Sort-of update on those ALIEN prequel movies: Gemma Arterton edition
Sort-of update on those ALIEN prequel movies: Gemma Arterton edition
Sep 07
Ridley Scott is returning to the Alien franchise 30 years after its inception. He’s making a pair of 3D prequels to the original xenomorphaganza, which promise to solve the mystery of who that large fellow in the chair was at the start of the first film.
The films are also about terra-forming, which, if you don’t get enough science-fiction in your diet, is the seeding of a barren planet with human-friendly organisms in the hopes of creating a hospitable world for colonisation.
Anyway, Scott has previously said that he’d like a female protagonist for the film, and is apparently set to meet with Gemma Arterton to discuss the project with her.
Before everybody freaks out about how she was the worst thing about Clash Of The Titans, remember two things: she’s been in other films, and shows real acting potential, otherwise she never would have made it this far in the industry; and, of course, Ridley Scott can coax a good performance out of a cardboard box, so in his hands, Arterton might prove a force to be reckoned with. Or, at least, a good actor.
While we’re on the topic, Scott mentioned in an interview with The Independant that
The [Alien prequel] film will be really tough, really nasty. It’s the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?
That is a nasty thought. What kind of sick, twisted creatures would create the aliens just to terra-form planets for them? Scary, dark-side-of-the-moon god-engineers of space, that’s who.
Don’t expect an Alien prequel till late 2011 / early 2012 (at the earliest).
