By Chris Evangelista/Dec. 27, 2017 3:00 pm EST
A little while back, Neill “Chappie” Blomkamp, who directed the very good District 9 and some other films which are the opposite of very good, revealed some concept art for his own take on an Alien sequel. The art got people talking, and resulted in Blomkamp becoming attached to an Alien sequel that would not be connected to Ridley Scott’s Prometheus. Blomkamp’s idea was something of a reimagining that essentially ignored the events of Alien 3 and every film after that, and instead served as a direct sequel to James Cameron’s Aliens. It looked as if Alien 5 would be Blomkamp’s next film, and then everything fell apart, with the filmmaker saying his Alien film had a “slim” chance of ever being made. Now, Blomkamp is back with even more concept art.
A post shared by Nb (@neillblomkamp) on Dec 26, 2017 at 6:43pm PST
A post shared by Nb (@neillblomkamp) on Dec 26, 2017 at 6:44pm PST
Blomkamp took to his Instagram page to reveal two new pieces of art: one shows a xenomorph crawling around in a air duct, something we’ve seen in a dozen Alien movies by now; the other shows one of the combat vehicles from Cameron’s Aliens. In other words, there is literally nothing “new” here, but people will still go crazy and pretend this is all very exciting.
