Alien 5/Alien Movie Suggestion For Something New... O.k,Here-It-Goes! See You All In The Emergency Room!
The Film Theory Of Everything
MemberOvomorphJune 29, 2020I've thought that something new is actually something that has already been used but could be re-used in a certain way. What if, as was the case for humans during Aliens, Ripley talks to Burke about "a dangerous organism". Well, what if something has arisen within the core of the Alien genome itself. (Not sure what yet) What if a serious sickness/"infection" somehow comes about & ravages the classic view of the Xenomorph's hive structure/behavior. Short of using the term "Zombie"/ "Zombies", I'm proposing that World War Z meets the Xenomorphs & their many colonies scattered across the comos.
Picture this scene:
I've imagined a key moment in a film of this nature. You have a band of Humans armed to the teeth at a key moment within the action/drama unfolding fast. The tension is racheted-up to the extent of Predator with Dutch & His band, waiting for the "moment" to arrive. Suddenly, within the vastness of some giant factory/machine processor, they (Our Human Heroes... & maybe Villains) are running from Alien Xenomorphs they think are hunting them. They run face-first into an entire large number of Xenomorphs, much-as Ripley did in Aliens with the Queen. They see the Humans... the Humans see them... You can cut the air with Hans Zimmers music on a knifes edge... Humans are thinking the Xenomorphs are savoring the kill that's to come... but it never does. Yet.
The two species look across at one-another, across millions of years of natures evolutionary arms race that has now reached this tipping-point. Two species that lack the understanding of the other & now, only too-well. The moment... pregnant with anticipation of what's to come. At that moment, the camera, tight upon both species faces, an absolute blood-curdling, gutteral scream by some advancing horror from the depths of a hell where the sounds of gods being disenbowled are heard emmenating throughout the structure; heading straight towards them both.
The Xenomorphs seemingly have a bigger game to fend-off as was the case for the Hadleys Hope colony & their "last stand" as Frost stated about the slap-dash welded barricade, so-too are the Xenomorphs in the middle of a vast last-stand of their own & the Human band armed to the teeth just walked slap-bang into the middle of it! These Xenomorphs have built an entire wall out of their secreted resin, a giant structure to protect their colony, their Queen if one is there, the Alien race can reproduce in redundancy mode should they find themselves isloated from any xenomorph colony. This is natures 300 moment with the Spartans using themselves & the old Focian Wall to head-off the advancing on-slaught, so-too are the Xenomorphs using themselves & their weird naturally built structures fused to bulkheads, gantries, walls & the entire superstructure of the factory itself to form an impenetrable organic wall of matter.
From the depths of another of natures forms of "living" hell comes an entire moving, putrid wall that makes-up the infected Xenomrph Horde. Gutteral utterances from the avancing abominations send shivers throughout the Human band. The Xenomorph Warrior Breed curve their bodies into a crouching-tiger stance, all talons, claws, coiled tails & fangs bared towards their as-yet-unseen but clearly heard sworn blood-enemy, whom bears down upon them with a growing cochaphany of destruction & nightmarish low rumbling screeches in their wake as if some demon itself were possessed by a darker horror.
A few examples to draw upon, I am aware that this runs similar to the Dark Horse ALIENS vs PREDATOR comics that ran the "Alien: Genocide" storyline. Also, I am aware of the ALIENS: Colonial Marines game in-which there are the Xenomorph "Husks" found petrifide all throughout the sewer system. Almost like they were fossilized in-place within minutes exactly where they stood. So I'm aware of those comparisons & was loving it in the Colonial Marines game because I had thought about this for a while before I played it so that was cool.
The last stand scene in I Am Legend would play similar to this, almost in parallel just the infected Xenomorph Horde against the Alien Xenomorph Warrior Drones protecting their nest & their uninfected class of their kind, with Humans thrown in the mix trapped between the two. I am also inspired by Fifields orginal transformation & zombification in the Prometheus outtake/deleted scene which I think played better. He mutates into a nightmarish version of His former Human-self & was starting to look a bit fused Xenomorph looking, almost gargoyle-like in His face.
So I would like to see an infected "husk"-like horde of Xenomorphs (from the Colonial Marines game) coming into direct conflict with (for-want-of-a-better-word) the "pure" of their kind from their perspective because it cuts to the heart of the entire franchise, one species struggling for dominance over another, one species exploiting its-own dominance at the expence of another & would be interesting to now see a World War Z-like pandemic hit the "unsullied", "pure" Xenomorphs really hard & see how they deal with being wrong-footed by another species to be introduced into the mix... in this case a virus of unknown origin. A variant on the Black Liquid.
By-the-way, I am aware of the familiarity & similarity to The Flood too from Halo & The Thing lifeform so would indeed draw direct inspiration from these varying themes & attempt to build upon it to create an interesting story that I would like to see marrying elements of Aliens, combatant style, Predator & its combatant style, the intricate nature of Alien & the creatures life cycle but now with a twist, the relentless dread of World War Z & the non-stop on-slaught of infeced hordes coming at you like a tsumami, rivers of infected pouring through windows, doorways, relentlessly, piling up in pack/herding mounds to get at You. Plus, if infected Xenomorphs touched Humans then they themslves (Humans) would be turned into Alien "Husk" infected beings Fifieilds original outtake/deleted scene Transformation.
The motivation for the infected horde would be to decimate the unfinfected of their former kind with their virus which means the Warrior-Class that do the guarding of the eggs & the nest building which means the next generation of Xenomorphs would effectively be wiped out & so threatens to drive the entire Xenomorph species to the brink of extinction... if it isn't there already! Interestingly, in a strange twist-of-fate/reversal-of-fortune, it's the Xenomorph "unsullied" who are now the "protectors" of Humans, colonists, etc. as the Aliens need them unspoiled for harvesting new & future uninfected Young. So in a complicated web of simbiotic relationships within the rhythyms of nature the Xenomorphs, in-a-nightmarish-way, become our "saviors", our "protectors", our "benifactors". So this is just a bit of fan-love for an idea that would need fleshing out for other narrative & film tropes to be added to give it muscle, tissue & skin to make it work as a solid concept.
