Ridley Scott announces Alien prequels

[Nickyboi]

OK, so this is slightly old news but I'm pleased to hear that Scott's on board. Here's what he had to say recently...

It’s set in 2085, about 30 years before Sigourney [Weaver's character Ellen Ripley]. It’s fundamentally about going out to find out ‘Who the hell was that Space Jockey?’ The guy who was sitting in the chair in the alien vehicle — there was a giant fellow sitting in a seat on what looked to be either a piece of technology or an astronomer’s chair. … [The film] is about the discussion of terraforming — taking planets and planetoids and balls of earth and trying to terraform, seed them with the possibilities of future life.

[ed]

I so want this to be good, but it blatantly won't be.

[Evilluke]

Fucking gay, totally uneccessary prequels that will be rubbish. The only thing this news tells me is that Ridley Scott sucks for buying into this shit.

[Nickyboi]

In an unusual break from cynicism, I'm backing this to be decent. Not great, but decent.

[Billy]

Ditto. I feel intuitively confident for some unknown reason.

[ed]

I only ever feel confident about new film or music releases being bad.

[Beatende]

Apr 29, 2010 11:37:40 GMT -5 ed said:

I only ever feel confident about new film or music releases being bad.

This is what happens when one's older brother is involved with Scrubs and likes a lot of US indie.

[ed]

He does like a lot of toss, but in fairness I do rate Jose Gonzalez, who he introduced me to.

[ed]

Apr 29, 2010 11:37:40 GMT -5 ed said:

I only ever feel confident about new film or music releases being bad.

Actually this isn't strictly true, since I'm totally shitting myself over the forth coming Grand Magus release. I do consider it a safe bet, since Iron Will would have been my favourite release of 2008 by a country fucking mile if it wasn't for that Greek lot.

[Wayne]

I think Scrubs is alright.

[Billy]

That's about the most enthusiasm I can muster up for it too.

[Beatende]

May 4, 2010 9:06:44 GMT -5 Wayne said:

I think Scrubs is alright.

I unnecessarily made scrubs sound bad in that joke post. To be honest, I watched Scrubs enough when it was on, and I generally like Zach Braff too. Just being hypocritical for the sake of humour really.