At least they’re saying so in Variety.
The director will be Neill Blomkamp, who directed District 9. It won’t be a prequel or sequel of Prometheus, but a true Alien movie.
I love Neill’s work, and he’s just about the best pick I can imagine to pull something good out of the dreck that has become the Alien franchise, but, ugh, I don’t know why he would try. Good luck to him.
Are you sure it’s not the other Neill Blomkamp, who directed Elysium?
Honestly, I don’t know why they need to make any more Alien films. Yeah, Spacecockroachia H. R. Gigeritus is a fascinating species. But how many more times do we need to see one literally skull fuck a bunch of idiot humans trapped in some dark claustrophobic future industrial setting with nothing to defend themselves with but some jury-rigged flamethrowers (that really have no business being on a pressurized space ship in the first place).
I just hope they don’t try to shoe horn Sigourney Weaver into the franchise again.
Well, the third and fourth films of the series were directed by supremely talented individuals and those movies turned out…not so good. So while the news of Blomkamp is promising, it also appears to mean very little when tackling this subject matter.
I’ll let you know when we get there. 
But I actually am with you to some degree. If there’s another Alien-franchise movie, I would very much like to see them go in the direction of… of… damn, now I’m forgetting the name. B horror from the 70’s about a brand new apartment building on an island that’s fully self-contained (even down to a hair salon and grocery store). Which is then invaded by slug-like parasites that make you want to have sex with other people and pass on the parasite. Chaos, blood and sex ensues.
Alien is perfect for that treatment. Forget dark and industrial. Pretend that Apple’s Jonathan Ives designed a futuristic apartment complex, and then set an Alien loose on the inhabitants.
And for the sequel, just let the Aliens loose on the rest of the city.
I’ll go get my popcorn.
This is what I am afraid of, myself. District 9 is one of the best movies ever made, but Elysium was utter dreck.
That being said, it can’t be any worse than Alien: Resurrection.
I would love to see Weaver in it, no matter what they have to do.
Maybe it’ll be better if they don’t have to shoehorn Ripley into the story.
But really, after you make Ripley have pseudo-lesbian sex (???) with an alien queen, you’re done.
Perhaps they should …
nuke it from orbit?
Both *Prometheus 2 *and the new Alien film are being produced by Ridley Scott’s company. And early reports say that, although it will not be a direct sequel to Prometheus 2 (no human characters will overlap), they will exist in the same film universe (as Prometheus & Alien did) and the new Alien film will take place sometime between Prometheus 2 and the original Alien.
I’m wondering if they’re still going to try and link them with Blade Runner.
He certainly plans to.
Not hopeful.
David Cronenberg’s They Came from Within?
No Cronenberg’s movie should ever be remade (except by himself), IMO. And I don’t care for another Alien movie, either.
Then they can drag another classic movie down with them!
It’s like they’re desperately trying to turn the Alien franchise into what the MCU is doing with its Avengers movies.
Making prequels and sequels at the same time that tie into a greater whole…except nobody asked for this to happen
Apparently, the Weyland-Yutani corporation was a company that beat out the Tyrell Corporation.
I was always suspicious of Jones the cat that Ripley brought back to the Gateway Station with her. I figured that the cat was carrying an alien somehow and that after Ripley and the marines left, it emerged and decimated the residents of the station. I’ve been waiting for that movie ever since Aliens came out…
That’s it! Only, I remember it under the title of Shivers, which is listed as an alternate title.
And I’m not thinking of a remake exactly, just a loose inspiration that would be a new take for the Alien franchise to focus on something upscale, well-lit and planet-based.
I take it you are unfamiliar with the Alien v Predator films?
While I do think that the second film, AVP:Requiem, was terrible on a level with Resurrection (the directors were flat out incompetent) the first AVP wasn’t too bad. It can’t compare to the first two Alien films (or in my opinion even Alien[sup]3[/sup]) but I think it’s the best Predator film, even compared to the Schwarzenegger original…
I thought Taco Bell won the corporation wars.