LOL, I did not hear about that, but I did hear some huge big thing about having the alien travel in time or something. Really, the best thing about Alien, maybe Ridley does understand, is the feeling and the potential of what the story could be, as opposed to anything the studio heads can conceive of. There are a lot of good science fiction stories, but I really cannot think of one that has been transferred to the screen faithfully. They have raped most of the Phillip K. Dick's stories for cheap thrills. Starship Troopers I thought was rather well done for what it was as a movie, but not really faithful or representative of the book. Maybe the Martian, but that was a simple and basic story that just required that it follow the story.
Alien is an interesting study in most aspects, but I am sorry that after Aliens most of the movies have been seen as opportunities to make profit by exploiting the basic idea that already exists. I wonder if James Cameron would make another Alien movie ... I think he would be more clear about having a coherent plot that is also fun to watch.
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Dallas (304)
7 years ago
Yeah at the end of alien ripley was to have her head ripped off by the alien, and then the alien was to make a final captains log mimicking Dallas' voice as it pushed buttons and stuff. The guys at fox flew out and almost fired Ridley for his stupidity lol.
You're right though when you say books get raped for the purpose of cheap thrills. The one that always stands out for me is "I am legend". It's had 3 movies based off the short story and not one of them is accurate to the book. Which was fine when they changed the title to the last man on earth or omega man, but the will smith movie kept the title but ditched the end that had the title making sense. It has a wonderful little twist before twists were all the rage and it made the title relevent to the story.
Another one would be world war z. Understandably though that should have been a mini series rather than a movie, and that can be said for so many things these days. Shoe horning 20 or even 30 hours of material in to a 2 hour movie is silly.
Would Cameron make a good sequel to aliens? I don't know. Maybe? He would definitely be more coherent. Ridley and his writers seem to be throwing out the stuff we already know in favour of new ideas. One things for sure, he did the right things with aliens. We'd already had alien, we didn't need another one. He upped the ante. It's not one, it's a shit load. It's not creeping around, they are coming at you full speed. What needed to happen next was to open up the universe with more detail of the players involved. The company and its corrupt ways. Their competitors. Something alone the lines of the expanse for example. It's got lots of different players revolving around tow governments desire for a biological weapons project. It's more complicated than that, but you get the idea. Trying to remake alien was dumb idea 92 and it's still a dumb idea in 2017.
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