Don’t Breathe’s Fede Álvarez to direct an Alien reboot for Hulu
The project is based on a pitch that Álvarez casually gave to Ridley Scott years ago
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The thing about Xenomorphs, like most bugs, is that you never really know how many are skittering around behind your walls at any given moment. Granted, Xenomorphs are a lot bigger, they have acid blood, and you can’t kill them by spraying a can of Raid around the room (you’d need one of those pulse rifles with a flamethrower strapped to it to do any real damage). It’s fitting, then, that just when we thought we had our eyes on the only Alien-related project currently in the works—an FX series from Noah Hawley—a second Alien-related project has snuck up behind us, popping that little mouth out and getting its slimy drool everywhere.
This new one is a movie, but there is a but. A few buts, really. According to The Hollywood Reporter, this new Alien will be a stand-alone film that is “unconnected to the previous movies” (though we assume there will be Xenomorphs, because otherwise it’s an alien movie and not an Alien movie), and it is “intended to be made for Hulu as part of 20th Century’s ambitions to make more than 10 movies a year for the Disney-operated streaming service.”
So it’s a straight-to-Hulu Alien movie with no connection to the other movies, which doesn’t exactly inspire a ton of confidence. Haven’t Alien fans suffered enough? At what point do we actually listen to that woman in Aliens begging to be killed before the baby Xenomorph can pop out of her chest?
The good part about this is that the new Hulu Alien movie will be written and directed by Fede Álvarez, who at least does some interesting work. He directed Don’t Breathe, wrote its recent sequel, directed The Girl In The Spider’s Web, and helped come up with the story for Netflix’s recent Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot (which means you can’t really fault him for the execution). He also created the experimental Apple TV+ series Calls (based on a French show of the same name), which consisted of a series of mysterious phone calls with only the most basic visuals.
THR says Álvarez “casually” pitched original Alien director Ridley Scott on a sequel “many years ago,” and the idea supposedly stuck with him since then. It apparently involves a “really good story with a bunch of characters you haven’t seen before,” so we’d guess that it’s something akin to the original Alien with a different setting, like those “Die Hard but in a ___” movies that were all the rage a while ago. Maybe it’s just Alien in an office building? Bunch of Xenomorphs with generic European accents stealing bearer bonds, Reginald VelJohnson shows up as one of those androids with gross milk blood, “Now I have a power loader ho-ho-ho.” This thing writes itself!
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I look forward to the usual asshole fans realizing this is one franchise you actually can’t call “woke” for having a female lead.
I guess. But let’s be honest — the choice of a female lead in the Alien franchise was never meant to be an empowering feminist statement or anything despite what Scott has said. Alien was a horror movie and Ripley was the just the typical “final girl” who survives at the end.
I wouldn’t call it “woke” but I think the female space marines in Aliens were ahead of their time.
Yeah, you may have a point there. Vasquez was ahead of her time and didn’t take any nonsense from Paxton’s Hudson. Obviously the casting wouldn’t be accepted today although I think Goldstein’s portrayal was respectful. And the dropship pilot (I guess I get my fan card revoked despite seeing the movie at least a dozen times because I don’t remember either the character’s or actor’s name) was also ahead of her time.
Ferro!
“hey Vazquez have you ever been mistaken for a man?”“no, have you?”KILLS me every time I hear it
I would invite you to google what year Alien was made.
Ripley wasn’t the typical final girl, she was written as a man initially but someone suggested that it’d be interesting to have a woman in the role and Scott liked the idea and ran with it.
No, Ripley and Sarah Connor are their go to examples of not-woke female leads back when they were done right.
It’s because they’re written almost interchangeably from male characters in similar films.
Was the word “woke” around in the 80s? Sounds like judging old movies with current attitudes. Rarely works well.
The term wasn’t used, though it was based on the notion of black people staying awake to white supremacy, which dates back to at least Ledbelly’s time. Before “woke” was “political correctness”, which gained a lot of popularity among reactionaries in the 90s. Anyway, the idea that gay rights, feminism and anti-racism was a punishment visited on all white straight people is very old even if the terms have changed. Today’s attitudes are yesterday’s attitudes. There is definitely very little difference between western culture in the 80s and western culture today, so judge away.
Having a female lead doesn’t make a movie woke. That’s just a straw man used by simple-minded people who know they can’t win a debate.
“unconnected to the previous movies”
I thought the same, but then realized, do I want them to be tied to the many other craptastic Alien movies out there?
This new one is a movie, but there is a but. A few buts, reallySexy, sexy Xenomorph butts?
They’re just like alien mouths: the anus on an alien actually has a smaller retractable anus inside of it.
There’s a few dozen subreddits dedicated to this
Oh the guy who was a nightmare while producing the horrible TCM reboot and is about a fart away from being cancelled? Yes let’s give him this huge movie
It’s like when they keep planning Universes for movies that haven’t come out but are obviously going to be bad. (The Mummy, Uncharted, every single Snyder movie)
Please explain – im trying to learn about that production
When they say not connected to the previous movies, I hope they’re referring to the Prometheus and Covenant ones which I loved but they were more Blade Runner then Alien. Hawley’s got that covered already.
Ugh, Fede? I guess the next movie will handwave away the bodily violation committed by the Xenomorphs and then make them the heroes.
The Aliens are just pushing back against settlers trying to gentrify their planet.
I just have one request, which will be likely ignored.Don’t have the bad people (and aliens) win in the end.
The good guys are going to win, but the aliens will refuse to accept the results and will storm the Capitol.
But how will we know whether the aliens aren’t actually Antifa in disguise?
No thanks.
This is a perfect fit when you consider Alien is *also* a franchise about a monster that forcibly impregnates victims against their will.Is he going to expect me to root for Xenomorph?
why does that xeno look like it’s made out of rich mahogany and corinthian leather
Aliens 2 or GTFO
helped come up with the story for Netflix’s recent Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot
And Alien fans are not supposed to be worried?
I just want to know why the Alien made an appearance at Julien’s Auctions? is it there to bid on Elvira’s or Ringo Starr’s stuff?
“helped come up with the story for Netflix’s recent Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot (which means you can’t really fault him for the execution).”Doesn’t the new Chainsaw have a school shooting survivor who becomes empowered by getting a gun? This Alvarez guy sounds problematic all over.
This is the same guy who made a movie centering a dude who rapes women in an attempt to impregnate them….as the hero.
If they want to do an SF re-do, tackle a piece o’ crap—not a masterpiece. My choice: One Million Years B.C.
Idk man…a reboot on this would be game over man
Alien and Aliens are fantastic movies. I made it through about 15 minutes of 3 and didn’t bother with 4. I was not a fan of Prometheus and skipped the sequel to that. I guess what I am saying is that, on a hunch, this film is not going to be the franchise-reviver that some exec thinks it will be. Hell, Cameron couldn’t make Dark Fate work to re-start Terminator and he has a better track record than Alvarez.
I’m with you but you need to watch 4. Hilarious.