Quote from: Mike's Monsters on Apr 27, 2023, 12:50:20 AMHonestly we dodged a bullet losing the Blompkamp project. He messed with set lore too much that would have pissed people off more than the Scott prequels did. It would have been a big mess.
Nothing about the story ever leaked into the public domain. The most we ever got was mostly the fandom making lots of random speculation about personal interpretation of some of the concept art. There isn't anything there to claim it would have "messed with set lore too much."
Voiding the third film, sure. But since '
Alien 3' already messed up continuity, itself...
Quote from: Acid_Reign161 on Apr 27, 2023, 10:38:59 AMEvery last thing about the Blomkamp project looked and sounded absolutely abysmal, from the cast (sorry but we don't need to go the 'Halloween Ends' route)
You want someone other than the original actors to show up as Ripley and Hicks?
Aside from them, we have no idea who the casting would have involved.
Even that wasn't the original idea. It was going to be Ripley-less. Weaver's the one to blame or praise for that, before it changed. He would have been mad to refuse her assistance, though. It probably only got as far as it did, thanks to her.
Quotethe concept art that featured zero of the franchise's aesthetics (has the guy ever seen an Alien movie!?)
Would heavily disagree with that. The derelict concept art was very in keeping with the feel of the first two films. The mutational stuff felt like it had the vibe of the fourth film's cloning experiments, while there's one shot, of an Alien in the shadows of an air duct, which felt like it would have been right at home with Dallas' fate.
We also know Blomkamp outright stated that the presentation style would have emulated the '
Alien Isolation' game's, which everyone praised. If you're trying to get an idea of the aesthetics, just look the game up.
QuoteWhat I would say, is that the concept art would make for an acceptable Marvel Comic 'what-if' run similar to Gibson's Alien 3, but beyond that... let it die 😅
Concept art, by itself, is meaningless. I've said for ages that I'd be interested in the script being converted into a comic, however. Or, even better, audio dram. Then we could have actually got Weaver and Biehn (presumably also Henriksen, but who could really say) reprising their roles for it.
Quote from: Nightmare Asylum on Apr 27, 2023, 01:02:40 PMRandom question - do any of you that are in the know have any idea what this project was like in Blomkamp's original pitch, pre-Ripley and Hicks, before he pitched it to Sigourney on the set of Chappie? Was it essentially the same core concept but with original characters, or a different beast altogether?
Doubtful anyone's got that information who hasn't signed an NDA. We're still waiting for the script of '
Resurrection', where the lead was still a cloned Newt, so, wouldn't hold my breath!
Quote from: TheBATMAN on Apr 27, 2023, 01:06:49 PMCan someone at least confirm it was a full, completed shooting script like Jim Cameron said or was it more just a detailed treatment that Ridley Scott alluded to?
Weaver and Cameron both referred to a script, specifically. Scott is on recored mentioning he had read at least a first draft script (and, to the best of my knowledge, treatments don't tend to go through multiple labelled drafts). Cameron, especially, is whose word/interpretation I'd trust regarding that, being as he's an actual successful scriptwriter, himself.
FWIW, Blomkamp mentioned more than one writer was involved, not solely himself. A lot of outlets have falsely reported otherwise.
