A recent news article from Bloody Disgusting is currently making the rounds which states that Ridley Scott’s Prometheus 2 is responsible for causing the production of Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 (3.2?) to be held back so that Prometheus 2 will see release first. However, when queried about this on Twitter, Neill Blomkamp replied with a succinct “negative“.
Is Neill Blomkamp just doing damage control? He hasn’t made any further comments on the matter yet but keep checking back. Thanks to tmjhur for the news.
Someone over at GAvP brought up a pretty good consensus when looking at most of the news for Alien 5.
Of course, someone would have to try with the likelihood of failing in becoming worse than the Brothers Strause...
When you put it that way... rescheduling sounds nicer. Still I wouldn't be surprised if they don't have the story yet. We surely deserve better than terminator genisys material, I think.
Just imagine the excitement of walking into that cinema, watching all the damn trailers, our years long wait prolonged by another 20 minutes and the movie starts and its everything we hoped it would be.
Now the negative side would be if it came on and we all hated it but part of me truly believes it will sate our lust for a good service to the franchise and to see giger's monsters on the big screen once again.
If it does turn bad though I would feel very sorry for blomkamp, since he would probably be hated much more than randy pitchford and that my friends would be a level of collective hate greater than anything before it lol.
The Alien 5 IMDb page "Production Status" entry was recently updated and confirms that shooting is expected to commence in 2017. Keep in mind that this section can only be edited by the production company (or a representative) or an IMDb administrator so this perhaps makes it a little bit more official.
Assuming of course that an IMDb mod didn't just take BD's speculation as fact.
Why? "Being put on hold" does not equal "being held up by Pro 2".
The former implies development hell. The latter implies scheduling.
It's pretty clear what his intentions are. He can't say anything conclusive until his final draft is approved by FOX.
An alleged insider has been reported as saying that might not be the case. Read the article:
"...not sure if Biehn's assertions about it ignoring 3 & 4 are accurate. It's basically far too early to tell on that front right now."
Such lazy conceptualization on Blomkamp's part. -facepalm-
Two-hundred years isn't really that long in the grand scheme of things. That was the era of Napoleon and if you look at a map of Europe and compare it to today, they aren't mutually exclusive in regard to recognition. The world may have changed technologically since then, but ideologically and politically we're pretty much in the same glorious shit hole.
The good thing about Alien Resurrection is that it is set so far in the future that you can pretty much ignore it without affecting it.
The absolute best solution is have a Ripley-free Alien film that just simply brings credability back to the franchise in order to pave the way for good quality follow ups and spin offs.
Amen!
I also want to add that it is wrong to be angry at Sigourney Weaver for this. In fact, its her involvement in conjunction with Blomkamp and the sucess of Prometheus that is getying the film greenlit. She realizes if she doesnt take whatever angle is being pitched that will get off the ground - the role her life's work will be remembered for, will always end poorly.... I think its smart of her to jump at the opportunity to do something with it.
In that way, she is largely the one who actually wants to fix it. I personally dont think Blomkamp at this stage is out to fix it. He is just out to make the fan-wank he never got before. I think it will be Sigourney and Ridley Scotts influence that steer it jn the right direction.
The best thing that could possibly happen now? Fox or Scott Free or Weaver ask for story input from Cameron.
Hahaha sign me up, too!
Preach, brotha!!!
Has anyone considered that maybe Blomkamps film will only undo Alien 3 or that it will ONLY remake Alien 3 and Ripley and Hicks will be prisoners at the end so Alien Ressurection is still canon? See? They can do that now. What I mean to illustrate is there is no turning back from the mess they've made. They can just do whatever and if this retcon thing is the way it is, they can just do whatever next kind of installment will generate the most profit at any given time. Include Predtors in Alien 6! Why not? We can just ignore it for the next one as soon as it isnt profitable again and then start from two movies ago or, or, or. Options are wide open from here. Multiverse? Please. A turd by any other name is still a turd. James Cameron was right Avp destroyed the integrity of the franchise. David Giler was also right, A:R ruined the validity of the franchise. But they wont fix it, because they found a way around that risk. And they are applauding themselves for it because it worked out from a business sense. The cards were played well. Now they have this massive tent-pole of two films coming out that everyone will see. Thats all they need to worry about. They f**ked it up and dont intend to fix it because once you make this kinda mess and havent lost the profits, you have opened up all options to capitalize on whatever new idea will sell. It's a resounding success that is working in their favor. Why would they fix it? Why close doors that are only flooding the house with money?
They already did QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED.
Moved the discussion over is Weyland Corporation evil to http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=53233.msg2074531#new
Afraid not. He hasn't replied to any of my Tweets so far actually.
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being held up by Predator 4 no doubt
Well it was stated as a start date in a reputable magazine when they were interviewing Ridley so it's assumed it came straight from him.
Only other scenario I can think of is that Blomkamp will be doing both movies or combining the ideas into one big story which I'd be totally fine with.