"I want this film to feel like it is literally the genetic sibling of ‘Alien.' So it’s ‘Alien,’ ‘Aliens’ and then this movie.”
Those sound like the words of someone who doesn't much care for David Fincher's Alien 3 or Alien Resurrection from Jean-Pierre Jeunet. But that is what Neill Blomkamp said a couple of days ago in regards to his upcoming Alien film which will see the return of Sigourney Weaver as Ripley. However it sounds like Blomkamp has had a change of heart, or perhaps his words were misinterpreted, because he tells Allocine that he has no desire to ignore continuity.
“I want to make a film that’s connected to ‘Alien’ and ‘Aliens,’ that’s my goal. I’m not trying to undo ‘Alien 3’ and ‘Alien Resurrection,’ I just want it to be connected to ‘Alien 1’ and ‘2.’”
Yeah, okay, and that makes some degree of sense that he wants to have his film be most closely associated with the first two movies which everybody likes. There's also no denying that to bring back Ripley and possibly Michael Biehn's Corporal Hicks would be to change Alien continuity radically. That much he can't get around, so either this new film is a parallel universe story or a major retcon (retroactive continuity) is in the works.
With Blokmamp and Weaver on the Chappie press tour, expect them to get asked about Alien more than anything else.
