May 28, 2009 By this morning, the report has already spread across the webosophere. Originally broken by Bloody Disgusting, it turns out that Ridley Scott and his brother Tony are producing a remake/reboot of "Alien" with a first-time film director at the helm.



Given the awesome success of "Star Trek", the reboot, at the box office a rebooted "Alien" prequel simply titled "Alien" makes sense from a financial perspective. But from an artistic perspective?

Well considering how flawed the nineties sequels "Alien 3" and "Alien Resurrection" were, and just how bad "Alien vs. Predator Requiem" was, a prequel/reboot doesn't seem like that bad of an idea to me.

So who is the director?

Carl Erik Rinsch is apparently known mostly for his commercials and I couldn't find out a thing about him on IMDB. Here, however, is one of his commercials, which you should note has a monster movie bent.




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