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Neill Blomkamp's unrealized projects

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The following is a list of unproduced Neill Blomkamp projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, South African-Canadian film director Neill Blomkamp has worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of these productions fell in development hell or were cancelled.[1]

Alien 5

Blomkamp's involvement with the Alien franchise goes as far back as 2015.[2][3][4] Blomkamp originally planned to an Alien film in which Sigourney Weaver, Lance Henriksen and Michael Biehn would reprise their roles as Ellen Ripley, Bishop II and Dwayne Hicks respectively.[5][6] The film was to have been a sequel to Aliens (1986).[7] Ridley Scott said in 2017 that it was likely that Blomkamp's would not be made.[8][9] Blomkamp himself said in 2021 that the film was never made because 20th Century Fox chose to produce Alien: Covenant (2017) instead.[10][11] The box office failure of Alien: Covenant also served as a factor as to why Blomkamp's film was never made.[12] Blomkamp confirmed in subsequent interviews that he was no longer interested in making the film.[13][14]

In June 2021, concept art related to Blomkamp's version was released.[15][16]

In April 2023, Weaver confirmed that she would no longer reprise her role as Ripley and admitted that she wanted to do the film with Blomkamp.[17]

Robocop Returns

The film was to have been a direct sequel to RoboCop (1987).[18][19][20] In August 2019, it was announced that Blomkamp was no longer involved with the project.[21]

References

  1. ^ McCarrick, Michael (August 19, 2021). "Every Never-Made Neill Blomkamp Movie, So Far". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  2. ^ Plumb, Ali (March 23, 2015). "Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5 Won't 'Tread On The Toes' Of Prometheus 2". Empire. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  3. ^ Hegarty, Tasha (October 30, 2015). "Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5 movie is on hold thanks to the Prometheus sequel". Digital Spy. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  4. ^ Jayson, Jay (October 29, 2015). "Neill Blomkamp Confirms Alien 5 Is On Hold For Ridley Scott's Prometheus Sequel". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  5. ^ Reyes, Mike (January 23, 2017). "The Word On Alien 5 From Neill Blomkamp Isn't Great". Cinemablend. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  6. ^ Ankers-Range, Adele (June 15, 2021). "Alien 5: Concept Art for Neill Blomkamp's Unmade Sequel Revealed". IGN. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  7. ^ Johnson, Jim (October 30, 2018). "Sigourney Weaver Praises Neill Blomkamp's Scrapped Alien 5". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  8. ^ Barton, Steve (April 28, 2017). "Ridley Scott Doesn't Think Neill Blomkamp's Alien Sequel Will Ever See the Light". Dread Central. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  9. ^ Bussey, Ben (April 29, 2017). "Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5 probably won't happen, says Ridley Scott". Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  10. ^ Sharf, Zack (September 1, 2021). "Neill Blomkamp No Longer Sure He'd Direct 'Alien 5' If Given the Chance: 'It's Completely Dead'". IndieWire. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  11. ^ Singer, Matt (September 2, 2021). "WHY NEILL BLOMKAMP'S 'ALIEN 5' NEVER HAPPENED". ScreenCrush. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  12. ^ Lemieux, Melissa (February 8, 2022). "The Neill Blomkamp Alien Movie We Never Got To See". Looper.com. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  13. ^ Moore, Jared (September 1, 2021). "Neill Blomkamp's Cancelled Alien 5: Sigourney Weaver Wanted It, But Fox Didn't". IGN. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  14. ^ Schimkowitz, Matt (August 22, 2023). "Neill Blomkamp is sick of talking about Alien". The A.V. Club. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  15. ^ Juvet, Aeden (June 15, 2021). "New Concept Art For Neill Blomkamp's Cancelled Alien 5 Film". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  16. ^ Pearson, Ben (June 2, 2021). "'Alien 5' Concept Art Reveals More Of Neill Blomkamp's Scrapped Sequel To 'Aliens'". Slash Film. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  17. ^ Sharf, Zack (April 26, 2023). "Sigourney Weaver Says 'Ship Has Sailed' on Fifth 'Alien' Movie and Reprising Ripley: 'I Really Wanted to Do It With Neill Blomkamp'". Variety. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  18. ^ Seigh, Steve (August 8, 2023). "Exclusive: Neill Blomkamp's Robocop Would Have Been a Direct Sequel to Verhoeven's Film". JoBlo.com. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  19. ^ Zinski, Dan (August 26, 2023). "Cancelled Robocop Sequel Detailed By Director Neill Blomkamp". Screen Rant. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  20. ^ Lund, Anthony (August 26, 2023). "Gran Turismo's Neill Blomkamp Shares Details of HIs Abandoned RoboCop Sequel, RoboCop Returns". MovieWeb. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
  21. ^ Romano, Nick (August 15, 2019). "RoboCop Returns loses District 9 director Neill Blomkamp". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved November 12, 2023.
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