ALIEN 5 WILL BE WORTH THE WAIT, ACCORDING TO SIGOURNEY WEAVER

Alien 5 Will Be Worth The Wait,
According To Sigourney Weaver.
Alien 5 is definitely happening at some point in
the future. At least that’s what everyone involved
with it keeps saying as it gets delayed further and
further. To be written and directed by Neil
Blomkamp , the film is supposed to be a return to
form for the Alien franchise and will focus once
again on Sigourney Weaver’s infamous Ripley.
While the film was supposed to arrive in 2017, it
got delayed so that Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
sequel, Alien: Covenant would go first. We haven’t
heard many details on the progress of the movie
in a while, but Sigourney Weaver says that, slowly
but surely, it’s still coming.
Talking with Indiewire, Sigourney Weaver was able
to divulge some information on the film. Asked
about the progress on the film and if it were still
in development, Weaver had this to say:
Well, I think it is. Ridley asked Neill not to make
our Alien 'til after Prometheus 2. [Ridley] wanted
his movie to shoot and be released first. But it’s
an amazing script, and Neill and I are really
excited about doing it. We’re doing other things
until we can get going on that. I’d be really
surprised if we didn't do it, because it’s such a
great script, and we love working together. So,
it’s just going to take a little bit longer to get out
to you, but it’ll be worth the wait.
The take away from this is that, yes, it’s coming,
and it’ll be better than Alien: Resurrection. It was
previously rumored that Alien 5 would be more of
a direct sequel to Aliens , while mostly ignoring
the other sequels (kind of like what Jurassic
World did). While an actor claming that a movie
they’re in will be good isn’t exactly a promise of
quality, I’m ready for a new Alien film. It seems
only right with Predator getting a new film, that
the other big alien monster from the eighties
should get a comeback as well.
It’s still unclear exactly what Alien: Covenant is
about, but it seems that there will be a
connection to Neil Blomkamp's Alien 5, with the
Prometheus sequel serving as a sort of lead-in.
While most likely no one is more excited to see a
Prometheus sequel before an actual Alien movie,
the title indicates that it will try to provide less
giant blue people and more face huggers.
Are you excited for more Alien movies, even if one
of them is about Prometheus ? Sound off in the
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