At one point a few years back, Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Chappie) was attached to helm a fifth Alien movie before plans fell through.
The project would have served as a direct sequel to James Cameron's Aliens, disregarding the events of Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection by reintroducing Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Hicks (Michael Biehn).
Concept art did the rounds online, and there was a lot of support from Xenomorph fans, but when Ridley Scott decided to return to the franchise to direct Alien: Covenant, the plug was pulled.
Blomkamp has previously expressed how disappointed he was that his idea for an Alien film never came to fruition, and it's clearly still something he doesn't particularly enjoy talking about. During an interview with Uproxx to promote Gran Turismo, the filmmaker was quick to shut down a question about the direction the Alien franchise is now heading in.
Here's the excerpt in full.
Uproxx: Alright, I saw Walter Hill came out recently and said Disney wants to go a different direction with Alien. I enjoyed the production designs you posted on Twitter…
NB: It’s hard to define how little I care about what happens with Alien.
Okay. Well, I think you just defined it pretty well, just with that statement.
Yeah. So I guess I don’t want to talk about that either. I want to talk about Gran Turismo or we shouldn’t talk about…
Sorry, I didn’t hear that last part you said.
Let’s just focus on Gran Turismo.
Well, I mean, yeah, we did for 12 minutes. And I had more about it, too. We’re not done yet. Are you still there?
Yeah.
I did want to ask you about Mardenborough doing his own driving stunts? That’s a pretty cool thing.
Yeah.
Okay. I mean, I don’t know. What happened here?
Well, I mean, we were talking about Gran Turismo, which was interesting.
Right. And I liked the movie.
We’ve spoken about it enough. I guess you have enough info.
Well, no… [The publicist chimes in that it might be time to end this interview.]
All right, cool. I think so, too. See you guys. Bye.
Awkward, to say the least!
What do you guys think? Was the interviewer at fault here, or was Blomkamp way too touchy?