The internet did their thing yesterday in flipping out when Neill Blomkamp said that he wanted his Alien movie to closely align with Ridley Scott’s 1978 Alien and James Cameron’s 1986 Aliens. It’s surprising to me that anyone expected it to live in a world in which Alien3 and Resurrection didn’t exist… ’cause, frankly, that’s just stupid.
Thankfully, Blomkamp calmed panicked fans in his latest interview, this time with AlloCine.
“My favorites are the first two movies. So I want to make a film that’s connected to Alien and Aliens. That’s my goal. I’m not trying to undo Alien3 or Alien: Resurrection, I just want it to be connected to Alien and Aliens.”
Sigourney Weaver also commented on the new film, which is to be produce by Ridley Scott.
“I always wanted to complete this story and it wasn’t really until Neill and I started talking that I said, ‘this is why we waited however many years its been.’”
The Xenomorph home planet better get ready, because Ripley is coming, and she’s pissed off.
