Alien Day: A Look Back at 40 years of Alien
20th Century Fox has launched the 40th Anniversary of this film dubbed the Alien Day.
Alien: Covenant trailer
Is this the iconic sci-fi horror franchise back on form? Directed and produced by Ridley Scott, Alien: Covenant will star Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, James Franco and Demián Bichir as humanity tangles with the xenomorphs.…
Competition: Alien – Sea of Sorrows
Did you know there will be a sequel to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus? Prometheus 2 will be called Alien Covenant. We knew Prometheus was a prequel to Alien so perhaps its about time we had a full on merger.…
Solidly sci-fi: A review of Halo: Nightfall
Halo: Nightfall is a live action movie based on the Halo computer game franchise.
If your initial reaction is ‘that could never work’ then you probably haven’t had the chance to watch Halo: Forward Unto Dawn, the original live action series, which worked very well and premiered as a webs series.…
Halo: Nightfall trailer
This is the first look at Ridley Scott’s Halo live-action series. It’s due out in November if you’ve an xbox and are happy to watch it there. There’s still no news as to whether the show will jump to traditional TV.…
Tales from Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made? review
“When Gandalf is vanquished, the text is ‘He fell beyond time and memory’. We puzzled about how you put that on film.”
– director John Boorman on his proposed adaptation
The Beatles wanted to do a Lord of the Rings movie and John Boorman was the director who was going to wrestle with it.…
Alien – The Illustrated Story review
Frank Miller said of this book;
“Alien – The Illustrated Story might just be the only successful movie adaptation ever done in comics. It’s an amazing graphic novel.”
You may disagree with Miller but the comment shows just how good this graphic novel is.…
What do the aliens in Prometheus look like? [pictures]
The latest trailer for Prometheus gives us the best glimpses of the aliens yet. It’s fair to say you’ll see a lot of overlap with classic Alien horror and design.
This is an official trailer, not a leak, but still be cautious about watching it or reading any further if you’re worried about spoilers.…
Alien: The Easter Edition
There’s the strong feeling that this John Seaward (The Inbetweeners) video was inspired by the forthcoming Prometheus movie.
That said, the YouTube credits not that any similarity of characters and events in this video to Ridley Scott’s Alien are entirely coincidental and unintended.…
Alien art in London
Drawing inspiration from Alien and encouraged by the Prometheus movie that’s on its way artists have treated Great Eastern Street in London with some impressive alien visuals. In a blog post the art company, End of the Line, explain the painting is done in the Samurai Painting style, one that puts the focus on movement over monotony.…
