Neill Blomkamp Says His 'ALIEN' Sequel Didn't Happen Because He's Not A "Studio-Lackey Director"

One film that was highly anticipated and even had Sigourney Weaver on board to play Ripley one more time was Neill Blomkamp’s ALIEN 5. It’s closing in on a decade since the story was first hatched by Blomkamp but since then, it’s all just been talk.

The idea had been for Sigourney Weaver to reprise her role as Ellen Ripley, with Michael Biehn back as Cpl. Dwayne Hicks and an adult Newt also expected to take centre stage.

The events of the third and fourth movies were expected to be largely ignored, news which came as a relief to fans of those classic first two instalments.

Even though the film has never materialized, that doesn’t mean that fans haven’t been asking for it and Blomkamp gives a solid reason why it never did.

"The stuff that’s hit me the hardest in my own career are the projects that didn’t get made - 'Alien,' predominantly," the District 9 helmer reveals. "[I could have kept working within the US film system] if I was more of a McDonald’s, Burger King-type studio-lackey director that makes one film every year or every 1.5 years."

"Naturally, I’m an artist who doesn’t play the Hollywood game," Blomkamp continued. "When I left, I thought about things and came back with a different point of view about how I’m going to approach Hollywood."

The director has never fully elaborated on why Alien 5 didn't happen, though it's been widely theorised that Sir Ridley Scott chose to pull the plug on that in order to focus on his prequel movies which began with Prometheus (which abruptly ended when Alien: Covenant bombed). 

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