Fox Is Not Reassessing Ridley Scott’s Planned Alien Movies

Incredibly refreshing to see this kind of thing OP, and a shout out to the quote from @Lawrence of Arabia - my thoughts exactly and I couldn't have put them better myself.

It's easy for the rumor mill to run rampant and sweep up people's perspectives along the way.

Thoroughly Derelict - Thank you for your kind words. Revisiting this thread it is easy to see how dangerous the dark force users are... :/

Starlogger Interesting to see this thread again and how a personal view can evolve over time since AC grew on me. Tastes and opinions can change it seems.

Well i missed this Topic... so its nice for the Bump..

It appears FOX and RS had discussed near Back-to-Back Sequels, the draft was almost done if not just needing some final tinkering and putting to a Shooting Script,  Ridley Scott had announced plans to shoot the Movie about July 2018, with a release in about April 2019.

Then we had the Box Office Results and Criticism and surely FOX would want to take a Time-Out and Reflect on what happened with the Box Office and look at the  Criticism , because FOX simply at this point (July 2017) would not be willing to Bank-Roll Blindly a Sequel and ignore the Criticism and Box Office Numbers, because they would not want to end up with another Box Office Flop so to speak, which would leave them Dead in the Water, because Logically any sequel would Set-up the FINAL movie that connects to ALIEN which would leave them the Choice to abandon Ship, leaving those Answers to Alien a Mystery of sorts, and leaving us on a bit of a Unanswered Cliff Hanger setting up a 3rd Alien Prequel that would never happen...   Or do they Proceed with the 3rd Movie at the risk of it also not being a Success.

So FOX was put in a difficult situation..

I think this Topic is Irrelevant as of now with the Disney Take Over...  I think Disney would be in NO RUSH to make a ALIEN movie,  i think also the Actions of Blomkamp by releasing more Concepts for his Alien 3 Re-boot and then saying he is abandoning the Project are simply a clever piece of Marketing by him to engage Fanboys to make Videos and Topics on Social Media wishing that Blomkamps Project can get the go ahead.

If Disney see on Social Media etc that Blomkamps ideas are gaining a lot of steam as far as Fans disappointed that the Project may never happen, Disney could see the potential to make a Blomkamp style Alien Movie.

Ridley Scott's chances of doing his Project are diminished but it may not be too late, while Blomkamps seemingly Dead in the Water Project could have a slight chance of Resurrection, Ridley Scott's Prequels are by no means Abandoned, he has stated that with the ground work/set up down for a sequel to AC and then another to bridge the gap to Alien it would be Crazy to abandon this now.  I think RS best chance of getting his Project Green Lit by Disney could be to work on a few Disney Projects and let Disney see first hands what RS as a Director has to offer, then this could get RS very much in Disney's Good Books  which could allow RS to Plug his Alien Prequels.

dk - That's a natural thing, I think.

BigDave - We shouldn't forget that Scott gave us the brilliant dark fantasy Legend (1985).

Bigdave as long as he lives long enough...

Ati

And what qualifies as light fantasy as opposed to dark fantasy?

Political correctness ;) 

red0guy

That is the dark fantasy when you turn off the lights...

Legend is LEGEND imo. I think the difference between light and dark fantasy is that dark fantasy has a character or situation where something can be lost on a heavy level like a soul, life or the world. Light fantasy is that crap where someone might lose a girl friend and think it is the end of the world. 

There- have fun with those standards!

UPDATE-

The origional Star Wars was light fantasy. There was a clear cut good guy/bad guy. 

Dark fantasy has more ambiguity like Legend. There is good and evil but evil is given a voice to state its case and is not completely unreasonable.

Satan from the South Park Movie rightfully stated- "Without evil there can be no good, so it must be good to be evil sometimes".

Legend what a movie that was...

Oh what the hell, since this thread got dug up I will join the discussion.

First I will update the scores for AC in the sources shown above.

IMDB 6,5/10 (2018-01-09)
Tomatometer 56/100 (2018-01-09)
Metascore 65/100 (2018-01-09)
Fandango 3,5/5 (2018-01-09)

As you can see a lot of the scores have lowered for the movie which I think is a good thing since I did not like it that much. I do not consider myself a hater I am simply thinking about the movie, what I liked and did not like and no it does not get higher than a 2 out of 5 because there were too many disappointments in it. People are allowed to have their opinions but the movie has too high ratings.  To me it is not even near that level.

The blu-ray was mentioned, I have not bothered to buy it. It is not even worth to buy, that is how it is to me since I can only speak for myself and how I see it.

I am getting tired of David, give me better human characters and less robots. Humans can be smart and still get killed. There are ideas that I have and that I think are better than the movie is and also other fan ideas that are a lot better.

"Members on the forum have better ideas imo." DK

I agree, the way that Scott wants to take it is mildly speaking not too good.

Ati: What kind of dark forces are you talking about?

To me currently the dark forces are Scott and Fox that are effing up the franchise with their crappy David  things.

if David was a character introduced in BR2049 then fine. that's what the BR movies are about, AI. alien is not regardless of whether these are prequels or not. RS gave us the engineers and the black goo so make it about them, not some delusional synthetic with daddy issues

"RS gave us the engineers and the black goo so make it about them, not some delusional synthetic with daddy issues"

Exactly this, hell they even remind us of the SJ in how they look so there is probably some connection there. The black goo is interesting so they can expand more on that. I am not sure if we can trust David on it since he is a crazy robot (unreliable narrator I think is the term Michelle J used). Move on from the David story, make it more about the Engineers and their connection to the SJ.