Ridley Scott’s Prometheus had a very interesting development lifecycle. It began as a straight up prequel to Scott’s 1979 masterpiece Alien, and then it suddenly wasn’t a prequel any more. Then the movie came out and for the first 95% it was indeed its own beast, until a different beast showed up which kinda made you think it was actually …

For a brief while it looked like we’d see two movies set in the Alien universe being released in 2017 – Ridley Scott’s Prometheus sequel, Alien: Paradise Lost, and Neill Blomkamp’s untitled Alien 5 sequel. I’m going with Alien: Re-resurrection: I live, I die, I live again! However last night the South African-born director took to Twitter to inform his …

According to an interview with The Daily Beast, Ridley Scott claims that Neill Blomkamp’s in-development, still-untitled Alien film will be released in 2017. Slip of the tongue? Misprint? While we still know very little about Blomkamp’s film other than the concept art – Is it a sequel? How are some of the characters alive? – the only requisite placed on Blomkamp’s …

Director Ridley Scott has a lot on his plate at the moment. He’s currently out and about doing press rounds to promote The Martian, starring Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on… Mars, which was very well received following its screening at the Toronto International Film Festival; and it’s a timely return to form for the legendary director because he’s also …

According to The Guardian, who references a “supposed” interview with FilmFutter, director Ridley Scott spoke about connecting the Prometheus saga with his original 1979 classic sci-fi horror Alien. (I myself do not read German and so can’t speak to the credibility of this article). Prometheus of course started life as an Alien prequel, then Scott claimed that it had evolved into …

Prometheus. A silly prequel with some superb technical work done to make it such an odd film. There’s no denying that Prometheus dropped the ball in quite a few departments, but when it came to world-building, the film was actually damn good at that. So good in fact, that I’d like to see a sequel, which would be a second …

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I don’t envy director Neill Blomkamp right now. Hitting Hollywood hard with District 9, the helmer has had two flops since then in the form of Elysium and Chappie. Now, with his his plans for a fifth Alien film he’s got to juggle not only some high fan expectations, but a franchise that hasn’t seen a proper sequel for close to …

Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed!

Prometheus was a controversial movie, but there is little consensus on what people hated.

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Although it was brilliant on a visual level, Prometheus fell short, banged its head and had to wear a safety helmet for the rest of its life in the scripting department. There are some mind-staggeringly stupid sections in the film, such as failing to run in a diagonal direction before a space donut crashes you, or attempting to make friends …