FADE IN: DEEP SPACE - THE FUTURE: The silent field of stars — eclipsed by the dark bulk of an approaching ship. CLOSER…
William Gibson’s “Alien 3″ Screenplay
20th Century Fox is rebooting its “Alien” franchise with Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott set to return as director.
The film will be a prequel to the seminal 1979 film about an extraterrestrial creature that stalks and kills the crew of a spaceship. The 1979 epic starred Tom Skerritt and Sigourney Weaver. The new treatment will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal was generated by an empty ship to warn them.
Alien garnered both critical acclaim and box office success, receiving an Academy Award for Visual Effects,[and was ranked by the American Film Institute in 2008 as the seventh-best film in the science fiction genre.
The success of Alien launched three sequel and two prequel films, including Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997).[10] The subsequent prequels Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007).
Spaihts has carved out a niche for space thrillers. Fox has also hired him to rewrite “The Darkest Hour,” which Timur Bekmambetov to produce with Tom Jacobson. Spaihts is writing “Children of Mars” for Disney and Scott Rudin, and he will follow by rewriting “St. George and the Dragon” for Sony and Red Wagon.
The BIG question is will in follow William Gibson’s screenplay where the action takes place on a space station above Earth. Gibson’s Aliens become an air-born virus that cause infected humans to rip off their skins and become Xenomorphs. Gibson’s script was never made into a movie.
William Gibson’s “Alien lll” Screenplay
Posted by Casey Kazan.
Sources:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006722.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
http://io9.com/5327020/yes-ridley-scott-will-direct-the-alien-prequel
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