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We've extensively talked about the scrapped plans for Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5 film, but the sting of its dissolution only intensifies over time In the Alien franchise, there have been a lot of stories – four back-to-back films, two prequels, and an upcoming television series set within the Alien universe In that time, the franchise[...]

Would you like to see Blomkamp's proposed Alien 5? With all of the talk about revisiting the vast sci-fi horror world of Alien, there's a good portion of Alien fans who would love to see a proper return to the original storyline – but don't expect it to happen with Neill Blomkamp. A few years back,[...]

Credit Fox When we first learned about Blomkamp's ideas for an Alien 5 film, it became known that this would essentially retcon all films beyond the first two (Alien and Aliens) Picking up years after Aliens, the film would have had a more mature Ripley and Corporal Hicks, with Newt now grown and in her 20's[...]

With James Cameron returning to the classic science fiction franchise of Terminator (albeit as producer), it makes sense that folks would start asking him about Alien again, right? Specifically, the long-talked-about but eventually scrapped Alien 5 from Neill Blomkamp. James CameronPicture by: Steve Vas / Featureflash, Featureflash Photo Agency / Shutterstock.com Reportedly, Blomkamp's film would have been a direct sequel to Aliens, complete[...]

Once upon a time, Neill Blomkamp, the wunderkind who basically popped out of nowhere and brought us a relatively fresh spin on the alien invasion genre with District 9, pitched a proposal for Alien 5 to Fox and to Ridley Scott Fox was interested, too, but then Scott decided he wanted to keep that sandbox[...]

There are some things that are never meant to be and Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5 is apparently one of those things The internet went completely insane in 2015 at the idea of someone like Blompkamp directing an Alien movie and it got even louder when Sigourney Weaver at San Diego Comic-Con 2016 made comments about[...]