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Neill Blomkamp Says Fox Is Ready to Make His ‘Alien’ Movie Concept

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Neill Blomkamp Says Fox Is Ready to Make His ‘Alien’ Movie Concept

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This year kicked off with a bang when District 9 and Chappie writer/director Neill Blomkamp posted Alien concept images to Instagram. The pics featured renderings of Sigourney Weaver‘s character Ellen Ripley, the Hicks character originally played by Michael Biehn, and images of the engineers’ ship from Alien housed in a giant hangar.

There wasn’t much explanation of the images: were they for a film, or maybe a game? Had Blomkamp created them on his own, or as part of a quiet deal that hadn’t leaked outside Fox? Now the director reveals the truth about his Alien ideas — and he says that he could actually make the Alien movie heralded by the concept art. He just has to decide to do it.

Blomkamp talked to Uproxx, and the interview is surprisingly candid. The director explained that the art came out of a long-simmering desire to make an Alien movie.
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Basically, what happened was, when Chappie got heavily into post-production, I could take my foot off the gas a bit. I was thinking about what I wanted to do next and I’ve been wanting to make an Alien film for like years and years.
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The art came into being as the director was working on the post-process of Chappie, and he says we’ve only seen the beginning of it, teasing “I produced way more art than I put out.”

This all came about thanks to working with Sigourney Weaver on Chappie, which comes as a surprise to no one.
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Speaking to Sigourney Weaver, when we were doing Chappie, she set off a bunch of thoughts in my head — I had come up with an idea that didn’t have Sigourney, it was a different idea. But I spent all of the shooting time with her, it was like, holy shit, that could actually be really interesting. When I came back to Vancouver, I had an entire year to work on Chappie. And when I wasn’t needed in the edit, I could think about Alien. So, I basically developed an entire movie and I did all of this artwork as well.
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Blomkamp says he’s not giving up on the idea, and that Fox isn’t the roadblock to making it happen. According to him, it’s his own attitude about doing a franchise movie that keeps things at the theoretical stage. (“Sometimes Hollywood just sort of gets to me.”) If he gets his head around making it, Blomkamp says it’s a go.

Seriously, he’s certain about this:
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Me. I’m the problem. Fox, they would make it. Like, tomorrow. They would make it.
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As a refresher, here’s the art.
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brandonh83

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Doesn't seem like this is confirmed just yet but the possibility is exciting. Having the Prometheus story and this existing simultaneously is cool. Yes, I liked Prometheus. No, I don't care what you thought.
 
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E the Shaggy

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The way to get movies made is to apparently just leak information about them and then see how the populace reacts; see Deadpool, Spiderman, etc.
 
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cacildo

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errmm... im still burned from Elysium

And the last trailer for Chappie seemed a lot worst than the first one...
 
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badcrumble

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Since Prometheus is apparently pivoting further away from Alien stuff, there's no reason this couldn't happen, I guess. Wonder where it'd be set in the chronology.
 
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Extra Sauce

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Elysium was garbage, and that "Riplien" concept art looks right out of Alien: Resurrection 2, or someone's fan fiction.

Don't get the excitement over this news at all, and I say that as someone who would love for Sigourney Weaver to step back into the role one last time.
 
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Anton Sugar

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Unless Chappie blows me away, I am ambivalent to this. Enjoyed District 9, but Elysium was utterly mediocre and pretty bad in some regards.

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Elysium was garbage, and that "Riplien" concept art looks right out of Alien: Resurrection 2, or someone's fan fiction.
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Yeah, I'm really not sure wtf that is supposed to be. I know it says Space Jockey suit/helmet, but that makes no sense.
 
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Bobby Roberts

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No.

I don't want this.

You're going to end up with ALIEN universe equivalent of Superman Returns. A semi-faithful slog through notes we've already seen hit better by better directors, occupying a strange storytelling space that is almost guaranteed to leave people feeling like they went in hoping for a blowjob and got dryhumped instead.
 
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afternoon delight

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Ugh, what was there took the best parts of continued non cannon (Hicks, Ripley) and somehow managed to further sully them with ridiculously stupid plotting.

Sounds right up Fox's alley for continual disappointment with this franchise.
 
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