Neill Blomkamp’s ALIEN 5 Would Have Used Practical Xenomorph Effects
When our friends at HN Network sat down with Alec Gillis of StudioADI recently, the topic of Neill Blomkamp’s doomed Alien 5 came up (as it often does). Now that the Alien franchise is about to become the property of Disney, the series’ future is nebulous to say the least. This has a lot of folks thinking about what could have been—had the Alien universe taken a different turn.
Before Ridley Scott jumped back on the Alien train for a couple of prequels, Neill Blomkamp’s proposed Alien 5 was gaining a lot of momentum. In addition to the franchise’s original cast and many producers down to resurrect Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) from her Alien 3 demise, Alec Gillis at StudioADI (a production company with a long history with the Alien franchise) was all set to put his team to work on Alien 5.
If you thought Scott’s motion-capture Xeno and Neomorphs from Alien: Covenant were a bit too slick, Gillis states that Blomkamp’s Alien effects would have been practical—which is how they should be presented! Here’s what Gillis told the site:
“That’s why I was looking forward to Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 because that would have given us the opportunity to do more in the spirit of Giger’s alien. We were looking at the 1979 alien all the way but Neill did want changes to make on it. As great as Neill’s CGI looks, I don’t know if you’ve seen the latest thing he did Anthem? His CGI just looks so there and present, Chris Harvey his VFX supervisor they just have a great team.
And I said to Neill like ‘Why aren’t you doing this all digitally?’ cause if it’s biomechanical and harder-edged it lends itself to digital and I’m just surprised that a digital. He said ‘I want real a real man in a suit on set because it forces you into a certain way of shooting that would be more like what Ridley Scott did in the first film. If it’s all digital I won’t have those parameters work within and it’s gonna end up looking like something different and I don’t want that, I want it to look like Ridley Scott did it’. That’s how he thinks and I can guarantee you there’s no studio executive in the world that would say that because they don’t see things in that specific and nuanced of a way.”
Related Article: Here’s Why We’ll Probably Never See Neill Blomkamp’s ALIEN 5
As for what actually is coming down the pike in the Alien universe, fans will be getting an R-rated, animated web series based on the video game Alien: Isolation. Blomkamp’s Alien 5 will remain one of the most popular films never made.
Related Article: BREAKING: The ALIEN Project Fox Has Been Teasing for Months is an R-Rated Animated Web Series Based on ALIEN: ISOLATION
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