# Alien prequel: Ridley Scott and Giger

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-prequel-ridley-scott-and-giger/564756>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 19, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-prequel-ridley-scott-and-giger/564756 "2010-12-19T22:33:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-prequel-ridley-scott-and-giger/564756/41 "2011-01-16T20:36:51Z")

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> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#):
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> Nothing is ever really dead in Hollywood.

Not even _Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League?_ The live-action adaptation of _The Last Unicorn? Star Wars Episodes VII-IX?_ Or a **real** John Carter of Mars treatment?

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-prequel-ridley-scott-and-giger/564756/42 "2011-01-17T17:40:57Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Not even _Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League?_ The live-action adaptation of _The Last Unicorn? Star Wars Episodes VII-IX?_ Or a **real** John Carter of Mars treatment?

I take your point, but if Michael Douglas and Jeff Bridges can return to iconic roles 20+ years later, I think any of those films are within the realm of possibility.

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-prequel-ridley-scott-and-giger/564756/43 "2017-11-01T14:49:48Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> Not even _Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League?_ The live-action adaptation of _The Last Unicorn? Star Wars Episodes VII-IX?_ Or a **real** John Carter of Mars treatment?

Bumped to note that, just six years later, two of those four things have happened or are happening.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-prequel-ridley-scott-and-giger/564756/44 "2017-11-01T18:29:27Z")

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I see no evidence of Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League happening… ☹

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