Lost guy Damon Lindelof is rewriting the Alien prequel? | Movie News

Lets just make a new sci fi/ horror movie please.

Lindelof burnt his bridge with me I'm boycotting anything he has to do with.



I expect AVP, AVP:R-like results.

For fuck's sake, don't give it to Lindeloff...he'll write himself into a corner, and then in a fit of despair, fail to answer hundreds of open questions and invent some Deux Ex Machina and tell us it was all a dream or purgatory....fuck Lindeloff.

I don't know about you guys, but part of the reason that Space Jockey in the first Alien movie was so creepy (that whole planet, in fact) is because you DON'T know what the hell it is or where it came from. Ditto for the actual alien. There's a certain ambiguity and uncertain nature to that film that makes it creepy.



I like Aliens as an action film, as most people do, but one issue I always had with it (and same with the Predator sequels) is that the more you explain and focus on these terrifying creatures, the less terrifying they become. The more they walk around on screen in plain sight, the more their histories are delved into, the less frightening they are. For me, that's why Rob Zombie's "Halloween" sucked - not just because it was "trashy" as most fans complained about, but because it tried to explain and give a motive to Michael Myers, who works better as an unmotivated and mysterious killer.



The more you learn about your fears and the more you rationalize and understand them, the less scary they become. I'm just worried that this prequel trend is going to undermine the inherent creepiness of that first Alien movie. I don't WANT to know who the Space Jockeys are. I don't WANT to know where the aliens came from. It's like that Patton Oswalt gag about preferring Angelina Jolie over Jon Voight's ballsack - I like what I like and don't need to go back to where it came from to appreciate it.

Lost eventually proved itself to be the worst written show on television. I don't think even Ridley Scott could make a good film out of whatever convoluted garbage this guy will throw together.