{"id":81452,"date":"2015-10-30T09:46:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T09:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=81452"},"modified":"2015-10-30T09:46:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T09:46:34","slug":"alien-5-is-on-hold-because-of-prometheus-2-says-neill-blomkamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/alien-5-is-on-hold-because-of-prometheus-2-says-neill-blomkamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien 5 is on hold because of Prometheus 2 says Neill Blomkamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was previously confirmed that Neill Blomkamp&#8217;s <strong><em>Alien<\/em><\/strong> movie would wait for Ridley Scott&#8217;s <strong><em>Prometheus<\/em><\/strong> sequel to move forward first. Now, it looks like the <strong><em>District 9<\/em><\/strong> filmmaker has longer to wait.<\/p>\n<p>Blomkamp confirmed on Twitter that his <strong><em>Alien<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0film, which would have brought back Sigourney Weaver as Ripley and (almost definitely) Michael Biehn as Hicks, is on hold.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">alien is kinda holding\/ pending prometheus 2. So I shall be working on other things&#8230; as much as I love the xeno- and Lt ripley<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0418eill Blomk\u039bmp (@NeillBlomkamp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeillBlomkamp\/status\/659897245353951236\">October 30, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s every chance that the movie will get back into production following the release of <strong><em>Prometheus<\/em><\/strong> sequel, sorry, <strong><em>Alien: Paradise Lost<\/em><\/strong>, but, as <a href=\"http:\/\/deadline.com\/2015\/10\/neill-blomkamp-aliens-sequel-set-aside-for-prometheus-2-1201598007\/\">Deadline<\/a> points out, the additional delay might have something to do with the fact that Scott&#8217;s film is more tying itself more definitively to the original saga. What made Blomkamp&#8217;s proposal distinctive was that it was definitely an <strong><em>Alien<\/em><\/strong> film. Would there be room for both?<\/p>\n<p>How do you feel about this? Are you annoyed that you have to wait to see\u00a0Blomkamp bring back Ripley, or are you more excited to see how Scott is planning to bring <strong><em>Prometheus<\/em><\/strong> back into the Alien fold?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep up with the latest genre news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/index.php\/catalog\/product\/view\/id\/3903\/s\/scifinow-issue-112\/?utm_source=SciFiNow&amp;utm_medium=cover&amp;utm_campaign=Product-Widget\">the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neill Blomkamp says his Alien movie has to wait for Ridley Scott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":81454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4340,4760],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ripley.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}