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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 434900" data-attributes="member: 23">That would be very easy to believe but I don&#039;t believe it would be the case. After Alien vs. Predator peed all over the franchise Ridley Scott opted out of the sequel he was planning and I believe deliberately chose to make a prequel but with only a tenuous connection to the Xenomorph (since it was retrospectively applied to the creature only in the sequels, the &quot;X&quot; word chokes me in the same kind of way you choke on &quot;franchise&quot;). The studio&#039;s line in the sand was that Ridley himself had to direct it, and they refused to make it with a director he&#039;d handpicked.I believe the follow-up film, Covenant, suffered more from studio interference since Scott wanted to continue exploring the &quot;AI as the Big Bad&quot; theme, while the studio insisted on taking things into more familiar Alien territory.Oh, that&#039;s interesting. Was there actually a rogues gallery of villains that were known? I only watched casually, but my memory is of every reveal being some variation on the creepy groundskeeper or whatever (something the 2002 film poked fun at in its opening scene).I hear you on that one.This is one of those examples where the concept itself is so very fascinating I find myself wondering if the film could live up to it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 434900, member: 23"] That would be very easy to believe but I don't believe it would be the case. After [I]Alien vs. Predator[/I] peed all over the [SIZE=2]franchise[/SIZE] Ridley Scott opted out of the sequel he was planning and I believe deliberately chose to make a prequel but with only a tenuous connection to the Xenomorph (since it was retrospectively applied to the creature only in the sequels, the "X" word chokes me in the same kind of way you choke on "franchise"). The studio's line in the sand was that Ridley himself had to direct it, and they refused to make it with a director he'd handpicked. I believe the follow-up film, [I]Covenant[/I], suffered more from studio interference since Scott wanted to continue exploring the "AI as the Big Bad" theme, while the studio insisted on taking things into more familiar [I]Alien[/I] territory. Oh, that's interesting. Was there actually a rogues gallery of villains that were known? I only watched casually, but my memory is of every reveal being some variation on the creepy groundskeeper or whatever (something the 2002 film poked fun at in its opening scene). I hear you on that one. This is one of those examples where the concept itself is so very fascinating I find myself wondering if the film could live up to it. [/QUOTE]

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