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Sigourney Weaver has spoken about the progress of Neill Blomkamp’s forthcoming Alien movie, and it’s looking good.
The actress, infamous for her role as Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, has discussed the District 9 director’s Alien outing, which is yet to be given a release date.
She explained: “Well, I think it is. Ridley asked Neill not to make our Alien ’til after Prometheus 2. [Ridley] wanted his movie to shoot and be released first. But it’s an amazing script, and Neill and I are really excited about doing it.
“We’re doing other things until we can get going on that. I’d be really surprised if we didn’t do it, because it’s such a great script, and we love working together. So, it’s just going to take a little bit longer to get out to you, but it’ll be worth the wait.”
Blomkamp’s movie is set to follow Aliens, splitting off into a parallel timeline where Hicks and Newt survived, but the director has confirmed it won’t entirely ignore what happens in Alien 3.
Ridley Scott forced development to pause so his Aliens: Covenant – the first in a new trilogy – could be released first.
The films will explain and lead into the first film in the series Alien.
The synopsis for Alien: Covenant reads: “Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the ‘synthetic’ David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.”
Scott is still going to contribute to Blomkamp’s project though.
He said: “I’m producing [Blomkamp’s movie]. It’s designed to go next after [Alien: Covenant],” the director said in October. “[His version] is more associated with Ripley. It’s coming from a completely different angle. It’s kind of more of a sequel… after, after after. I’m coming at it from the back end.”
ALIEN: COVENANT will hit theaters on August 4, 2017.
Agencies/Canadajournal
