Director Neill Blomkamp has shared a brand new piece of concept art for Alien 5 on his Instagram account. This one shows Ripley and Corporal Hicks with his acid-burnt face, standing next to a man in heavy armour. Note the South Korean flag on his armour. You can also make out two strange figures standing behind them which harkens back to one of his other pieces of concept art showing Ripley next to a strange alien figure. Blomkamp says in the caption that the alien project is going well and he’s loving it.
This is the first piece of Alien 5 concept art we’ve seen since the initial batch was released back in January 2015. We can only speculate what the story will be and we know that it will be ignoring the events in Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection. We’re still in the dark as to whether or not Michael Biehn has agreed to reprise his role as Corporal Hicks.
Both also spoke English. Korean phrase could've been part of cityspeak. Just because someone is Asian doesn't mean they can only speak one language.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/04/how-district-9-director-neill-blomkamp-got-the-alien-gig
So those going on about how he is just a Hix & N00t fanboi, it's not that clear-cut.
http://www.avpgalaxy.net/2015/02/25/neill-blomkamp-talks-alien/
Now thats an interesting factoid.
Something like that, yeah. Everyone seems to be name-calling Blomkamp because Ripley and Hicks have featured so heavily in the concept art, but it's more likely that was a result of alterations resulting from Weaver discussions.
Yeah, Ripley wasn't going to be in it at all until he worked with her on Chappie. Essentially it was Weaver who changed his mind regarding the inclusion of Ripley.
Ridley has never written a screenplay before (discounting his student film). You probably don't want him near a script anymore than Blomkamp.
Blomkamp implied those were changes imposed by Ridley to stop any conflict with Prometheus 2, but he said they were fairly minor.
HuDaFuK - I vaguely recall reading somewhere that blomkamp had made some story changes to his base-idea after talking with Ridley Scott. I'm just not sure if those story changes were minor or major...
Why on Earth would he do that? I think he's been very clear that this story is his baby, and it's an idea he's had for a long time.
Simply ace Xeno! A very good response. I agree. You just *KNOW* that Blomkamp has asked about Ridley and Cameron's Alien sequel ideas. Hell, being Ridley is executive producing, I wouldn't be surprised for him getting story credit along with Cameron, Blomkamp and Weaver!
Well, that, but more importantly, don't forget she was repeatedly interviewed, over the years, as being involved in the informal talks between Cameron and Scott for their brain-storming sessions for an 'Alien 5'. It's unlikely Cameron will ever reveal what he had written, so far, for that, but Weaver strikes me as the kind of creative individual to have thought it a shame a lot of those ideas never made it to the screen. I could definitely see her speaking candidly with Blomkamp in private, about all the 'what ifs' which had been spoken about. Heck, if he's half the fan he says he is, I'd have expected him to ask about those!
So, my feeling is that this will contain more than a few elements of what we could have had for the Cameron/Scott project. Blomkamp seems like the kind of imaginative soul to take some of those ideas, run with and modify them, based on what Weaver told him she would have liked to have been involved with, back then.
When you mix this with Scott being a producer, it doesn't seem unlikely... The only thing missing is for news to be leaked about Cameron being 'consulted' about this.
Man guys I need a bucket.
I don't like the idea of giving the later films the boot and I'm still really worried that Blomkamp's gonna be writing it. Seriously, they better announce that someone's working with him on the script soon or else my expectations will drop quite a bit. Writing is not his strong suit.
Good point but we know at least he was Asian. The Sushi Master and Chew both speak clean Japanese and Chinese respectively, so it's not too far fetched to assume the cop only spoke Korean.
Yes, she did. But correct me if I'm wrong, I think xenomorphine is implying that this will be less like all of Neil blomkamp's previous work because sigorney weaver will have a say in what story elements should be emphasized (i.e., political, etc..). So it's sort of unfair to assume that this will be exactly like his other work when we know at least 1 other person involved will be heavily influencing both the story and direction (weaver).
Who knows for sure if the cop was even Korean. Just because he spoke a Korean phrase doesn't necessarily mean he's Korean - in Blade Runner, there is something called "city speak" which was a new language birthed from the culture mishmash melting pot of 2019 Los Angeles. In the same scene posted, Gaff speaks sentences to Deckard that are composed of Hungarian, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, and German words and phrases.
I highly highly doubt it Ridley's use of the Korean "idi-wa" was a prediction/statement regarding the rise of South Korea so much as another facet of his statement regarding the totally multicultural state of LA in his movie.
The presence of a Korean flag is your reasoning to assuming this will be another political cliche? The Alien series has always dabbled in predictions on the future or merging of various countries, whether it's Ron Cobb's concept art for a "United Americas" flag and a "Three World Empire" patch or the increasing influence of Japanese corporations in the Yutani aspect of Yutani...or in the kanji that's adorns Fury 161 all over.
Or.. Samsung is advertising the movie but it seems unlikely.
Yea, I suppose that is a better description of how fox and gearbox handled it...
Yes, I remember hearing a lot about fox endorsing the recent novel trilogy as canon too, but that sort of stopped once A:CM was released... Or at least that's the way it seemed to me. I haven't read the books yet, but I've heard enough about them to say that I'd probably feel the same way as you about it. The first two books in the trilogy in particular just seem like too much of a stretch for me, but the third one sounds like the best conceptually out of the trilogy.
The funny thing to me is, out of all the recent additions to the alien saga - games, books, etc... - the one which held the most promise and plausibility (in my opinion) never got the "canon" endorsement from fox! That would be alien: isolation. I understand why, I just think it's funny and ironic...
Wasn't there meant to have been some kind of official endorsement of the recent novel trilogy as being canon? Something else I can't accept other than as a 'what if'.
They included an exclusive comic from dark horse for the alien/predator/avp box set
Then if I'm not mistaken, the Blu Ray box set for alien/prometheus included a brand new deleted scene that shows the ultimate fate of Burke.
I'd have no doubt that at least one new never before seen special feature will find its way into this new, inevitable "all inclusive" alien/prometheus box set.
PS. I'm surprised there wasn't some sort of box set that included A:CM, given how hard they pushed it as canon initially... Thank god they didn't!
Sure would be a dick move, though: "hey, we retconned these two movies because the majority hates 'em, but you have to buy them again if you want this set!" (with exclusive Special Features, no doubt.)
You can go and get sets of all the 'Superman' films, including 'Superman Returns' - which was a retcon. Different studio, sure, but the precedent is there.
If this retcons anything, it won't stop them from selling the other films.
Could be wrong of course, but it seems crazy for them to throw away revenue that A3 and AR could still generate.
It is if Fox decrees it so.
Whether or not they will, is another question. As is whether it will be better than the third film. We can but hope so.
It could very well be that the Korean is a mercenary in Blade Runner (they are essentially rent-a-cops after all) as well as in Blomkamp's concept art.
South Korea (just like Israel) is basically a nation of warriors. There is compulsory military conscription for all men in South Korea. Young Korean men basically have a choice of either serving in the armed forces for two years or going to jail for two years.
In District 9 and Elysium Blomkamp had South African mercenaries. Same thing there, South Africa also used to have compulsory conscription for all white males. After it's transformation to democracy many white men found themselves without work. But one thing they all had in common was very good military training and that's how that country became infamous for it's mercenaries.
Yes, you're quite right, it's mainly Japanese influences in the LA of 2019. During the early 80's Japan was doing very well, much like China today before the asset price bubble burst in the 90's. The joke was back then that Japan would one day own the entire USA.
But there is also lots of Chinese and Korean influences in Blade Runner if you look carefully.
This city owned utility tanker from Blade Runner for example has "Riddles" written on it in Korean. Presumably as nod to the director.
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fblog-imgs-46.fc2.com%2F1%2F6%2F0%2F1608site%2F20120412102918add.gif&hash=55f0a93bcd0728b59ca715abe1bad11d93936661
Or could it be that the Korean was acting as a mercenary for the Japanese? I remember a lot of Japanese cultural influence in the city.
Alien Resurrection is the first Alien film I saw. I love that movie. Its not as good as the others but still very good. I feel the same about Alien 3. Both are hugely underrated and to disregard them is to do a disservice to the series.
i agree, this isn't the Star Wars
legendsEU where you can shove your fingers in your ears and just say "nope, not canon", either reboot the whole series or dont bother starting the bulldozer; this clown says "he has no ego" yet he seems to have more ego than Randy Pitchford (you better believe i went there) thinking he has the right to disregard two films in a series to please fanboys. yes, his concept art looks cool but it takes more than pretty concept art to reinvigorate a franchise thats been effectively dormant for almost 20 years(unless you count the avp films and "that ancient aliens movie with the albinos in elephant man spacesuits that resemble that fossil from the first film)Dr. Matshuita in Alien 3 is Japanese (albeit played by Chinese actor Hi Ching (credited as company man 1))
Interestingly, in Blade Runner there is a Korean cop in heavy body armour who tells Deckard , "Hey, idi-wa", Korean for "Hey, come here".
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/34/9f/f8/349ff81032bd605748f711a24465b713.jpg
Hear, hear
Also, I warmed up to Alien 3 and dislike Resurrection (that's pretty much the common mindset, although Alien 3 is sharply divided). Either way, it's looking like Blompkamp is going with alternative universe, which I can dig. As long as he hires the right writers to go with his excellent visuals, the movie will succeed. I don't think anyone will expect it to be better than Alien or Aliens. They just want a movie that they feel does "justice" to the series. "Good enough" is better than shite (Resurrection, AVP, AVP-R) that we've had to deal with for years.
That's about the same time my opinion of alien 3 changed too! :-)