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Disney’s New Alien Movie Is Exciting & Worrying For Exactly The Same Reason
Disney’s New Alien Movie Is Exciting & Worrying For Exactly The Same Reason
The latest news about Disney’s upcoming Alien film is both good and bad for the sci-fi horror series. Few franchises have been as inconsistent as the Alien films. Ridley Scott’s 1979 Alien was a tense, terrifying and claustrophobic horror masterpiece, while James Cameron’s 1986 sequel, Alien, was a blockbuster sequel that prioritized action over horror. Both Alien and Aliens were hugely influential examples of genre cinema. While the two films were very different in terms of tone, they are both examples of great cinema. In contrast, Alien 3’s Xenomorph was the most frightening of the series, but that was all this dark sequel could offer. Dark but not scary, Alien 3 was a disastrous entry for the series. It wasn’t helped by 1997’s Alien: Resurrection, a misguided addition to the series notorious for its sickly green color palette. When Scott returned to the series in 2012 with the prequel Prometheus, there were as many bad Alien films as good ones. Scott further complicated this legacy with Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, two promising but flawed entries that set the stage for director Fede Alvarez’s upcoming Alien film.
Alien’s Most Exciting Promise Is Also A Massive Risk
The news that Disney’s new Alien movie will be a standalone story is very promising. The android David’s plans in Alien: Covenant caused all sorts of major plot holes in the series, so any attempt to rethink the villain character’s story could likely be bogged down in his motivations. Directed by Fede Alvarez, the new Alien movie promises to take the series in a whole new direction, providing a much-needed fresh take on the series. However, the news is not all good, especially since Scott’s vision for the series is still in the works.
The news that Disney’s new Alien movie will be a standalone story is very promising. The android David’s plans in Alien: Covenant caused all sorts of major plot holes in the series, so any attempt to rethink the villain character’s story could likely be bogged down in his motivations. Directed by Fede Alvarez, the new Alien movie promises to take the series in a whole new direction, providing a much-needed fresh take on the series. However, the news is not all good, especially since Scott’s vision for the series is still in the works.
Alien’s New Movie Is Coming At Entirely The Wrong Time
Alvarez’s solo film would have been much more exciting if the project had been announced over a decade ago. In 2011, the Alien series went on a hiatus for a while. After Alien: Resurrection, the only new additions to the series for a while were the Alien vs. Predator films. Alien vs. After the disaster of the Predator films, audiences had been waiting a long time for an entertaining standalone adventure in the franchise, but what fans got instead was Prometheus. Scott’s 2012 Alien prequel was a dense, ambitious epic that relied heavily on audiences’ interest in the origins of the xenomorphs and humanity. Surprisingly, Prometheus was a philosophically uneven effort.
Alien: Covenant was a better prequel than Prometheus, but the story of David, the evil android played by Michael Fassbender, weighed heavily on the film. Though the sequel had more gore, a faster pace, and less pseudo-intellectual navel-gazing, Alien: Covenant wasted too much screen time unravelling the complex lore of Prometheus. A standalone sequel that invested in the existing strengths of the series could have rekindled audience interest, thus allowing Scott to tell a more ambitious story later on. Unfortunately, this is not the case with the Alien story.
How Alien’s New Movie Can Be Standalone Without Forgetting David’s Story
Not all hope is lost for David’s story. Even before it was announced that Alvarez’s film would be a standalone, it was too late to make a sequel to Alien: Covenant. But Alvarez’s film could still mention David’s presence and let his presence shape the series without focusing on the villainous android. While Alien didn’t tell viewers much about Weyland-Yutani, viewers learned that the company is shady, ethically questionable, and untrustworthy. After providing a brief sketch of the series’ villain, Alien laid the groundwork by focusing the sequel’s plot on corporate greed. With David’s master plan established in Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, the characters in Alvarez’s film could end up embroiled in one of his many grotesque xenomorph experiments, suggesting that David may still be alive somewhere – or at the very least, the threat his creations may be portrayed as imminent. Either way, this twist would allow the Alien series to keep David’s story alive without ever returning to the plot throughout its runtime.
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