While Ridley Scott has apparently called dibs on the spotlight for the Alien franchise, Neill Blomkamp's sequel has been "kinda holding/pending" for the last six months or so in favor of promoting Prometheus 2. That's all well and good, but if you ask most Alien fans, they are more interested in an official sequel for the franchise instead of a sequel…to a pre-quel. This stuff just gets confusing sometimes.
That said, Sigourney Weaver herself responded to an inquiry about the film at an event for VMWare.
"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," she said. "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."
Blomkamp had been active on his Instagram, teasing fans with concept art and weaponry but has since fallen silent on the updates. There has also been much speculation that Micheal Biehn will reprise his role as Corporal Hicks and that the film will more or less ignore Alien 3 and Resurrection all together.
Source: [Indiewire]
