In space, no one can hear you scream the word ‘prequel’

June 2nd, 2009 at 08:35am Will Pfeifer

We all know about the STAR WARS prequels, and depending on how you view time travel, TERMINATOR SALVATION was arguably a prequel to the other TERMINATOR movies (Sure, it took place after them, but it also took place before John Connor sent Reese back in time to the era of the original TERMINATOR — and yes, it’s confusing. Time travel always is.) So it should be no surprise that there’s another sci-fi prequel in the works: ALIEN.

According to Cinematical.com, director Tony Scott (brother of Ridley, who directed the original ALIEN) has said during a PELHAM 1-2-3 interview that Fox has OK’d the ALIEN prequel, though he won’t be directing — Carl Rinsch will.

If you remember — and you can be forgiven if you don’t; ALIEN hit theaters 30 years ago — the original movie begins with the crew of the space freighter Nostromo hear a distress signal, go down to a planet and find lots of alien eggs in a wrecked spaceship. A crew member (John Hurt) peeks into one, it shoots an embryo into his helmet and the rest is horror sci-fi history.

So will this prequel be the story of that ship? The pilot, as you can see by the photo above, was giant, so I have to think any prequel will be more human-centered. One thing’s for sure — it’ll be tough to match the original (or James Cameron’s shoot-em-up sequel, ALIENS).

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