Hollywood’s Imagination Devoured by Alien!
When the Predator reboot was announced, we joked that all that was needed was an Aliens reboot and we’d be all set for Aliens vs. Predator vs. New Aliens vs. New Predator. Curse our bardic tongue, because it turns out that our joke movie premise may be moving closer to becoming reality. Yes, Alien, the heart-warming story of an extraterrestrial monster bursting out of your innards to terrorize just about anyone in a 10-mile radius, is about to be remade. In space no one can hear you scream, but plenty of us have been screaming down here, most of it to the effect of “Why?” and “Come up with something original and interesting for once!” and “Oww, you stepped on my foot, which just makes my rage at the imaginationless upcoming Alien remake that much worse!!!” OK, maybe it isn’t that bad; we do endorse some reboots, after all. But it’s only been a few weeks since we got the news that Predator was getting a redo, so you’d think we could have a little break to let our skepticism die out, you know?
The news comes straight from our friends over at Bloody Disgusting, authorities on horror films, who earlier gave us the heads-up on the new Predator reboot. Back in January, BD was handed a buttload of info about the upcoming Predator remake from an anonymous tipster, right down to who would be writing the damn thing. Now their anonymous pal is back, and details of the new Alien reboot are pouring in. First of all, there is only going to be one alien on the ship — an old-school return to the original, truly terrifying Alien — so none of that swarm business that characterized the better-known sequels. Secondly, the movie may be more of an origins story than a straight-up remake, which means we might even see some respect for continuity with the existing story lines.
Michael Costigan, Tony Scott, and Ridley Scott (director of the original) are producing, Carl Rinsch is helming, and the rumored plan is for the film to tell the origin story of the xenomorphs, including their discovery, their evolutionary process, and of course first contact. Specifically, this movie would be set up to make the original Alien its sequel.
It’s not hard to see how Aliens jumped the shark with Aliens vs. Predator, and it’s because of that wonderfully botched film that we will be getting this new reboot. Or are we? At the bottom of the Bloody Disgusting article, they have in lovely little bold print: This is just a rumor!!! Still, the “rumor” managed to make it onto every big Hollywood news site on the Internet. So yes, this may be another “Bradley Cooper is playing the Green Lantern” scam, but as Bloody Disgusting notes, their source has been reliable thus far. That leaves this story just vague enough to get supporters excited and to allow contrarians to hope it will never happen, and it’s that sort of uncertainty that causes delirious chaos in our action-loving 30 Ninjas community!
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