The news about Ridley Scott planning a prequel to his original movie Alien as a reboot to the franchise was like manna from heaven for this aficionado of sci-fi cinema. When it premired in 1979 my visceral reaction to the opening shot of the Nostromo silently filling the screen as it crawled back to its home base of Earth after a mining mission on the planet Theda was so strong it still seems like I only just saw it a few hours ago. I think I must have sat slack jawed for the first twenty minutes of Scott's opus as I tried to visually digest the new benchmark of expectations being set for future movies about space and space travel. One of the most haunting scenes or images of that film was when Hurt's character was standing in awe before an alien traveller's body who had obviously not survived a violent explosion from within still strapped to his flight deck chair. That image was so strong and intense anyone who re-watched this movie would wonder about the story of this "space jockey" and the circumstances that brought him there: 
Now it looks as though the days of wondering are over. Scott is going to tell his story. According to the evocative director in an interview the film will take place 50 years before the Nostomo stumbles upon the space jockey's body. Early speculation is a target release date set sometime in 2011.
Yummy.
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