YES!!!
Holy cow, this is a
SERIOUS dream of mine come true! For literally
decades I've been saying that there needs to be an entry in the Alien franchise
that picks up after
Aliens and totally ignores that
Alien 3,
Alien Resurrection
etc. ever happened.
And now
it's actually happening!!
It began two months ago when Neil Blomkamp (director of
District 9 and the upcoming
Chappie) twittered some concept art he had quietly been commissioning for his vision of what an Alien movie should look like. An Alien movie where Ripley and Hicks made it back and thus totally repudiating
Alien 3.
Here's some of what Blomkamp had in mind:
Needless to say, the response those pics engendered was one of frenetic approval. Throughout social media and across reams of websites the message to Fox was clear: "we demand that Neil Blomkamp make a proper Alien movie!"
And it's really happening.
Blomkamp twittered today that his next project is officially going to be the Alien saga.
Blomkamp is the
person to do it too. At long last, we are going to see Ripley and Hicks
going on another bug hunt. We can forget that
Alien 3 ever happened. Blomkamp has indicated that he can begin work on this, for all intents and purposes, immediately. I can hypothesize that this means he can have
Alienwhatever ready for summer 2016.
Think I'll celebrate tonight by popping in my Blu-ray of
Aliens...
