Neill Blomkamp's ALIEN is official!
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Well, Weaver has just confirmed in her EW interview that Alien 5 is the real Alien 3.
Alien 3/4 never happened.
I met Weaver at ComicPalooza in houston the other month. When I finally got to the autograph table I asked her again about it she reiterated what she said in the panel discussion. That the movie is green lit, but execs don't want it to compete with Alien Covenant's release. She also said she has Avatar 2 to do first (how....she died) Carrie Henn is on board too, I asked her about it as well. Never made it to Biehn's table to get confirmation from him about it.
But if they are going to wait for Covenant dust to settle, then they will be possibly pitting it against a star wars movie if they release late in the year in 2018, which is what Cameron said he didn't want to release Avatar 2 around EP VIII time, so who the hell knows if anything will get made. Nothing wants to compete with SW, and now Avatar is lurking too which also doesn't want any competition.
True, but it could work if they are older in the story line, they'd have to be to get Henn involved. I was really pissed first time I saw Alien 3 and Hicks and Newt were dead, but in subsequent viewings Alien 3 does stand on its own and it's pretty good. I'd even put it up over Alien Resurrection, which had moments.
Gotta love Hollywood undoing its own. Terminator, Alien, Star Wars... all with "wiped" histories. As if it makes it all better.
they're fresh out of ideas, have been for a while, so let's reinvent the wheel and piss off the die hard fan bases!
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You met Sigourney?? Lucky man- what was she like?
jye4ever
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What does the future hold for Ripley? A major change to her past.
And we also may learn more about the aliens she has been battling all these years.
Last week, as part of the announcement about the Aliens 30th reunion that will happen at San Diego Comic-Con, Sigourney Weaver spoke about plans for yet another film in the franchise, confirming it would disrupt the timeline of the other four films by picking up after the events of the second movie.
District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp was working on the project, but Fox put it on hold while Ridley Scott, director of the original 1979 Alien, finishes his sequel to 2012’s Prometheus – now called Alien: Covenant, a second prequel to that first film. (Now there’s a sentence that’ll disrupt your timeline.)
Weaver is deeply committed to Blomkamp’s film, and after facing down so many Xenomorphs and facehuggers, she’s fearless in her assessment of the franchise. Here’s what else she had to say about Ripley’s next appearance:
“Well, we have a great script. Fox asked us to delay so Ridley Scott could shoot his [second] Prometheus movie. That was too bad because we would have already done it by now,” she says.
Scott’s film is shooting now and comes out in August 2017, but that doesn’t mean Blomkamp’s Aliens follow-up will start right away. “Now that we’re waiting for that, I have a couple of Avatars to do and Neill has The Gone World,” Weaver says. “So we’ll have to see what happens when we get back, when those projects are over.”
Either way, she sounds determined to revisit Ellen Ripley. “It’s a great story and it’s satisfying to me to give this woman an ending,” Weaver says, which makes it sound like this would be her final go-round as the character. That means resolution — not that Ripley will necessarily die. (Note that she’s died before, and that obviously didn’t end anything.)
Weaver also suggested Blomkamp’s Aliens sequel will delve into the motivation of the aliens themselves, exploring what it is their race has been seeking. “The script itself has so much in it that’s so original, but also really satisfies the, I would say, the primal needs of the aliens,” Weaver says. “It’s a tribute to all of the great work that the other directors have done, in a way, but goes in a completely new direction. I hope we’ll do it.”
After teaming up on 2014’s Chappie, Weaver also seems eager to join forces again with Blomkamp. “We’ve just finished something else together that I can’t talk about, but you know, I hope so,” she says. “But you never know in this crazy business. In any case, [the Alienssequel] there and waiting for us. He and I both have these other commitments that are finally upon us, and so we’ve got to switch gears and concentrate on that. But it will be worth the wait when we finally get to it.”
There’s no doubt whatsoever — if the movie happens, it will redirect the story from the third and forth installments, David Fincher’s Alien3 1992) and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien: Resurrection (1997).
“It’s just as if, you know, the path forks and one direction goes off to three and four and another direction goes off to Neill’s movie,” Weaver says. “It’s just more, I would say, following Jim Cameron’s story about these characters, rather than just ending up in this sort of monastery in space, which was [Alien3 screenwriter] Vincent Ward’s idea and Fox elected to go in that direction. I think Fincher was fine with that. Each director kind of wanted to create a whole new set of circumstances. In this case, it picks up, it follows directly the circumstances of Jim Cameron’s Aliens.”
For those looking forward to seeing that story realized in a few years, Weaver has encouraging words.
“I hope it won’t be a few. I hope it’ll be a couple. But we’ll see. Yeah.”
And we also may learn more about the aliens she has been battling all these years.
Last week, as part of the announcement about the Aliens 30th reunion that will happen at San Diego Comic-Con, Sigourney Weaver spoke about plans for yet another film in the franchise, confirming it would disrupt the timeline of the other four films by picking up after the events of the second movie.
District 9 filmmaker Neill Blomkamp was working on the project, but Fox put it on hold while Ridley Scott, director of the original 1979 Alien, finishes his sequel to 2012’s Prometheus – now called Alien: Covenant, a second prequel to that first film. (Now there’s a sentence that’ll disrupt your timeline.)
Weaver is deeply committed to Blomkamp’s film, and after facing down so many Xenomorphs and facehuggers, she’s fearless in her assessment of the franchise. Here’s what else she had to say about Ripley’s next appearance:
“Well, we have a great script. Fox asked us to delay so Ridley Scott could shoot his [second] Prometheus movie. That was too bad because we would have already done it by now,” she says.
Scott’s film is shooting now and comes out in August 2017, but that doesn’t mean Blomkamp’s Aliens follow-up will start right away. “Now that we’re waiting for that, I have a couple of Avatars to do and Neill has The Gone World,” Weaver says. “So we’ll have to see what happens when we get back, when those projects are over.”
Either way, she sounds determined to revisit Ellen Ripley. “It’s a great story and it’s satisfying to me to give this woman an ending,” Weaver says, which makes it sound like this would be her final go-round as the character. That means resolution — not that Ripley will necessarily die. (Note that she’s died before, and that obviously didn’t end anything.)
Weaver also suggested Blomkamp’s Aliens sequel will delve into the motivation of the aliens themselves, exploring what it is their race has been seeking. “The script itself has so much in it that’s so original, but also really satisfies the, I would say, the primal needs of the aliens,” Weaver says. “It’s a tribute to all of the great work that the other directors have done, in a way, but goes in a completely new direction. I hope we’ll do it.”
After teaming up on 2014’s Chappie, Weaver also seems eager to join forces again with Blomkamp. “We’ve just finished something else together that I can’t talk about, but you know, I hope so,” she says. “But you never know in this crazy business. In any case, [the Alienssequel] there and waiting for us. He and I both have these other commitments that are finally upon us, and so we’ve got to switch gears and concentrate on that. But it will be worth the wait when we finally get to it.”
There’s no doubt whatsoever — if the movie happens, it will redirect the story from the third and forth installments, David Fincher’s Alien3 1992) and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien: Resurrection (1997).
“It’s just as if, you know, the path forks and one direction goes off to three and four and another direction goes off to Neill’s movie,” Weaver says. “It’s just more, I would say, following Jim Cameron’s story about these characters, rather than just ending up in this sort of monastery in space, which was [Alien3 screenwriter] Vincent Ward’s idea and Fox elected to go in that direction. I think Fincher was fine with that. Each director kind of wanted to create a whole new set of circumstances. In this case, it picks up, it follows directly the circumstances of Jim Cameron’s Aliens.”
For those looking forward to seeing that story realized in a few years, Weaver has encouraging words.
“I hope it won’t be a few. I hope it’ll be a couple. But we’ll see. Yeah.”
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GasparZizou
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Well, I can't help but to want to see what Blompkamp can do with this, hopefully he will receive divine inspiration to get out of his one hit aesthetic of D9/Elysium/Chappi and can deliver something that uses the best of his abilities.
If Ripley herself says the script is great, then that's good enough for me to have some hope.
I love Alien 3, I think it was the perfect ending and as a movie it's great, but the fact that it starts off a plothole is something that triggers my OCD
so if this one is at least better than Alien 3 and is devoid of such things, then fantastic, I can take Alien 3 as alternate timeline.
If Ripley herself says the script is great, then that's good enough for me to have some hope.
I love Alien 3, I think it was the perfect ending and as a movie it's great, but the fact that it starts off a plothole is something that triggers my OCD
so if this one is at least better than Alien 3 and is devoid of such things, then fantastic, I can take Alien 3 as alternate timeline.
I'm sure she said that about Alien Resurrection aswell so I take no hope from that. However, I'm still interested.
GasparZizou
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jye4ever
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I like how she craps on AC and is like damn, lets just make A5 and be done with it.
She ain't getting any younger you know.
She ain't getting any younger you know.
In space, no one will care by the time this comes out.
There's a lot in this franchise that shouldn't of happened... like Weyland-Yutani getting bought out by Walmart... 
jye4ever
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As everyone here knows and Weaver knows it will come down to AC box office that will determine if A5 is made.
I saw on another site that Weaver herself said it's been put on hold since she'll be doing a couple of Avatar movies first and that Blowkamp has his own thing as well now. They will reconnect at a later date.
Sigourney is long-in-the-tooth now. I don't see how she can do a direct follow up to Aliens in another 5 years time... unless they have her sleep chamber compromised and she actually ages faster than the time it takes to rescue the escape ship.
That 'time slip' would also make Newt a hot young lady who has ripped out of her clothing inside the chamber.
Hmmmm.... now I'm interested.
That 'time slip' would also make Newt a hot young lady who has ripped out of her clothing inside the chamber.
Hmmmm.... now I'm interested.
With ageing actors I think this film should have taken priority over a Prometheus sequel. Pretty frustrating for those of us who actually want this to be made.
As far as how they have it being a sequel to Aliens - my guess is it's set at least as many years as the actors have aged after Aliens but possibly more than that due to hypersleep technology. While they're in hypersleep they don't age (or age extremely slowly) but in reality the actors have aged 30 years so in the movie-verse they ought to have been up and about for at least that amount of time...during which they presumably lived a normal Xenomorph-free life.
As far as how they have it being a sequel to Aliens - my guess is it's set at least as many years as the actors have aged after Aliens but possibly more than that due to hypersleep technology. While they're in hypersleep they don't age (or age extremely slowly) but in reality the actors have aged 30 years so in the movie-verse they ought to have been up and about for at least that amount of time...during which they presumably lived a normal Xenomorph-free life.
There was a long time when this would have been my most anticipated sequel. But having revisited ALIENS a couple of times in the last year I do realize just how content I am with that film ending with them sleeping peacefully on the Sulaco. Of course if Blomkamp makes an awesome movie with Ripley, Hicks and Newt in it that will be totally gravy but I'm not going to invest any excitement in this until that actually happens.
Centurion
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C'mon, you know you guys want to see this!
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Hope for this movie is fading fast.
Fox should allocate at least half the budget to hiring those f/X guys who did Michael Douglas and Robert Downey flash backs for Marvel.
...it's the only way to be sure.
EVILFACE
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Shave that head and she could be an alien.
