10 Alien Mistakes Neill Blomkamp Should Totally Erase

2. Anything Resembling A Plot Set On Earth

At the end of Alien: Resurrection, Ripley finds herself hurtling towards Earth. Presumably, at this point, it was the studio's intention to bring the franchise back home, swapping out the claustrophobic space-based settings of the first four movies with one set in a dystopian future of sorts. No thanks. Despite the fact that Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection appear to have been positioned for deletion, there's still a chance that Blomkamp's sequel will pick up where the turgid fourth movie left off: with Ripley and her feet firmly on the ground. To set the movie on Earth would be a huge mistake, of course; the Alien franchise is all about the dark, murky sets made out of tiny crawlspaces and decorated with flickering lights. In short, opening up the series to the vastness of planet Earth would be detrimental to the series and its trademark aesthetics: Blomkamp needs to ensure that no such thing ever happens, and that Ripley - as fate would have it - ends up fighting for her life in some Godawful hellhole positioned as far away from Earth as imaginable.