The other day, we asked Sigourney Weaver to comment on any similarities that might exist between Ellen Ripley, the butt-kicking heroin from “Alien” and its sequels, and Dr. Grace Augustine, her new character from “Avatar.”
But while we’re geared up for Sigourney’s newest, we couldn’t help but wonder more about her first big-screen role, especially given recent rumors that director Ridley Scott had an idea for another “Alien” film. So, will we ever see Ripley again?
“The last time [Ridley and I] saw each other we talked about it. The character is still interesting [and] I’d love to work with Ridley again,” Weaver said, raising our hopes to their absolute apex before immediately dashing them against the rocks of reality. “But Fox has effectively killed it because of ‘Alien vs. Predator.’ What else can you do with the creature? You can take the situation, you can go back to where they came from.
“To play someone who ages a couple hundred years was fascinating,” she added. “[But] let [Ripley] rest.”
See that Fox? You see? You could have had Sigourney Weaver and Ridley Scott. Instead you got Sanaa Lathan and Paul W.S. Anderson. Shame, Fox. May life be short else shame be too long. I hate you.
Still, it’s fun to muse. What do you think a fifth Alien movie could have been about? Would it have been something you would have looked forward to if it was Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver? Sound off below.
April 18th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
I believe from the end the last movie Ripley getting a band of mercenaries together to blow up the alien planet. Ripley and Call discover more plans the company/military have for the alien when a survey ship discovers the alien homeworld. They intercept the message and beacon signal so they know where the planet is. But one of the mercenaries is working for the military/company who wants to sabotage the mission to get back and revel the planet to the highest bidder. Since Earth is full of their spies.
Either that plot or go with what I thought they should have done with Alien3. I always wanted to see the last stand at Hadley’s Hope. From when Newt’s father has the facehugger attached to him, and the medical team kill him taking it off. They end up going back to the ship and discover the eggs and accidently bring back a queen egg along with the warrior eggs. Then the colony gets killed off until the hive becomes massive and then the last stand. To the arrival of the Marines.
Both of the plots would be a million times more interesting than any of those AVP ideas those idiots keep coming up with. The best part of the Alien series was the fact it was off world and in the future. Don’t mess with the formula.
April 18th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Attacking the alien homeworld would be cool, but it wouldn’t follow the Alien movie theme.
The only plot I can see for a 5th movie would be the ship from Alien Resurrection landing with an egg hidden on board. Super Ripley (As I call her) and the surivors land in, say, New York or some other big, big city. The facehugger gets out and latches onto someone examining the ship. BAM. The aliens make their way into the sewers of future New York City. Scientists, then soldiers try to wipe them out, but get wasted. Then, as the aliens are assimilating the population of New York, they find Ripley, but she escapes. The government forces her to fight the aliens and try to kill the queen. But she tries to get away, and some aliens follow her, which she kills, but now she wants all the aliens dead, no matter the cost. The government has no choice but to nuke New York. But thousands of aliens survive, and began to move west. An army of thousands of human soldiers come face-to-face against thousands of aliens born from the citizens of New York. With Ripley leading the army, the humans attack the aliens in a violent battle, that leaves the humans victorious at a terrible cost: Ripley is dead.
But at the end, an alien newborn bursts out of Ripley’s corpse, digs out of the grave, and runs into the shadows.
Nah, too corny.
April 18th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Can we get a movie where the Aliens infect the likes of Heidi and Spencer? So right after those cute little baby aliens explode through their ribcages and H&S lay their in a pool of blood, roll the credits! Although we don’t find out if the aliens take over Earth, somehow I get the feeling we are still much better off. Oscar nods galore, I’m serious.
April 19th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Fox, do AvP 3 good, or just drop dead.
April 19th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Forget it Weaver! We still got Michael Biehn to take back his rightful place in the Alien Saga!
April 20th, 2008 at 3:26 am
Fox, Give the strauses a big budget and a decent script for a space epic AVP3. keep it going forever. cause the extended dvd of avpr is awesome compared to that horrible theatrical version.
you just need a better writer. get rid of salerno please.
April 20th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
i always thought Alien 5 would be right after Alien 4, with the Betty landing on earth. But instead of finding people, they find the planet overrun by xenomorphs - after all, humanity had to have a good reason to leave its home world. they discover the governemnt’s last great ‘bad idea’ to try to stop the aliens by using what they’ve wanted them for - a xenoborg. it would also be cool to see what the newborn alien would have looked like fully matured. so, if ridley and weaver believe that AVP killed the Alien franchise, lets kill it off the right way.
April 20th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
If I were a studio executive at Fox, I would declare “Alien Resurrection” non-canonical, null&void, and would relaunch the series, picking up right after Alien3, with Ripley dead (and remaining dead for all eternity!), and introducing a new female lead character, who is at least a bit similar to Ripley. I don’t really mind seeing Alien- (or even AvP-) films without Sigourney Weaver, and Weaver’s age is not the reason why the franchise is dead. The real problem is that the fourth part in the series killed a lot of potential in terms of story development.
Let’s try an improvised plot: Story would pick-up in the Weyland-Yutani spaceship leaving Fiorina at the end of Alien3, including characters seen in Alien3, i.e. Morse and especially the “human Bishop”, who would partially be behind the whole “Alien conspiracy” of the Company, even concerning part 1. (Reason: he had been in hypersleep a long time in his life, like Ripley… maybe he even visited the home planet of the aliens or the SpaceJockeys…)
Where do the Aliens come from? Easy: from LV-426. The Alien derelict was more or less shielded from the thermonuclear blast by the Ilium range, and the blast wasn’t that huge anyway according to the android Bishop. (”40 megatons” is what he said; the thing about the “cloud of vapor the size of Nebraska” was obviously a joke.) And it took the Jordan family quite some time (at least half a week) to reach the derelict. So the alien spaceship would also be quite far away, and still be there, maybe a bit battered, but with most of the eggs still intact.
Possible further storyline: Eggs and the dismantled derelict taken to an abandoned space station orbiting Earth (Gateway 1 or so). En route introduce the “new Ripley” plus her nemesis (maybe some weird female scientist), apart from the “human Bishop”. On the space station, experiments ensue, incl. lots of breeding experiments with humans (convicted felons… whoever). Something goes wrong: while going through the dismantled pieces from the derelict, a SuperQueen breaks out, who’s been lying dormant for ages. (You know, the alien that burst from the Space Jockey in the pre-story of the first Alien film.) Total mayhem, aliens break free, lots of people die. Escape pods to Earth, with lots of Aliens on board. Station sealed… fight with remaining Aliens on the old space station (aesthetics of the station would be similar to the Nostromo by the way; same period). In the meantime, Earth is being overrun by Aliens, spreading rapidly. “New Riply”, Morse and some other guys somehow manage to flee to the new Gateway station with a shuttle. (Maybe they seize the shuttle, because it’s from a salvage mission by the Company sent back to Old Gateway.) New Gateway occupied by Company and military. “New Ripley” has husband on Earth, wants to rescue him, and actually flies down. Crash-lands. Once on Earth, she sees that all is too late, most people dead, incl. her husband, destruction everywhere. Total annihilation of civilization. It’s eerily quiet. She’s picked up by a rogue military platoon, with an ersatz-Hicks etc. They try to get to a military compound, where there are some operational shuttles left. The compound has been their base for the past few days. They get there, but compound is already overrun by aliens. They have to sneak in through the “backdoor”, so to speak, past the aliens, to get to the shuttle. Complex action, incl. an Alien Queen, several sub-plots, until they finally leave with the shuttle… at the last second… we see the usual super-detonation of the complex.
That would be the end of Alien 4, to be continued in Alien 5… as I think of it, the two films should be back-to-back…
Alien 5 would completely take place on the New Gateway station. (The one we’ve seen in Cameron’s “Aliens”. Morse is there. Bishop is there. The platoon from Earth is there (at least those who are left of it, e.g. ersatz-Hicks). The military is there, coordinating search-and-destroy missions to Earth. Film begins similar to the middle-part of Cameron’s “Aliens”. Lots of emotions, background stories, e.g. Bishop’s involvement in the whole Alien thing, not a lot of action. Here the “parapsychological” aspects of the aliens would be explored: e.g. several people with nightmares, (auto-)agression resulting from illusions about aliens attacking them etc. During one of those incidents our “new Ripley” is shot by a friend from the platoon she met on Earth. Survives badly wounded. Recovering slowly. Unconscious. An actual facehugger (no illusion!) comes in and impregnates her. Where did it come from? Nobody knows… yet. (Okay… it’s a bit reminescent of “Aliens”; Burke setting free the facehuggers to impregnate Ripley and Newt.) The surgical team actually manages to remove the alien embryo after the facehugger detaches. But the chestburster escapes, killing at least one from the surgical team. As a consequence there could be a mental link between mother (our “new Ripley”) and the alien warrior, which could be explored further, but need not. (Kind of a nod to the actual “Alien Resurrection”-film.) Finally Morse finds out about the reason for the “parapsychological” phenomena and the origin of the facehugger: the aliens have been there the whole time, deep in the bowels of the station, including the SuperQueen. Bishop and his agents basically continued the experiments. By some reason they break free and flood the rest of the station. Total pandemonium. Savage fights. Military decimated. “New Ripley” and Morse flee across the station to the other side, the docking bays, where there’s a large spaceship docked to New Gateway. Morse is killed on the way. “New Ripley” has to cross through the bowels of the station… final, long and gruesome battle with the SuperQueen. Here, the mentally connected alien warrior could be (re-)introduced, but not really as a deus-ex-machina. Final battle over… “new Ripley” flies away with the spaceship. New Gateway explodes. Of course! Maybe “her baby alien” is on board… final confrontation, but as an anti-climax, sort of like a romantic finale… her Alien subjects itself to her mother… and she actually shoots it. Goes to hypersleep. Exterior shot: spaceship flying away into the stars. Fade out. Credits.
Alien 6 could pick up here, and the story could be about the fights against the aliens on Earth, or the search for the planet of origin of the aliens (maybe the Space-Jockey-planet), final battles on Earth or whatever.
Phew… what a frenzy. Thx for listening.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Gave it more thought. A way to introduce the mental connection between “new ersatz-Ripley” and her alien child as a plot device: she confronts the human Bishop, because he continued experiments on New Gateway. He tries to kill her. Her defense is basically “using” her alien warrior “baby” to slash him to pieces while she stands by watching. A bit like a reversal of the scene in Alien3 (Clemens, Ripley & the alien).
April 20th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
OR
you could give us an alternate sequel to Aliens in which you don’t kill off Hicks, Newt, and Bishop in the first 5 mins of the movie.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Yeah! Why not go back to where the alien
came from. It would probably be a really
creepy place and fun to visit.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
in the begining of alien 3 they say the ship of alien 2 was on fire and the life support eject …. the ship is still around lost in space … there are still eggs inside …. take it to earth !!!!!!!!!!!
April 20th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I must mention this because it was funny.
it’s spelled heroine.
otherwise your sentence is redundant, as all variants of heroin are known to kick your butt.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
five years and CGI will be so good you won’t see the difference. You can a young sigourney weaver with a big ass.
Personally I would love to see a sequel where a dirt poor Sigourney found herself back on earth in some horrible corporate facility on earth; blade runner-style dystopian scenes, and ripley kept feeling “something just wasn’t right”. After a while she finds herself headed towards the planet where the elephant aliens came from - and ripley discovers she’s an android with a mind file copied from the original ripley, several years after alien3. Hell you could have a lookalike younger actress in the role of Ripley. And then she discovers her body has been tailored to act as a reception device for an alien infection.
And THEN have an alien infect the android and find out that the genes of the aliens are even more dangerous than expected and can even assimilate the “genetics” of an android - the thing emerging is part android, part alien.
What I would love is a sinister backstory. Remember, Giger’s biggest inspiration what Lovecraftian mythos - imagine if the Alienverse is more hostile, more alien, darker than anything expected. Imagine if alien drones and queens are just a first step in a sequences of stages that are more adapative and dangerous with each step?
I mean: the whole AvP was SO UNIMAGINATIVE it boggles the mind. It almost appears as if hollywood cinema aims for predictable campyness rather than anything really inspiring and thoughtprovoking.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
“the butt-kicking heroin …”
Didn’t the reviewer mean “heroine”?
“Heroin” is an illegal drug.
April 20th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
They need to retcon everything that happened after Aliens. Have Ripley, Newt, Hicks, and Bishop arrive back on earth just in time for a new alien infestation on either one of the orbital platforms or in one of the cities on the planet itself. Cue a struggle for the survival of humanity on our home turf.
Everything that came after Aliens should be locked away and never spoken of again.
April 20th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
we get two shitty AVP movies when we could have had this…*sigh*
fox you are a bunch of morons.
April 20th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
You know what Weaver, when I become and actor which is oh my gosh a “BIG” dream of mine! We would have to be in an Aliens series where you and I are the main characters along with a team, but it would have to start where Aliens Resurrection left off at where “Alien 3″ and “Alien Resurrection” was all a dream and you are still in your room where you woke up from in the Aliens movie and you started rinsing your face with water and then from there you turn down the offer that you were offered in Aliens to go down to LV426, I hope I got that right and I’m hoping this makes sense. And then from there you were offered a fake job from me which my character name would be “Sergeant Zerkel” and then everything went berserk from there. My team captures “Lieutenant Ripley”, it was all a trap just so we could go deeper into the “Alien Planet” and such and it would be a movie of surprises, gore, accomplishments, entertaining and exciting. This movie would have to be titled as “Aliens: The Feuding Stop”. This movie would shock the fans because this movie would have to be all about Ripley facing her fears and actually trying to stop the Aliens and it would have to at least introduce a character, the “Hybrid, Predalien”. Now with the Hybrid, Predalien that Ripley encounters is going to have some terrific action, like at first it encounters Ripley and Ripley is just so pumped and confused and is wondering what it is. Now she knows it’s of the Alien family, but doesn’t know what it’s host was and then later on in the series she finds out and puts an end to these creatures, but who would of known that the company was holding a Praetorian face hugger captive in their lab, DUN DUN DUN! So it’s kind of like Aliens Resurrection, but instead it will introduce the Predalien and the Praetorian into the series and that’s never been done in all of Aliens history, so I hope this is a clear and pursued idea. Thank you and enjoy!
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April 20th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
The franchise needs a major paradigm-shift. We’ve seen enough groups of humans scuttling down metallic corridors from chitinous pursuers.
The most interesting avenue to pursue, imho, is the prehistory of the franchise. I want to know more about the spacejockeys vs the aliens. You could do a ‘timeslip’ tale that cuts between a past tale that explains the death of the spacejockey civilization (remember the mysterious end of the Krell in Forbidden Planet?)…and the present, as some human geological team on some other fresh frontier planet make some arcaelogical discovery. And perhaps the fate of Spacejockey protagonists in the past, has some bearing on the outcome of the present day tale.
April 20th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
I say they just reboot the franchise like they did batman. Restart from the beginning with basically the same characters and same story but updated. Probably wouldn’t be as good as the original but would probably blow away AVP.
April 20th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
http://ranthonysteele.blogspot.com/2008/04/scifi-on-horizon-avatar.html
…no matter what anyone else says, there are only two films in the Alien saga. As far as I’m concerned Ripley, Newt and Hicks made it back home, where they set up shop in a small quiet corner of the planet and lived happily ever after. None of the sequel films after Aliens rates a viewing. I wish I’d never seen them.
April 20th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
I would love to see a new Alien with Sigourney … no matter what story, because I would love to see her anyway as often as possible
April 20th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Go back to the alien planet to nuke them all from orbit. But on this mission of genocide, we find something interesting. The home planet is actually a pretty nice place. Basically civilized. Basically peaceful. They have plenty of reasonable food. It seems the earlier monsters were monsters because they were on a prison planet or banishment planet - they were criminals or insane, or perhaps driven so by lack of food. So knowing this home planet is a decent place, do you go an kill off a whole race?
April 20th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
Righteous use of Henry V bro
Shame…and eternal shame. Nothing but shame.
April 20th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I say LET IT DIE people. It concluded after the 2nd film just fine. Yes, I know, Cameron left the soundbyte at the end of the credits of something slurping its way across the floor. I just don’t by it. I don’t consider anything after Aliens as a loyal part of the real history of the Alien/Ripley/etc.
As for the Queen and an Egg being aboard the Sulaco:
The Queen had very little time to calculate the need to pick up an egg (most of which were on fire) and then make haste toward Ripley. The Queen was quite pissed and I think more interested in taking revenge for her lost larve than anything else.
As for there being an Alien planet/homeworld - DO NOT GO THERE. As agreed by many die-hards of the series and Ridley Scott himself mentions on the director’s commentary on Alien - the Alien is a military weapon, not a naturally occurring creature. It was engineered for a single purpose: render the population of a target useless without heavy damage to infrastructure and then DIE OFF. It is guestimated that the Aliens actual life time is around 6 - 8 weeks. Perfect really for taking over a city/region/planet with little investment or risk.
Sequels with Ripley/Hicks/Newt/Bishop/Alien are prone to breaking the universe and not allowing the significance of the first two films to stand on their own - ALIEN 3 included. What a terrible movie and plot. Just a disaster.
Let the Alien saga stand as Alien and Aliens and leave all the rest behind!
April 20th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
Honestly they should make a new Alien 3. And it 2will not kill any universe if the person who wrote aliens (james cameron) wrote the third film. He could make it worth watching, introduce the runner (again), the preatorian, and some otherr interseting alien castes to make the film watchable. If the people who made the origional universe helm the next films ,it won’t be BREAKING the unvierse,
April 20th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
Yet another great move from Fox. Nicely done!
April 20th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
“What do you think a fifth Alien movie could have been about?”
Go pick up the book “Aliens Genocide”.
I just googled it and found stuff from darkhorse and penny-arcade talking about it…. but I don’t think they’re talking about the “exact” same thing I read back in the 90’s (it wasn’t a comic book)
April 21st, 2008 at 2:39 am
Good Job Fox! Way to go. AVPR sucked BIG TIME. But I guess it’s not about making good movies anymore, heh? Too bad AVP RETARD made enough money, to churn out another cheap, tasteless uninspirated sequel. R.I.P. Ripley
April 21st, 2008 at 12:56 pm
There has not been a better time till now to make another Alien sequel. Ripley being now half alien and half human brings everything together and numerous possibility. I am not going to discuss plot ideas but more conceptual ideas. Ripley finally gets home… earth… what now? What would come out of it? This is perfect, to me, the possibilities are wide open. We need a great script and Ridley Scott is a great writer and director so Fox cannot loose here. They need to let go and have someone else drive for this one. We definitly need to address the issue of the Space Jockey. The “Alien” as we so call it, in my idea, is a germ, a virus, an organism like a virus that needs a host to live like in real life. So Ripley can still be cured!! She needs to go to the Alien planet for the medicine, let’s have the intergalactic battle at their house and not here on earth because that storyline has been done to death!!!
Alien Revelation
The original Alien will be 30 years old in 2009!!!
April 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
All I know is that Herc Mondo needs to be involved.
That, or there is a perfectly good Aliens Vs. Superman comic out there, just WAITING to be adapted.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:31 pm
All I know is that Herc Mondo better be involved.
That, or there is a perfectly good Aliens Vs. Superman comic out there just WAITING to be adapted.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:02 pm
I think enough time has passed that it could be successfully “re-imagined” but not exactly in the BSG way.
One of the things that “worked” and didn’t with the one from 79 was the stark life on the edge but just barely.. aspect. They introduced us to a future with no time, no real place, but people living in an interesting world that for the time everyone was fascinated by.. think Outland and a handful of other films.. like Silent Running.. stealth SciFi I like to think of them.
Hardcore human stories like BladeRunner in a different kind of tough circumstance. I recall Alien gave me claustrophobia and vertigo at the same time.. along with a fear of heights and plain old Xenophobia. But it was told like a Ghost story.. as if “Aliens” were still a myth.. I loved that aspect.
By the second film we were treated to Ripley being treated as an outcast for even proposing something as preposterous as an Alien even existed! Along with Paul Reiser to play the doubting fool plunging them into personal, private disaster.. and then threatening to invade Earth.. what a wake up call! ET blows your house down.
And irony of irony.. the Aliens did it again.. they managed to all but wipeout any trace of their existence leaving us with a wrecked android and almost mortally injured combat solder as witnesses.. as for the child she might have been a victim of some Cult gone mad on a far off outpost.
I rather hoped for the third movie Bishop would have been pieced back together but without a complete memory. The solder perished or was patched up and shipped off tight lipped for fear of being given a section eight.. “After all Ripley what does it matter whether they believe you or Not? Leave it alone..”
For a fourth movie I would have rathered Ripley taken on some sort of quasi-crusade with her adopted daughter.. seeking evidence, trying to prove they existed.. warning the worlds of man.. “They’re out there.. and there are others too!” Such as the Ancient Astronaut.. perhaps not like the Predator.. but perhaps Ripley would succeed in revealing the “Aliens” and then open pandoras box.. revealing a vast interstellar empire which we knew nothing about.. taking the road of hard knocks to an even deeper level of a BladRunner’esk type world.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:13 pm
And for a fifth film.
What if unwittingly Ripley’s reveal removed some seal or protective agreement, shield.. or simple security through obscurity.
Perhaps by discovering or activating some recall device on Ancients ship.. she makes our corner of space “noticable”.
Imagine Native Americas or some other indigenous peoples suddenly flooded by travelers for good or ill.. promoting some obscure agendas.. or designs on a populace completely unprepared.
Like a Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy gone bad, Dorothy and Toto might have to seek the help of an alien Wizard.. or at least try to come to terms with what has happened… from top of the food chain to scum of the land.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:32 am
First - I don’t see why the lead character always has to be Ripley, or a similar female lead. Why not have a male lead for a change?
Second - The third movie is actually pretty good, just watch the uncut version. Why not go from there to make a sequel? Either that or from Aliens, making it lots of years after, to justify the ageing of the main charaters.
Third - I hate the concept of aliens being created in a lab as a weapon (genetic experiments and altered DNA are getting tired, a never revealed, mistery origin is much scarier!). I would much rather have them be normal, evolving creatures. Either way, I think going back to LV-426 is the best idea.
fourth - to the guy who said: “It is guestimated that the Aliens actual life time is around 6 - 8 weeks. ” - where did you get this? if that were true, the eggs in the derelit wouldn’t have lasted as long as they did. Remember, the Space Jockey was phossil, how many years would that have taken??
/end rant
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:47 am
Also: i agree that the Jockey race should be long, long extint (by aliens!!). This is Aliens, not Star Trek or Star Wars (nothing against those two!).
And we already know that aliens on Earth is an idea that doesn’t work.
Oh, and the alien homeworld?? bad idea too! Whatever is over-explained looses its power to scare us, awe inpire us… you get the picture.
April 22nd, 2008 at 10:31 am
If they made a 5th movie I think they would have to go back to the origins of the “Alien”. Go to the homeworld of where these things came from. I couldn’t fathom a world full of these things. A spaceship/colony full of them was out of control. Could you imagine a whole world full of them?
April 22nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Now please leave. I am not going back, and I am… I would not be any good to you if I did.
April 22nd, 2008 at 3:27 pm
There hasn’t been a good “Alien” film since the second one. Hopefully the “Aliens” game that is coming soon will make up for the horrible things FOX has done with the franchise since. It is the only glimmer of light I can see right now. The AVP stuff is some of the worst crap ever put out.
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:55 am
Everybody is wrong, even Ridley. The book “Earth Hive” is the perfect next step.
There is no Ripley in it, and it spans 2 stories, the main being a group of marines who go to an alien planet to capture some samples for study, while an assassin from one of the earth mega-corps trails them to steal the results. The main marine in the story also breaks a girl he rescued from an alien attack years ago from a mental institute on earth and brings her along. They discover a planet that may well be the home of the aliens, as they are not the un-contested predator on this planet….
The sub-story going on in the background is the mega-corps have actually already capture an alien egg and managed to create an alien queen on earth, but it is killed after a controlled nuclear self-destruct when a group of religious fanatics break into the facility and impregnate a number of themselves with eggs. You then see the gradual take-over of earth by the aliens, and as the marines from the main mission arrive home, Earth is being abandoned and they must also make there escape. The film ends with the remains of the human race floating around earth in what ships are left and gateway station. In the book there is mention of many signals still being beamed from earth, indicating survivors.
It’s got it all, mass quantities of violence, the relationship between the grizzled marine and the young highly vulnerable girl, and massive devastation of earth(Which seems quite popular these days).
May 5th, 2008 at 12:49 am
I think they should just stop making Alien movies the originals were so much better and Sigourney needs to just relax a bit if you know what I mean
May 7th, 2008 at 1:17 am
I really believe they should just hurry the hell up and get the script and green light alien 5!!!!! im a massive fan and i’ve really had enough of AVP 1 & 2, mind you they were great for creature effects, but i miss the story of ripley, she deserves one last round, to tie things up! i have been a fan for just over 20 years i saw my first alien film when i was 4 years, hurry up just make the film, im dying for it!!!!