Or perhaps I should say the original “Alien”. Because of the over saturation of the famous beast, Ridley says (in a recent interview) that he plans to go back to the drawing board and show the creature/machine as it was before the crew of the Nostromo originally encountered it many years ago and had their upsetting, chest popping, face ripping experiences.
In a completely awesome interview with Screen Daily, Ridley goes into some passionate detail on what will become of the greatest horror creature in cinema history.
The film will be really tough, really nasty. It’s the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would actually go in and clean up a planet? It will take place in the years before that, when they first come across this thing on a planet called Zeta Reticuli. …
Yeah, the thing about Alien vs Predator is, I know it’s commerce, but what a pity… I think, therefore, I have to design – or redesign – earlier versions of what these elements are that led to the thing you finally see in Alien, which is the thing that catapults out of the egg, the face-hugger. I don’t want to repeat it. The alien in a sense, as a shape, is worn out.”
Gods and engineers on Beta Reticuli. Are you serious? I’m hyperventilating. Thanks io9 for the heads up.
