if David Cronenberg had made Aliens...

if David Cronenberg had made Aliens, none of this would have happened I'm convinced Had Giger's people put the artist together with the Canadian director of such body horror classics as The Fly, Dead Ringers, Videodrome, Existenz, Eastern Promises and Naked Lunch, we might have got something that was more related to the Giger paintings' ethos of biogeometry derived from visceral sexual union. I'm thinking of the effect Cronenberg has had on popular culture: imagine a pre-videodrome world where no guns take on Giger-tube piercing format and possess the owner, imagine a world without the monotonous grey clay torture room of internet porn as depicted in the film, imagine video tapes not being stuffed into labial openings in cigarette burned torsos. It's like Arthur C Clarke's geo-stationary satellite tech - ne had to think of it before some techs could make it. And it might have been the SAVING GRACE of the Alien Franchise (you know, were it not left to James Cameron (who I respect as an action film-maker) totally ruining the xenomorph concept with the addition of an (unnecessary) Alien Queen to the mix (gosh, I love my nested parentheses (and I can count))) had someone like Cronenberg taken up the reigns of the wild Alien pony. Imagine (after making Videodrome in 1983) Cronenberg had been offered part two or part minus one of the Alien franchise ... a chance to explore where the derelict and the space jockey came from and why no Queen was needed and what (if any) connection to the human race such a race of truckers/doctors might have. He'd have definitely set it in Toronto, or Vancouver, that day. He'd have unwound what we consider to be Society with one fell swoop - and hopefully he'd have had help with his scriptwriting (Dead Zone is the best film he's done, because he didn't write the script). We might have had an intelligent ADULT 'xenomorph' series instead of a childish videogame series. Eh? Any fans of C.A.R. or Cronenberg Alien Reboot out there? Totally redo the franchise from the Alien start point, with the egg-mogrifying Dallas scene reintroduced to the standard model and Cronenberg at the helm of a prequel/sequel? Anyone? :)