[PirateShampoo]

Well i think thats what the back story of the "Jockey" will be. They created the Alien as a bio weapon to attack worlds so they then could take them over.

I cant but help in drawing similarity's between Aliens and Tyranids of the warhammer universe.

[Galvasean]

Originally Posted by LZ5by5

How about Aliens -v- Dinosaurs, who'd win there Galva?

Acid blood FTW

[pixelburp]

Originally Posted by LZ5by5

It gave us a mighty fine PC game though, I loved that game.

Perhaps, but having spent money on the latest, crappy, installment of the games, I'm not so sure 1 good game was a fair trade.

[MiloYossarian]

I'm not going to lie, I liked Aliens vs Predator but I loved Aliens vs Predator 2. I can just see in my head the scriptwriters of that hitting each other a hi 5 when they'd finished and screaming at the top of their lungs 'Take that Shakespeare.'

[somuj_2]

Originally Posted by MiloYossarian

I'm not going to lie, I liked Aliens vs Predator but I loved Aliens vs Predator 2. I can just see in my head the scriptwriters of that hitting each other a hi 5 when they'd finished and screaming at the top of their lungs 'Take that Shakespeare.'

Even though the Predator got next to no screen time at all. It should have been called Aliens vs small town humans

[humanji]

Originally Posted by pixelburp

Isn't that the plot behind the aforementioned AvP stories? That the xenomorphs were engineered to be "the perfect prey"?

I don't think so. I think it's more a case of the predators finding the aliens and realising that they would be fun to hunt (there's wasn't much on tv that day). So they farm them.

I have a couple of the Aliens comics and there's one, I think called "Outbreak", where the marines go to the alien homeworld and find that they're not top of the food chain and that there's loads of other beasties that eat them. It was a bit sh*t because, as said above, the aliens are scary because you don't know anything about them.

[MiloYossarian]

Originally Posted by somuj_2

Even though the Predator got next to no screen time at all. It should have been called Aliens vs small town humans

I agree with you sir, I thought they were total kak, I was being sarcastic. Predator not getting enough screen time was the least of those films problems.

[L31mr0d]

leaked still from the next Alien vs Predator

[BopNiblets]

Originally Posted by PirateShampoo

Well he has confirmed the next film will explain the origins of the "Space Jockey" from the first film.

Some character saying to the audience:
"HR Giger's a superfreak!"?

[somuj_2]

Originally Posted by L31mr0d

leaked still from the next Alien vs Predator

dat jst became my new wallpaper

[Ridley]

Originally Posted by pixelburp

Of course, remember kids; if you want to blame anyone for the AvP crossover, blame Predator 2. Thanks to a throwaway Easter Egg featuring an Alien's skull in the Predator's trophy room, we now suffer those bloody crossover stories & godawful movies.

It's a nod to the comic. Blame Fox for not listening to Weaver saying it sounds awful. Though I put it down to execution and zero faith in the audience being able to handle something with more depth.

Originally Posted by pixelburp

Isn't that the plot behind the aforementioned AvP stories? That the xenomorphs were engineered to be "the perfect prey"?

The predators just use people to breed the xenomorph to hunt as part of their rite of passage in the movie.

[Duggy747]

Here's what Ridley Scott had to say recently about the Alien Prequel

Originally Posted by MTV

On Thursday (April 22), we caught up with the "Robin Hood" director to speak with him for next week's MTV Summer Movie Preview. And when he mentioned that he was feasting his eyes upon the latest "Untitled 'Alien' Prequel" script pages, we couldn't help but ask some questions.

What followed might be the most revealing interview Sir Ridley has given thus far on the top-secret project. Read on for exclusive details concerning the prequel's plot, creature design and the woman — not named Sigourney Weaver — who will soon be kicking alien ass:

MTV: We're very excited about your return to the "Aliens" world — what's going on with it at this point?

Ridley Scott: As we speak, I've got a pile of pages next to me; it's like the fourth draft. It's a work in progress, but we're not dreaming it up anymore. We know what the story is. We're now actually trying to improve the three acts and make the characters better, build it up to something [we can shoot]. It's a work in progress, but we're actually making the film. There's no question about it, we're going to make the film.


MTV Imagines The Kick-Ass Stars Of An 'Alien' Prequel

MTV: Awesome.

Scott: Now it's a matter of, how good can I get the screenplay in the next few weeks so I can get a good ballpark figure of what it will cost. I've already got people working graphically on designs for the various requirements of the film.

MTV: Since this is a prequel, will you need to make the ships more primitive-looking than in "Alien"?

Scott: It's set in 2085, about 30 years before Sigourney [Weaver's character Ellen Ripley]. It's fundamentally about going out to find out 'Who the hell was that Space Jockey?' The guy who was sitting in the chair in the alien vehicle — there was a giant fellow sitting in a seat on what looked to be either a piece of technology or an astronomer's chair. Remember that?

MTV: Of course.

Scott: And our man [Tom Skerritt as Captain Dallas] climbs up and says "There's been an explosion in his chest from the inside out — what was that?" I'm basically explaining who that Space Jockey — we call him the Space Jockey — I'm explaining who the space jockeys were.

MTV: And is the Weyland-Yutani company in existence at this point?

Scott: It's Weyland. Weyland hasn't joined Yutani yet, so they go and see Weyland. [The film] is about the discussion of terraforming — taking planets and planetoids and balls of earth and trying to terraform, seed them with the possibilities of future life.

MTV: We know how obsessive "Alien" fans can get. Are you going to make a film that doesn't require having seen any of the other movies?

Scott: Totally. Yes. [People will still get it], because there's a lot of copying, dude.

MTV: There's a lot of copying of your movies.

Scott: There's a lot of homage. Is that the polite word? Homage? I call it something else. [Laughs.]

MTV: Will Sigourney Weaver have any participation at all?

Scott: It will be before she was born!

MTV: So not even a voice-over, explaining things? Nothing?

Scott: Well, the main character [in the prequel] will be a woman, yeah. We're thinking it could go down that route, yeah. When I started the original "Alien," Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy. During casting, we thought, "Why don't we make it a woman?"

MTV: So will you be creating new aliens for your prequel?

Scott: What you have to do is — were there four or five "Alien" films? I can't remember how many followed.

MTV: There were three after you, then the "Alien vs. Predator" nonsense.

Scott: Yeah, the thing about "Alien vs. Predator" is, I know it's commerce, but what a pity. I think, therefore, I have to design — or redesign — earlier versions of what these elements are that led to the thing you finally see in "Alien," which is the thing that catapults out of the egg, the face-hugger.

MTV: OK.

Scott: I don't want to repeat it. The alien in a sense, as a shape, is worn out.

MTV: Will you consult the original alien designer, H.R. Giger, on these ideas?

Scott: Yeah, he's still around. Once I get more serious and get going, and the big wheels start turning, we'll certainly talk. And maybe we'll come up with something completely different.

MTV: In your mind, when do cameras begin rolling on the film?

Scott: We're hoping to have it in theaters in late 2011, or maybe the best date in 2012.

MTV: Have you given any thought on how you'll feel when you walk on set that first time, how you'll deal with the déjà vu from 1979?

Scott: Yeah, it'll be weird, because I always said I'll never do a sequel. [Laughs.]

MTV: What made you change your mind?

Scott: Honestly? They've squeezed the franchise dry. The first one will always be the most frightening, because the beast we put together with Giger and all its parts — the face-hugger, the chest-burster, the egg — they were all totally original, and that's hard to follow. ... I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh.

I still don't want to know who the Space Jockey is, leave him alone.

Hmm, I do like the idea of teaming up H.R. Giger to reinvent the species, though....

[krudler]

I dont want a Space Jockey origin either, I always loved that in a franchise with 4 main movies and 2 spinoffs there hasnt been an attempt to explore it, its one of cinemas greatest mysteries, along with what the aliens are themselves, are they a weapon or some experiment that got out of hand or just a race that was discovered or used to destroy planets. Scott and Giger going back to the franchise is awesome, keep Paul cockface Anderson as far away from it as possible, dont even let him on the set in case his surpeme sh1ttyness rubs off on someone and pollutes the whole project.

[fluke]

Originally Posted by krudler

I dont want a Space Jockey origin either,

This will be as bad as Qui Gon Jinn explaining the force in The Phantom Menace!!

[Ridley]

Originally Posted by krudler

keep Paul cockface Anderson as far away from it as possible.

He's playing the Space Jockey. My movie, my rules.

I've said it before (I think) but I don't particularly want to see



moving around. It's almost the elephant in the room.

Course, the film could turn out to be brilliant and reinvigorate the franchise but my mind defaults to expectations of naff CGI and too much explanation. I'd hate to find out that the xenomorph is anything other than a species just surviving. It's why I don't care about the alien homeworld "Xenomorph Prime". In my mind it's just a big termite mound that is so unimportant to what the xenomorph is.