In a new interview with Scified Michael Biehn has revealed some story details on Neil Blomkamp‘s stalled Alien movie, and the actor, who played Corporal Dwayne Hicks in Aliens, says that the movie will happen; Fox have just pressed pause for a while.
It sounds like the new film, which is still being referred to as Alien 5, will apparently feature a 27-year-old Newt, resurrected from Aliens, which was released in 1986.
Here’s what he had to say.
“They’re talking about doing another ALIENS movie, with Neill Blomkamp, and Fox came and announced it and Sigourney (Weaver) has come out and announced it. The basic idea is acting like ALIEN3 and 4 never existed, so if you go on Neill Blomkamp’s site, everyone can see all of the artwork for that. I know Ridley Scott is doing his movie first and is going to be the executive producer on this one, so I’m really looking forward to that. I know that Ridley’s focus is on the second PROMETHEUS (now titled ALIEN: COVENANT) and I’m sure that he and Fox both don’t want that and Neill’s movie to come out right next to each other, because they’re kind of two different worlds, with ALIENS taking place thousands of years later, which is how they explained it all to me, but at the same time, they want to give them a similar feel. I know they’re putting the brakes on Neill’s movie just for a little while, but I really think that it would be embarrassing to Ridley and Fox and Sigourney if they just didn’t make the movie.”
“They’re planning on bringing me and Newt back,” the actor continues, “and at this point Newt will be around 27 years old. I know that every actress in Hollywood is going to want to play this one, it’s really a passing of the torch between Sigourney and this younger actress who would play Newt. It would keep the franchise alive and the studios would make money, because that’s what the bottom line is now: money.”
Alien: Covenant will be released on 6th October 2017, and hopefully Blomkamp’s Alien will be seen shortly after that. More at the end of the link above.
