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Neill Blomkamp Says Fox Is Ready to Make His Alien Movie Concept
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CassidyIzABeast
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So who's going to play the mercenary assigned to tracking down Ripley?
Going to reiterate what I said the last time this came and just say how stupid it is to make Ripley this quasi-mythical figure when all she was only ever just a space trucker who was lucky and quick-thinking enough to survive. There's no logical reason she should automatically be in an Alien movie.
Messofanego
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Agreed with BobbyRoberts on a non-Ripley and new story in this cinematic universe being the better course of direction. He could do something like Prometheus but nail the execution, and that all depends on the script or relying less on simple messages but more on overwhelming unnatural horror.
Tesseract
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say that to her face not online fucker
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Honestly, I was happy just leaving it so that it was:
Alien > Alien: Isolation > Aliens
Cause that sets up my perfect Alien saga.
But if this film actually was made, and it was as good as I hope in my brain, and it totally wipes away 3 and 4, I am so down.
Alien > Alien: Isolation > Aliens
Cause that sets up my perfect Alien saga.
But if this film actually was made, and it was as good as I hope in my brain, and it totally wipes away 3 and 4, I am so down.
Doctor West
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I have no faith in Blomkamp, especially if he's going to write it too. Dude is very limited in his storytelling. Let him handle the special effects, but that's it.
His character became the best thing about that movie after the first 20 minutes. Amazing. He nailed it too!
Maybe this is a stupid question:
Is it his plan to use Sigourney Weaver or not? I wonder this because of this statement: "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."
It would be awesome to see Weaver close off her legacy in the Alien universe with a final (and more fitting end) to her saga. She is in tiptop shape and can even be in better shape if she trains for it. I am very sure she would want to do it one more time. but please make her the focus of the move ala Alien (1) or Alien: Isolation. Actually, an Isolation-kind of story would be awesome. I don't want much action. I want more suspense and tension like the first one. While Aliens is a great movie, it is totally different in tone compared to the original Alien (and vision of the universe). I really hope they go back to their roots if they continue on with this. Also, Blomkamp as a director doesn't seem like a very good idea. He has made one amazing movie among good or avergae ones and the risk is simply too big for him (and his resume) to take on a movie in this franchise. I think Guillermo del Toro would be a better choice (at least visually).
Is it his plan to use Sigourney Weaver or not? I wonder this because of this statement: "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."
It would be awesome to see Weaver close off her legacy in the Alien universe with a final (and more fitting end) to her saga. She is in tiptop shape and can even be in better shape if she trains for it. I am very sure she would want to do it one more time. but please make her the focus of the move ala Alien (1) or Alien: Isolation. Actually, an Isolation-kind of story would be awesome. I don't want much action. I want more suspense and tension like the first one. While Aliens is a great movie, it is totally different in tone compared to the original Alien (and vision of the universe). I really hope they go back to their roots if they continue on with this. Also, Blomkamp as a director doesn't seem like a very good idea. He has made one amazing movie among good or avergae ones and the risk is simply too big for him (and his resume) to take on a movie in this franchise. I think Guillermo del Toro would be a better choice (at least visually).
StalkerUKCG
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District 9 is a good movie but Elysium was crap, sound mixing sucked.plot, plot was dull and paper thin.
Chappie looks really good but only for Chappie himself. Poor bastard.
Chappie looks really good but only for Chappie himself. Poor bastard.
CadetMahoney
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Messofanego
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crazyrabbits
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Blomkamp and co. should just give this to Creative Assembly. They showed that they figured out how to nail the tone and design of that world without feeling reliant on continuity nods, far moreso than anyone associated with FOX has done in the last few xenomorph-focused films.
Judging from this concept art, I'd love to see a Ripley/Hicks team-up game which starts with them infiltrating W-Y's bioweapons division (with Ripley using the explosive vest as a dead man's switch like that concept art shows), then progress to them discovering that the company has successfully bred the xenos in their absence and shipped them offworld to a station/another planet. Have them conducting guerilla warfare on W-Y before progressing to the all-out warfare that was hinted at in the early concepts of A3 and you'd have a winner.
YES!
He was amazing in T1 and Aliens, that guy should have been A list (he came close in the late 80's I guess).
Old Ripley and Hicks need to be in this.
Insane Metal
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Between this and your love for John Carter's 'dog', I must say I'm in love with you.
evilromero
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I'm so into this. Alien has a great world worth exploring and Neil seems like the perfect director.
UncleCross
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Agreed. I don't want to see her in this. Frankly, Weaver shouldn't have been in any of the movies...her acting is terrible.
I'd love to see this happen. I would hope that he'd tone down some of his political views some. While I don't mind seeing them in movies, his tend to be pretty heavy handed and make me roll my eyes at how overt the themes are.
That said, Alien has always been a fairly political film series, IMO. But it hasn't been as overt as Blomkamp's are, which is where I would hope that if Fox greenlights this that he is told to tone it down some.
That said, Alien has always been a fairly political film series, IMO. But it hasn't been as overt as Blomkamp's are, which is where I would hope that if Fox greenlights this that he is told to tone it down some.
thesoapster
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I hope he casts Copley as an android with a horrible accent.
Magic Mushroom
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District 9 was subtle as a sledgehammer, but at least the movie had something to say. It was very well-directed too.
This is a very unpopular opinion amongst fans. I do presume you know this?
UncleCross
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I know, and I'm not a huge fan of the franchise. Mostly I liked the first two films. Everything I've seen her in, I get the impression that she's struggling to remember her lines. Maybe that's just her style.
Alien 3 is Isolation what are you talking about.
GuitarAtomik
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I want this. Figure it out Blomkamp.
I've always kind of felt the same way. I was perfectly fine with Ripley being the main character for the second half of Alien and all of Aliens, but she should have been allowed to have a happy ending and be phased out of the franchise after Aliens. I still wish we would have gotten the Alien 3 where Bishop and Hicks take over as main characters and go Xeno hunting.
spookyfish
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Interesting. I didn't see Elysium as being anti-Capitalist -- I saw it as being anti-Elitist, which isn't the same thing. (More Fascist, in that certain groups are allowed to thrive, via government intervention.)
But then, that's what I thought was good about it. I think "both sides" could see what they wanted to see in it, which for me was pretty adept.
After X-Men: DOFP, maybe Fox isn't scared of retconning ...
jhmtehgamr20xx
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There is no (real) Alien3 Director's Cut or Alien 1 Director's Cut. Alien 3 has an Assembly Cut which (according to the guys who made it) closely resembles David Fincher's original vision for his movie before the guys at Fox stripped his movie down to the original Theatrical Cut. Fincher always declined to work on the movie for a Director's Cut.
Colonial Marines kind of goes against your entire point though considering
Colonial Marines retcons Hicks death in Alien 3
Shit, I'd bring back Newt, too. With the same actress. And Lance Henrikson is still going, right? Dunno how they'd explain him looking so old, but... eh, the script probably wouldn't do all these guys justice. There was a time when this story needed to be told, on Earth, with Weyland-Yutani as a major antagonistic force, but that time has passed.
jhmtehgamr20xx
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Weaver's acting being bad in the Alien films? Did I...did I read that right? Wasn't she nominated for an Oscar for Aliens?
I doubt Fox--or really anyone--gives a shit about Colonial Marines enough to keep it in canon. That's if Randy Pitchford was even telling the truth about it being canon in the first place. He wasn't exactly honest about the rest of the game. And as much as Alien 3 might have a cult following these days, I similarly doubt most would care if it were written out (provided the newer movie is better).
As much as I'd love to see a Hicks/Ripley reunion, it probably wouldn't work though. That Superman Returns analogy is pretty on point. Yet, it would probably still be better than the last few installments. With a bar so low, I'd be more easily impressed.
I doubt Fox--or really anyone--gives a shit about Colonial Marines enough to keep it in canon. That's if Randy Pitchford was even telling the truth about it being canon in the first place. He wasn't exactly honest about the rest of the game. And as much as Alien 3 might have a cult following these days, I similarly doubt most would care if it were written out (provided the newer movie is better).
As much as I'd love to see a Hicks/Ripley reunion, it probably wouldn't work though. That Superman Returns analogy is pretty on point. Yet, it would probably still be better than the last few installments. With a bar so low, I'd be more easily impressed.
Apparently the girl who played Newt decided not to pursue a career in acting.
Death Metalist
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A new Alien movie? sign me the fuck up!
GentlemanCrow
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As people seem to be saying an alternate sequel from Aliens. Have the cryopods malfunction to account for the ageing. Undo Hicks' death, recast Newt and boom. Intrigued.
zeioIIDX
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Lmfao!! I'm personally hyped for this to take off though.
Getting killed off in her one big role might not've helped.
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