Its gonna feel kinda weird if Blomkamp's film is just shoved somewhere in between this supposed new prequel trilogy Edited December 2, 2015 by rocknroll41 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Glow Inc. Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Didn't you hear ? The Blomkamp movie was cancelled... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron MikeyJ Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Didn't you hear ? The Blomkamp movie was cancelled...Where did you hear this? Last we heard it was STILL very much happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Powerage5 Posted December 2, 2015 Author Share Posted December 2, 2015 It seems to me like no one really knows where it stands. I was under the impression it was temporarily shelved, until after Alien: Covenant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Sabbath Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 It seems to me like no one really knows where it stands. I was under the impression it was temporarily shelved, until after Alien: Covenant.Pretty sure that's the case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknroll41 Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 It seems to me like no one really knows where it stands. I was under the impression it was temporarily shelved, until after Alien: Covenant.Pretty sure that's the case.Weaver ain't getting any younger so if they still wanna make it work they shouldn't keep it shelves for too long Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Glow Inc. Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Ok, maybe not "cancelled" but "on indefinite hold".http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3368074/neill-blomkamp-exits-his-alien-sequel-for-now/Apparently it would have featured Newt as the main character and Hicks as support...which, whether people like Alien 3 or not, doesn't make any sense ( though I would have loved seeing it ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iron MikeyJ Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Because they were going to pretend that 3 and Ressurection were dreams that Ripley had while floating around space after Aliens. So they would still be a part of the series, if you wanted them to be, or they can be ignored as well. I think it's the perfect way to reignite the series, I think it sounds great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Glow Inc. Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 The problem is that "it was just a dream" is a really cheap scenaristic device people use in case of a major fuckup so they can backtrack...Everybody knows those movies weren't intended as "just dreams". It's just as retarded as the Colonial Marines explanation for Hicks being alive and there being a facehugger on the Sulaco... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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