Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 Gets Postponed?!?

Now that Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 Gets Postponed, the Chappie director is looking forward to the Scifi movie The Gone World.

If you remember just as Chappie was about to hit theaters, Blomkamp took to social media earlier this year to share some concept art he had drawn up for an original take on an Alien sequel.

The conceptualiztion took place after actress Sigourney Weaver and Neil Blomkamp sat down to talk about doing an Alien movie that would pick up after Aliens but before Alien 3 since Weaver wasn’t happy with the direction the franchise took.

Later Neill Blomkamp confirmed that an Alien 5 was on the way, after a bolstering response from fans, Fox reconsidered and put the film officially on track towards production with Ridley Scott producing.

CelebNMusic247.com has learned that Alien 5 has been postponed via Collider:

The only porblem is that Scott was working on Prometheus 2 follow-up Alien: Paradise Lost which has now thrown a wrench in the production of Alien 5. We know Sigourney Weaver was 100% behind the film. Now it seems that Ridley Scott may have got a little annoyed at Blomkamp’s film upstaging his own Alien movie, and Fox opted to postpone Alien 5 in favor of Scott starting production on the Prometheus sequel early next year.

Alien 5 Looks like it won’t be coming out until 2018 at this rate, so Blomkamp’s next movie may end up being The Gone World. 

Regardless of the outcome with Alien 5 being put on the back burner, it appears that the filmmaker is keen on tackling an adaptation of some kind for the first time.

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What we find interesting is that Scott said that Promethus might have a part 3 and 4 before heading back to Alien. Which makes us question if Scott is hoping to void out Alien 5 all together?

Deadline reports 20th Century Fox has just purchased the rights to the new novel from Thomas Sweterlitsch called The Gone World, and Blomkamp is in discussions to write and direct. As the novel has yet to be published, there aren’t any real details on what the book entails, except that it’s “a sci-fi time travel procedural.” Those are all words we like very, very much.

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Hopefully Blomkamp will tackle a movie that will get better reviews than his previous films, Elysium or Chappie.