The origin of everything “Alien 5” started on February 18, 2015, when Neill Blomkamp, the director of “District 9”, released a concept map of hr Giger with the caption, I think this is My next official movie, and he also has a hashtag “Alien”.
Later, 20th Century Fox also confirmed Neill Blomkamp’s statement, and many fans began to discuss heatedly and showed unprecedented interest in the film.
Discussions about Alien 5 have never stopped before, and since the release of the fourth “Alien: Resurrection” in 1997, a sequel has been proposed many times.
A number of directors, including James Cameron, Ridley Scott, and the creators who previously wrote the screenplay, as well as actor Sigourney Weaver, who played Ripley, have come up with many creative ideas.
Weaver, in particular, was quite supportive of continuing to shoot the fifth Alien.
When the production of Alien 4 was completed, someone immediately wrote a script. The place where the story takes place is no longer outer space, but to the earth, which is said to be named “Alien Apocalypse” at that time.
The staff at ADM, the special effects company that made “Alien³” and “Alien: Resurrection”, also proposed related concept stories, but many people, including Weaver, were not particularly interested in this version, and ultimately their suggestions and ideas were not adopted.
Before “AVP: Alien vs. Predator”, James Cameron and Ridley Scott had a period of collaboration to create a backstory for the fifth sequel.
In an interview, Ridley Scott said that he thought “Alien 5” would be interesting, and he emphasized a very important point, to tell the story right, Ridley Scott is very good at telling stories and loves storytelling. In the production footage of , he repeated the story, the story, the story.
As creative development continued, Ridley Scott later had new ideas, saying that the concept for the fifth installment in the Alien series was to go back to where alien creatures were originally discovered and explain how they were created.
A simple understanding of what Ridley Scott means is that he wants to make a prequel to Alien, revealing the mystery of the origin of Alien.
In 2003, in a review of the 4-part Alien series, Weaver, who played Ripley, said that he was very supportive of Ridley Scott’s idea of a prequel because she herself was asked by many fans. One question, where did the aliens come from?
Later, 20th Century Fox had a new idea to combine the two IPs of Alien and Predator to shoot a movie “AVP: Alien vs. Predator”. Ridley Scott was not interested, and James Cameron did not agree. He believed that Alien Fighting the Predator is like Frankenstein meeting a werewolf.
This sarcasm from James Cameron really joined the Alien vs. Predator, which is what it said at the beginning, the employees of the Wayron Company watched the movie of Frankstein vs. Werewolf on the computer.
After the production of “AVP: Alien vs. Predator”, James Cameron, Weaver and others were invited to watch the internal version. Cameron’s evaluation was that the film was not bad, ranking No. 1 among the top 4 films. 3 bits, that is, after the aliens 1-2.
In the years after the release of Alien vs. Predator, Weaver’s voice was often heard, and she said that she would only return to the production of the Alien series if Ridley Scott or Cameron was the director.
Back in January 2015, director Neill Blomkamp of “District 9” revealed that they had produced a lot of concept art for the Alien Five and tentatively titled the film “Alien: xeno”.
One of the concept maps shows an older Ripley and another character. Later, Neill Blomkamp’s work attracted the attention of 20th Century Fox. After the two sides met and negotiated, there were certain results. On February 18 of the same year, Fox officially The production of “Alien 5” was approved, with Neil serving as director, and the news was later confirmed by 20th Century Fox.
On March 21, 2015, Neill Blomkamp met with Ridley Scott, this time because Ridley Scott was busy preparing for “Prometheus” sequel “Alien: Covenant”.
So in terms of the Alien series, it makes sense to meet, and because of the communication between the two, the early script plot of Alien 5 has been changed to some extent.
On June 29, 2015, it was officially announced that Alien 5 would start filming in Vancouver. In September of the same year, Ridley Scott said when promoting “The Martian” that Neill Blomkamp’s first draft of the “Alien 5” movie had been completed, and it was planned to be released in 2017.
Next, to build momentum for the film, Neill Blomkamp posts photos from time to time showing the props that will be used in the film.
However, after just over a month, he announced that the “Alien 5” project was shelved and he would do other work. In 2017, he confirmed again that the probability of “Alien 5” shooting was very small. Ridley Scott also said at the Covenant press conference There will be no “Alien 5”.
That’s how the whole project about Alien 5 came about.
As for why 20th Century Fox gave up at that time, there is a very important reason for “Prometheus”, because the box office of this film did not meet expectations, so Fox did not have so much motivation and interest to continue to support the Alien series.
This also caused the budget of the covenant to be directly cut off a lot, and the planned third part of the Alien prequel trilogy disappeared, so that we saw the scene of the engineer’s home planet in the movie is so simple, they are human beings The gods are quite high-end and advanced species in the universe, and there should not be only such a city-state.
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