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>you guys and your manufactured pre-hate is ridiculous
No. Making these sequels to beloved 80's movies is like treading on holy ground for people. For better or worse (possibly for the worse, but you can't un-close Pandora's box), these movies have been handed down between generations of people and venerated as "the best movies ever" - and frankly a movie like Alien is quite good, and in ways that are difficult if not impossible to replicate.
And with the Alien series specifically, this has been a conversation since Prometheus in 2012 - are fans capable of accepting new things, should the old things be treated like these "sacred tomes" among their fandoms, is the creator in the right to force evolution on his creation (this is a question both for the Engineers of humanity in Prometheus, and which Ridley considers for himself as the creator of this behemoth franchise), even Ridley himself seems reluctant to continue the Alien series - doing so at the behest of Fox
>A King has his reign and then he dies - says Vickers to Weyland in Prometheus
>I am Oyzmandias, King of Kings - Look on my works ye mighty and despair - quotes David in Alien: Covenant
I think even Ridley might hope Alien is something people will move past
The thing is, no one is actually asking for these sequels. No one among the general audience.
No one actually wants sequels to these great 80's movies.
Studios make them because they see people watching these old movies and going "wow these old movies are great!" - so the studios think to themselves, "well we can make some money by giving people more of what they want" - but then they find out they're just stepping on the toes of fans, and probably failing to draw in new people when fans go "ouch, you stepped on my toes with that!"
So it's this insane catch 22 scenario where it doesn't matter how much talent and effort you throw at it, a sequel simply isn't going to be the original thing.
There is a golden path out of this mess.
