Blomkamp’s Alien 5 is “innovative, amazing, performs fan service.” Having just spoken at the Aliens 30th anniversary panel at San Diego Comic Con, the topic of Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 inevitably came up. It seems to have been moved on from rather quickly as a man proposed to his girlfriend in the panel (they met watching the film) but James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver apparently had some small comments to make about the currently postponed Alien sequel.
According to this Tweet from Marcus Errico, “both Sigourney Weaver & James Cameron say Neill Blomkamp’s Alien script is “amazing, performs fan service & should be made.” Den of Geek elaborates further, saying that Weaver said that the script has “everything fans want.”
Blomkamp’s Alien 5 is “innovative, amazing, performs fan Service” according to James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver. Photo via Sideshow Collectibles.
According to That Hashtag Show, Weaver also called the script “innovative” and Outer Places are reaffirming what Sigourney Weaver told Entertainment Weekly last week about their commitments to other projects coming before Alien 5. Nothing else about the project was brought up unfortunately.
Keep an eye on Alien vs. Predator Galaxy for the latest news on Alien 5!
Update 25/07/2016 – The whole panel is now available for your viewing pleasure!
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IGN: "After Tim takes care of that can you give Neil Blomkamp a call about Aliens please?"
James Cameron: "I'm working on that, yeah."
Make of it what you will...
And then Fox said, "F*ck everything and everyone in the whole f*ckin' universe! Scratch that, f*ck the universe itself! We'll make the predators war for the power of mental illness in the sh*ttiest action/comedy of all time!" IT'S BRILLIANT!!!!
"The Predator" was a self-filmed nude dive into an active volcano, with a unpopped bag of popcorn up its @ss. Yes, that's what it was.
James Cameron writing and Ridley Scott directing.
Sure.
Neill Blomkamp's Geriatric Alien is dead.
Oh I doubt it's dead. Looking forward to production resuming once Disney takes over the Aliens franchise.
you've come to the right place.
Yea, yea, I have no imagination but I would enjoy a little whimsical bliss from time to time.
Prior to that it was pretty decent, f**k mothers.
Elysium was alright. Can't quite put my finger on what didn't quite click.
Blomkamp's got a good eye. He'd be better off as a Ridley Scott type who brings ideas and works with someone elses script. I think he's quite protective of the writing side though.
Chappie was probably my least favourite of the three. There was absolutely some superb stuff in it (Copley again), but that was balanced out by how much of it just didn't work. Plus far too much of it was simply an inferior retread of things Blomkamp did far better in his previous movies, especially D9 (the entire Moose fight was just a dull recycle of the prawn mech sequence, but far less impressive and with none of the emotional investment).
As for Die Antwoord, I didn't mind them in and of themselves, I just thought their characters were irredeemable pricks. Now, it's definitely possible to make a sympathetic character out of one that's an arsehole on paper, but they just didn't have the acting chops to do that, and I had zero investment in them as a result (which, given that they're essentially the human leads, pretty much killed the movie for me). Jackman's character was equally dodgy on paper, but he's at least skilled enough that he could turn it into a hammy figure of fun and make it an entertaining watch.
To get back on topic, I think Blomkamp's abundant visual style would make for a stellar Alien movie. I just really hope someone who's better at scripts is on writing duties.
Was it?
i thought it was pretty generic, like most of the creatures in the film.
Beyond that however, I don't want a forgery of Giger. Giger showed something we'd never seen; get someone with their own style show us something else we've never seen.
Elysium is the only one I really didn't enjoy. It's not so much I didn't enjoy it, it's like HuDa says, it was forgettable. District 9 was great. I wish they'd have not done half/half with the style of D9 but otherwise I love it.
Now Chappie...I know I'm in the minority here but I love Die Antwoord. Just fricking love them. If anything, it was Hugh Jackman I really didn't like in Chappie. Otherwise I love that film too.
Indeed. Please God, never allow that kind of crap to happen.
His style is just forever linked to the series, though. And his absence - especially when making films focused around entire environments he designed - is noticed. I know what you're saying but the Giger-esque style is so attached to Alien.
From what we've heard, it's just f**king about in regards to money between Fox and Giger's Estate that have been getting in the way.
I have to agree with this. I final clash between David and his supposed 'creations' with the human survivors and Engineers. David bests the Engineers and boasts about his creations before impregnating the last surviving leader/elder with a Xenomorph specimen. Before the chestburster emerges the last Engineer enlightens David with the truth about the Xenomorphs and perhaps the Space Jockey/Derelict. David realises that he is a false god and then the Ultramorph erupts from the Engineers chest. It eventually kills David and becomes an unstoppable threat for the remaining humans.
Something like that would be really cool in my opinion and would be treating both the prequel films and the original films that came before it respectfully.
If only he would have instinctively tried the shush thing with his stump, and accidentally achieved a mild farting noise.
No indeed. She wouldn't survive it anyway. He's got the strength of 10 androids...plus 2.
No.
David should be eliminated by his own hubris in the final prequel.
Returning the Space Jockey to a mysterious corpse and establishing David as mistaken about his authorship.
I hope.
Playing Devils Advocate: Unless the process for maintenance was automated, or there were qualified personnel onboard covenant that he could force or manipulate into doing it. Somebody had to take care of Walter, afterall. Notice how I cleverly dodged saying "service" there. Unless he could find a way of being able to put himself in cryo. But then there's that ugly road of turning himself human, no doubt by harvesting some of Shaw's organs and trying to give himself a real heart or something.
But all that aside, he's likely losing his mind at a steady rate. Hell, even Ash went nuts in record time, and he should've been manufactured long after David. Ripley's story has been told, there was no David in it. By the time he reaches Ripley 8, I'd half expect him to be a smoking pile of wires.
If what many of us suspect is the plot for David 3, whereby the SJ is David and the colonists of the Covenant are the eggs in Alien, the response may not be so good. It'll probably do ok just like the other films.
In truth it should be possible to tie in David 3 to a post-Aliens sequel. Androids can live forever in theory. Wouldn't it be funny if Ripley woke up to face David?
that simultaneously restores the mystery of the SJ and Alien then for that to happen. IMO.
PIOTR JABŁOŃSKI The Alien elements- Perhaps?
Josan Gonzalez Environmental elements.
I think Ridley could wrap up what he wants to wrap up in a Covenant sequel - but if that is really popular, they'll look for ways to spin off it, rather than looking at ways to continue after other films.
The point I'm trying to make is - get someone new. Not someone aping Giger.
True, but even if Scott gets to do 2 more films, eventually they will end up arriving at the "back door of Alien" as he said. Unless he goes off on a completely different tangent, which he is often wont to do. Be that as it may, we are still likely looking at facing a situation where all the prequel gaps are finished, and we now get to continue the story with all the core Alien films behind us. So we will yet again be faced with the same conundrum. To continue after Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, or after Aliens. Though it would be possible that some of the actors just may be too frail to play the roles by then. I guess the question is, will Ridley convince the powers to give him the money to do all his planned remaining films, or does he get one last shot wrap up everything he had hoped in one film. I'm betting on the latter. After that? Well, as you say SM, if his film is stellar, than who knows what will happen, but my money would be on Blomkamp.
Yeah, that's kind of the point I'm trying to make.
Villeneuve and someone that can really feel Giger and incorporate it well.
Giger didn't die. He exists as something else. A dark force somewhere out in the cosmos, waiting for us to make a mistake. Regardless, his style lives on.
It can be done. It should be done. It must be done.
Then get Villeneuve or Fincher to do a film post Alien 3. Fincher would be preferable but it would take a miracle to get him back.
Weaver, Blomkamp and Alien resurrection can sit this one out.
Like old one said, sexually charged horror. Go back to the roots, and don't skimp on the Giger. Take us straight to hell.
Depends on the success of David 3.
Perfect Organism Podcast had a good discussion about it.
To be fair, Cold Forge could work post-A:R.
Anyway, I respect your opinion. Your investment would show hutzpah.
Leave Sigourney Weaver and Neill Blomkamp in the dust.
Post Resurrection (All but Retconning AR) sequel Directed by an Auteur that has a vision for sexually charged horror film,
You could even set The Cold Forge after AR/A3, for instance.
Denis Villeneuve, Christopher Nolan, Tim Burton, Peter Jackson or Alex Garland.
Hell even David Fincher.
(Annihilation, Under The Skin etc)
Go nuts, do your own thing.
You can even act like AR, doesn't exist- it doesn't matter.
I don't have a passion for established continuity- not really- I'd clearly throw AR out in a heartbeat.
You don't necessarily need to retcon it, but ignoring it or contradicting it wouldn't harm anything.
I have a passion for Alien³ because it's bold, it's not a retread which is all franchises have become in recent years.
Mediocre retreads.