Last week 20th
Century Fox announced that Neill Blomkamp was going to direct the next
installment in the Alien franchise. The surprising news came after the director
revealed that more than the concept art pieces that he shared he had actually
started to work on the plot of his Alien, which according to him would see the
return of Sigourney Weaver.
A week as passed and
while promoting his latest film Chappie, Blomkamp elaborated on where in the
franchise his film would fit.
"I want this
film to feel like it is literally the genetic sibling of Aliens, so it’s Alien,Aliens and then this film."
Unlike
the spinoffs, Blomkamp says that he wants to maintain the Freudian nightmare of
having a monster stalking you while lurking in the shadows.
"It’s a Freudian
nightmare. That element to me is what is so appealing; to put the audience on
the edge of their seat the whole time in a traditional, monster-stalking-you,
dark-corridor-way. I love that. And then when you mix in all of the design
elements and the life cycle of the alien, it’s a powder keg of creativity for
me."
Weaver
was also doing the press junkets for Chappie and she says that she would love
to cap off the franchise
"I would love to
take Ripley out of sort of orbiting around in space and give a proper finish to
what was such an excellent story. So when someone like Neill Blomkamp said,
‘Well, I’m interested in finishing the story,’ my little ears perked up… I
think it’s a great series. It deserves a proper ending—I know the fans would
love that."
Unlike other franchises where you ask yourself why are they picking it up so many years later, Alien seems to be one that fans and I'm sure the studio want more and more of, so I'm incline to believe that this will not be the end. Unless of course it is the end for Ripley, and the studio decides to do a new spinoff or continue on the franchise with a new leading character.
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