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Ridley Scott attached to return for ‘Alien’ Prequel
20th Century Fox is double-dipping again with plans to revive the ALIEN franchise with a prequel to the first film. The studio has brought on Jon Spaihts to write the script and Ridley Scott has apparently been drawn back into the mix to direct the film, which is written as a prequel to the original 1979 film.
It will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them. — Variety
The project, which was pitched to the studio as well as to Scott Free Production by Spaihts, is a welcome project for the studio as it seems they’ve been itching to find a way to resurrect the popular series of films. Hopefully, the film will return to the elements that made the original film so great and not pander to the same typical studio mistakes that ruined the AVP films.
Source: Variety
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