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    Quote Originally Posted by rongravy View Post
    I'm allergic to Sigourney Weaver.
    Someone tell her to die already. That's all I'm saying.
    At this point it looks like she'll have nothing to do with this...

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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    At this point it looks like she'll have nothing to do with this...
    Good. I have no idea why, but she makes my blood boil.

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    You're a strange one, ron...

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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    So what about the original Alien 3 cut where it came from an Ox? I would've liked to have seen it take those traits.
    The trait it took from the ox was the same as it took from the dog: it became a quadruped. I think they retroactively changed it to a dog because it seemed to be a better fit for the predatory aggression of the alien.

    Saying that, its not entirely clear how much the differences in the creature were down to its host, and how much they were down to the individual creature's "job" within the hive structure of the species i.e. whereas other aliens might a warrior (like most of the ones in Aliens), or a hive drone, or a builder (both of which appeared in the original script and novelisation for Aliens), or a queen, or a lone scout (like the alien in the first movie), it's quite possible that the specific individual encountered in Alien 3 was a yet another type of specialised unit whose purpose was to protect the gestating queen, a Chaperone Warrior or a Bodyguard Drone.

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    No... I understand the quadruped angle, I was just making the joke that oxes are large, lumbering animals. Which is actually the reason they later changed it to a dog...

    I have total faith in Sir Ridley, but I just hope they don't dive too deep into this "genetic" thing. The last thing we need is a reminder of Resurrection.

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    I just watched the Blu Ray of Alien last night, and man what an incredibly beautiful visual style. The restoration and transfer were astonishing to me. It looked better than when I saw it first run when I was 11. (It scared the piss out of me.) It was fun watching my daughter receive the sucker punch Ridley delivers in the chest bursting scene. It was reminiscent of the impact it had on the audience back in 79.

    I hope Ridley stays with the project, and quite interested in what kind of flick he'll deliver.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaos View Post
    I just watched the Blu Ray of Alien last night, and man what an incredibly beautiful visual style. The restoration and transfer were astonishing to me. It looked better than when I saw it first run when I was 11. (It scared the piss out of me.) It was fun watching my daughter receive the sucker punch Ridley delivers in the chest bursting scene. It was reminiscent of the impact it had on the audience back in 79.

    I hope Ridley stays with the project, and quite interested in what kind of flick he'll deliver.
    I agree that the blu ray is amazing. Fox really put the effort into the entire blu ray series.

    I think it's safe to say that Ridley is attached to this "prequel". They're set to start filming within the next few months and he's made no bones about it that he's the man in charge. Let's hope for the best.
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    Been reading the early draft that got leaked (back from when it was called Alien Harvest), and I'm a quarter of the way through,
     
    no xenomorphs yet but here is a guy who has been abducted by space jockeys and put to work on a newly-terraformed world. There's another guy there who's training him up, then there's this interaction:

    KARIK
    What's that?

    He points to a building, like their quarters, set apart on a hill.

    FIN
    The ant farm.

    KARIK
    Ant farm?

    FIN
    Not really ants. I just call
    them that. They're a species of
    small encephalopods the growers
    cultivate. Like ants. Meaner
    than Brazilian army ants.

    KARIK
    Why are they cultivated?

    FIN
    All I know is that they've got
    extreme inter-generational
    adaptability and the growers use
    them early in terraforming. My
    guess is they metabolize new
    environments into something
    habitable.


    You see where this is going? Interesting...

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    Where did you get this script leak? Just looking at the dialogue it sounds fake...

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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    Where did you get this script leak? Just looking at the dialogue it sounds fake...
    http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4083772/2454...en-Harvest.pdf

    Pretty sure it's real. I know what you mean, the dialogue in that scene seems a little "functional" but it's not typical of the script and bear in mind that that is NOT claimed to be the current script, but a much earlier version of which the current script is only a derivative. There was an earlier "leak" that WAS fake, but this one is different.

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    It has to be fake. It went six entire bits of dialogue without stating that Sigorney Weaver makes her "I'm either pissed off or really have to go potty" face. I love the Alien franchise, but seriously, someone get Weaver a laxative.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mitchified View Post
    It has to be fake. It went six entire bits of dialogue without stating that Sigorney Weaver makes her "I'm either pissed off or really have to go potty" face. I love the Alien franchise, but seriously, someone get Weaver a laxative.
    As stated before....Weaver has nothing to do with this film.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bassman View Post
    As stated before....Weaver has nothing to do with this film.
    She apparently wants to:

    Weaver has also expressed interest in starring in a fifth Alien film. Ivan Reitman has confirmed that Weaver will reprise her role as Dana Barrett[14] in the rumored third Ghostbusters movie due for release in 2012.

    I included the Ghostbusters bit because, well, yay Ghostbusters!

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    This movie is set several decades before the Nostromo encounter, so it's really impossible for Sigourney to be in it. For one, she'd be a baby or not yet born. And anyway, she wouldn't just conveniently forget about it before going back out with Dallas and co.

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    Quote Originally Posted by krakenslayer View Post
    This movie is set several decades before the Nostromo encounter, so it's really impossible for Sigourney to be in it. For one, she'd be a baby or not yet born. And anyway, she wouldn't just conveniently forget about it before going back out with Dallas and co.
    It wouldn't be impossible depending on the style that they make it in. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that she'd be one of the main characters or anything like that. They could easily go with the whole "we discovered this recording" or something, where Ripley would almost be like one of the audience members listening to the story. This is a horrible analogy, but sort of like how it was done in The Green Mile. In a way, it would help connect the new film to the older ones.

    I'm not saying that they SHOULD do that, mind you, just that it COULD be done. Weaver is the human face of the franchise, after all.
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