Regardless of whether the aliens are in this movie or not, I am still excited. It has Ridley back in the director's chair doing a sci-fi movie and to my understanding, Giger is somewhat involved in the film's art direction. I suspect that the reason this movie is being branded a new IP is that it is not exactly an alien movie since it focuses on the back story of the alien creature rather than it being another forumlaic alien film = aliens run amok, stupid humans die. I can support this claim since it has been mentioned in the reports that there will be other creatures that aren't exactly the xenomorph. Perhaps, these space jockeys took different traits and aspects from various different alien species to create their perfect weapon which backfired on them. Now, I wonder how the human characters fit into all this. Maybe, they are frontier colony people. Not necessarily associated with the company or Earth which allows the story to take place. If they get lost to encountering the alien, nobody will come to find out about them. I'm just guessing here of course, but we will find out June 8, 2011 won't we. :}
Makes sense really, it's amazing when you consider their ability to take on the characteristics of the host; makes for all kinds of variety. I mean, the Pred-Alien for a start and it's reproducing ability was pretty cool.
Makes you wonder what other unattached sci-fi creatures could be used by them to form different types, it was already wondered at by Sadako of Girth and some others in a vs thread what a fusion with the Arachnids would look like. Probably gain a lot more legs and some nasty barbed pincers I would imagine!.
I used to see toys like that... I think there was even a gorilla and leopard hybrid toy in the works. I dunno about the Mantis, the facehugger would have to be small including the embryo it is implanting to fit inside the Mantis' mouth or opening. :P
I thought about that myself, anything too small or even too big would be difficult for them because generally they need to use their tails to grip around the prey's neck for them to hold on to.
Or maybe for bigger creatures they would just dig in, possibly using their acid to help.
If they took a Wookie, you'd have the first Alien concept with fur at least!
Ridley Scott's really kept the details under wraps. He deliberately leaked details to the press of the various scenarios he's played with over the years without hinting which is true or false...
One scenario was that the Space Jockeys (known as Growers) were terra-formers themselves who bred & used aliens to clear planets of unwanted life-forms before they terra-formed it. In this scenario, the aliens were no bigger than a medium sized dog.
On the Growers home planet were 2 captured male slaves.
Whether Ridley was joking or not but apparently in the script, the Growers enforced male-rape in trying to get them to breed.
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