Will Sharlto Copley appear in Neill Blomkamp’s newly announced Alien film? Vegas has open betting and the odds are 2-1, especially considering he’s been in every Blomkamp movie, from District 9 to Chappie.

Assuming the new Alien happens (he still needs to develop the screenplay), Copley is hopeful to join the franchise, even teasing that he’d be a perfect Xenomorph.

Via Blastr:

“We’ve had the conversation,” he said with a smile in his voice, “But it’s the familiar conversation with Neill every time he ends a movie, where he tells me he wants to put me in the next one but he can’t because, practically, it doesn’t make sense to do all of his movies with me. At some point, he has to go away, and then we’ll return and do something, which I fully understand. I never expected to be in all his films for two seconds.”

As to our initial question, Copley did clarify that “at the moment, no. I’m not in the Aliens [sequel]. But I’m super-excited he’s doing it, and it’s surreal to get to see him do something with a franchise that, for him and I, was one of our favorite all-time franchises.”

When we suggested he could do another mo-cap performance as a xenomorph, Copley perked up and said, “You know he could put me in as a xenomorph and no one would know. We know that I can do good performance capture now. Neill starts out very determined, but you never know as he gets closer to the time.”

I think it’s safe to say we’ll be seeing Copley in some role, and in a Colonial Marines uniform would be dope. He did play the robot Chappie in the movie of the same name, so it wouldn’t be that surprising to hear he’d do a mo-cap role for Alien.