Sounds Like We Could Actually See That Neill Blomkamp ALIEN Movie After All
Neill Blomkamp posted some concept art for an Alien movie. At the time it was assumed that these were just ideas he'd been tinkering with and weren't going to go anywhere, but that might not be the case!
When that concept artwork for a Neill Blomkamp Alien film hit the net, fans got very excited. Unfortunately it turned out that the images of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Hicks (Michael Biehn) had not been for anything official, rather just representations of some ideas the director had been tinkering with and were not likely to actually bear fruit... or so we thought! During an interview with Uproxx, Blomkamp gave some very positive updates regarding all of this, and it really sounds like we could see his Alien movie someday. "Basically, what happened was, when Chappie got heavily into post-production, I could take my foot off the gas a bit," he tells the site when asked where the art came from. "I was thinking about what I wanted to do next and I’ve been wanting to make an Alien film for like years and years." Sigourney Weaver worked with Blomkamp on his new sci-fi flick, Chappie, and as it turns out he did discuss his vision for the film with her.
"Speaking to Sigourney Weaver, when we were doing Chappie, she set off a bunch of thoughts in my head — I had come up with an idea that didn’t have Sigourney, it was a different idea. But I spent all of the shooting time with her, it was like, holy shit, that could actually be really interesting. When I came back to Vancouver, I had an entire year to work on Chappie. And when I wasn’t needed in the edit, I could think about Alien. So, I basically developed an entire movie and I did all of this artwork as well."
As far as we know Fox are going ahead with a sequel to Prometheus, but there's nothing to say they couldn't continue Ripley's story at the same time. We last saw that character in the sloppy, but still somewhat underrated Alien: Resurrection as an human/Xenomorph hybrid, but Blomkamp might have some clever ideas about retconning that. Bringing Corporal Hicks (Michael Biehn) back from the dead might be trickier, though there is actually a non-canon comic story that does just that.
So what are the chances of this actually happening? Well, Blomkamp reckons Fox would be all over it, he just has to decide if it's something he wants to do. He does maintain that "there’s a high possibility, a high degree of chance that it happens that I go back and try to get Alien made" though, so now we just keep our fingers crossed and wait and see how it shakes out. More at the link below.
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