If the Alien rumours are true, please, no more yucky high-concept posturing

 Alien

The fact that there hasn't been a good Alien movie since 1986 is a damning indictment of contemporary Hollywood. 

The long-running slasher in space tale has been hampered for 36 years by studio intervention (Alien 3), awkward settings (Alien: Resurrection), brain-dead conceptualization (the Alien vs. Predator films), and absurd, portentous grandiosity (everything from Prometheus onward). 

Over three decades have passed, and despite the best efforts of directors like David Fincher, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and Ridley Scott himself, nothing has been able to equal the magnificence of Scott's 1979 sci-fi classic Alien and its more over-the-top sequel, James Cameron's Aliens.

The director of the upcoming TV project will be Noah Hawley from Fargo. Additionally, Cailee Spaeny from Mare of Easttown is reportedly set to star in Fede Alvarez's upcoming Alien film. Fede Alvarez is the Uruguayan filmmaker of the 2016 chillingly outlandish horror film Don't Breathe.

Prometheus is absurd and ominous. Image courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation and Sportsphoto.

We can only hope that the choice to appoint Alvarez signals that 20th Century Studios, which is now owned by Disney, is preparing to take a more traditional approach. 

Beginning with 2012's Prometheus, Scott's more recent Alien films have taken the stance that audiences are fascinated by minor details of the original movie (such as the enigmatic Space

Jockeys/Engineers) and will patiently endure several hours of yucky high-concept speculation about where they may have come from.

Before the experienced director murdered them all out at the start of 2017's Alien: Covenant since Michael Fassbender's David8 the android had received higher reviews in the first picture, this was only somewhat fascinating.

In the recently canceled TV series Raised By Wolves, Scott had the chance to elaborate on the disgusting concept of the Alien prequels—that someone in the universe is tampering with life itself to make ideal-living killer robots. 

This play and the subsequent Alien movies both gave the impression that the audience was always being asked questions and never truly got to the solutions before new ones were put out. 

I shall miss the bizarre, melancholy space wars between frightful androids and strange religious nuts in Raised By Wolves since this sort of mystery thriller approach works much better in an episodic format. 

And yet, after so many years of failure, the new Alien movie undoubtedly has to find a fresh direction, even with Scott returning as a producer.

A fresh hope Federico Alvarez Image courtesy of NurPhoto/Getty Images

It's possible that 20th Century Studios has one eye on Prey, a Predator sequel set in 1719 among the Native Americans. 

Dan Trachtenberg's lean and moody sci-fi actioner, which only cost $65 million to produce, ended up becoming the series' greatest installment since Arnold Schwarzenegger faced off against the mandible ET in the Central American jungle in 1987. 

Instead of revealing more and more about the origins of the extraterrestrial hunter-clan, it smartly realized that setting the action in a whole other age might be just as ferocious, angry, and shocking as the previous movie.

Wouldn't it be fantastic if Alvarez's Alien movie followed suit? Maybe we don't need to watch every stage of the development of the first Xenomorph. 

Instead of being at the center of a lengthy plot involving mankind's purported origins and a psychopathic robot with a god mentality, perhaps the crew of the Nostromo just got lucky? 

Not knowing exactly what was going on made everything much more exciting, didn't it? After all these years, maybe we'll even get to meet another alien species that doesn't have anything to do with HR Giger and perhaps doesn't even have acid blood.

That could be a little bit excessive. But after all this time, we can be sure of one thing: adding more xenomorph backstory is about as useful as trying to carry on when your eyes are blood red, the space eggs are starting to open, and your crewmate is obviously "pregnant" with something utterly repulsive. This is a setup for future Alien sequels.