Clearly, Michael Shannon thinks there is potential, and now believes that Nichols’ work on Alien Nation could become something else.
The latest news of the Alien Nation remake is that it has sadly been scrapped, but Nichols’ frequent collaborator Michael Shannon is still holding out hope.
Alien Nation, the neo-noir science fiction action movie directed by Graham Baker back in 1988, was not particularly well-received upon release.
He put a lot of time into this one particular project [Alien Nation] that he’d been writing for Fox, and then the Disney merger happened.