You’ll Never See This Movie: Everything You Need to Know About Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5

4 – When should this be published?

The film never had a release date. It was in the beginning frolicsome By its director, Neill Blomkamp, ​​in August 2013. The District 9 director shared the Alien concept on his social media, indicating that he has been working behind the scenes on the Alien 5 project.

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After that, the filmmaker is in post-production on his sci-fi film Chappie, and when he has free time, he starts working on a new episode of the saga created by Ridley Scott. But over time, the project developed rapidly…and ran into problems.

3 – What was the scenario?

The project was originally called Alien: Xeno. It was to be set chronologically 30 years after the events of Alien Return (1986) and completely ignored the other sequels as well as the crossovers with Predator.

The characters of Ripley, Hicks, and Newt were to return for this story, which would feature new types of xenomorphs, terrifying androids, as well as the “Colonial Marines” weapons that were so popular with the movies but also the alien video games.

2 – Who should return / arrive?

Sigourney Weaver had just shot Chappie with Blomkamp and, noting her passion for the world and her more detailed questions, Ellen Ripley’s interpreter agreed in principle to her to appear there if the project one day found a buyer.

If the film had seen the light of day, depending on the needs of its plot, Michael Biehn (Dwayne Hicks, a senior officer in the Colonial Marine Corps) and Carrie Haney would probably have returned to reprise her role as Rebecca Jordan, aka Newt, the survivor. Hadley’s Hope in Aliens by James Cameron.

Neill Blomkamp’s concept art is compiled here:

1 – Why didn’t it happen?

During 2015, Fox Studios, the owner of the rights to the franchise, expressed interest in Blomkamp’s Alien, working on it and increasing the sharing of images on his Instagram: Ripley, abandonedXenomorphs… But during the month of October, Ridley Scott announced that he was going to direct Alien: Covenant, his sequel to Prometheus.

Fox found himself with two projects and prioritized Scott. Blomkamp’s Alien 5 is shelved, never to be released. In May 2017, when we learned that the movie was called Alien: Awakening, Scott confided exclusively to AlloCiné during a convention promotion:

I don’t think it will ever see the light of day. There was never a story. Just an idea that grew into about ten pages of text. I was supposed to be a producer, but it didn’t go any further because Fox decided they didn’t want to do it. For my part, I had already done Prometheus and was working on the Covenant

“If I could, I wouldScott continues. “Besides, I still have a question: Why do I have both? It’s like shooting yourself in the foot, there’s no point. But Fox didn’t follow, so I stuck with everything.”

He was a South African Canadian director Surveyed in 2021 As to what happened and Scott was prioritized and if reconciliation was possible so that this Alien 5 would still see the light of day, the answer is clear:

“We can’t recover from this. I’m not going to work on a movie for two years just to have the rug pulled out from under me and then go out and have a beer together. That’s because I’ll never work again. Working off someone else’s intellectual property.”