![]() The cast for Alvarez’s film already has Cailee Spaeny in the lead role, while Noah Hawley’s TV series features Sydney Chandler. She’s had her time in the vastness of space let somebody else take over.īy somebody else, I mean somebody else. Ripley is one of the great action heroes and a cultural icon, but enough is enough. The Alien franchise remains oddly tied to Ellen Ripley, so it becomes more about how these strange creatures changed one woman’s life than their effect on the universe. Stick with what worked, but do it better! Movie, audiences aren’t asking for game changers. As seen by the recent success of Top Gun: Maverick, Avatar: The Way of Water, Creed III, John Wick: Chapter 4, and The Super Mario Bros. The fun is seeing how new characters react to these circumstances.ĭon’t change the game, fellas. ![]() Hell, the extraordinary Alien: Isolation video game works because it hews closely to Scott’s original vision. Dozens of Alien books exist, and they all do the same thing: a group of space explorers encounter Xenomorphs and must fight to survive. Give audiences what they want: alien mayhem on a larger scale mixed with a few new concepts that don’t veer too far from Alien or Aliens. ![]() They don’t want to mimic Scott or Cameron and take unnecessary risks rather than building on or expanding what came before. ![]() He merely ups the stakes and deepens the characters, ensuring the film functions within Scott’s preconceived universe.įincher and Jean-Pierre Jeunet are too focused on leaving their imprint on the material. Similarly, James Cameron doesn’t veer too far off the beaten path with Aliens. Instead, the larger narrative - the Space Jockey, the derelict spacecraft, the Alien - remains a mystery, forcing us to fill in the gaps with our imaginations. You could say the same about Alien 3 and Resurrection, which tried too hard to move the franchise into radical new directions.Īlien works because, at its core, the film is a slasher film set in space, peppered with a few exciting ideas - none of which are ever fully explained. The problem with Prometheus and Covenant is that they are far too complicated, neither delivering what audiences crave nor charting a course worth exploring. At the same time, unique ideas involving the Xenomorph’s origins remained curiously underdeveloped - something about black goo? Characters like Naomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw appeared and vanished. Instead, he maintained his grip on the past, producing a pair of films that too often felt like a weird hybrid of various ideas without a clear focus. Scott never settled on a correct course, choosing to venture into myriad directions hoping that a proper path would magically appear. Visually, the pics were spectacular narratively, they were scatterbrained and incredibly frustrating. Rather than rehash the Alien formula, he opted to go deeper and explore the struggle between God and man, man and machine, as viewed through the eyes of the psychotic android David (Michael Fassbender). I appreciate what Scott set out to do with Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. ![]() However, I’m feeling hopeful about the direction Álvarez will go. Ever since then, the franchise has struggled, and it’s easy to dismiss any attempt to revive it. Directed by Fede Alvarez and produced by Ridley Scott, it will look to resuscitate the once proud franchise that saw both Scott and James Cameron deliver masterworks with Alien and Aliens, respectively. We recently received a first look at the new Alien movie via a set photo. ![]()
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