Neill Blomkamp Has No Desire to Talk About His ALIEN 5 - "It’s Hard to Define How Little I Care"

If you ever meet Neill Blomkamp and want to talk about his unproduced Alien 5 film, don’t bring it up because he has no interest in discussing it.

During a recent interview with Uproxx, as the interview was winding down, Blomkamp was asked about Alien 5 and some of the production designs that the filmmaker shared for the film. He cut the conversation short saying:

“It’s hard to define how little I care about what happens with Alien.”

As the conversation circled back around to his upcoming film Gran Turismo, Blomkamp only provided a few more brief comments before he decided they had “spoken about it enough.” His publicist then interjected and ended the interview.

Blomkamp must still really be feeling the pain of that project. I don’t blame him, though. He spent a lot of time developing that film and even got Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn to reprise their roles. On top pf that James Cameron and Weaver both said that they loved the script that Blomkamp wrote.

The events of the film would have picked up after the events of Aliens and ignored the events of Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection. Unfortunately, Scott himself said that Blomkamp's movie would "never see the light."

After Blomkamp’s film was shut down, another Alien 5 project went into development that he wasn’t a part of that was being led by producer Walter Hill. That movie never really gained any momentum, though.

There is a new Alien movie coming, but it’s not really connected to anything in the stories that Scott and Cameron have told. That movie comes from director Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead), and it’s a standalone story in the Alien universe that follows a “group of young people on a distant world who find themselves in a confrontation with the most terrifying life form in the universe.”