‘Alien’ Franchise Resurrected by ‘Evil Dead’ Director Fede Alvarez!

[The Deadman]

https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/...-fede-alvarez/

In what could easily be the biggest news bomb of the year, Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez will both write and direct a brand new Alien movie for Ridley Scott and 20th Century Studios, reports THR.

The project is described as “an original standalone feature”, which is a breath of fresh air after several big swings by Scott himself.

Scott, who directed the original sci-fi horror movie released in 1979 and returned for both prequels Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, will produce via his Scott Free banner.

The project is intended to be made for Hulu as part of 20th Century’s ambitions to make more than 10 movies a year for the Disney-owned streaming service.

Two of such projects are the David Bruckner-directed Hellraiser reimagining and Predator prequel Prey, both on the slate for 2022.

Recalls the site, Alien and its many sequels and prequels focus on the horror of a ferocious race of alien beings called Xenomorphs, who implant eggs inside living bodies via “facehuggers” that violently burst out of chests when they reach a certain stage of maturity.

Alvarez’s take is being kept deep inside the studio’s chest, but sources describe it as unconnected to the previous movies.

According to THR‘s sources, Alvarez is a rabid fan of the franchise and casually pitched a take to Scott many years ago. The idea remained implanted in Scott’s brain until late last year when he called Alvarez out of the blue and asked him if the younger filmmaker was still up for it. Alvarez didn’t have to be asked twice.

20th Century picked up the project “purely off the strength of Fede’s pitch,” said division president Steve Asbell. “It was just a really good story with a bunch of characters you haven’t seen before.”

Fede Alvarez also produced the brand new Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is currently streaming on Netflix.

[NinjaPug]

Hate that Alien has been designated as a straight to streaming franchise now.

[joe-eyeball]

Originally Posted by NinjaPug

Hate that Alien has been designated as a straight to streaming franchise now.

I can live with it as long as it’s good!

[IMJ]

I loved Prometheus. Thought it was brilliant intellectually and photo-real visually. Alien: Convenant? Ehhhh.... not bad but I was hoping for more on the engineers rather than a serial-killer robot story.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

I loved Prometheus. Thought it was brilliant intellectually

No way, man. Prometheus was a very stupid exercise in literally EVERY character doing ridiculously stupider and stupider (fatally, even) things, one after the other. There's good ideas in that script and I love the "read between the lines" subtext that gives us almost the entire Engineer/Alien origins. It was at least two drafts away from something that would fix those characters.

Covenant... yikes. Both of these movies prove that while Ridley is an amazing visual director, he absolutely doesn't understand script. If he gets a great one, he'll make a great movie. If he gets a sh** one, he'll make a great looking sh** movie.

[IMJ]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Both of these movies prove that while Ridley is an amazing visual director, he absolutely doesn't understand script. If he gets a great one, he'll make a great movie. If he gets a sh** one, he'll make a great looking sh** movie.

This is very true, lol!

[Leo656]

I liked 'em. But I don't know Jack about the franchise outside of those two and the first movie. Never saw the rest.

I've noticed that hardcore Alien fans hate those two movies but they go down a lot better with people who don't know the franchise but watched them as "just movies". I'm sure there's reasons for that.

The cast of characters in "Prometheus" sure were a bunch of dumbasses, though.

[frank_one]

Originally Posted by The Deadman

In what could easily be the biggest news bomb of the year

Seriously?