Neill Blomkamp Offers New ‘Alien’ Concept Art
The story ofNeill Blomkamp’s proposedAlienmovie is a weird one, as some of the development of the film has unfolded in public thanks to the director’s Instagram account and his use of concept art releases to build momentum for the potential sequel. Now Blomkamp has shared a piece of new Alien concept art, featuringSigourney Weaver’s Ripley and a scarred character obviously meant to beMichael Biehn’s Hicks.
The director offered the image onInstagram:
A post shared by Neill Blomkamp (@neillblomkamp)
Beyond that, what do we know aboutAlien?
The answer is: not much. There’s thatbatch of concept artthat kicked off the project, at least in the public eye, and we know that Sigourney Weaver is on board. During the promotion ofChappie, Blomkamp and Weaver both made clear that they wanted to make a movie that will really be connected to the first two films, by Ridley Scott and James Cameron. The concept art featuring the scarred Hicks, who was killed in the opening of Alien 3, is enough to make that clear.
And while Blomkamp has said a few things that suggest this movie willignore the third and fourthAlienfilms, he did quickly walk back that statement,saying:
My favorites are the first two movies, so I want to make a film that’s connected toAlienandAliens. That’s my goal. I’m not trying to undoAlien 3orAlien: Resurrection, I just want it to be connected toAlien1 and 2.
Regardless, Ripley is clearly the focus, as she has been in all the sequels to the originalAlien. Also during theChappiepromo push, Blomkamp said,
…part of it was just inspired by speaking to her on set when we were filming ‘Chappie,’ and getting her thoughts on ‘Alien’ and what she thought of the movies that came after ‘Aliens’ and what she felt about Ripley and what was incomplete for her about Ripley. There was so much fuel in what she was telling me.
Beyond that, things are still pretty unclear when it comes to this movie. While the directorhas said it will be his next film, there’s no release date set at this point.
In addition to Alien, Blomkamp isworking as a produceron the filmLeviathan.
