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stumpcity t1_j4454sv wrote

Reply to comment by dawn_chorus__ in FX's ‘Alien’ Series Gearing Up For Production This Year; Noah Hawley Will Start Production After Finishing 'Fargo' Season 5 by SanderSo47

I would watch it, but I also feel like at this point, you can kinda fill in the blanks yourself, which I'd imagine would turn the movie into kind of a box-ticking exercise focused on plot:

  1. David invents the Queen (probably experiments on himself to become some weird hybrid Engineer/Android thing)

  2. Walter catches up with David

  3. Walter tries to stop David from destroying Earth

  4. Ship crashes on LV-426 in a spectacularly weird fashion

  5. Alien.

Now, does the idea of a mad scientist movie starring JUST Michael Fassbender in space sound like something worth watching? Absolutely. And it'd probably give Ridley a lot of time to put a lot of his (close approximation to) philosophizing into the movie (basically the best parts of Covenant, really) so it wouldn't just be plotty plot plot. But I don't know that there's going to be a lot to it beyond that. Or that he wouldn't fuck up the execution even if he DID have a lot more to it beyond that initially (see: Prometheus).

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IrrelevantLeprechaun t1_j45qn3g wrote

I frankly hate the concept that the aliens AND the alien queen are all a simple invention by a human-made android. It completely cheapens the mystique of the Alien itself by turning it into yet another "folly of man" story.

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Fgge t1_j47n6j6 wrote

The obsession with explaining every detail has really dragged the franchise down. Same as the Space Jockey.

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Breezyisthewind t1_j4727q6 wrote

No it doesn’t. It makes it cooler.

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ConstantaByTheSea t1_j473jzx wrote

Agreed, I love the Prometheus and Covenant movies, and Scott does amazing work building up that world. I want to know more about the engineers and see David's story concluded. The aliens imho are not really that interesting to see over and over again. I get it, they're scary monsters, ooo, as if it hasn't been done to death a million times. I want to see people take risks and the stage-play vibes of these two films works great!

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dawn_chorus__ t1_j45o6t5 wrote

Doesn't Scott also have to explain the distress signal in Alien?

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