Weaver and Blomkamp on Alien 5

[Sosos]

I don't think if they repeated themselves with current technologies that it would be in bad shape. Infact I'm hoping they will do that. Imagine a return to the classic theme and direction of the first two but in 4K,3D, CGI goodness!

[Adam802]

I don't think if they repeated themselves with current technologies that it would be in bad shape. Infact I'm hoping they will do that. Imagine a return to the classic theme and direction of the first two but in 4K,3D, CGI goodness!

Yeah, I really hope they keep the "used retro future" aesthetic.

[Nightmare Asylum]

He said that it will be a "genetic sibling" to Alien/Aliens, so I'm assuming that it will be similarly designed to those films (and, by extension, Alien 3, which shared a very similar aesthetic). Blomkamp's track record also makes "used future" seems pretty likely.








Blomkamp's visuals are very inspired by the Alien films, it seems, but the way he frames them less so (but then, moving from Scott to Cameron to Fincher also brought a round of changes each time). Will be interesting to see the marriage of all of these styles.

[Corporal Hicks]

I have the utmost confidence that his Alien will look amazing. His style is so incredibly suitable. I'm actually quite excited to see what he does with a exo-suit and I'm hopeful to see a biomechanical one.

[zuzuki]

All this crap because they got to have geriatric Ellen Ripley in a movie. Why can't they have a new story,new characters in the same timeline? have WY send an expedition to another place where aliens were found, or where some Space Jockey stuff is, They only have to reference stuff that happened in Alien,Aliens and A3 and can even tie it to events in Prometheus and P2?

Now i'm kinda bummed with the Iron Man movies too. I need that shit retconed cause Iron Man 2 sucked ass. Come to think of it keep only the first one canon but have Obediah survive, this way they ignore the second and third movies. This way we can have a proper Mandarin too.  . While we're at it, retcon the matrix movies too, and Quantum of SOLACE cause it sucked ass and write a proper sequel to Casino Royale.

Now what i want to know is after this Alien movie  will the next director have free reign if he does the right pitch? Maybe he has the right idea and he also needs to ignore previous stuff. Cause f**k it right, it's acceptable now.

Anyways i can't wait for them to explain grandma Ripley waking up old. Let me guess, all the cryo-tubes had a malfunction so Ripley, Hicks and Newt all aged. They didn't have nourishment to facilitate the aging process, but hey they just got older. FML

[Marty1987]

This is awesome, more Sigourney and more alien, i trust this director can do it 

[Alien³]

grandma Ripley

Cripley.

[Son Of Kane]

grandma Ripley

Cripley.

Hahahaha.

[𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔈𝔦𝔤𝔥𝔱𝔥 𝔓𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔢𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯]

Anyways i can't wait for them to explain grandma Ripley waking up old. Let me guess, all the cryo-tubes had a malfunction so Ripley, Hicks and Newt all aged. They didn't have nourishment to facilitate the aging process, but hey they just got older. FML

Or they can just let the characters age normally and let the story take place 30 year later.

[Uncle Hernando]

grandma Ripley

Cripley.

OAPley

[Alien³]

Lt. Elderly Cripley

[Nightmare Asylum]

Anyways i can't wait for them to explain grandma Ripley waking up old. Let me guess, all the cryo-tubes had a malfunction so Ripley, Hicks and Newt all aged. They didn't have nourishment to facilitate the aging process, but hey they just got older. FML

Or they can just let the characters age normally and let the story take place 30 year later.

No man, that makes way too much sense.

[TheSulaco426]

I think the big question should be if Ripley is gonna fight the queen in a prawn mech from District 9, I would like to see that, I also want Ripley and Dutch to fight a predalien, and make a clone of Jonesy that has acid for blood, yes only then will I be content.

[marrerom]

Exactly.  If it becomes acceptable to complete toss out established continuity in order to create your own perfect story, the concept of the franchise will collapse and everything will become fan fiction.  Taken even further, you could get a glut of stories that are too different to be part of the same universe but too similar as to not be blatantly ripping off each other.  If someone made a successful movie, a dozen producers could just chop and screw it to make their own sequels-but-not-sequels in order to cash in, utterly ruining the original concept.  This is a very, very bad path to go down.

I'm hoping that despite what i'm hearing about this film it will follow from on from resurrection.  Its still in development and once producers and executives step in all in nonsense talk of retconning will be done with...or blomkamp might just walk away. His Halo film fell apart at the 11th hour so who knows what might happen here.  Honestly, if the only way he can make Alien 5 is by cutting the series in half, then good riddance. I'm not interested in a film that cant respect continuity.

[Son Of Kane]

Exactly.  If it becomes acceptable to complete toss out established continuity in order to create your own perfect story, the concept of the franchise will collapse and everything will become fan fiction.  Taken even further, you could get a glut of stories that are too different to be part of the same universe but too similar as to not be blatantly ripping off each other.  If someone made a successful movie, a dozen producers could just chop and screw it to make their own sequels-but-not-sequels in order to cash in, utterly ruining the original concept.  This is a very, very bad path to go down.

I'm hoping that despite what i'm hearing about this film it will follow from on from resurrection.  Its still in development and once producers and executives step in all in nonsense talk of retconning will be done with...or blomkamp might just walk away. His Halo film fell apart at the 11th hour so who knows what might happen here.  Honestly, if the only way he can make Alien 5 is by cutting the series in half, then good riddance. I'm not interested in a film that cant respect continuity.

Anything that attempts to continue from Resurrection is doomed from the start and there is no "Good riddance." -because this film is happening, FOX came to him for Christ's sake. This film is happening, whether you like it or not.