Earlier this week Neill Blomkamp shared a new image on his Instagram account of an Alien sculpt from Amalgamated Dynamics Inc, saying how much he enjoyed working on Alien 5. ADI’s Alec Gillis has since regrammed the image with some added context and credits!
Repost from @neillblomkamp who allowed us to play in his ALIEN5 universe. Happy he’s letting you all see some of the design work we did. There’s no doubt in my mind you would have loved what Neill had planned.
Project supervisor @h2.originals. This sculpt is by @monsterman03gmail along with @monstermania2017 and @ayumi.fx . Molds by @jon_k_miller with tech work by @saratheterra and Brian Clawson. @paulkomoda had a hand in other design/sculpt on A5 too.
The sculpt shows a lot of influence from H.R Giger’s first Alien but with a noticeable second set of arms, much like the Alien Queen. While we don’t know much of what Blomkamp’s Alien 5 would have looked like, we know it went under the codename of Red Harvest.
Frequent Alien series concept artist Carlos Huante previously shared – and then took down – some concept art he did for the project which showed a lot of mutated Aliens, many of which also had two sets of arms.
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Not sure about the second sets of arms though. Depends if they give a explanation for the deviation in universe or they just did it to do something new.
On second thought it does not feel right. It feels redundant on the creature. And something redundant without use does not fit with the "perfect organism" angle. Maybe it is a young queen, the arms resemble the second set of arms on her.
Disappears as in "quits the business and sells fast food for a living" or "The kidnappers have sent another toe"?
I hope Blomkamp (Paul Anderson II) disappears.
Only for movies I complain. Luckily it still happens elsewhere.
Ugh, this was in response to someone who asked if the real fans wanted armored power loaders or crazy androids.
I must say I agree with this sentiment. Regardless how one feels about the prequels, Alien lost much of its potency when Ridley started trying to explain its origin. For Alien to be completely effective, it needed to retain its mystery. (The same can be said about H.R. Giger's art.) That's when Alien was at its terrifyingly best, something it has now lost with the existence of the prequels, in my humble opinion.
At least the prequels tried to appeal while bringing something different to the table.
Come on.
We don't know if it would've been good, but we do know that the prequels were bad.
'We'll never know if Blomkamp's film was good except we do know.'
Yeah, righto.
No one should actually want to know/see the backstory of the f**king Alien/Space Jockey. Because then it takes away the mystery and turns it into just another stupid cheesy movie monster, something the Alien was always above imo. Aside from all the sexual metaphors, the Alien is also just supposed to represent the unknowable cosmic horrors that could await humanity in the black uncharted vastness of space. Giving it a backstory (especially one as stupid and bad as the one given) just defeats the whole purpose. At least the AvP movies were self aware enough to kind of know that they were corny disposable non-canon popcorn flicks. But the "prequels" want to be taken super seriously and god its just so so bad smh.
I want an Alien movie that isn't a spin-off or prequel ffs. There's a literal 200 year gap between Alien 3 and Resurrection, do something there. Or just stop making them at this point. We've suffered enough.
& Even then it's refined design.
Even Giger didn't like the dorsal tubes and sought to improve the design by removing them on Alien 3. Plus the Wolverine claws and Michelle Pfeiffer lips.
It's interesting. 8 movies deep and not once has a director tried giving us the original xenomorph again. Strange isn't it?
There's no way it would have looked like this. For some reason there will never be biomech again.
I was born in the hottest part of a southern summer.
Welcome to Hollywood. Yeah, it's bad. But what can you do? I'd say to vote with your wallet, but we're stuck smack dab in the digital spectacle/one-liners age of film, and unfortunately, it's what alot of people want and like right now.
All we can do is wait it out, and hope this style gets so old and boring that the industry is forced to change before we're all old and decrepit. But with each new marvel character bringing in big dollars, and the Chinese market on the rise, this could go on forever. Best buckle up.
Spoiler Alert Bro!
Im not wrong. I maybe abrasive at times and extremely opinionated, but the truth is if even 10% of people like these crappy movies they been pumping down the pipes using the Predator IP, then the studios will continue to make them. But i guess there's no account for taste huh? I dont think its wrong to expect more than some watered down, marvel influenced, shoulda been direct to dvd predator movie. The ground work was laid with the first two movies for them to make something that doesn't need to jump the shark. Special needs kids reading alien languages using their ailment as super power? Seriously? Thats a big part of the plot and people eat it up? Its offensive stupid lazy writing. Thats just one of a movie which is nothing but a grab bag of crap like it. Next thing on the list to be in the movies im sure is to bring in big titted predators because people cant seem to drop what was a deviant art flap-drawing and move on. These arent even films anymore. They are cash grab summer movies.
I do like your glass is half full approach.
Unknown. It may have been some sort of genetic mutation or experimentation.
I'd deleted your first attempt at posting this for a reason. Granted, this one is less insulting but it's still wrong. People are entitled to their opinions, even if they differ to yours.
Alien - masterpiece
Aliens - masterpiece
Alien 3 - amazing atmosphere
Alien: Resurrection - amazing art direction
Prometheus - introduction to new and interesting lore
Alien: Covenant - best story in the series imo
AVP - good pacing, nice sets, best predator mask ( celtic )
AVP:R - awesome predator, grotesque death scenes
Predator - masterpiece
Predator 2 - brutal sequel
Predators - interesting new lore
The Predator - funniest movie in the franchise by far
I guess I'm a fanboy. I like all the movies from both franchises for a variety of different reasons. I admit the quality of a couple of them are iffy ( AVP:R and The Predator ), but there is something good about all of these movies imo. I wouldn't be opposed to rebooting the AVP series entirely though. I'm kind of hoping The Predator is ignored going forward too. It was just too ridiculous for my taste lore wise, but I can see why people could like each movie.
I'm just waiting for the memes where xenos are pointing fingers at either Ridley or Cameron and screaming, "You're not my real dad!".
Thus sayeth, the internet
Yeah good luck with that.
Hahahahahahaha no just stop. They are awful movies with nothing redeemable about them. The problem with what you are saying is if we ever have a chance of getting a good movie out of these IPs again, people need to stop giving caveats and saying crap like, "its better than not getting another movie".
I don't think so; I really do believe that NB was channelling Dr Sam Becket off of Quantum Leap and was just setting right what once went wrong. I think his AL II ENS would have been a one-shot, torch-passing and setting the ghost of Rippers and Hicks to rest in a satisfying way (as most would have it, I don't want to get in to the whole "But 3 was perfect" thing again). I don't think after that movie, we'd see more of Rippers and Hicks - I think as has been said that Newt would have carried on the fight.
Also - if there ARE further Alien movies in the offing, wouldn't Fox be worried about "confusing" fans (or underestimating their audiences as Corp Hicks said!).
I reckon the proposed TV show WON'T have anything to do with anyone we know, but will heavily reference them and nod and wink for all its worth to ground people (that's my guess - I can't see them setting it post Resurrection, but you never know). I can only imagine this'd be in the "classic" era.
Newt. Her name was Newt. Nobody called her Rebecca except her late brother, Timmy.
Even then Amanda Ripley's encounter and fight against the Alien had a motivation and correlation that made sense.
Granted, it could've been anyone's descendant looking for their parent gone missing on the Nostromo.
But it works really well because of the pretty seamless extension of Ellen Ripley's transmission.
Retroactively I think it makes the arc of the first three films all the better.
I don't really see what requires a retcon of A3 or what Rebecca Jorden offers that isn't doable with a new character.
Baton-passing and nostalgia can be used very effectively. Not saying Blomkamp's would've necessarily, but conceptually, it's not an inherently untenable idea.