Eh? An ad on the site?

Err, rather that’s what I was shown. Started reading the article, got to the end of the first paragraph and *boom* massive page covering ad for a game. No way to get out of it either.

I've found on the Cinema Blend site, you have to scroll back to the top of the page to close the ads that appear.
At least that is what I have to do when using the iPad.

Mark

UPDATE: 20th Century Fox has officially announced Ridley Scott's return to the universe he created in ALIEN with ALIEN: COVENANT, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with PROMETHEUS -- and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science fiction. They have also released the official title treatment for the film.

I wonder if Deckard will shoot first.
Ridley Scott describes opening scene of Blade Runner 2.
This actually sounds like a scene from a very early draft of the original that was later cut.
There's storyboards on the DVD set very reminiscent of what's described at that link.

Mark

Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Alien’ Will Focus On Newt?!

Bloody Disgusting! Neill Blomkamp’s ‘Alien’ Will Focus On Newt?!By MrDisgusting on November 23, 2015@bradmiska
Newt ALIENS image via FOX
Here’s how to erase all of the Alien sequels from existence…

Right now all eyes are on Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel/Prometheus sequel, Alien: Covenant, which is shooting in February/March for release on October 6, 2017.

When Scott decided to focus solely on this franchise, it forced Fox to indefinitely delay Neill Blomkamp’s already announced Aliens sequel, which would bring Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn back, while ignoring the third and fourth films in the franchise.

Biehn spoke candidly with Icons of Fright, in which he reveals that Blomkamp will bring Newt back, while also using her to further the franchise (in a new direction).

“They’re planning on bringing me and Newt back and at this point Newt will be around twenty-seven years old. I know that every actress in Hollywood is going to want to play this one, it’s really a passing of the torch between Sigourney and this younger actress who would play Newt. It would keep the franchise alive and the studios would make money, because that’s what the bottom line is now: money.“

Ridley Scott: 'Alien: Covenant' Is First of 3 Films Before Linking Up With Original 'Alien' - Hollywood Reporter
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-v ... -is-844051

Too tired to read that properly at the moment.

Covenant is about a crew who believe they've discovered an uncharted paradise, but in fact it's a place inhabited by Michael Fassbender's David

Dan’s unique race: In the original screenplay the Alien is not an implied bioweapon but rather a member of a long extinct race who copulate within pyramid structures. Since the planetoid’s extinct alien inhabitants were capable of architecture and religion, the Alien, as initially conceived, was not to be an entirely hostile creature. As it ages, O’Bannon explained, the Alien “becomes more and more harmless. Finally, its blood-lust gone, the Alien becomes a mild, intelligent creature, capable of art and architecture, which lives a full, scholarly life of 200 years.” To add to the concept of the Alien becoming more intelligent and emotionally content as it matures, O’Bannon excused the Alien’s blood-thirst aboard the Nostromo as a sort of juvenile panic that, given the right environment, may have passed: “It’s never been subject to its own culture, it’s never been subject to anything except a few hours in the hold of the ship. Quite literally, it doesn’t have an education. The Alien is not only savage, it is also ignorant.”

English animal impersonator, Percy Edwards, provided the Alien’s cries.