Ridley Scott Plans ‘Alien’ Prequels

This is a guest post by Gunter Jameson from Classes and Careers.

The movie Alien opened in the US on May 25, 1975, to mixed reviews. Although much of the science fiction community loved it, it was panned by many other critics who said that it was a just a bunch of special effects and cheap tricks that lacked for real storytelling. Well, those critics are in the minority now. Alien is now known as one of the best science fiction movies ever made which has spawned 3 sequels and a number of other Alien-inspired movies like Alien vs. Predator. At the time of its release, Ridley Scott, the director was a virtual unknown in the world of cinema. But now the 3-time academy-award nominee has one of the most prestigious and most successful careers in Hollywood.

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Eragon (2006)

An orphaned farm boy named Eragon is destined to be a dragon rider. While hunting in the forest, he finds a blue stone sent by Princess Arya. He then witness that the blue stone hatches of a dragon and later realize that it is a dragon egg. The name of a dragon is Saphira.

He meet Brom who happened to be a Dragon Rider.
When evil King Galbatorix ruled the entire Alagaesia and finds out about Eragon and the Dragon, the evil sents out his men to capture them. Saphira and Eragon forced to leave from their hometown to search for Varden, a group of rebels to want to witness the downfall of Galbatorix.

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Ghost Town (2008)

Bertram Pincus (Ricky Gervais), is a dentist seeing ghosts after he was diagnosed and died for 7 minutes in the hospital. Dr. Pincus has been chased with the ghosts in the town and asked help from him. The recently deceased businessman Frank(Greg Kinnear) agrees Dr. P to prevent his widow, Gwen (Tea Leoni) from marrying this lawyer Richard (Billy Campbell). But it turned out that Dr. P falls in love with Gwen.

And so as the other ghosts, he help them with their unfinished business left before they died.



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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)

The Four Children returns to Narnia where hundreds of years already had gone by since they ruled Narnia.
When Queen Prunaprimia gave birth to a son, King Miraz - his uncle ordered his men to kill Prince Caspian since the prince has exiled with the help of his tutor.
Susan, Edmund, Lucy and Peter are destined to find Prince Caspian to exterminate king Miraz to prevent ruling the entire Narnians.
The battle begins against the two - the group of the kings and queens of hopes and against Miraz' men.
Lucy seeks out of Aslan, the most powerful in the entire Narnia.

Another Fantasy adventure film for the family.

Willow (1988)

Willow is a 1988 fantasy adventure film directed by Ron Howard.

When evil queen Bavmorda fears who the prophecy foretold that a baby with a peculiar birthmark will put her to an end. So, she imprisoned all the mothers who are about to give birth. A prisoner give birth to a destined child, a midwife saves her life before Bavmorda killed the baby. However, the midwife puts the baby on the raft and send it downstream before the hounds of the queen reached her. She eventually washes ashore in the village inhabited by dwarf-like people. Willow Ufgood, the farmer and amateur magician found the baby and was being chosen by the council to return the baby to the world of large people.

The adventure of Willow begun when the evil queen soldiers chasing after the baby and Willow saves the baby from the evil cruel soldiers. The baby then will save the entire land after defeating Bavmorda with the help of Willow's courage and friends.

This movie is really great and is one of the most amazing fantasy adventure film that I've ever watched.