Apologies for the delayed response to a bunch of these questions. I needed a little time away from the video and topic, and had an intense week in between. Thank you SO much for those who've watched, shared and commented on the video. It had an amazing response and I didn't expect it to make the rounds so quickly. I really appreciate all of you.
Some things: We know the Blomkamp project was under the code name Red Harvest. Not sure if it tied to anything in the films, but I think it was just a play on the Blue Harvest code name from Star Wars.
'Awakening' may have been the name, but I didn't have confirmation of that. It gets confusing when Ridley starts talking. It likely could have been, and maybe played into that the films following ALIENS were all a dream (how original). That is all speculation on my part though, as I was trying go figure out how he was going to go about retconning things. Was there going to be an acknowledgement of the other sequels? Or was he just going to outright ignore and erase them from the timeline? I'm not sure.
My sources all claimed Ridley's 3rd prequel was titled "ALIEN Destiny". They all referred to it by that name too, and we're deeply involved in the franchise. So I'll take their word for it over some internet speculation. Something I didn't put in the video, as it wasn't really relevant to the Blomkamp topic was that they we're going to shift the naming conventions of the films slightly by changing Prometheus to ALIEN: Prometheus to match ALIEN: Covenant and then the upcoming ALIEN: Destiny to make it more cohesive for the branding. This was shortly before the buyout, and when that went down, these plans were scrapped.
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QuoteGreat short documentary that neatly collates all the news and discussions posted on here over all the years. You should consider doing a feature length documentary film (ala Jodorowsky's Dune) one day if you can force Neill Blomkamp to sit down and talk about it.
What was the copyright notice you got slammed for in the initial upload? Background music? Doubt Disney would take this down. Or you for that matter.
First off, THANK YOU! I didn't expect people to respond so well, and this is a HUGE compliment. I'm far from skilled enough to pull of something like that, but who knows? Maybe in the future!
The things I got hit for was using footage from the films. It's a risk anytime you use footage, and I saw the results of that risk this time. A simple few snips to the footage resolved that.
@Nightmare Asylum QuoteMike, do you happen to know if/how "Destiny's" pre-production overlapped with the tail end of Blomkamp's film's, if at all?
And another question, do you happen to know anything about the "Alien: Paradise Lost" iteration of the Prometheus sequel, from before it became Alien: Covenant?
I am not sure if they overlapped at all. I really think Blomkamp's project wasn't all that far along and never had an actual start date for production. Anything that was made, he was pushing for on his own dime. And I'm not sure if Destiny really made it that far at all either. It sounded like they shut the idea down really quickly after Covenant's release, so anything Ridley ever said about it was him speculating as well.
I don't have info on Paradise Lost at the moment! I'm hoping to get more details whenever I can link up with some people involved with the franchise again in the future.
QuoteJust speculating here, I wonder if maybe the "human DNA" in the Derelict might be the result of Blomkamp having to change something for Ridley, in light of the prequels? Perhaps in Blomkamp's original iteration it was distinct Space Jockey DNA that formed the backbone (heh) of the ship and Ridley mandated that it be identical to human DNA, so has to preserve what he had set up in Prometheus with the Engineers?
I'm not so sure... It was explained to me that this DNA stuff was part of his initial pitch. I completely forgot about the request to change something for Ridley, and I'll try to find out what that is when I see these folks again.
@XENOMORPHOSIS Quotecan I ask what's the source suggesting t the third entry of Ridley's Prequel was going to be called Alien: Destiny?
It was the same folks who shared the Blomkamp information with me who worked in the franchise at a very high level. I can't name names, as they could get in trouble. So everyone will remain anonymous for their job safety. Sorry that I can't give exact details on who it was. But as Nightmare Asylum pointed out, it was also brought up during the
podcast interview with Eric Calderon and Dave Baker, who were involved in "Aliens vs Predator: Annihilation," the AVP anime.Quote from: St_Eddie on Apr 28, 2024, 09:25:17 PMQuote from: [cancerblack] on Apr 28, 2024, 08:37:13 PMSeems like a refusal to accept notes/collaborate might have been the key issue here so...
Which is quite something coming from a director whom claims to be "free of ego".
This is something I was thinking about as well... Blomkamp's own comments start to contradict themselves. I understand his frustration with the cancellation of the project, but he seems to have let his ego get involved with some of that...
The thing about the actors wanting to be involved too, they may have really liked the ideas, but they may also not have the best judgement of what is good either. We're all human, and they could have easily been sold on the idea of a redo, while not really looking at the scope of the whole thing. I mean, Sigourney wanted Ripley to die in 3, and now she's saying it wasn't a great ending for her. So is she the best judge of quality? It's hard to say.
I don't know the whole plot front to back on the scriptment pitch, but there are more details that will hopefully come out as time goes on and I'll make a follow up if that's the case.
Thanks again for watching everyone!!!
