Quote from: NickisSmart on Aug 12, 2015, 04:33:20 AM
I remind in the IGN interview with him that he hadn't seen Alien until recently? That's curious. Though He said that it came out when the year he was born.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 08, 2015, 11:44:38 AM
His love for the game really gives me confidence in the tone and style of Alien 5. The presentation of Isolation was fantastic.
Quote from: Amanda Ripley on Aug 07, 2015, 10:58:05 PMQuote from: Xenomorphine on Aug 07, 2015, 10:45:45 PM
'Aliens' is on the screens. He's already been interviewed a while ago saying 'Alien Isolation' has influenced how he shall present this project.
Looks like he´s a HUGE fan of Alien Isolation:QuoteIGN: Have you played Alien: Isolation and if so what are your thoughts on the game?
Blomkamp: I think it's amazing. Even from the first screen grabs, just the quality of the art direction and how it looks. I'm such a visual person that the narrative of stuff is neither here nor there for me sometimes. It's literally about imagery. And when I saw the images I thought 'Sh*t, they can't be that good.' And then I played it and to me it was that good. It's so good. It's ridiculous. It's actually interesting because it raises an interesting design question for me which is that when Alien was made it was cutting edge. 'Mother' was cutting edge, and a green CRT monochromatic monitor was cutting edge, you know what I mean? And it's like Aliens: The Director's Cut, with Reel 2 re-inserted, when you're on the colony planet and he's getting print-outs on dot-matrix paper with holes down the side – that sh*t was real man. On the planet, in that future, that was cutting edge. So it's an interesting debate if you look at it from my stand-point, which is do I make my cutting edge... is it cutting edge, or is it actually closer to the first two. Because I wanted to be like it has the same parent. It's a genetic offspring of the first two movies, and Alien Isolation made me question that quite a lot. Because they got it so perfect with all of the late 1970s early '80s tech, it's really cool.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/03/04/how-district-9-director-neill-blomkamp-got-the-alien-gig
Quote from: Richman678 on Aug 08, 2015, 12:19:49 PM
Pretty sure the image on the screen is the Escape ship from the Nostromo. It also looks like it's from Aliens since you can see the ice on the chair. So he's watching Aliens.
Quote from: Xenomorphine on Aug 07, 2015, 10:45:45 PM
'Aliens' is on the screens. He's already been interviewed a while ago saying 'Alien Isolation' has influenced how he shall present this project.
QuoteIGN: Have you played Alien: Isolation and if so what are your thoughts on the game?
Blomkamp: I think it's amazing. Even from the first screen grabs, just the quality of the art direction and how it looks. I'm such a visual person that the narrative of stuff is neither here nor there for me sometimes. It's literally about imagery. And when I saw the images I thought 'Sh*t, they can't be that good.' And then I played it and to me it was that good. It's so good. It's ridiculous. It's actually interesting because it raises an interesting design question for me which is that when Alien was made it was cutting edge. 'Mother' was cutting edge, and a green CRT monochromatic monitor was cutting edge, you know what I mean? And it's like Aliens: The Director's Cut, with Reel 2 re-inserted, when you're on the colony planet and he's getting print-outs on dot-matrix paper with holes down the side – that sh*t was real man. On the planet, in that future, that was cutting edge. So it's an interesting debate if you look at it from my stand-point, which is do I make my cutting edge... is it cutting edge, or is it actually closer to the first two. Because I wanted to be like it has the same parent. It's a genetic offspring of the first two movies, and Alien Isolation made me question that quite a lot. Because they got it so perfect with all of the late 1970s early '80s tech, it's really cool.
Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on Aug 07, 2015, 01:29:15 PMI wouldn't worry - if we take Deadpool into consideration it seems like Fox and other studios (Warner Bros excell at this) are really testing the waters with trying to do what's best for each project.Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 07, 2015, 07:07:17 AM
Can't see anything Alien 5, I don't think.
Yeah, it's just a little shrine/cubicle in his office dedicated to the first two films. He shared a pic of his "Chappie and Blade Runner room" a while back too.
A bit worryingly, Josh Trank sent out a tweet yesterday saying: "A year ago I had a fantastic version of this [Fantastic Four]. And it would've received great reviews. You'll probably never see it. That's reality though."
Another case of studio meddling from Fox?
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 07, 2015, 07:07:17 AM
Can't see anything Alien 5, I don't think.