Sure, Blomkamp’s movie would have predicted the fashionable pattern of ignoring all of the less-loved sequels and happening in its personal timeline. This movie would have picked up a while after Aliens, ignoring the destiny of Newt and Hicks in Alien 3, and would have set Ripley to face off with one other Alien Queen.
After all the precise fifth Alien film ended up being Prometheus, Ridley Scott’s exploration of the “house jockey” (now renamed “engineers”) from the unique movie. The xenomorph, nevertheless, wouldn’t seem once more in earnest till Scott’s Alien: Covenant, which is a extra conventional prequel with the titular monster on a rampage on a spaceship. It additionally featured a lot of the identical philosophical and non secular questioning that marked Prometheus, making it one thing of a blended bag for followers.
Weaver additionally mentioned a special fifth Alien movie, one written by Walter Hill. Along with being a producer who helped shepherd the unique Alien from a gonzo script by Ronald Shusett and Dan O’Bannon into the traditional right this moment, Hill is an achieved filmmaker in his personal proper, albeit higher identified for gritty crime flicks like The Warriors and 48 Hrs.
“Walter Hill has written about 50 pages. Possibly, by now, he’s written extra about the place Ripley is perhaps now,” Weaver revealed. “And though I’ve by no means significantly needed to return to the collection, there’s one thing about her expertise being sidelined now, most likely by this society, by this firm, by this world and being most likely round 200 years outdated, however nonetheless [being] Ripley and , presumably these issues [are] nonetheless on the market.”
Weaver stays unsure in regards to the standing of Hill’s present script, noting that it could be “a really completely different sort of story” than the unique Alien. Nevertheless it seems like she’s taken with listening to what Hill has in thoughts—offered that Scott doesn’t inform him to get away too.
