Director Neill Blomkamp came close to making an Alien movie that would ignore continuity, but it never happened. Here's why, according to Sigourney Weaver.

Sigourney Weaver has shared some new thoughts about why Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 never happened. Weaver played Ellen Ripley in Ridley Scott’s Alien, which was released in 1979. She then went on to ...

Aliens' actor Michael Biehn says Ridley Scott was indeed behind the reason Neill Blomkamp's 'Alien 5' was never made.

At the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, Weaver hosted a masterclass following a screening of Alien. During that, she talked about unrealized projects in the Alien universe. First was Neill Blomkamp’s ...

Don’t expect a straightforward timeline, because continuity is a mess with the Alien and Predator timelines (even if, as in this list, you choose to ignore tie-in comics, novels, and games). Predator: ...

Sigourney Weaver has finally said what many Alien fans suspected for years. Neill Blomkamp’s ambitious Alien 5 didn’t die on its own. It was strangled in the egg by Ridley Scott. A decade ago, ...