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Boss Key Productions Were Working On A Newt-Led Alien FPS That Was Cancelled After Disney Bought Fox | Happy Gamer

The Alien franchise, in all mediums, has had some serious highs and lows. For every Alien Isolation, there's an Alien: Colonial Marines....

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[Alfen Dave]

Poor Cliff.
Cant catch a break...

 

[Spukc]

besides that those disney fucks cancelled the 4k UHD release of aliens.
just after we got alien of 4k uhd.

fuck that rat mascot

 

[Cravis]

Damn shame.

 

[888]

Didn’t newt die in cryo as a child in Alien 3?

 

[VertigoOA]

Fuck Disney and everything they have their greedy fucking hands in. Boycott all that shit unless you enjoy watching everything get raped and pillaged for all its worth.

But most clueless nerd shills don’t give a shit because they want more marvel.

BASURA!

 

[OmegaSupreme]

besides that those disney fucks cancelled the 4k UHD release of aliens.
just after we got alien of 4k uhd.

fuck that rat mascot

Really? That legit pisses me off. Aliens is one of my favorite movies ever and I'd love a 4k copy.

 

[Insane Metal]

Oh that's good news, they stopped Cliff. Fucking guy sucks

 

[LenHendricks]

We're all going to wish any other company than Disney bought out Fox's catalog (if you don't feel that way already). They're doing to do jackshit with them for the most part, and the ones they DO deal with will be turned into shitty Disney + or Hulu remakes.

 

[Birdo]

 

[888]

We're all going to wish any other company than Disney bought out Fox's catalog (if you don't feel that way already). They're doing to do jackshit with them for the most part, and the ones they DO deal with will be turned into shitty Disney + or Hulu remakes.

I wish fox would have sold to someone else but sold the marvel character rights back to Disney. I have no confidence Disney can manage certain IPs. But to be fair looking at the last few Aliens/Predator movies, neither could fox.

 

[zeorhymer]

Ok...he just did an interview that LawBreakers was too woke. Now he's describing that the canned game is also woke...

 

[NAI1210]

Didn’t newt die in cryo as a child in Alien 3?

Yep, so my I guess it would have been a sequel to aliens, he did also tweet (erase all
Canon after aliens by the way).
Which would have been totally fine be me, although I did quite like alien 3 was not a big fan of them killing of newt and hicks

 

[Matt_Fox]

"They mostly cancel CliffyB's games. Mostly."

 

[drganon]

On the one hand, Cliff kinda sucks. On the other hand. Disney sucks even worse. The game probably would've sucked, but Disney can still go fuck themselves.

 

[drganon]

Didn’t newt die in cryo as a child in Alien 3?

Yeah, but like alot of fans, I just pretend that movie never happened. The making of doc on the alien quadrilogy was great though. It truly was a doomed project from the get go.

 

[NAI1210]

Ok...he just did an interview that LawBreakers was too woke. Now he's describing that the canned game is also woke...

What of the description makes this game woke? Cause of female lead like in Alien and aliens

 

[zeorhymer]

What of the description makes this game woke? Cause of female lead like in Alien and aliens

Ripley being "Cortana" no big. Then your sidekick is...Casey! And why are you assuming that the 'newt' is female.

 

[NAI1210]

Ripley being "Cortana" no big. Then your sidekick is...Casey! And why are you assuming that the 'newt' is female.

Well I don't think they would make the grown up version of newt male, even the computer is called mother in those films,

 

[jackets with pockets]

"a Newt-led Alien FPS that was cancelled"

Good... I've been fed up with games being mostly woman-led and woman-centered in recent years.

 

[sn0man]

Well I don't think they would make the grown up version of newt male, even the computer is called mother in those films,

hahaha. No joke. Wouldn’t it actually be more woke to make Newt transition to male for the lead role?

I would be in trouble for being angry that they strayed from the source material and removed/changed a character’s gender with a male Newt.

Also how can anyone hate the strong female lead tradition of the early Alien movies? The movies didn’t spend time yelling at the top of their lungs about women being the best. Nor, did they have a Marvel-style girl-power moment

Spoiler: Marvel cinematic universe spoiler.

The last avengers movie with the all girl charge on Thanos. Eye rolling.

 

[boutrosinit]

Didn’t newt die in cryo as a child in Alien 3?

Yep. Hence his follow up of "erase all canon after Aliens".

AND RIGHTLY SO.

 

[boutrosinit]

Oh that's good news, they stopped Cliff. Fucking guy sucks

From personal experience, I found have Cliff to be a thoroughly down to Earth and lovely guy. His wife is very nice too.

 

[NAI1210]

hahaha. No joke. Wouldn’t it actually be more woke to make Newt transition to male for the lead role?

I would be in trouble for being angry that they strayed from the source material and removed/changed a character’s gender with a male Newt.

Also how can anyone hate the strong female lead tradition of the early Alien movies? The movies didn’t spend time yelling at the top of their lungs about women being the best. Nor, did they have a Marvel-style girl-power moment

Spoiler: Marvel cinematic universe spoiler.

The last avengers movie with the all girl charge on Thanos. Eye rolling.

Of course it would be more woke,, I love alien/aliens alien 3 was also alright and doing a direct sequel to aliens would be awesome, I wouldn't want it deviate to much away from the original style, the strong women etc, it just treats women as equal.
I was originally responding to a comment making out this game would be woke.

 

[Iorv3th]

I thought his company was shut down a while ago?

 

[MiguelItUp]

Maaaan, I wish this happened. This is really saddening. Us Alien fans can't catch a break.

 

[xrnzaaas]

"a Newt-led Alien FPS that was cancelled"

Good... I've been fed up with games being mostly woman-led and woman-centered in recent years.

It all depends on how they'd develop her character. Amanda Ripley in Alien Isolation wasn't a bad choice.

 

[Mexen]

Be less woke this time.

 

[Enjay]

I thought his company was shut down a while ago?

It was, which is what is enabling to lie his ass off about this atm.

 

[yurinka]

It's a shame, I'm pretty sure he would have made a great Alien game. I may understand that Disney decision because its budget would have been big, but at least they allowed Capcom to edit thier Alien vs Predator beat'em up again in their arcade stick console.

 

[Enjay]

They were working on this while the only other 2 games they got to work on were released unfinished? Yeah okay cliffyb.

 

[-Arcadia-]

Not an Alien fan, but looking forward to seeing Newt headline his first AAA game.

 

[JoeyWestSide]

Canceled means it was picked up. In talks but dropped means it never went forward. Same same but different.

 

[Soleil rouge]

It was, which is what is enabling to lie his ass off about this atm.

I don't believe it for a second. He's just desperate for any kind of relevancy.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[sol_bad]

besides that those disney fucks cancelled the 4k UHD release of aliens.
just after we got alien of 4k uhd.

fuck that rat mascot

I has not seen any news about Aliens 4k. Link?

 

[Spukc]

I has not seen any news about Aliens 4k. Link?

Alien not aliens...

 

[sol_bad]

Alien not aliens...

I very confusion by your original post now.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

 

[Xenon]

Cliffs a decent guy but nothing they did at BKP leads me to believe they could have done this concept justice. Nor would I expect them to be able to considering the size of their studio.

 

[Elektro Demon]

Yeah, I ain't feeling sorry for him. Never liked him, and he has that douche vibe.

 

[Futaleufu]

Alien III happened, Newt is dead, she drowned, deal with it.

 

[Stiflers Mom]

To be honest, having to chose between Newt dying offscreen at the beginning of Alien3, or her as starring in an FPS, wrecking shit, I am not sure I don't prefer Alien3's take on her story.

 

[tassletine]

Didn’t newt die in cryo as a child in Alien 3?

This is based on the plot of the unmade Blomkamph film, which ignored every film apart from 1 and 2.