WHO CARES?

To clarify: I haven’t watched the trailer, because who cares? And it’s not just Alien, and it’s not just because Ridley Scott is a hack with no interest in storytelling or writing. I’m just so fucking tired of sequels that I don’t even care about a new Alien movie. We’re now at a point where if you said “well there’s a one-in-ten-thousand chance that it might not be soulless drivel” I’d call you a naive optimist. Have you ever heard of Fede Alvarez? Me neither. In other words: the studio brought in someone they could bully.

Alien is now in the same bucket as Star Wars: I’ll watch another Alien movie after it has won ten academy awards. Or is directed by Tarantino or Scorsese. James Cameron isn’t even a sure bet anymore.

Make something new ffs. Or, failing that, adapt something awesome that hasn’t been adapted before, e.g Asimov, faithfully.