| 31 July 2009
Today Variety confirmed that Ridley Scott has signed on to direct a prequel to 'Alien'. With recent resurrections of old franchises, I am skeptically optimistic. This is the first time Scott will be attached to an Alien movie since the original. He wont have to jump through the same hoops that Spielberg and Lucas did in Crystal Skull, reintroducing characters 2 decades later. There was only one alien in the original film, which was rarely seen. I miss the old school type horror of 'fear of the unseen', like Jaws and Alien. Almost every suspense/horror movie I see nowadays employs the same easy startle tactics....... Guy pops in front of the camera accompanied by loud noise.... Give me a break. Alien was a movie that did it right. Hopefully Ridley Scott can bring back the psychological suspense of the original.
Since the original took place on an abandoned planet's station, and everyone was found dead, I think we can assume the prequel wont have a happy ending.
Link to Variety article
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Prequels
It seems the new 'fad' is to ditch the prequel and instead do a re-imagining of a franchise. This worked great for Batman and Star Trek.
Off the top of my head, here are 3 prequels that were actually decent:
-The Godfather Part II
-Casino Royale
-The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
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