Read that, and it definitely seems that with this project (and perhaps whatever [hopefully original] project he has lined up for after this) he's going to shift gears a bit in terms of style. He's already talked about how
Alien: Isolation opened up his mind in order to embrace more "retro" sci-fi tech in films, and tonally/stylistically the
Alien/
Aliens (where this is pulling most of its DNA from) is a very different beast than a lot of what has been seen in Blomkamp's films to date.
No space gangsters or mercs with katanas kidnapping an Alien in this one, I guess.