Any good NEW articles out today?

I'll start...here's one...[url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelhumphrey/2012/04/02/with-prometheus-ridley-scott-perfects-what-mass-effect-3-missed/]In forbes about Scott hitting on what "mass effect" missed[/url]

Curious to see they refer to it as an Alien prequel.. funny how this keeps coming up, and the film-makers keep giving us, "well it's maybe kind of prequel but not really but yea sort-of"... They say one thing then they work mighty hard to give us a trailer that suggests something else. I think they're just trying to keep us guessing till the end which is fine with me.

Rick...for some reason, the studio was "afraid" to reference Alien in any way (not sure why, given the franchise's success, although I suppose the last 2 installments and the AvP stuff probably scared them) so as not to cause people to be prejudiced, and I think Sir Ridley and Damon and everyone have been obliging them in every way possible, when we all know, and they know that it is in fact totally an Alien Prequel, and that the other stuff is just lipservice...

i am speculating here but i think it is because the "Alien" franchise is property of 20th century fox, so a direct connection or link would limit the creative availablity for future films. So by it not being a direct prequel Mr. Scott can keep giving us more good films....i hope....so excited!!!

Agree with Brain Salad Surgery. There's a bad vibe around the alien franchise given the last few movies. That vibe could keep the general audience away from this movie if they connect the two. So they're semi-distancing themselves from the franchise. But yes...Scott and the studio are basically holding up a blue-colored card in front of our faces and telling us "[i]This card is NOT blue[/i]." LOL

^^^^ This. They are trying to hedge their bets. For younger audiences, ANY mention of ALIEN is linked in their minds to the recent AVP/Predator crap and the last movie of the original franchise did extremely poorly in the eyes of moviegoers and critics at the time. Well hell, even to this day most original fans HATE the 3rd and 4th movies in the franchise. It makes perfect sense that they are trying to limit their comments on any direct connection to the "Alien Universe" (EVEN IF THERE IS IN FACT ONE), because in a lot of circles, it could translate into box office poison for them. Its a perfectly rational strategy. I agree that they should be trying to market this to BRAND NEW audiences as something completely new. Remember that 20th C. Fox is going to have to make a boatload of money on this, or we will probably never see a serious attempt to revisit the original storyline again.

Well they are going to go for the open ended, ending which can then go onto either a full Prequel or go off to explore something else. I dont think maybe this film will end with us concluding that the Derelict crashed at the end and the one in Alien are the same. This film could be about the creation of the Petrol Engine and Wheel so to speak, and thus at the end they could then link it to say a Motorbike (Alien Xeno) or go with a new direction and different Alien i.e a Car. So in this movie we just so the Engine and Wheel invented which was both used to create Bikes and Cars. Bit of a funny analogy, i hope you get what i mean? This film could show Who could be behind the creation of the Alien Xeno, and hint at maybe how it came to be but not go in detail of how it actually came to be.

@RickK I agree, there's so much speculation we'll all probably be wrong.

Thanks Brain!

yw, RC 8...ty for your great Avatar! It always winds me up....!