class=”alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2753″ style=”margin: 10px;” title=”alien-remake” src=”https://www.heyuguys.com/images/2009/10/alien-remake-220×150.jpg” alt=”alien-remake” width=”220″ height=”150″ />Empire magazine has brought us the story of some minor news on the planned Alien prequel that Ridley Scott will be directing some time in the furture.

Ridley Scott was quoted as saying to Empire that “It’s a brand new box of tricks, We know what the road map is, and the screenplay is now being put on paper. The prequel will be a while ago. It’s very difficult to put a year on Alien, but [for example] if Alien was towards the end of this century, then the prequel story will take place thirty years prior.”

Interesting news as a rumor was already doing the rounds that the prequel would be based on the big ship shown in Alien and how it came to crash etc. That to me would have been nonsense and it would have ruined the mystery of that other race and how they got there.

Alien needs a huge boost as the Vs films against Predator and Alien Resurrection have serious damaged it and left a nasty taste in the mouth, so hopefully Ridley Scott will have a lot of say in the future of the franchise and take a bold step in a new direction and something in-between the claustrophobia of Alien and the action of Aliens would be perfect.