RustiSwordz wrote:
http://www.coronacomingattractions.com/news/alien-harvest-script-out-there-really-alien-prequel-movie-well-see
I know the Alien Harvest script has been debunked by reliable members of this board, still this article does raise some interesting thoughts.
I stumbled on this as I was reading through some of the information I was un-aware of with this movie.
I gotta be honest I hope this is not true, I hope Alien Harvest is really not the Prequel, I'm already upset enough that they are doing a prequel instead of spinning into the Post-Aliens-era where (in my opinion) there are much richer stories to be told. Particularly after how brilliant the subtle Alien-cult in the Alien 3 director's cut showed.
A story involving that would be classic!
I was not a huge fan of the Alien Harvest script though, I really did not like the fact that it was essentially 2 completely un-related stories. It came off as kind of a documentary more than a real movie. As if the writer wrote a short story about terraforming and the origin of the Xenomorph and found it wasn't long enough for a movie, so he padded in a second short story about FTL travel and made it a B-story.
Not to mention while I acknowledge the sexual tones of the Aliens (I myself wrote a paper about it in under-grad instead of reading Handmaid's tale, go me!), the sexuality in this script is beyond ridiculous. What made the tones so good in the previous movies was that it was subtle, that fear of rape and child-birth was so masked and perfectly wrapped in the Xenomorph. In that script its almost pushed in your face to the point where it looses its subtle brilliance and becomes like a HR Giger Jack-ass skit, where its thrown out as shock-value.
I have faith in Scott, but if Alien Harvest is the real script... I got a feeling it may be another major blow to this franchise that has really not recovered its legitimacy since Alien Resurrection came out.
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