Neill Blomkamp really wants to make an Alien movie
District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp grabbed some attention last month when he dropped a batch of unofficial concept art for a nonexistent Alien sequel onto the Internet. As far as anyone knew, Blomkamp wasn’t working on an Alien movie—his latest picture, Chappie, hits theaters on March 6—but he certainly did have a lot of pictures of xenomorph queens and bomb-toting Ellens Ripley floating around his social media presence.
Intrigued by this Instagram drive-by, Collider’s Perri Nemiroff tracked Blomkamp down while he was doing promotion for Chappie and asked after the provenance of all that fancy unofficial art. His answer: He commissioned it himself, because Neill Blomkamp would really like to make an Alien movie: