For years, there was chatter online about District 9 director Neill Blomkamp's plans for Alien 5. The plan was for Ripley and Newt to return, making up for the missteps made with the characters in ...

Sigourney Weaver has shared some new thoughts about why Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 never happened. Weaver played Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott’s Alien, which was released in 1979. She then went on to ...

There seem to be two types of "Alien" fans in the world. In one camp, there are people who like the slow, ineffable dread of Ridley Scott's 1979 film "Alien," and who appreciate the series as a ...

Picture this: a monster hovers over a defenseless child. It has every ability to tear the child apart, to infect the child, and turn it into something new. Something hideous. But then, just before the ...

Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5 is arguably the biggest missed opportunity in the entire Alien franchise. In 2015, the District 9 ...

Neill Blomkamp has provided an update on the status of Alien 5, which he has long been attached to direct. Blomkamp’s film, which would have been a sequel to James Cameron’s 1988 sequel Aliens, was ...

Sigourney Weaver has shared that her breakout role in Alien accidentally became 'a big feminist step forward' after the film's writers made the bold move to make the young woman into the hero. The ...

Even before Prometheus hit Ridley Scott was bigging up a sequel that would run even more with the idea of the origins of the xenomorphs. Over the past couple of years he's teased more and more, most ...

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