Alien 5 May Have a Director… And It’s Not Ridley Scott
For years there has been talk of another Alien movie happening, one that would probably be a prequel. Ridley Scott had even expressed interest in coming back to direct another installment, and Sigourney Weaver said she would do it if the right people were involved. Well now that Fox is set to reboot the Predator franchise with the help of Robert Rodriguez, it seems that they may be getting the ball rolling with Alien 5 again. Here’s the thing though: according to Bloody Disgusting, they may no longer be pursuing a prequel or sequel, but rather a full-blown reboot.
A tipster has informed BD that Ridley Scott will be involved in the project, but as a producer only, along with Michael Costigan (American Gangster, Brokeback Mountain) and Tony Scott. If this rumour is to be believed, it appears that a first-time director will be the one taking the helm instead: a guy by the name of Carl Rinsch. He’s another music video and commercial director with a lot of FX experience (not unlike Neill Blomkamp), who works for Ridley Scott’s production company. /Film managed to dig up a bunch of his commercials, one of which I have embedded below. At this point, I would take this rumour with a grain of salt, but still… is this the right direction for them to take the Alien franchise in? I have a bad feeling about this, and I am guessing I’m not alone.
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It’s the same approach they’ve done with all of the films. Have young visionary directors take the helm. And this dude seems to have visuals in spades.
Posted by swarez on May 28th, 2009I doubt this will be better than any of the 3 first movies if it ever happens.
Posted by Kasper F. Nielsen on May 28th, 2009That’s true, although it kinda depends on if you believe Alien 3 and Resurrection were solid films. I was mainly talking about the reboot direction, which is still somewhat unconfirmed.
Posted by Sean on May 28th, 2009Loved alien and aliens, the rest you can throw in the garbage. I love Fincher and thought Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Director of Delicatessen and City of Lost Children) was going to do a better job, but Alien 3 and 4 were just horrible. If they do an Alien 5, and it is an origin story then that might be a good thing. The whole Ripley storyline was to drawn out. That storyline should have ended with Aliens. In my mind that’s how Ripley’s story came to an end, with Newt and Bishop(Half of him anyway) in the sleep chambers on their way home.
Posted by 1138 on May 28th, 2009…And worst of all I have they are giving the alien a fucking origin.
Posted by Matt Keith on May 28th, 2009my response to this news and news like it from now on…
“…I’m so very tired steven…” (cue spider crawling across my face)
Posted by Bob The Slob on May 28th, 2009It’s Truckasaurous! I hope he’s in Alien V.
Posted by Ian on May 28th, 2009I wish they would stop beating a dead horse and just let this franchise die already.
Alien 5: Aliens Rising? The Rise of the Alien? Alien: Evolution?
No fucking thanks.
Posted by Rian on May 28th, 2009If a prequel/reboot is better than Alien 1-3, I’ll eat my Halcyon Alien Warrior model. Money wise, its a proven franchise, Fox has made dumber decisions in the past cough (Watchmen) cough.
Posted by Laserbeard on May 28th, 2009Lately I realized I’ve been seeing the same blockbuster franchises my entire life.
Posted by Ryan M. on May 28th, 2009My Mom goes into labor with me during Temple of Doom and 23 years later I’m seeing Crystal Skulls. I saw T2 in theaters then almost 2 decade later I’m seeing T4…the list goes on.
Posted by Ryan M. on May 28th, 2009Starting to hate it…
Posted by Ryan M. on May 28th, 2009Because of people like u, there is no ALIEN movie for so long! Instead of beign HAPPY, that there can be another ALIEN movie (doesn`t matter if it is good or great) , (how many stupid movies is shot every month & it is ok for u) so instead of being happy, u r saying that u don`t need it! I love ALIEN and I love even more ALIENS, I like ALIENS (much more that all the rest of the horror movies) and I like ALIEN RESSURECTION (especially the “NEW” human-alien) so I hope they will make NEW alien, I wish they could made one movie like a prequel another one like a sequel and another one like whatever! The more alien movies the better, because soon this saga will come to an end! And we will be watching only movies like NIGHT IN THE MUSEUM or in better case THE HILLS HAVE EYES
Posted by NessunDorma on June 13th, 2009I hope they tell a story with new characters and new scenarios. I am very over the alpha female thematic that has been milked dry. There are hundreds of stories that could be told by dropping an Alien into the mix, without retelling Ripley’s struggle everytime. I think the Ripley character needs the boot but the Alien is fine as Giger originally designed.
Posted by Hugh on June 15th, 2009Clearly, we have seen in the AVP movies that without Ripley, the aliens themselves have no relevance and no history of destruction. Ripley is always the source of reference from which our terror of the alien is born. The new movie is undoubtedly going to need Ripley if it intends to be successful.
Posted by JustJeff on June 19th, 2009GODDAMMIT! These DUMBASSES are going to kill the damn series! This series is so EPIC, you cannot kill it goddammit! GIVE US WHAT WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR, NOT A DAMN PREQUEL, NOT ANOTHER GAY ASS AVP MOVIE! ALIEN 5! For the love of GOD! PLEASE, DO NOT MAKE A RETARDED MOVE FOX! THINK ABOUT THE FANS, NOT THE STUPID GREENBACKS! HELL! I even have an idea for the fifth movie if you see this and are interested email me.
Posted by Davian on June 26th, 2009They should make Alien home planet –showing the ‘bugs’ and what the other lifeforms of that planet look like. sort of like the movie ‘Evolution’.
Posted by G.E.N. on June 29th, 2009A decent movie is possible. The ship from alien and aliens where the egss were found was not destroyed. Someone needs to close the gap between alien 3 and resurrection.
Posted by truthminer on July 2nd, 2009read John Shirley’s.. Aliens: steel Egg….
Posted by caboose7871 on July 15th, 2009the book is great and makes the origins of the Alien and the giant dead mother in the chair in the firat movie..
this book would make a great movie… READ IT!!!
Hey caboose7871, in the first movie the thing on the chair was NOT the mother, it was a different species that Alien also attacked. You can see the chestburster exit wound on the creature on the chair.
Posted by Facehugger on July 19th, 2009Look(husbandspeaking)I love the Alien saga as much as any fan. I would do anything just to see Sigourney Weaver exchange glances with the xenomorph bu-t… you can not screw up a movie’s plot and expect the starlette to keep coming back to take a kick in the ass every time someone wants to pick apart one of the movies in the sci-fi genre; Namingly the later ones. And she’s my hero in the biz but would you go through that?
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