The once regarded as great, Neil Blomkamp – District 9 – was set to direct the sequel to Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien: Resurrection. Only, two things happened. One, Ridley Scott directed The Martian which won a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – COMEDY or MUSICAL (don’t ask) and received seven Oscar nominations. Two, Neil Blomkamp made Chappie, and the less we say about that movie the better.
Since the critically panned Chappie which made merely 100 Mil USD at the global box office, Blomkamp hasn’t gotten any big studio projects. And his plans to direct an Alien movie? Pretty much dead.
In an interview with The Verge, Blomkamp said:
I think it’s totally dead, yes. That would be an accurate assumption at this point. It’s sad. I spent a long time working on that, and I feel like it was really pretty awesome. But politically, the way it’s gone now, and the way that it all is — it’s just not going to live.
Yeah. Ridley (Scott) was one of my idols growing up. He’s so talented and he’s made this film that really set me off in a direction. I want to just be as respectful and not go stamping around in this world that he created. I think that if the circumstances were different, and I didn’t feel like I was getting too close to something that he obviously feels a massive personal connection to, that things that may have played out differently. But I did want to be as respectful as possible.
This comes a couple of weeks after the father of the Alien franchise himself, Ridley Scott said that Blomkamp’s Alien sequel will not be greenlit.
Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel, Alien: Covenant is currently playing in Malaysian cinemas.
