Neill Blomkamp believes he did not direct Alien because of “Chappie”

When Neill Blomkamp directed in 2009 District 9, all of Hollywood was amazed with what was surely the best debut feature of the last 10 years. The film that mixed apartheid with science fiction was nominated for 4 Oscars that same year, including the best script for Blomkamp. However, although it aimed to be one of the best emerging sci-fi authors, other filmmakers like Alex Garland (Ex Machina) y Denis Villeneuve (The arrival) have ended up occupying that place in the minds of all moviegoers. His decline can be explained with his following productions; Elysium and Chappie. Were these bad proposals? No, only that they did not achieve what was expected of him. But it seems that in addition to bad reviews, Chappie also prevented me from directing a film Alien, according to Blomkamp himself.

In an interview for The guardian, the South African director mentioned that he believes the director of Alien saw the movie about his famous robot: “It is possible that Ridley saw Chappie and say ‘this guy can’t do Alien, so let’s move on’ ”, But the feeling of rejection after the cancellation of the project was so frustrating for Blomkamp that did not accept any project again under someone else’s intellectual property.

The filmmaker’s alien I was going to recover the narrative line of Aliens by James Cameron. Recovering Sigourney Weaver y a Newt, the girl Lieutenant Ripley saved. In 2016 already spoke to the Collider media to point out that he felt bad for the actress, who was very supportive of him after the premiere of Chappie. “I felt bad for Sigourney because she was really interested in what I had presented.. I felt that for the audience that I loved Aliens, there was an opportunity to make one more film with Sigourney in a way that could have satiated what people were looking for (…) what I don’t understand is why Fox rejected the project “ se sinceraba Neill Blomkamp.

The filmmaker has also remarked that did not speak to Ridley Scott again since then and that he does not want to know anything about this type of productions, in which after being two years working the project falls. On the horizon, the premiere of Demoniac, a low-budget horror film and District 10, sequel that will focus this time on American soil.