Neill Blomkamp Says His 'Alien' Movie Had To Be Tweaked To Avoid Overlap With 'Prometheus 2'
A pretty easy way for Neill Blomkamp to get people to stop talking about how bad "Chappie" was (for the record, I'm one of the few who really liked it, flawed as it may be) is to keep talking about his new "Alien" movie. And while in typical fashion he's mostly been teasing the movie rather than dropping any concrete details, in a recent chat with Empire, Blomkamp shared a couple more hints about where his movie fits in the "Alien" movie universe, and his thoughts on everything after James Cameron's "Aliens."
“I changed the one thing [Ridley Scott] felt was bumping [the] 'Prometheus' [sequel] a little bit,” Blomkamp said. And oh yeah, there is an official title it would seem, but you're not going to hear it for a while because “...it’s kinda quite bold, but it gives away too much if I say the title.”
So speculate away and remember, Blomkamp has said his movie links to "Alien" and "Aliens" but pretty much ignores (but...