"As we speak, I've got a pile of pages next to me; it's
like the fourth draft. It's a work in progress, but we're not dreaming it
up anymore. We know what the story is. We're now actually trying to
improve the three acts and make the characters better, build it up to
something [we can shoot]. It's a work in progress, but we're actually
making the film. There's no question about it, we're going to make the
film."
"It's set in 2085, about 30 years before Sigourney
[Weaver's character Ellen Ripley is born]. It's fundamentally about going
out to find out 'Who the hell was that Space Jockey?' The guy who was
sitting in the chair in the alien vehicle - there was a giant fellow
sitting in a seat on what looked to be either a piece of technology or an
astronomer's chair. Remember that?"
"The main character [in the prequel] will be a woman,
yeah. We're thinking it could go down that route, yeah. When I started the
original Alien, Ripley wasn't a woman,
it was a guy. During casting, we thought, "Why don't we make it a woman?"
"
"Yeah, the thing about Alien
vs. Predator is, I know it's commerce, but what a pity. I think,
therefore, I have to design - or redesign - earlier versions of what these
elements are that led to the thing you finally see in
Alien, which is the thing that
catapults out of the egg, the face-hugger."
"We're hoping to have it in theaters in late 2011, or
maybe the best date in 2012."
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Alien Prequel (2011)
