There’s yet another new interview with Sigourney Weaver and Neill Blomkamp over on French movie site Allocine. Weaver recounts how her and Blomkamp got talking about the project last year. Neill Blomkamp goes on to say he wants Alien 5 to be connected to Alien and Aliens but he’s “not trying to undo Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection“. How exactly the new Alien movie is going to fit in the timeline while preserving continuity is going to be a bit of a mystery. Sigourney ends the interview by saying the film will be very organic and she’s looking forward to being with Ripley again.
Thanks to shakermakerman for the news.
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I really don't understand how you could generalize Cameron as an abominable director when Ridley Scott has made his fair share of bombs like GI Jane and Legend, and really, many others
Only when ALIENS fanboys walk around spewing their dreck about the movies and the franchise as if their word is the truth - Cameron is God, ALIENS is the Bible and that's the way it is. All that smothering self-entitlement and intrusive exceptionalism just pisses me off. In fact ALIENS fandom is one of the reasons I've drifted away from this franchise. A5 might be the last nail in the coffin.
And you don't sound like an Alien 3 fanboy? We're all fanboys by the sheer fact of us talking on these forums.
No you sound like every other ALIENS fanboy out there, so no need to worry.
Which is how I see things, and am believing how things are shaping out to be considering Blomkamp's statement that he was ignoring Alien 3 and Resurrection, but not undoing them. Just not a lot of people want to see it that way.
This... I really hope Blomkamp doesn't make Alien 3 and Resurrection as dreams. I just find that downright insulting.
Im so glad this is finally happening!!
So theoretically...
(& Fox owns both)
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Something more is cooking up boys. I can feel it.
Brace yourselves epicness is comming.
What I liked about ALIEN and A3 is that it still had that film school respect for the craft and art of the film medium since both Scott and Fincher were still pretty fresh. I love Scott's early films and I find them far superior to his newer movies. Fincher has been pretty consistent, but A3 is one of his better films due to the restrictions and constraints. The tortured artist really applies.
The only Cameron film I really like is actually The Terminator. So much better than T2.
I am also seeing too many similarities between how fans are reacting to this news and how they reacted to avp-r. You'd think we all would know better then to jump on the bandwagon by now.
I'm also excited that for the first time the series will be directed by a guy from my generation (more or less
PS. I know this could all go sideways, Prometheus taught me that lesson. But I try to stay optimistic
Fair enough.
Cameron only had Piranha II and The Terminator.
David Fincher only had a few music videos on his resume before his debut film, Alien 3.
I think Blomkamp's credentials already outstrip those directors who went before him. Not to say there's no chance of him messing it up, but the odds are good that it will be a decent film.
Awards mean very little. Plenty of acknowledged amazing directors and movies out there that no one knows about. It's the studios and money that call the shots.
Never said he's worthless. Great conceptual works, but his director ability/skills is nothing spectacular. At best mediocre. I liked District9 despite the crappy second half. Had high hopes for Elysium but was deeply disappointed, and what I've seen and heard so far about Chappie does not make me feel confident in him directing an actual Alien movie.
Just a thought
I'm confident in his aesthetic sense; his designs and atmospheres are and over all concepts are great, but that is about it. Everything else feels juvenile, clumsy, haphazard and lacks nerve, despite the conceptual potential of each project. I don't think he has the integrity and what it takes as a director to take on an Alien film, unless he just goes the easy route and decides to carbon copy one of the more popular Alien movies *cough!*
Well I'm not gonna go and time them all, but anyone can see that the pace of the editing in that film is vastly different to the Alien films... especially the first two.
She looks good, but not thirty-six years old.
Age won't be an issue. She still looks good and he'll have lots of acidic burning.
Interesting idea. Only problem is Ripley dies at the end of 3!