Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5
Sigourney Weaver has read a level treatment forAlien 5from manufacturer Walter Hill , and the continuation would bring her back as Ellen Ripley . One of the all - meter large picture show heroine , Ripley made her big debut in 1979’sAlien , becoming the sole survivor of the commercial-grade spaceshipNostromo ’s unaired skirmish with a not - so - friendly extraterrestrial being in Ridley Scott ’s sci - fi repulsion classic . She would regress seven eld later inAliens , where theater director James Cameron re - contrive her as a full - blown action hero , trading in the ambience of Scott ’s motion picture for high - octane tingle .
Despite the mixed - to - miserable response to David Fincher’sAlien 3and Jean - Pierre Jeanut’sAlien : Resurrectionin the year that followed , Ripley ’s popularity has never wavered and fan have long hoped to see her again . It nearly happened a few years agin , after Fox gave Neill Blomkamp the go - forrader tomake his variation ofAlien 5(a quasi - reboot that would ’ve ignored Fincher and Jeanut ’s installments).Blomkamp ’s subsequence has since been cancelled , but it turns out that ’s not the only idea for another another Ellen Ripley adventure swim out there .
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Speaking toEmpirefor their Heroes outlet ( where the magazine publisher ’s readers ranked Ripley as the second adept movie hero of all time , right behind Indiana Jones ) , Weaver reveal longtimeAlienproducer Hill sent her a 50 - page fib treatment forAlien 5after Blomkamp ’s movie was abandoned . However , she seems doubtful the project could or should ever pass , tellingEmpire"I do n’t know . Ridley has become in a dissimilar management . Maybe Ripley has done her bit . She deserve a rest . ”
Her comment about Scott acquire a"different direction"is a reference to the director’sAlienprequel trilogy , which begin withPrometheusin 2012 and continued withAlien : Covenantfive long time later on . It was because of Scott ’s prequel trilogythat Blomkamp ’s sequel got put on holdin the first place before being cancelled entirely . Scott has n’t given up on making the third andfinal entry in the series either ( titledAlien : Awakening ) , though it seems unlikely to fall out afterCovenant ’s soft box office performance and with Disney now owning Fox ’s picture show and television assets . The Mouse House does n’t really have a need to continue the hard radius - place holding , nor is there needs an obvious topographic point for it on the studio apartment ’s slate . That is to say , Disney does n’t come out to have program to makeanyAlienmovies in the immediate future , prequel or otherwise .
While there was a lot of backing for Blomkamp’sAlien 5when it was still bechance , lover of the dealership now seem far more concerned inScott make to round out his prequel storythan another movie adjust afterAlien : Resurrection(be it a partial reboot or not ) . Scott himself has said theAlienproperty ask to"re - evolve"and experience its futurity lie with Michael Fassbender ’s android David fromPrometheusandAlien : Covenant , not the Xenomorph or even Ripley . His prequel trilogy’sthemes about artificial intelligence and creationhave taken theAlienmovies in an exciting fresh direction , so double up back around to Ripley ’s news report does n’t really seem like a great idea anyway ( like Weaver tell ) . Regardless , the ball ’s in Disney ’s court of justice now , and it ’s up to them to decide what to do with theAlienbrand next .
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