Neill Blomkamp's ALIEN is official!

[Magpie 7]

I thought I heard it was suppose to start filming in a few weeks....can anyone else confirm this?

Read the previous pages and you'll find a link to the filming beginning in Toronto.

 

[YankeesFanboy]

Is this officially greenlit or still a fanboy fantasy???

Well, there's this: Neill Blomkamp has more Alien concept art to pass around · Newswire · The A.V. Club

If there is a movie, I'm pretty sure Sharlto Copley will play Ripley, Hicks, an android and the Main Alien. And he'll provide the voice for the ship/s.

 

[Rorywan]

I hope this doesn't happen.

 

[a-dev]

Well, there's this: Neill Blomkamp has more Alien concept art to pass around · Newswire · The A.V. Club

If there is a movie, I'm pretty sure Sharlto Copley will play Ripley, Hicks, an android and the Main Alien. And he'll provide the voice for the ship/s.

Every article about this film that I've read appears to have trouble with the concept of the film ignoring Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection.

Also, Hicks totally died at the start of Alien 3

And Ripley died at the end - it doesn't matter. They're disregarding it.

 

[Wor-Gar]

I'm pretty sure Sharlto Copley will play Ripley...

I hope this doesn't happen.

Sharlto Copley sucks.

 

[Rorywan]

I actually meant the entire project, but yes he does.

 

[GasparZizou]

Sharlto Copley sucks.

Hnnngh my kokoro, Sharlto Copley is awesome, he's a highlight in everything he's in (that I've seen of him), even if the movie sucks.

I wouldn't be mad if they gave him a part in this mess, he could make it more watchable.

 

[Magpie 7]

Filming to start and some surprise returns of familiar faces.
Alien 5 filming begins in Vancouver; Neill Blomkamp assures film won't overlap with Ridley Scott's Prometheus 2 : Trending News : Venture Capital Post

I hope this doesn't happen.

Well it is and has been underway for nearly a month now, probably building sets and setting up the 2nd unit shots.

 

[Rorywan]

Well it is and has been underway for nearly a month now, probably building sets and setting up the 2nd unit shots.

Read that article again, it doesn't say filming has begun, it says filming might begin in Vancouver. It's not shooting yet. Still in start up phase as far as I know. Script has not been approved or locked down. That article is not new.

"....Alien 5 is underway and might film in Vancouver....."
".....Even though it has not been confirmed yet, reports suggest that filming for the movie will take place in Vancouver..."

It's a load of vague BS, I'm afraid, don't read too much into it. I don't think they have a script yet.

Hnnngh my kokoro, Sharlto Copley is awesome, he's a highlight in everything he's in (that I've seen of him), even if the movie sucks.

I wouldn't be mad if they gave him a part in this mess, he could make it more watchable.

He was terrible in Maleficent.

 

[Gates70]

He was terrible in Maleficent.

...and in Elysium....and everything else other than District 9.

 

[RIDDICK]

He was terrible in Maleficent.

...and in Elysium.

So, he was "terrible" in bad films. Ok then.

 

[Gates70]

So, he was "terrible" in bad films. Ok then.

There have been very good or excellent performances from actors in bad films so your point doesn't make sense

 

[RIDDICK]

Notice the quotation marks. And excactly what point did you get from that post?
He did ok with what he had to work. He's not Anthony Quinn nor Gary Oldman.

 

[karamazov80]

Copley is frickin awesome. He was the only good thing about the otherwise tedious and lame Maleficent. I would say the same about the A-Team movie. Elysium is underrated, but again, he was the best thing about it.

 

[Magpie 7]

The mess that was The A-Team didn't have any redeeming qualities but at least Copley did some justice to Dwight Schulz' character from the original series, something you couldn't say about Neeson, Cooper and Jackson.

 

[GasparZizou]

He was terrible in Maleficent.

I haven't seen that

...and in Elysium....and everything else other than District 9.

What? He was awesome in Elysium, itz joost e flesh vound!

Copley is frickin awesome. He was the only good thing about the otherwise tedious and lame Maleficent. I would say the same about the A-Team movie. Elysium is underrated, but again, he was the best thing about it.

Hear hear! :

 

[Wor-Gar]

Copley is only good if they remake A L I E N to play the part of "Brett". He looks like Harry Dean Stanton. "Right."

 

[GasparZizou]

Roight!

 

[Magpie 7]

Read that article again, it doesn't say filming has begun, it says filming might begin in Vancouver. It's not shooting yet. Still in start up phase as far as I know. Script has not been approved or locked down. That article is not new.

"....Alien 5 is underway and might film in Vancouver....."
".....Even though it has not been confirmed yet, reports suggest that filming for the movie will take place in Vancouver..."

It's a load of vague BS, I'm afraid, don't read too much into it. I don't think they have a script yet.

Well Sigourney Weaver believes this will definitely happen, officially she's the only actor who's contracted at this time. The script was written, it was complete but had to be rewritten on the say-so of Ridley Scott. The rumour being Blomkamp's film showed the original Space Jockey which would again show the considerable size difference between the SJ's in Alien and the SJ's/Engineers in Prometheus.

Does Sigourney Weaver like Alien vs Predator?

 

[rushmore223]

Never understood why so many people feel Ripley (weaver) is such an integral element of any potential Alien films. Her story has been told, let her go. Besides she's so old right now she'd need to fight the Alien from the seat of a rascal.

All Alien needs is a good story, good script and a talented Director. Weaver being in Alien Resurrection didn't help to make it a good movie.