Game Dev Boss Key Productions (Cliff Bleszinski) Were Working On A Newt-Led Alien FPS That Was Cancelled After Disney Bought Fox.

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The Alien franchise, in all mediums, has had some serious highs and lows. For every Alien Isolation, there's an Alien: Colonial Marines....

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[TheGummyBear]

Didn't Boss Key Productions close down before the Disney buy out last year?

 

[Bunkles]

Didn't Boss Key Productions close down before the Disney buy out last year?

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That's exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Kalentan]

Didn't Boss Key Productions close down before the Disney buy out last year?

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Yes. By almost a year from what I can see.

 

[KoolAid]

Didn't Boss Key Productions close down before the Disney buy out last year?

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so Cliffy is lying? how unusual of him

 

[Lukemia SL]

This sounds bogus

 

[DMczaf]

Comcast dropped out of the bidding war in July 2018

Boss Key Productions announced their closing in May 2018

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[Ryuhza]

Damn, I thought this was going to be an FPS where you played as an actual newt on an alien planet.

 

[SENPAIatLARGE]

 

[Indy in the Fridge]

Hmm, this thing was probably an idea written on an easel board and not ever in any sort of pre-production.

 

[YuriLowell]

Yeah, the timing doesn't quite lineup here.

 

[Bunkles]

so Cliffy is lying? how unusual of him

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Hey now...

CliffyB is the first mainstream game developer to actually have something to say.

 

[Deleted member 10737]

cliff's transition into irrelevancy has been one of the most ungraceful ones i've ever seen.

 

[elenarie]

Hey now...

CliffyB is the first mainstream game developer to actually have something to say.

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Lol I remember that reference. :D

... need to get out more. :/

 

[FormatCompatible]

Cliff Bleszinski lying? Well, I never

 

[LewieP]

Sounds kinda woke, probably would have been a total failure.

 

[Ryan.]

Yeah the timeline really doesn't make sense here. BKP shut down before it was clear that Disney was able to buy 20th Century.

It can still be true (talks could have stopped when the discussion of selling their film studios started) and he's just making it easier for people to understand.

 

[mreddie]

 

[OldDirtyGamer]

Thay sucks , could have been cool

 

[wrowa]

"Were in talks" could literally mean anything. Might have been nothing more than a simple pitch.

 

[Le Dude]

I totally read that as "new lewd alien fps" and I was really confused why the Disney buyout mattered.

 

[dabri]

Today I learned that buyouts between major global corporations happen in one day and don't take over a year after agreements and signed contracts to even get approved by the federal government to avoid monopolies.

 

[Ryan.]

Yes. By almost a year from what I can see.

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Well the acquisition completed in March '19, nearly a year after BKP shut down. But it was approved and started in July '18. Timeline still doesn't make sense from his tweets though.

 

[White Glint]

Guys I'm sure Clifford Bleszinski had inside info about the Disney Fox buyout.

 

[Hailinel]

There's so much BS to parse here. What timeline does Cliffy live in?

 

[catswaller]

People in fox were surely already splitting attention/making decisions on approving projects up to a year before the buyout really happened, so the "lost in the shuffle" isnt really as implausible as you guys are trying to make it seem. It's not that uncommon in business for somebody to keep delaying meetings with you because theyre busy and new things came up, and then 6 months later find out what those things were.

(that said i bet this was in super early stages and had a 0.1% chance of closing the deal regardless of what happened with disney, cliffy is probably wildly exaggerating)

 

[Max|Payne]

It somehow sounds even less likely lorewise than Amanda Ripley in Isolation.

 

[A Grizzly Bear]

"Were in talks" could literally mean anything. Might have been nothing more than a simple pitch.

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Yeah, not sure how talking translated to "working on." Sounds like they had an elevator pitch.

 

[Doggg]

Disney was like, "Whoa, whoa whoa, that's way too woke!"

 

[boris_feinbrand]

Even if real, I'm actually glad it doesn't exist. Makes the premise of Colonial Marines sound brilliant

 

[Max|Payne]

I wonder if they would've gotten the original Newt actress to reprise her role. AFAIK, Aliens was her only role ever.

 

[Sloane Ranger]

Disney was like, "Whoa, whoa whoa, that's way too woke!"

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Thank you for this -

 

[Horror]

There's so much BS to parse here. What timeline does Cliffy live in?

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[justiceiro]

It would be cool if happened. Cliffy knows how to make a good shooter.

 

[samred]

The important thing to quote is the FIRST tweet:

"we were in talks to do a new game in the Aliens franchise with Fox."

IN TALKS does not mean in production. Cliff could likely rattle off dozens of publishers he's ever been in talks with about stuff scribbled on a pad of notebook paper with a couple of "ooh it'd be cool if we got paid to do this" renders that never went anywhere. This is not the same as a greenlit prototype getting canned by corporate ambivalence.

 

[7threst]

Cliff Bleszinski lying? Well, I never

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Wow, never saw this. Crazy.

 

[Trejo]

cliff's transition into irrelevancy has been one of the most ungraceful ones i've ever seen.

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I dunno, Jaffe's been trying his best too.

 

[cLOUDo]

Cliff Bleszinski lying? Well, I never

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LMAO

 

[Fisty]

This guy is becoming the Zack Snyder of gaming

"Look at all this cool stuff that I never did but i did think about it once, trust me it would have been amazing"

 

[Garlador]

All that being said, I wouldn't mind an Alien: Isolation type game starring adult Newt.

I'm legit curious which franchise has the most "ignore everything after the second one" reboots and redos: Terminator or Aliens?

 

[Potterson]

So he just pitched it and they've said "We'll think about it" probably, lol.

 

[Dyle]

That would explain why Fox stopped responding to all my fanfiction proposals around that time too

 

[Deleted member 8593]

Time must move differently around Cliffy's massive ego.

 

[Genetrik]

Was it Alien Isolation 2? No? Then goodbye.

 

[Ghos]

Cliff Bleszinski lying? Well, I never

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no shame

 

[Triggerhappytel]

I quite like the idea of Weyland Yutani holding Xenos for experiments in an isolated Black Mesa-style facility. But not starring an adult Newt, and not with Ripley as her 'Cortana'. This sounds like an idea that probably never got beyond the pitch stage.

Cliff Bleszinski lying? Well, I never

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Fucking hell that's embarrassing.

 

[Deleted member 61326]

Perhaps the game was too woke :(

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Cliff Bleszinski lying? Well, I never

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One of the few instances where the word "cringe" is actually appropriate.

Cliffy, why? Dude, why?

 

[Van Bur3n]

IN TALKS does not mean in production. Cliff could likely rattle off dozens of publishers he's ever been in talks with about stuff scribbled on a pad of notebook paper with a couple of "ooh it'd be cool if we got paid to do this" renders that never went anywhere. This is not the same as a greenlit prototype getting canned by corporate ambivalence.

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This would seem likely given the nature of one Cliffy B.

 

[tacocat]

God Cliffy B needs to take a break from Twitter. I guess he doesn't like being irrelevant but he is just making himself look worse every day.