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Re: Tony Scott confirms Alien prequel/remake
A few days ago, Bloody-Disgusting reported that 20th century Fox was going to remake “Alien” and director Carl Rinsch would be helming the movie. Immediately fandom exploded with venom. I think one of the main reasons is that the original is a classic, and 20th Century Fox hasn’t been making films of that caliber recently.
So at today’s junket for Tony Scott’s new film “The Taking of Pelham 123″, I went up Tony after the press conference ended to ask him what was up with the remake.
The big news is he confirmed Carl Rinsch would be directing it and that it’s a prequel to his brother Ridley’s classic!
What Tony told me is after the jump:
Collider: 20th Century Fox is talking about remaking or redoing the original Alien. What’s going on with that?
Tony Scott: Yes, Carl Rinsch is going to do the prequel to Alien. He’s one of our directors at our company.
Collider: I’m going to be blunt about this. Fox has not been doing a great job recently with their movies. They haven’t been an artist friendly studio. Are you guys going to have some creative control and make this a kick-ass film?
Tony: Yes! But Fox is our home. They finace our production company.
Collider: And I’m very happy that you guys have the financing. But a lot of the films they’ve been doing at the studio level, they’ve been nickel and diming and not giving fandom what they want. So I guess my question for you is…are you a little nervous about reengaging the franchise or are you excited.
Tony: I’m excited cause Ridley created the original and Carl Rinsch is one of the family.
Collider: When do you envision this film getting in front of cameras?
Tony: Hopefully the end of the year.
Collider: Will it be a summer of 2011 movie?
Tony: Honestly, I don’t know.
While I wish I could give you more info, I only had moments to talk with him. Look for more “Alien” info as I get it.
Re: Tony Scott confirms Alien prequel/remake
Unnecessary, it was bad enough having the series linked with "Aliens Vs. Predator".
I wouldn't have minded a proper sequel, though.
Re: Tony Scott confirms Alien prequel/remake
James is right. The Alien franchise has been a fucking laughing stock since Aliens, the last good film. Alien 3 was downright horrible from the premise on up, and Alien: Resurrection was even worse with the idea of trying to target it to young adults. AvP was just sticking that dick in there one more time, for both the Alien & Predator franchises.
Alien I think is in a similar position that Batman & Halloween were in. They have no choice. They have to reboot or kill it forever. And Alien is FAR too marketable a brand name for Fox to let that happen. I think even though that new rumored Predators film is actually going for a Predator 3, I think it'll be a reboot before it's all said and done too. Another franchise that's forced to reboot.
With Alien however, whatever they do they need to take it to an Alien homeworld, which fans have been begging for, for years. If it's a simple stalk n' slash with one Alien, as a prequel/remake to Alien '79, it'll be a total bore to everyone.
They also need to make sure to do actual creature effects, with 'some' CGI, and to not totally use CGI. That's a big thing that killed the credibility of the AvP franchise.
Re: Tony Scott confirms Alien prequel/remake
I really liked "Alien 3", I thought it was a good concept as a sequel. Pretty unpretentious as well, given you might have expected a sequel to be the most expensive film ever made, given "Aliens".
As for "Alien: Resurrection", it was classified "18" over here, it definitely wasn't aimed at kids. It wasn't that great as a film admittedly.
