You... haven’t read the novel, have you?

OOOHHH...that would be really interesting if they could bring the Lovecraft mythos into all this.

There’s absolutely no good reason to make that distinction. In fact it’s dangerous. It makes it seem like America actually has its shit together and this is some sort of snafu.

Probably not a borderline pedophile like Carroll though.

Mia Wasikowska’s agent? ;)

Part of it is the public domain aspect. But really a bigger part is the fact that network execs know jack-shit about fantasy. It’s easier to adapt a century-year-old work that’s been adapted dozens of times before, updated with a “dark, edgy” vision, than it is to adapt a more recent work of fantasy lit.

Isn’t this exactly how species become endangered in the first place? This whole mentality of “Well, I know all of the similar species are or are becoming threatened, but this one isn’t, so fuck it. Let’s hunt it until it is!”

I was so psyched for the movie - David Lynch, Kyle McLaughlin, Sting?! And it was so very disappointing. To me, the absolute worst part was Baron Harkonnen - what a gross, over the top, complete waste of time. The characterization completely ruined the movie for me.

I really don’t think the Aliens characters needed any kind of follow-up. They could just’ve gone for some kind of ‘reboot’ of the original material, like Cameron did, which made Aliens so surprising at the time. Maybe have Ripley moving on to another mission, or an entirely new character in a new situation involving…

That’s an interesting point. I wonder if there’s a correlation between “people who like Alien: Resurrection” and “people who like The Fifth Element.”

Not to mention making the same basic comment on almost every single post.