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James Cameron Hints That He’s “Working On” Doing Something With the ‘Alien’ Franchise
At this point in time, we really have no idea what the future of the Alien franchise looks like, but Disney has been assuring that they’ll still allow rated “R” films under the Fox banner once the deal goes through for them to acquire the studio’s assets. So then, will they continue Ridley Scott’s prequel franchise or “reboot” the whole thing? We’re thinking the latter.
As you surely recall, District 9 director Neill Blomkamp had at one point been developing a direct sequel to Aliens, a project that was ultimately killed off by Scott’s vision for the franchise. As far as we’ve been told, Blomkamp’s vision was scrapped and would never be seeing the light of day, but maybe, just maybe, James Cameron is bringing it back to life?
In a chat with IGN on the red carpet for Alita: Battle Angel, Cameron was asked about giving Blomkamp “a call about Aliens,” to which he replied: “I’m working on that, yeah.”
Granted, this isn’t much of anything right now, but it’s certainly interesting to hear Cameron express an interest in partnering with Blomkamp to bring his Aliens sequel back into the conversation. Cameron just returned to the Terminator franchise, it’s worth noting, to produce a sequel to T2 being directed by Tim Miller, so it’d make logical sense for Aliens to be next.
Hey, ya never know…
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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