Alien Franchise: What if...Story idea
Hundreds if not thousands of eggs. From Alien (1979) In 1979, what started as a simple monster movie gathered enough speed to become one of the key movie pictures of the century - Ridley Scott's Alien. The story was expanded on by David Cameron's Aliens in 1984 and then went downhill with Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection. A few years later Scott tried to remedy the third and fourth sequels and revive the story with Prometheus. Partly, he succeeded despite glaring holes in the movie. There are still places the story can take us and I would like to discuss some of them here. In the original we are led to a crashed derelict ship, the source of hundreds of alien eggs, emitting a warning signal. The Nostromo wakes up the crew and they go to investigate, which results in the birth of a few screams in space no one heard but everyone enjoyed the hell out of. The question here is: Why did the ship have so many eggs? Why was it only a few months from Earth? Where was it going? Why d...