Alien (2011)

It's one thing to remake, redo, reboot, or whatever you want to call it a genre picture like Friday the 13th or even Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but when you start to get into the realm of the truly great films, then the question must be asked: Why even bother?

That's the subject on many horror/sci-fi fans' minds today with the word coming that Ridley Scott's classic Alien may be up for the redux treatment over at Fox. Blood Disgusting is reporting that one of their insider tipsters -- the same person who correctly predicted the Predator remake -- has told the site that an Alien remake is in the works and that "the plan is to stick with the original concept of only one alien on the ship."

Ridley Scott would produce along with Michael Costigan and Tony Scott, while commercial director Carl Rinsch is named as the director on the project.

This, of course, is all rumor at this point, and in fact BD subsequently updated its report with word from a "separate reliable source" that Fox is "possibly working on an origins story, as opposed to a straight-up remake." So it seems that at the very least something is brewing in xenomorph land over at Fox, and it isn't another Alien Vs. Predator sequel.

Next up: remakes of Citizen Kane, The Godfather, and 2001.

IGN