Blomkamp will continue to plan Alien 5 while Scott makes Prometheus 2 starting early next year.
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Thankfully, fans have been given a bit of clarification as to what the heck is going on.
While Twentieth Century Fox is still hot on the project, our sources tell us that they’re being forced to hold off until after Ridley Scott gets into production on his long-gestured Prometheus sequel.
Sigourney Weaver’s much-anticipated and explosive return to the Alien franchise may be delayed until as late as 2018. Because Ridley Scott insists that Prometheus 2 is released first.
Or maybe he just wants to go first and be done with it.
While it’s exciting that both a Prometheus 2 and an Alien 5 are in the works, we’ve been wondering how Fox and Scott would handle developing both at the same time. “Blomkamp continues to work on the script (only an outline existed previously) and refine the tale he is telling”. According to another report, Biehn himself has talked to Blomkamp about Alien 5 but has yet to receive a script or an offer for the sequel.
However, this delay means that Sigourney Weaver should be more available after completing work on James Cameron’s Avatar sequels.
Prometheus 2 is expected to begin shooting in January 2016 and open in theaters sometime in 2017. In the other corner, you have Neill Blomkamp, still plugging away at Alien 5, which may or may not ignore the third and fourth entries in the original series.
On top of that, Bloody Disgusting’s source also addressed Michael Biehn’s recent comments that the new film will ignore the events of Alien3 and Alien Resurrection.
Furthermore, despite earlier claims, it seems as though Michael Biehn has not been officially cast as Hicks in Alien 5.
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This is the second time Scott’s prequel sequel has taken precedent over Blomkamp’s vision.
