It’s a shame the veteran British film-maker has blocked Neill Blomkamp’s plot to resurrect Ellen Ripley (again) in favour of a tedious-sounding Prometheus sequelLet me paint for you,just for a moment, a nightmarish scenario to compare with the hellish visions seen in HR Giger’s Necronom IV, or the Swiss surrealist painter’s inspiration for his later work on the hideous xenomorphs in 1979’s Alien. Imagine for a moment that George Lucas,not long after Disney hired JJ Abrams to direct the first new Star Wars movie in more than a decade – perhaps even after the release of that first teaser trailer for The Force Awakens, which sent everyone into apoplexies of expectation – found something in the small print that allowed him to change his intellect approximately handing over the long-running space saga to a bunch of newbies.
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Source: theguardian.com