Quote from: Engineer on Jul 20, 2015, 07:33:30 PM
Yes, she did. But correct me if I'm wrong, I think xenomorphine is implying that this will be less like all of Neil blomkamp's previous work because sigorney weaver will have a say in what story elements should be emphasized (i.e., political, etc..). So it's sort of unfair to assume that this will be exactly like his other work when we know at least 1 other person involved will be heavily influencing both the story and direction (weaver).
Well, that, but more importantly, don't forget she was repeatedly interviewed, over the years, as being involved in the informal talks between Cameron and Scott for their brain-storming sessions for an '
Alien 5'. It's unlikely Cameron will ever reveal what he had written, so far, for that, but Weaver strikes me as the kind of creative individual to have thought it a shame a lot of those ideas never made it to the screen. I could definitely see her speaking candidly with Blomkamp in private, about all the 'what ifs' which had been spoken about. Heck, if he's half the fan he says he is, I'd have
expected him to ask about those!
So, my feeling is that this will contain more than a few elements of what we
could have had for the Cameron/Scott project. Blomkamp seems like the kind of imaginative soul to take some of those ideas, run with and modify them, based on what Weaver told him she would have liked to have been involved with, back then.
When you mix this with Scott being a producer, it doesn't seem unlikely... The only thing missing is for news to be leaked about Cameron being 'consulted' about this.