Alien Prequel Confirmed! Kill Me.

As if the news of a Robert Rodriguez produced Predator reboot wasn't enough for ya. Bloody Disgusting (the good folks who broke said news-item awhile back) received word from the same tipster regarding another long-time sci-fi/horror property that 20th Century Fox owns headed for a "franchise revival!"

That's right. We're talking about the Alien series. As per their sources, the new project will be produced by Ridley and Tony Scott with Carl Rinsch (a director unknown to most audiences but with numerous television commercials and music videos under his belt - not coincidentally produced by Scott Free Productions) at the helm.

Meanwhile, Collider got the word straight from the mouth of Tony Scott (while doing press for this forthcoming remake of The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3) who confirmed the news as well as revealing that the next Alien film will be a prequel to big-brother Ridley's 1979 original.

Now I'm all for Rinsch getting his chance to make it in "the big leagues" especially with the helpful hands from the Brothers Scott. But for fuck's sake, an Alien prequel?

One would assume the front-loaded "success" of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (a film that despite opening to $85 million in 3 days will fail to break the $200 million mark) would have been enough for the studio to know when they've gone too far. I mean seriously audiences aren't that stupid to need to know the explanation of the every little detail in a film. They actually can use their imaginations and fill in the blanks.

So come Summer 2011-2012, we'll witness High School Nostromo, the $250 million budget prequel about the teenaged Ripley, Dallas, "wacky" foreign-exchange/android student Ash & Co. sing, dance and learn important life-lessons. And they'll be joined by their wise-cracking talking-cat Jonesy for comic-relief.