The Crowd 309: Rewriting Narratives

Hi Crowd! I’ve been thinking a lot about narratives and how stories are told and what the public walks away with recently so perhaps it’s fitting that the first thing I have to tell you about is ALIEN: PARADISE which is a fan made edit combining Prometheus and Covenant into a single film as well adding in some of the extra content that was available as promotional material or DVD extras. If you love the Alien/Blade Runner/Weyland-Yutani universe like I do, you know that at times the storylines can be a little open to interpretation and if you are trying to directly connect point A to point B that can occasionally be tricky. This edit pulls these two important story pieces together in a more focused and connected way – or so I’m told. I plan to watch it this weekend but I’m super excited already. It looks like this editor has previously made another Alien reedit focusing on Ripley so will need to watch that as well though that story isn’t quite as zig zaggy as Davids. I’ve been…