9 posts tagged ‘alien’
All the Big Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Films We're Excited for in 2024
Gizmodo,
In a modern movie landscape dominated by mega franchises, 2024 is looking mighty odd indeed. Yes, we’ve got films coming from DC, Marvel, Transformers, Lord of the Rings, and a few others, but almost all of them are slightly off-brand. The Transformers and Lord of the Rings movies are animated. The biggest Marvel and… Read more...
Noah Hawley's Alien prequel show is just going to skip past all that Prometheus stuff, thanks
AV Club,
Our condolences to Michael Fassbender and the makeup-slathered husk of Guy Pierce this week, as Fargo’s Noah Hawley has stated that he has no interest in using multiple major elements from Ridley Scott’s prequel film Prometheus in his upcoming Alien TV show. Read more...
Noah Hawley's Alien Show Plans to Keep Things Simple
For the last few years now, all we’ve really known of Noah Hawley’s upcoming Alien show is exactly that, and that it’ll be more about the corporate side of the horror franchise. As a prequel, it’s got its work cut out for it, since it has to explain things, an issue the series has previously run into before with Promet… Read more...
10 Classic Sci-Fi Performances Snubbed by the Oscars
Oscar nominations will be announced later this month, and Poor Things’ Emma Stone and Barbie’s Margot Robbie are all but guaranteed to be in the Best Actress race. Last year, Everything Everywhere All at Once swept three of the four acting categories. That suggests sci-fi and fantasy films, whose stars don’t always… Read more...
We Finally Know When the New Alien Movie Takes Place
When Ellen Ripley said “Get away from her, you bitch,” she apparently wasn’t talking about the latest Alien movie. Turns out, Fede Alvarez’s 2024 Alien movie is actually much, much closer to the originals than anyone could’ve guessed. Read more...
Timothy Olyphant might be some kind of android in Noah Hawley’s Alien show
It’s been years since we first heard about the Alien TV show that Fargo’s Noah Hawley was working on for FX, and details about the project have been harder to find than a trustworthy Weyland-Yutani employee since then. Until now! Some vague details about the Alien show have now burst forth from our collective… Read more...
Timothy Olyphant Is Joining the Alien Universe
The world of Alien just got a whole lot sexier with the addition of actor Timothy Olyphant. The Justified star, who recently dipped his toe into another major sci-fi universe as Cobb Vanth on The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett, has been cast in Noah Hawley’s upcoming FX show set in the universe of Alien, Aliens,… Read more...
Every Ridley Scott movie ranked, including Napoleon
It’s been nearly five decades since Ridley Scott’s first feature film, The Duellists, hit theaters, and now, even well into his 80s, the legendary filmmaker shows no signs of slowing. Napoleon, his latest feature, is as grand and intense as anything else in his long career, and it demonstrates just how adept Scott… Read more...