Prometheus in 2008

Check out this post from 2008 on the Aliens Marines forums. It seems exactly the premise of Prometheus 2012. http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showpost.php?p=1345912&postcount=1243 [i]Well when I consider the Alien films until now, apart from the established premise of how and what in Alien, there really hasn't been anything else. Alien introduced the Alien and its lifecycle and it was scary. But after that all the films seemed to only continue along the "it's scary" vein. We got an Alien leader that was bigger in Aliens, and continued on the scaryness aspect of battling them. Greater numbers, but no new story. In Alien 3 again people being slaughtered by the Alien (almost the same as movie 1), and Ripley dies aswell in this one. Again no new story. In 4 Ripleys come back and again people are slaughtered by aliens, and again no news to the story. If we look at the details of all the films they are great, Ridley's cinematography, Cameron's eye for detail, Fincher's mood, Jeunet's visuals. But when we pan out there really hasn't been anything "considerable" that has been introduced to the franchise. It's just rehashing over and over again what the aliens do to humans when both are in contact, to me that formula is getting very old. It is understandable in a way; when something becomes a very large cultural icon, the law of probability ensures (law of probability = there are far more greedy non visionary cowards that would rather guarantee the franchise continues raking in dollars doing what it has been doing, as opposed to the few strongwilled artisitic souls / inspirational greats that would have dared to extend the story further than we have seen, accepting the financial risk knowing they would reap far greater rewards in the end.) that human nature leads us inescapably to AvP. It seems as if imagination has never resurfaced after the premise was envisaged in Alien 1. One could think of millions of storylines that go further than human decimation by xenomorphs thereby inducing fear in the audience. Imagine a storyline that ties in with Alien 1 (i.e. the till today unexplored fact that the company had knowledge of the presence on LV426 and sent the Nostromo there in the first place). Formulate a storyline that atleast has something to do with that at its beginning. Or about the spacejockey's mission or even world, then design the "planet of the alien" as it where, the xenomorphs home planet, an entire Gigeresque world (not a sketch or two but an entire world). Why is it biomechanical in the first place? Is it really vulgar? Or is it beautiful? Why are we drawn to it? Why are the shapes as they are? Are there other species than the alien on this world? Is the xenomorph a particular manifestation of something? Are there other manifestations? What do they say about death and life? What do they say about things in a broader spectrum than life and death? What references are there to Jungian psychology? Or Freudian? What is Gigers aim in life? What achievements of the spacejockeys made them think they could tame this manifestation, what did they tap into? What goes on in Gigers head? No need to answer all of these questions either, just make sure they are asked! With the right research this franchise could go from a mid-grossing scifi middle of the league player to one of the top cerebral fantasies ever created by mankind, as it is so intricably linked to the very psyche pleasurably digesting the fantasy. Grow the universe with riveting stories that are even more terrifying and exhilirating. Like I said in a previous post, I don't know the gearbox team tasked with creating this game, their artistic background, opinions on the franchise, decisionmakers, subject matter experts, etc. But this team is in a position with this (to be infamous) videogame, to setup content and a storyline to rival those filmed by Scott and Cameron and really set a new benchmark. This benchmark, if it is extraordinarily classy, would be a punch in the face to those meek slippery buckets of slime at the management team of Fox who have raped this franchise and set an idiotic reference with AvP that 11 year old boys seem to relish.[/i]