Ridley Scott has decided he’s just going to keep making Alien prequels until he’s either dead or too weak to continue. The problem is as long as Fox is occupied with making prequels, we can’t get a SE-quel, meaning Sigourney Weaver is just sitting there while the precious remaining years of her life tick away. ….Though I guess CG-ing her back to life is always an option.
Recently Ridley Scott crushed director Neill Blomkamp’s dreams of making an Alien sequel into the dust. What was the man to do but carry onward? He announced a new project today, and it’s quite different for him: a series of mini-movies being created exclusively for the Steam platform. That’s right, the online marketplace traditionally known for video games. You can buy a few indie films and documentaries there, but never anything on this scale before.
At the Marvel Netflix panel, a bunch of first occurred for a capacity. First, Charlie Cox, Krysten Ritter, Mike Colter, and Finn Jones appeared together on stage for the first time to show off The Defenders as a united group, one that will debut on Netflix next year.
Well, who knew? A sequel to the cult hit film Galaxy Quest was once completely on the table, greenlit and ready to start production….until it wasn’t. When did this happen? 2016. THIS YEAR.