November 23, 2011I know that the shots look a bit polished, but I'm sure that's due to the art direction from both the Magazine AND the studio; and does not reflect the movie's final look. While Ridley doesn't want to release too much info on the film, remember that the studio needs to promote/market the movie to the general movie-going audience. Hence the nice polished, but still spooky/sci-fi look of the official images.
While I know Ridley is going to make a great movie (even possibly Oscar worthy). Unfortunately, that doesn't mean the movie will gross significant profits. We're in a time where mostly only summer action blockbusters or teenie-bopper movies come close to record breaking numbers. While a movie might not have to hit that high in the numbers dept, it still has to do fairly well in order to be considered a success by the studio and therefore warrant further sequels. Honestly, I believe this movie will be perhaps one of the best sci-fi movies of the decade, perhaps even close in originality and design to the original "Alien". But I fear it will only do "OK" at the theater profit-wise. Maybe enough to warrant a sequel. (Unless , of course, the movie has an original controversial scene akin to the original chest-burster sequence that will draw general movie goers in for the shock-factor).
Aside from all the marketing/profit talk, I can't wait till this movie debuts. The images have me even more excited. I hoping this film will bump "Alien" down from #1on my personal list of all-time favorite movies...
