Cue the Acid: Alien Gets Rebooted

Director confirmed to direct prequel for hit sci-fi franchise; find out who else signed on the dotted line in our Casting Couch gallery

By Gina Serpe Aug 01, 2009 2:00 PMTags
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Well, whaddya know? The Alien franchise is once again starting to show signs of intelligent life…thanks primarily to the announcement that O.G. director Ridley Scott will be returning to helm a prequel to the hit sci-fi series he helped launch exactly three decades ago.

It'll likely be a few years before the franchise is back up and running—the script hasn't even been written yet, let alone gone through the umpteen rewrites such a blockbuster requires—but still, it's nice to know you can phone go home again.

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