Nix | October 29, 2009
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Ridley Scott Talks Alien Prequel Plot

Ridley Scott is looking forward to doing an “Alien” sequel. Or, er, prequel. Speaking to Empire, the director gives out a little bit more detail about the setting for his “Alien” movie, which he has boarded to direct after 20th Century Fox bulked at having someone else take over the reigns.

Scott tells Empire:

“It’s a brand new box of tricks. We know what the road map is, and the screenplay is now being put on paper. The prequel will be a while ago. It’s very difficult to put a year on Alien, but [for example] if Alien was towards the end of this century, then the prequel story will take place thirty years prior.

I never thought I’d look forward to a sequel. But a prequel is kind of interesting. I’m looking forward to doing that.”

For those wondering, the prequel most likely won’t have anything to do with those giant aliens seen at the beginning of the first movie.

Here’s the trailer for the original “Alien” just to get you guys excited again:



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  • Roger Clemmens

    Just as long as it doesn’t star Tina Turner or “that guy” who almost married J Lo.

    I trust Ridley Scott.

    It’s quite simple why the aliens were created- to absorb into its genome any life forms on unexplored planets so they can be bio-genetically controlled by the bio-engineers who created the HOSTS (aliens) (end result: chimeric organisms) given the possible threat of the unknown planet’s natural indigenous species (which may be hostile). It’s kind of like this… once you know a particular organism’s DNA, you determine what microbes would affect that unique DNA profile. Then, you release an ‘ethno-bomb’ which doesn’t affect the entire planet’s population ’cause you may want to preserve the non, life threatening life forms. The bio-engineers may only want to, for example, just ‘bag,’ the alien/shark hybrids in order to get to the minerals beneath the sea- get it? They’re able to do so because the species, having been overrun by aliens, is now a hybrid species.

    Crazy? The North Koreans are working on something like this now-but with real prisoners..

    Cool, huh? (well, the former, not necessarily the latter).

  • Roger Clemmens

    So, here’s the reason why the aliens in the first film were on LV-246 (or was it the Hoth system?).

    The bio-engineers who created this particular batch wanted LV-246 for themselves, knew “the earthlings”or another alien species wanted the planet, too. So, instead of diplomacy, they chose to deliberately sacrifice a transport ship carrying these “bugs” to meet the landing party. Now, brilliantly, figuring whatever alien species would become infected would want these bugs for their own bio-warfare division, the bio-engineers decided to insert what is called a “terminator” gene into this particular batch. So, ten or fourteen generations down the road, the alien genes would die off. Yeahhhh, this works! Don’t you think?

  • Ken

    THE GREAT MR. SCOTT should put star maps from a galaxey about 20 light years away.. the space jockey is trying to send a message back home but is unable to thats why he died in his chair the aliens were getting hunger and got out and killed the space jockey, the main computer in the ship should look damage along with the alien holding tanks.. The jockey is some how lost in are part of the universe, not just maps of planets should be shown but maps of galaxeys as well….. the space jockey and the aliens are the same kind and are from the same SOLAR SYSTEM in space,thats why the two look alike in away…….this is were the first aliens comes into play “MOTHER PICK UP ON THE STRANGE UNKNOWN SIGNAL AND IS ORDER TO CHECK IN AND REPORT BACK HER FINDINGS” while on her way back to earth with her shippment and GREAT CREW……. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE FIRST ALIEN MOVIE MR SCOTT…………..