The on-hold Alien movie from District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is very much still alive according to franchise star Sigourney Weaver.
“Well, we have a great script. Fox asked us to delay so Ridley Scott could shoot his [second] Prometheus movie. That was too bad because we would have already done it by now,” she said last week.
Alien Covenant will release August 2017, but commitments by Weaver and Blomkamp means production on the new Alien movie isn’t likely to begin soon.
“Now that we’re waiting for that [Alien Covenant], I have a couple of Avatars to do and Neill has The Gone World,” Weaver says. “So we’ll have to see what happens when we get back, when those projects are over.”
“I hope it won’t be a few [years]. I hope it’ll be a couple. But we’ll see. Yeah.”
As for the storyline of the new film, Weaver says it will pick up after Aliens, abandoning the story of Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection.
“It’s a great story and it’s satisfying to me to give this woman an ending,” Weaver explained.
“It’s just as if, you know, the path forks and one direction goes off to three and four and another direction goes off to Neill’s movie,” Weaver added. “It’s just more, I would say, following Jim Cameron’s story about these characters, rather than just ending up in this sort of monastery in space, which was [Alien3 screenwriter] Vincent Ward’s idea and Fox elected to go in that direction. I think Fincher was fine with that. Each director kind of wanted to create a whole new set of circumstances. In this case, it picks up, it follows directly the circumstances of Jim Cameron’s Aliens.”
Source: Entertainment Weekly
