I just watched Elysium the other night. It was pretty terrible. Unless Chappie is a hit, letting this guy make an Alien film is a bad idea.

I'm looking forward to Blomkamp's Alien rendition.

Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?

"So I think I'm officially bowing out of his franchise." confirmed Trespoochies Wednesday afternoon after reading this latest news.

As much as I loathed Elysium, I'd so much rather see what Blomkamp can do with this franchise than almost any other overnight sensation small-time director suddenly handed $200mm.

Neill, don't fuck this up.

How much worse can it get? The last film had a queen get Amtraked by this thing.

Nice. I trust Blomkamp.

D9 was solid. Elysium had some shakey script elements. And I dunno about Chappie yet.

But Blomkamp is good.

ii loved D9 and Elysium wasn't half bad in my mind. ready for this and all it has to offer!!

Elysium was really bad, but mainly because the script was discarded in favor of heavy handed social commentary (unlike District 9, which weaved the social commentary into the script). I would hope that in an Alien film, the social commentary element would be secondary.

Not sure how much social commentary could be put into an Alien film now.

I still haven't seen Elysium. Disliked District 9 quite a bit. Not too optimistic about this.

Oh, right... we're still in that universe...

no more Sigourney Weaver. It's time to move on.

That's what she said.

Can't find the article where she stated that Ripley should be better off in peace.

Hopefully this ignores every last bit of Prometheus.

Great news! I'll be disappointed though if this is Prometheus 3 instead of an Alien 5 w Weaver though. We have to be guarded as this is apparently still a Scott Free production, and not Neil being given free reign to make an Aliens sequel.

At this point the franchise has more stuff fans want to ignore than they want to be canon. They might as well just reboot it.

LOL, Thought "Scott Free" meant no involvement from Ridley. Oh well.

I wish they'd just do a reboot. Forget Weaver. Forget Prometheus.

Two movies too late Sigourney!

So this sequel to the sequels of the original happens after the sequel to the prequel to the original. That actually makes sense ... Although I don't know why it needed to be said.

I'm neutral on Blompkamp. Enjoyed District 9 despite its uneven tonal shifts but didn't think Elysium looked interesting. I have stronger feelings about Weaver: Sorry, but Ripley out is a much better sign than Ripley in.

Good god no! Reboots can have their place, but not when a universe is so lush. There are plenty of other tales to be told.

I agree, there's no need to reboot when you can just make a movie that doesn't involve pre-existing human characters.

That's very true... the same two movies for going on nearly 30yrs now. I don't think Weaver will want to completely erase 3 and 4, but hopefully there's a convoluted way that they could not reference them (like Rocky Balboa did) and still fit into the storyline somehow. Don't know... you'd think Neill had some ideas if he commissioned those concepts to be done though. And that's what generated the excitement... Fox knows this right? Right?... lol.

I don't know how Prometheus 2 can be good. They're still talking about the religious stuff.