Jan '19
Anybody care about the 'Alien' franchise? It had a movie in the 70s, 80s, 90s[x2], two shitty spin-offs in the 2000s, and two more prequels in the 2010s. The Prometheus movies didn't do much for some people. Kind of hit or miss. I thought Prometheus was an interesting, albeit barely relevant backstory to the first Alien movie, but in a sense, that's what I liked about it. It featured the mechanics of an Alien movie, without the xenomorphs themselves. Alien Covenant had a few 'memberberry moments, but it had some ultra-predictable twists that wont impress you at all.
To most people, the xenomorphs ARE the Alien series. I suppose that's mostly true, but I think the technology and dystopian setting can provide for a lot of interesting ideas, and it's only taken the producers 40 goddamn years to figure this out. Androids? Space ships? Intergalactic travel? Terraforming?
Now, there's talk about a tv show and some form of interactive companion piece to that. My mind jumps to some Bandersnatch scenario, if not just another video game.
I think Alien can work as a series, even if it isn't all about the xenomorphs. Sure, they can appear in a few episodes, but even without them, there's some good sci-fi shit they can exploit, and us old school sci-fi/horror fantasy nerds will eat that shit up.
Thoughts on the ALIEN franchise? Would you watch a tv show? Or is this a cash-grab, doomed to fail?
To most people, the xenomorphs ARE the Alien series. I suppose that's mostly true, but I think the technology and dystopian setting can provide for a lot of interesting ideas, and it's only taken the producers 40 goddamn years to figure this out. Androids? Space ships? Intergalactic travel? Terraforming?
Now, there's talk about a tv show and some form of interactive companion piece to that. My mind jumps to some Bandersnatch scenario, if not just another video game.
I think Alien can work as a series, even if it isn't all about the xenomorphs. Sure, they can appear in a few episodes, but even without them, there's some good sci-fi shit they can exploit, and us old school sci-fi/horror fantasy nerds will eat that shit up.
Thoughts on the ALIEN franchise? Would you watch a tv show? Or is this a cash-grab, doomed to fail?
As far as Alien video games go, the last one I played was Aliens: Colonial Marines (2013). It was a disappointment. A shame since Michael Biehn finally returned to the franchise in it to voice Hicks. When I was younger, I was really into Aliens vs. Predator 2 (2001). Not sure how it holds up now, but I must've played through it with each character's campaign (xenomorph, predator, or marine) a half dozen times. There was also Alien: Isolation (2014), featuring Ellen Ripley's daughter. I never played that one, but it looked and sounded great, with a big focus on horror.
If the "interactive companion piece" is another video game, I'm not sure what to expect really. Hopefully it'd be more like Isolation in terms of quality, but if they're making it just because of the show, it's easy to imagine some mobile game where you get nickeled and dimed.