Sigourney Weaver is Interested in Neill Blomkamp's Alien Movie

Last month District 9, Elysium, and Chappie director Neill Blomkamp unveiled a lot of concept art he had created for a hypothetical Alien sequel involving the return of the franchise's original heroine, Ellen Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver. At the time, Blomkamp said that it was just fan art he created on his time, nothing more. But during the publicity moment for his latest film, Chappie, the South African-Canadian director revealed that Fox were interested in his concepts for the new Alien.

Now Sigourney Weaver, who stars in Chappie, talked about the possiblity of Blomkamp's Alien movie, and it sounds like she wants to reprise her role, confident that Blomkamp would take the franchise to a fresh direction. During an interview with Comingsoon.net, Weaver says:

"He kept sending me these brilliant designs and ideas and everything. We'll see what happens. We just left it at such a creepy place, sort of stranded above Earth. I was quite happy to move onto other things and I didn't want to go to Earth. I didn't want to manufacture a sequel and I felt like we were starting to do that. If something happens from this, it would be very organic and very original, and because of that, it would make me want to do it. If it was someone as talented as Neill, I'd certainly listen."

You can watch the interview here

During the interview (not on video) Comingsoon.net asked Blomkamp about the concept art he had revealed, asking if it was for a legitimate project or just for fun. The director responded by saying:

"It was sort of both," he said. "Fox didn't know that I was developing it, so in that sense, it was completely unsanctioned and just basically for fun. To me, it wasn't for fun. To me, that was what I wanted to do next, and I spent a lot of time doing it, and there was a lot of effort that went into. Like when I could take breaks between Chappie's post-production winding down as VFX got under control."

"The issue was more like whether I feel like directing another film at all," he continued. "Not really whether Alien is the right or wrong film, if that makes sense. (Sigourney) knows about it and part of it was just inspired by speaking to her on set when we were filming Chappie, and getting her thoughts on Alien and what she thought of the movies that came after Aliens and what she felt about Ripley and what was incomplete for her about Ripley. There was so much fuel in what she was telling me."

He added: "Alien and Aliens are probably my favorite films so was I was like, ‘Sh*t, I wouldn't mind messing around in that world for a bit' so I just sort of self-funded the artists to work on the artwork. I did way more artwork than I released, probably ten times more and did a lot of writing. I have a pretty cool film just in case it happens."

With more buzz about Blomkamp's Alien concepts, it sounds like Fox might revive the classic science fiction franchise. Blomkamp is one of the best science fiction directors, so I believe he can make a new Alien film that would please the fans.