Neil Blomkamp confirms his Alien 5 is no longer happening

We reported a few days ago that director Neil Blomkamp’s proposed Alien 5 was no longer going to happen and now the man himself has admitted as much himself…

Blomkamp, who brought us District 9 and Chappie, has now moved on to his sic-fi project Oats Studio (here) so we figured it wasn’t likely that his Alien idea would see the light of day.

The idea was that his Alien would erase Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection (here) but now it looks like, should the franchise have a future, it will be in Ridley Scott’s hands.

 

“I think it’s totally dead, yes,” says Blomkamp.

“That would be an accurate assumption at this point. It’s sad. I spent a long time working on that, and I feel like it was really pretty awesome. But politically, the way it’s gone now, and the way that it all is — it’s just not going to live.”

He went on to hint that it was because of Ridley Scott’s new Alien movies that his idea was cut short: “Yeah. Ridley [Scott] was one of my idols growing up. He’s so talented and he’s made this film that really set me off in a direction. I want to just be as respectful and not go stamping around in this world that he created.

“I think that if the circumstances were different, and I didn’t feel like I was getting too close to something that he obviously feels a massive personal connection to, that things that may have played out differently. But I did want to be as respectful as possible.”

We know that Alien: Covenant has been divisive to say the least so we’re sad to hear that Blomkamp’s movie – which seemed very much in the spirit of the first two movies – isn’t going to happen.

Source: The Verge