Quote from: SM on Jan 26, 2017, 12:17:45 AM
Even the roundly caned Exodus Gods and Kings made $268m.
Against a production budget of $145 million. Which is why the planned sequel, "King David" got canned.
Quote from: Kimo on Jan 26, 2017, 02:23:03 PM
If Fox greenlit Blomkamp Alien(s) film back when he was showing his promotion art off. Then I could see Weaver and Bean having mayjor roles in it. But it's been put on hold for god knows how long, and it's very unlikely it's going to happen anytime soon, now that Blomkamp has said so himself in his Tweet.
Just a quick recap of Alien 5's troubled production history so far:
It was officially greenlit less than a month after "showing his promotion art off". After which Blomkamp spent approximately 9 months on pre-production during which time he produced the first draft of the script, had meetings with Scott, Weaver and Biehn, looked at studio space availability and produced a mock-up of a modified pulse rifle and quite likely a lot of other pre-production work and preparation.
Shortly after Blomkamp handed in the first draft of the script, Ridley Scott said that Alien 5 would be released in 2017.
Quote"We have Neill Blomkamp's Alien, which will be out in 2017. We just have the first [screenplay] draft in so far but it looks pretty good."
A couple of months later a rumour surfaced from a supposed studio insider who said that Blomkamp's film had been put on hold. Blomkamp initially denied this but he later retracted his earlier statement and said that "Alien 5 is kinda holding/ pending prometheus 2". Sigourney Weaver later said that the request to put Alien 5 on hold came from Ridley Scott.
Quote from: Kimo on Jan 26, 2017, 02:23:03 PM
I just hope he don't get left with a sour taste in his mouth for Fox not green lighting it, or making him wait.
Well, Fox offered him "The Gone World", an as yet unpublished Cyberpunk novel by Thomas Sweterlitsch as a sort of "consolation prize". Apparently it's f'king amazing, a real hot property and Blomkamp is really taken with it. To be honest, Alien 5 is probably quite far from his mind at this point. And it's also quite possible that he has simply lost interest in doing a Alien movie. He has always been a bit on the fence about doing any kind of franchise film.