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Feb 18, 2015 - 8:04 PM
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johnjohnson
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20th Century Fox has closed a deal with director Neill Blomkamp to develop a new “Alien” movie, sources confirm.
The untitled sci-fi project is separate from “Prometheus 2,” which Fox is still making with Ridley Scott.
Blomkamp, who directed “District 9? and the upcoming Sony feature “Chappie,” had been teasing the project in recent months but said the extra-terrestrial reboot was likely abandoned. It was supposed to star “Alien” veteran Sigourney Weaver.
But on Wednesday Blomkamp confirmed the tentpole was back on track at Fox.
“So I think this is officially my next film,” he confirmed on Instagram.
It’s unclear whether Weaver is still attached to the movie.
According to insiders, the new “Alien” takes place years after the “Prometheus” sequel. Scott is producing both films through his production company Scott Free.
“Prometheus,” also distributed by Fox, was “loosely based” on the “Alien” franchise and earned over $400 million worldwide. But the 3D movie opened to mixed reviews, and Fox hopes Blomkamp, who last directed “Elysium,” can take the franchise to the next level.
http://variety.com/2015/film/news/new-alien-movie-confirmed-at-fox-with-director-neill-blomkamp-1201436551/
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20th Century Fox has closed a deal with director Neill Blomkamp to develop a new “Alien” movie, sources confirm.
too bad, they shoulda hired "Mr Reboot," JJ Abrams
Proof of the theory that every thread turns into a discussion about Star Trek!
Good one, Solium! 
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According to insiders, the new “Alien” takes place years after the “Prometheus” sequel.
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Telling us everything and nothing. Hollywood never changes
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Feb 21, 2015 - 9:08 AM
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RoryR
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This news is one more nail in the coffin of PROMETHEUS 2. Remember Ridley Scott saying they had a script? Now Fox says there is no script yet for PROMETHEUS 2 -- because there will be no movie! It's never going to get made.
The Variety report says that Prometheus 2 is still being made, and Ridley Scott is producing both movies. Where are you getting your information from that there will be no Prometheus 2, or are you just irrationally hating on something you don't like again?
The latter. RoryR's gone on this rant more times than I care to remember. "It's never going to be made!" Repeat ad nauseam.
We get it. You no like. Move on.
Well, it's been nearly four years since the release of that thing known as PROMETHEUS and still no sequel, so I've been right so far that there will be no sequel, and there hasn't been. Why? Because it's stuck in a little thing known as "Developement Hell." There's been no final script because so far none of the writers hired have produced anything that anyone wants to produce, namely 20th Century Fox. Now we have the news that Fox wants a new Alien movie. This indicates that there's frustration at the studio that PROMETHEUS 2 just isn't going to happen and that they better just move on. It's a fact that the brass at Fox was disappointed with PROMETHEUS. It made money, but it didn't make enough money and the reviews were very mixed. I just don't sense a lot of enthusiasm for PROMETHEUS 2 out side of Ridley Scott -- who I suspect of just trying to save face by every so often throwing out talk of a sequel -- and the few -- and they are in the minority -- who just "loved" PROMETHEUS and want another movie just like it. There's nothing irrational about what I'm saying. Time will tell, and I simply don't believe time is on the side of there being a PROMETHEUS 2. If time were on its side -- the movie would have already been made by now. It's not I who need to "move on," it's all you lovers of PROMETHEUS.
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Feb 21, 2015 - 9:59 AM
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I don't think there's anything wrong with the ideas behind Prometheus, as long as you're prepared to accept it's all bollocks for the sake of entertainment - just like anything else. There was so much hype over what it was all about. Before the film even came out and we got that end to end trailer teaser which gave so much away, including the fate of Prometheus itself, I had a hunch the alien xenomorph was designed by genetic engineers and that it didn't have a naturally occurring evolution normally taking eons to bootstrap itself and then get moving. This raises, by the way, the question of 'who' made the Engineers?
I had assumed when Prometheus came to a close, the next film was already mapped out. Did anyone notice the sacrificial engineer from the start of Prometheus has a different neck to the one woken up from hypersleep much later by your friendly neighborhood robot, David? The original has a normal looking neck, whilst, the one we see later in the film has gill-like openings around the neck area. It suggests the Engineers have either evolved since the first one went over Niagara Falls or there was a split in the Engineer race so that, being so diversified and split up over the cosmos, they were bound to go separate ways. Or, it could be the Engineers met with an evolutionary brick wall of some kind because they couldn't evolve any further. That could be a good point. If they were the first ever race of beings to form in the cosmos and they found some way of proving the point, then they might see themselves as ultra important in the overall scheme of things. It might be that their belief system holds they are the first and hence, all powerful over any other life to be found elsewhere in the known universe because they were first by birthright, so to speak. As they can't evolve any further because they know it all anyway, then maybe they see it as their right to try to develop similar experimental beings to see if these creations can overcome the evolutionary bottleneck they themselves could not.
The Engineers with the developed necks could have engineered that physical trait to make them better than they were before (a bit like astronaut Steve Austin) which is forbidden and goes against the belief system the rest of their race has in place. So, they are renegades who may have created the black goo to physically mutate the human race into biological weapons to be unleashed with a destructive outcome amongst the 'benign' Engineers with whom they no longer share anything in common. Out with the old, in with the new.
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Feb 21, 2015 - 12:54 PM
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Khan
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This news is one more nail in the coffin of PROMETHEUS 2. Remember Ridley Scott saying they had a script? Now Fox says there is no script yet for PROMETHEUS 2 -- because there will be no movie! It's never going to get made.
The Variety report says that Prometheus 2 is still being made, and Ridley Scott is producing both movies. Where are you getting your information from that there will be no Prometheus 2, or are you just irrationally hating on something you don't like again?
The latter. RoryR's gone on this rant more times than I care to remember. "It's never going to be made!" Repeat ad nauseam.
We get it. You no like. Move on.
Well, it's been nearly four years since the release of that thing known as PROMETHEUS and still no sequel, so I've been right so far that there will be no sequel, and there hasn't been. Why? Because it's stuck in a little thing known as "Developement Hell." There's been no final script because so far none of the writers hired have produced anything that anyone wants to produce, namely 20th Century Fox. Now we have the news that Fox wants a new Alien movie. This indicates that there's frustration at the studio that PROMETHEUS 2 just isn't going to happen and that they better just move on. It's a fact that the brass at Fox was disappointed with PROMETHEUS. It made money, but it didn't make enough money and the reviews were very mixed. I just don't sense a lot of enthusiasm for PROMETHEUS 2 out side of Ridley Scott -- who I suspect of just trying to save face by every so often throwing out talk of a sequel -- and the few -- and they are in the minority -- who just "loved" PROMETHEUS and want another movie just like it. There's nothing irrational about what I'm saying. Time will tell, and I simply don't believe time is on the side of there being a PROMETHEUS 2. If time were on its side -- the movie would have already been made by now. It's not I who need to "move on," it's all you lovers of PROMETHEUS.
As I figured. You're making stuff up because of your irrational hate for the movie.
Let's get a few things straight.
A) Prometheus isn't even three years old yet. To say it's been nearly four years since release is demonstrably wrong.
B) http://screenrant.com/prometheus-2-sequel-alien-monster-script/ says there's a script.
Now, I ask again - where are you getting your information from that there is no script for Prometheus 2 and that the movie won't be made? Because making stuff up simply doesn't cut it.
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