Yesterday it was reported that Neill Blomkamp ias pulling a Bryan Singer and ias looking to retool the Alien franchise by ignoring the continuity of Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection by setting his upcoming movie after the events of Aliens. This would allow him to use Micheal Biehn’s Hicks, who was seen in the concept […]
Aliens star Michael Biehn to reprise Hicks role for Alien 3 audio drama
Michael Biehn, one of the stars of Aliens, is going to reprise his role for a new Alien 3 audio drama.Aliens is certainly one of the classic sci-fi movies of all time and a truly worthy sequel to the original sensation that was Alien. While there have been subsequent sequels after Aliens, writer William Gibson’s […]
Preview of William Gibson’s Alien 3 #2
Dark Horse Comics continues its adaptation of William Gibson’s unproduced screenplay for Alien 3 this December, and you can take a look at a preview of the second issue here…This is the official adaptation of the original screenplay for Alien 3, written by William Gibson, the award-winning science fiction author of the cyberpunk cult classic […]
Unproduced Alien 3 screenplay is being adapted into a comic book series
Dark Horse Comics has announced that it is dusting off legendary sci-fi author William Gibson’s unproduced original script for Alien 3 for a comic book adaptation from writer and artist Johnnie Christmas.“When your first contracted screenplay (or screenplay of any kind, in my case) isn’t produced, but the film is eventually made with a different […]
Is the Alien franchise exhausted?
Anghus Houvouras on whether the Alien franchise is exhausted…Is the reason almost every Alien movie since the original has been, at best, a mixed bag because the premise has been exhausted?I thought about this the other day as I watched a slew of Alien: Covenant reviews pour in. Like Prometheus, it seems to be getting […]
Dear David Fincher, Please Return to the Alien Franchise
Henry Bevan with an open letter to David Fincher…Dear David,I’m going to jump right into it: you should consider lobbying to direct the next Alien movie, whatever it may be.Don’t stop reading! I know your last experience of the franchise on Alien 3 was a clusterfuck and you felt your career was being torn to shreds […]
Why more franchises should embrace the Alien model
Anghus Houvouras on why more franchises should embrace the Alien model…First off, let’s go ahead and address the giant-sized Space Jockey in the room: When referring to ‘The Alien model’, I’m taking about the original four films. I’m not talking about the ridiculous Alien vs. Predator duology or the beautifully rancid idiocy of Prometheus and […]
How to make Alien terrifying once again
Matt Evans on how to make Alien terrifying once again… With Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 officially announced by Fox and the studio’s commitment to Prometheus sequels further down the line, the Alien franchise is alive once more and is heading dangerously close to ‘Cinematic Universe’ territory. This is a potential state of affairs that will […]
October Horrors 2017 Day 13 – Alien 3 (1992)
Alien 3, 1992.Directed by David Fincher. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, Charles S. Dutton, Brian Glover, and Lance Henriksen.SYNOPSIS:An escape pod containing Ripley, Newt and Hicks crash lands on a wind-battered prison planet, with Ripley being the sole survivor. Finding herself trapped on a planet whose entirely male population consists of murderers and rapists, Ripley […]
Alien: The Best & The Worst Sequels, Prequels and Spin-offs
Ben Robins ranks every single sequel, prequel and spin-off from the Alien series, ahead of the latest addition, Alien: Covenant. With the long-awaited Alien prequel/sequel Covenant very nearly upon us, it’s time to once again dig up one of sci-fi’s longest-running franchises, to finally, and definitively, separate the classic, from the garbage. Few expected a […]
