The status of Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 is something of a mystery. When announced, it was the hot ticket. Then, Ridley Scott decided to move forward with a sequel to Prometheus, a film now titled Alien: Covenant. That event seemingly brought the filming of Blomkamp’s Alien film to a grinding halt.
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But now new news has been released and it comes directly from the mouth of Ellen Ripley herself, Sigourney Weaver.
Weaver explains:
Well, I *think* it is. Ridley asked Neill NOT to make our Alien til after Prometheus 2. He (Ridley) wanted his movie to shoot and be released first. But it’s an AMAZING script, and Neill and I are REALLY excited about doing it. We’re doing other things until we can get going on that. I’d be really surprised if we DIDN’T do it, because it’s such a great script, and we love working together. So, it’s just going to take a little bit longer to get out to you, but it’ll be worth the wait.
This information comes from Weaver’s appearance at VMware and the quote comes from Aggressive Comix.
Obviously, this is huge news as it means that Blomkamp’s Alien is still very much in the cards and not cancelled indefinitely as we previously thought. That being said, no concrete filming dates have been set nor is there an anticipated release date. All we can do is sit back and wait.