Neill Blomkamp to Direct New Alien Movie

[thebreak]

http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/confirmed-neill-blomkamp-will-next-direct-an-alien-sequel-287

 

It is unsure if Weaver is attached, but if the concepts Neill has been throwing around can come true, it'd be pretty cool.

I'm not a fan of Alien 3, so I'm intrigued with the idea that Ripley and Hicks survive and continue the adventure.

 

 

 

[Drunken Cowboy]

As much as I liked some of his other work like District 9, his movies don't seem to hit the Alien vibe.

Hopefully it'll be a good new but faithful spin on the "silent predator" tension film instead of some South African journalist going to sing Kumbaya with the "misunderstood" Xenomorphs.

[Kiffster]

Man I'm happy this is happening. Gonna be awesome I think. And I guess it's safe to say that Sharlto Copley will have some sort of lead role...

[Theodore93]

Fookin prawns mate. I hope it's set on a wooden planet this time.

 

Really though, Alien 5? Sure, why not? Not sure I care for any talk about disregarding Alien 3 though - no matter how much I like Hicks. While I think it's considerable step down from the first two, I still think it's a decent film and should not be cast aside so easily. I don't expect they'll go with this idea though.

 

Then again, I believe Aliens: Colonial Marines was declared canon and that was f*cking atrocious.

 

f*ck it, let's go nuts and get Bill Paxton in too.

Edited February 19, 2015 by Waldie

[Zondar]

On paper this is a match made in heaven. That's 5 films in the Alien series, each with a top drawer director.

I really can't think of an other film series that has such a talented and varied roster of directors.

[Tchuck]

I think he has seen too much Farscape with that alien helmet thing up there, getting a total Scorpius vibe from it.

 

Anyway, could be good, could be so so, I'll probably go and see it as I enjoy the Alien series.

[Creed Bratton]

Man I'm happy this is happening. Gonna be awesome I think. And I guess it's safe to say that Sharlto Copley will have some sort of lead role...

I hope so. Have you seen him in Elysium? The dude is amazing. I think this movie is in good hands.

[Kiffster]

Yeah, but he's in all Blomkamp's movies. Wikus is District 9, bad guy in Elysium, and he's Chappie in Chappie.

[Creed Bratton]

I know. But I didn't realize how good of an actor he was until Elysium. His character in District 9 is almost the polar opposite of his character in Elysium. Great range.

[uNi]

I'm totally hyped for this, plus Ridley will produce it.

[Vanilla Shake]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/02/26/blomkamps-alien-movie-will-ignore-alien-3-and-resurrection

 

They really are ignoring the events of 3 and Resurrection. I have got the biggest boner right now, I sh*t you not.

[PhillBellic]

This looks very interesting.

[Creed Bratton]

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/02/26/blomkamps-alien-movie-will-ignore-alien-3-and-resurrection

 

They really are ignoring the events of 3 and Resurrection. I have got the biggest boner right now, I sh*t you not.

Ha! This also erases that abysmal video game that was declared canon. This keeps getting better every day.

 

Even though Neil Blomkamp has made good movies in the past, they were all original ideas. But if he can make a good Aliens sequel that's what he'll be remembered for.

Edited February 26, 2015 by The Yokel

[Theodore93]

Hmm, I still think it's bad form. Disrespectful even.

 

I hope it's good but I'm not holding my breath as I see no reason to put any faith in this Blomkamp fella just yet. Even Prometheus with RS at the helm was disappointing.

Edited February 26, 2015 by Waldie

[uNi]

So this is started to look as an actual proper sequel to the second movie, awesome.

[PhillBellic]

So this is started to look as an actual proper sequel to the second movie, awesome.

The strange thing is I have yet to see the first Alien movie. True story.

[Zoobz]

The strange thing is I have yet to see the first Alien movie. True story.

Go watch it then. It's a classic.

 

Everything is pointing in the right direction for this film to be something great.

[Theodore93]

It's a pretty bold thing to do. It's saying that Alien 3 sucked as a sequel and I'm going to do it a whole lot better.

 

I hope it's either really good or really bad. Like AvP bad.

[uNi]

Alien 3 was good, the direction it gave was not.

[reiniat]

For now, my faith in this movie depends on how good will Chappie be.

[X S]

I know I'm in the minority, but I really enjoyed Alien 3, although I can't say much for Alien: Ressurection other than it was different. Alien 3 was directed by David Fincher before anyone even knew who Fincher was, and looking back, you can begin to appreciate the movie a bit more.

 

I understand why people don't like it, it killed off arguably one of the best characters, Hicks, and even little Newt; hell, Bishop even died. But for those reasons, I love it. It's very art-house and nihilistic, something out of a Nine Inch Nails music video, and it showed no remorse for its characters and their relationships with one another. Ripley lost everything in Alien 3, and even when she's tested by men who are serving life sentences on a prison planet, those men somehow band together, test their own faiths, sacrifice their own lives, and help bring down the alien. And after all that, all the wore-torn sacrifices she's made to finally destroy these f*cking things, she decided to sacrifice her own life to finish the job.

 

That scene where the shut down the prison and all the lights go off, that's where the franchise should have ended. The problem is that all three Alien movies are drastically different, and the third provides no happy ending this time around. For such a horrific nightmare, I thought that was an excellent way to end it. But Alien Ressurection is at least different. It's a decent movie, but not worth sidestepping in my opinion.

 

I have recently heard that Blomkamp isn't going to completely side-step the 3rd and 4th, but instead develop a new way to incorporate them using either cloning or time travel technology. But again, everything is just rumors.

 

Also, the xenomorph isn't even scary anymore. What could possibly be added to this story? Ridley Scott has already stated he has a bigger and badder xenomorph making an appearance in Prometheus 2, so why do we need to continue the Alien canon?

Edited June 18, 2015 by X S

[Is this The Guy?]

‘District 9’ and ‘Chappie’ director Neill Blomkamp has provided a small update on his ‘Alien’ movie, revealing that it is going very

 

http://movieweb.com/alien-5-concept-art-ripley-hicks/

 

 

 

So not only are they bringing back Ripley but they're bringing back Hicks!!

 

 

Can't wait. Aliens was my favorite movie of the series

[reiniat]

For now, my faith in this movie depends on how good will Chappie be.

Chappie wasnt that good, but at least it was on line with Elysium

[KyojinEM]

Sounds awesome can't wait for Alien 3.2 or Aliens 2 or Ali3n or whatever its called

Hope its better than Alien 3 and contains a great Alien vibe like the one Alien Isolation had

[Kiffster]

Crap

 

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/627487-neill-blomkamps-alien-5-is-on-hold

 

Starting to think Blomkamp's Alien is doomed. Didn't even like the first Prometheus at all and I'm not really looking forward to the sequel that much. I think Alien 5 has (or had) the potential to be so much better.

[X S]

I'm not crazy about what Sigourney is saying about it, though. She's saying she wants her character to be sent off properly. What exactly does that mean? A happy ending? I don't want a happy ending.

 

I think self-sacrifice was the best way to go out for her character in Alien 3 (Alien Resurrection doesn't count because it's like an alternate universe, and it's technically not really Ripley). But the narrative in Alien 3 comes full circle with the narrative going on in Prometheus, that self-sacrifice and humility were virtuous traits, and that the Xeno was an abomination of everything wrong with the human race. That's why the Engineer bludgeons Weyland when he asks to grant him the secrets to eternal life. Ripley fulfills the "prophecy" in way, by sacrificing herself in the crucifix position when she dies in Alien 3.

 

So couple this scene with the beginning scene where we see the engineer sacrificing himself, and then this one at the end where David tells the Engineer that Weyland wants to live forever.

 

 

 

Then there's Ripley sacrificing herself to bring it to an end.

 

[Spaghetti Cat]

The first 2/3rds of Resurrection wasn't that bad. But the ending left much to be desired. 3 was good, but suffered for many production problems. Kinda the opposite of Resurrection where the ending was good but much of the beginning of the film was meh.

 

Either way I don't believe this will be coming out before what Scott is doing with Prometheus 2 (or whatever it's called these days). And rightly so, because he was the one who started the whole Alien franchise to begin with. Tho Cameron did the best job IMO.

[X S]

I think Resurrection was trying to borrow a lot of what was in the Necromonicon material from Giger. I can see that Blokamp is trying to do the same with the concept art, so maybe he'll execute it better than what Resurrection did. Resurrection was basically just saying that Ripley's DNA became fused with the Xeno's and that they both exhibited traits of one another, except that the queen gave birth to that horrifically disgusting humanized Xeno.

 

On a level of grotesqueness alone, Resurrection takes the cake.

Edited July 14, 2016 by X S

[Erik Decimus]

​I'm psyched. HUGE fan of District 9 and Elysium. Chappie was hit and miss, but beautifully shot.

 

​Neil has the talent and the respect for the source so.. I wouldn't expect anything less than something amazing.

[X S]

So I just watched this video, and I was left wondering how Blokamp could easily avoid the continuity of Alien 3 and Resurrection without trampling on their respective stories as part of the franchise. At the end of this video, the commentator mentions that Alien 3 and Ressurection may just be part of deep hypersleep nightmare following Aliens. I'd be ok with that theory, but it certainly doesn't tie in well with Resurrection, so here's what I think. Resurrection is pretty much its own standalone movie. Even if Alien 3 was a nightmare and the actual 3rd act took place in Blokamp's film, it still means there's room for Resurrection to exist on its own merit, hundreds of years into the future following Blokamp's sequel. This also means that if Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn are 25 years older in Blokamp's film, it would help explain the deep hypersleep they were in for so long.