Neill Blomkamp's 'Alien' movie

Welp.

The untitled sci-fi project is separate from “Prometheus 2,” which Fox is still making with Ridley Scott.

oh god

the concept art blomkamp put out a while back, which included hicks from aliens, kinda made it look like a direct sequel to that movie, which i guess would take 3 and resurrection out of canon? the thought of ridley scott and neill blomkamp chewing on the alien universe from opposite ends is not an appealing one.

dont say canon I'm not fit for the screeching this morning

canon

Too little, too late. Nuke the series from space.

Elysium was so terrible that I can't imagine anticipating a Blomkamp thing anymore.

Alien vs E.T.

not even his upcoming Short Circuit reboot? xpost

finally these so-called hollywood bigwigs are listening to the people and giving us some 80s sci fi reboots

not even his upcoming Short Circuit reboot? xpost

Okay, what?

Behold

http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/chappie/

ive seen the trailer for that twice and it nearly forced me out of the movie i wanted to actually watch the second time

Fingers crossed Sigourney Weaver's not attached, or if she is, cameo-only. No issues with her as an actress, only with the Shatneriffic identification of Ripley as the continued human focus of the Alien series.

if the concept art is anything to go by blomkamp wants her in it:

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--CmGUgG11--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/kaivyor3f8thksygyisw.jpg

(i look forward to the contortions required to get ripley in that helmet given prometheus' space jockey shenanigans)

He should make a movie populated entirely by cyborgs and frustrated aliens.

Weaver recounts (Louis) C.K. saying, "I wanna be in it, and I wanna die in a terrible way."

hmm

Neill Blomkamp Hints The New Alien Movie Will Wipe Out Alien 3

So, are we finally getting Earth War?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzvtGBGjvd4

I'm thinking this is the best option for a general Neill Blomkamp thread in that it's about a dead project

So, Oats Studios? I'm hopeful, mostly due to Blomkamp's strengths being in short form work with a heavy visual component and a dystopian junk aesthetic. Outside of his work directing commercials, it's interesting how much material is recycled from aborted projects.

I recently read a retrospective of the Halo video games, and apparently they were much further into creating a movie for the franchise with Peter Jackson producing, and Blomkamp directing, than I realized. Some of the proposed plot included soldiers who end up with alien physiology -- the arm in District 9, and apparently a couple of the guns, were basically prop reuse.

Oats Studios looks like it reuses a lot of the conceptual work he'd done for a possible Alien movie, down to Sigourney Weaver making an appearance.

https://youtu.be/VjQ2t_yNHQs

That being the 20-min short referred to by mh

And, having now watched it, it's both crappy and gratuitously nasty

funnily enough i rescreened elysium yesterday just to have something on in the background while i was rewiring a guitar and it's even worse than i remembered it, just a total mess

blomkamp is good at designing cool-looking guns and robots and nothing else, really

I feel like he should find a good writer/collaborator, or at very least a hands-on producer

i would watch the shit out of this tv series

There's a lot of shit in it to be watched.

Blomkamp & Peele

Get Out - Of Earth

thought the new thing w dakota fanning was pretty good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKWB-MVJ4sQ

much rather he'd do stuff like this than that chappie shite