"Ridley Scott's Alienverse"

[MouthForWar]

[Rodanex]

I'm glad it's not Lindelof.

[jellydonut25]

meh. Writer schmiter.

I mean, it all comes down to the director in the end anyway; his choice of what to keep in/delete, his choice of how to compose the shots, the casting choices (not the director's call maybe on this one)...but yeah.

Lindelof takes too much of the heat for the problems with Prometheus (many of which I feel can and hopefully will be solved via follow-up films).

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[Cookie]

Well.... the ship PROMETHEUS is destroyed, so what can they call the sequel?

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[klen7]

Can you elaborate on that?

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[klen7]

Interesting. My money is on "Prometheuses" for the sequel

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[Dr Kain]

You know what, I'm out. It is bad enough they kept pushing the second movie back, but changing the name to be Alien just ruins the entire thing for me. I wanted something that was going to be different. Something that could be set in the same universe but not be directly related to. Changing its name to Alien has just completely ruined that and I really wish they had actually just made a "OH GODZILLA! WHAT TERRIBLE LANGUAGE!" stand alone movie that did not rely on sequels to tell its story.

[tbeasley]

I re-watched Prometheus in anticipation for The Martian (alongside Alien and Blade Runner). It's biggest flaw easily is that it doesn't know if it wants to be an Alien prequel or an original sci-fi tale about the origins of humanity. If it was one or the other it would have been more focused. The movie basically looses steam halfway through, it's like it doesn't know where to go. Other than that, it looks and sounds great. It has a solid if crowded cast. It's certainly not a bad movie, just a meandering one.

Another interesting thing to note are the similarities to Alien vs. Predator... Scott allegedly had no interest in acknowledging its existence (which is understandable), but the plot points of ancient astronauts and the ending shot of a newborn Alien creature bring AVP to mind. It's like the 'enemy of my enemy' line popping up in Predators, I mean come on.

[Dr Kain]

Because **** you Prometheus fans, that's why.

http://comicbook.com/2015/11/16/alien-c ... ease-date/

I give two middle fingers to Scott and Fox. I'm out.

[Benjamin Haines]

[Dr Kain]

[tbeasley]

It's nothing wildly different. Prometheus was a spaceship. Covenant is a spaceship. It's just a subtitle under the main Alien series now. If there was a common critique for Prometheus it was how it lacked focus. This might allow Covenant's story to stay on track.

If there's any real bummer about this it's how Blomkamp's Alien film is now on the backburner.

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[Dai]

Running didn't work out well for most of the guys in the 'bait and chase' scene in Alien 3.