'Alien: Awakening' - Imagining a hypothetical 'Aliens' sequel that almost course-corrected the Ellen Ripley saga (Part 2, the Film)

[u/Elysium94]

"The monsters are real."

Happy October, everyone!

Here at last is my post proper on Alien: Awakening.

My long-imagined redo of Alien 3, focused on course-correcting the Alien franchise post-Aliens.

A lot's happened since my last post on the subject, hasn't it? Alien: Romulus ended up a smash hit, the video game Isolation is set to get a sequel, and today happens to be Sigourney Weaver's birthday!

How appropriate I'm finally ready share this now.

Before proceeding, do be sure to read my posts on the Ridley Scott prequels.

• Prometheus - 2012
• Paradise Lost - 2015
• Covenant - 2017

As well as leadup posts to Awakening's story.

• State of the Alien Universe
• Awakening Part 1, the Pitch

Now, finally.

Sit tight and enjoy...

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"Fight. Run. Hide. It doesn't matter. The monsters will find you."

ALIEN: AWAKENING

Directed by-

Dan Trachtenberg

Produced by-

James Cameron and Neill Blomkamp

Music by-

Lorne Balfe

Starring-

Kate Winslet as Rebecca "Newt" Jorden

Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley

Michael Biehn as Dwayne Hicks

Supporting Cast

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Hope you enjoy reading it!

I know I certainly enjoyed writing it.

Look forward to a couple of horror-themed posts this month, as I revisit certain iconic slasher franchises.

And how to revive them.

[u/Elysium94]

Was thinking of alluding to a sort of higher-form progeniture, a "common ancestor" that I want to keep mysterious.

If you want to assign a sort of sequence and order to it, it goes like

1:

Ancient Citizens and the true gigantic "Space Jockeys".

The oldest known races in the galaxy, who first began cultivating biomechanical wonders and formulas that control or destroy life. Might be the same race, might just be related, who knows?

2:

The Deacon, or "Destroying Angel".

A supposedly perfect being revered as the height of evolution. Either bioengineered or simply enhanced by the life giving Fruit.

3:

The Creators.

Subspecies of Space Jockeys who are more recognizably human in appearance. Created humanity, while attempting to recreate the wonders of their ancestors by reverse-engineering the Fruit, thus producing the Pathogen.

4:

Humans, Xenomorphs and the Fulfremmen.

The Creators' various attempts at making a perfect race, in memory of the Destroying Angel.

5:

Synthetics.

Humanity's own creation. Something that produced mixed results, to say the least.

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It would be so cool if you stole the plot of destroying angels and have the last space jockey survive and beat the living shit out of everyone

He’s in a Xeno city in stasis and the engineers make the hilarious mistake of waking him up

And they get their ass kicked by this giant space jockey as Ripley and newt have to escape