Neill Blomkamp's indefinitely delayed 'Alien 5' would have brought back kid survivor Newt, says actor Michael Biehn.
Biehn, whose character Corporal Hicks was featured in Blomkamp's early concept art, opened up to iconsoffright on the studio politics behind the delay and the film's basic plot outline.
"The basic idea is acting like Alien 3 and 4 never existed," Biehn said, before addressing Ridley Scott's Promethus 2 (now called Alien: Covenant). "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 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."
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Biehn, whose character Corporal Hicks was featured in Blomkamp's early concept art, opened up to iconsoffright on the studio politics behind the delay and the film's basic plot outline.
"The basic idea is acting like Alien 3 and 4 never existed," Biehn said, before addressing Ridley Scott's Promethus 2 (now called Alien: Covenant). "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 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."
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