The cancellation of this project was so disheartening. Having Ripley’s arc be truly complete would have been so gratifying.

I met Michael Biehn a couple years back at a scifi con. Naturally we asked him about the Alien project and he went off so excitedly about it! And started to tell us the basic premise of it, nothing we didn’t kinda know but he did say it was 20years after the events of Aliens. It was really cool to talk to him about it. He’s obviously a fan of it as much as he is a part of it.

I don't understand why Blomkamp's stuff just never seems to take off. All of his short, speculative films are pretty awesome.

This concept art got me so hyped. It feels so authentically 'Aliens' and like it would have been a true sequel to Aliens. Love the idea of an illustrated screenplay or treatment at the very least. It's too good to just let it fade into obscurity.

This should've happened. I'm sorry, but I think Scott is out of touch with this franchise.

Im deeply jealous/envious of that artist's skills. Look how he nails the faces so well, beyond other attributes.

Of all the unmade movies over the years, this one is hands down the most heartbreaking to me. The concept arts are amazing visuals and they had so many original and new ideas never explored in any of the prior movies. And it would've ignored the shittier Alien movies as noncanon. It would've been a resurrection than Resurrection was. You can tell Neil Blompkamp was really passionate about the project and is a talented filmmaker. His story was so good, it made Sigourney Weaver want to return (after years of her saying she didn't wanna return since Resurrection left a bad taste in her mouth) which would seem impossible to pull off. He even wanted to make a Robocop sequel and it too sounded awesome. Why is Hollywood f*cking over this guy's talent by not producing his ideas!?! F*cking assholes. F*cking idiots!

I want to see this story in ANY format. As long as we get the full story. Love the idea of a comic.

The Art is so impressive that I would be happy watching an animated version of this movie....

I was onboard when you said it would have disregarded Alien 3 and 4. I have never forgiven Alien 3 for killing Hicks and Newt off-screen, and who wants to see a mutant Ripley clone cuddling xenomorphs? Not me. This concept art for Alien 5 looks amazing.

Scott is the reason there'll never be another quality piece of content. Felt like like my guy was jealous or something. I was so excited for this

After seeing that concept art all I can say is: my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined. Looks like it would've been one hell of a ride.

Ripley taking on Weyland Yutani would have been the perfect "third act" such a shame it hasn't happened.

I still keep hoping and praying that they will realize this project, and overwrite Alien 3 and 4 with it. I desperately want Hicks back, and have the Ripley-Hicks duo back to being absolute badasses. I think both Michael Biehn and Sigourney Weaver are down to do it, and we fans sure as hell are as well!

At least Velma and Rings Of Power were greenlit to leave their mark on TV history.

That concept art of Hicks wearing an eyepatch with Ripley looking on has me hooked. Looks badass!

When I see actors like Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn age, I feel sad because of all these missed opportunities to shoot these sequel films. :( The next best opportunity is de-aging or deepfake technology but it's super exp.

This is exactly what I've been hoping for or thinking about for ever! I think of Alien and Aliens as one complete film. Till this day, there is Nothing that can rival it! Alien 3 was a real let down! This project "Alien 5" or it should be "The Real Alien 3!", should absolutely be made! Who the hell decides these things?? If you were to actually talk to the real fans (hundreds of millions) you'd make the project happen and spare no expense! Bring back Ridley's psychological, nightmarish torment with Cameron's vision and insane real props (No CGI) Then use all of it to finally make a film that the fans deserve.

Aww man 😔, I need this to be a thing. The reworkings of alien 3 being released on audible was so fascinating, I listen to that like a million times.

Blomkamp's Alien 5 would have been effin' awesome.

I WANT THIS SO MUCH

I'd love to see this filmed, even now with everyone in the cast hurtling toward their silver years. But short of that lofty wish, I'd welcome any presentation of the material in any medium. These illustrations are so striking and so accomplished, it would be nice to see them replicated or homaged in a graphic novel version!

As the actors are realistically too old for this, I think you could make a pretty decent animated version of this. Would still be decent viewing

Ridley's Ego kneecaps the franchise again. Prometheus was just him crowbarring ancient aliens tropes where they had no business being.

Ripley wearing an exo-suit armor made of a Xenomorph, fighting a Xenomorph Queen? Why did this have to get cancelled? I would very much like to see this.

This movie looks really interesting. Any script that brings back Hicks and Newt would be great!

The fact we never saw Ripley and Hicks together again is unforgivable, I am one of the few who really likes Alien 3 but there is no denying it led to a dead end for the series, a hyper sleep fever dream to explain Resurrection sounds good to me !

This movie project for Alien 5 would have been such great film. The story line sounds amazing and I like the fact the director would tie in the events and creatures from Prometheus which would have been amazing. The story board art is gorgeous. I can already see and feel the tone for it. It could’ve tied all the stories all together.

Seeing Hicks again would have been awesome. Hicks was my favorite and knowing that he "died" in Alien 3 was so heartbreaking but when I played Alien Colonial Marines and seeing Hicks again have me joy. Canon or not I will always believe that Hicks survived and is helping Winter, O'Neal, Reid and Bishop take down Weyland-Yutani

Watching alien as a child I always wanted NEWT to continue the story!

From the artwork alone I could surmise that it would have stood head and shoulders above the fodder of Prometheus and Covenant. This would've been great (and still may be :) )

The Alien movies are my favourite movies, no others can compete. But I think Neil would have brought something human into this that we haven't seen a lot of before, on a few different scales, personal and more grand ones. There is so much to explore in the Alien universe and he would have done it brilliantly. He did such an amazing job on district 9 (Chappie too, if you read into it a bit while watching) I loved the moments between Ripley and Newt and Ripley and Call, I think Neil would have given us several relationships and moments like that and maybe something even more exceptional. I was so sad to see this not happening. It would have been perfect..

There was so much buzz around this some years ago and it was so exciting, it's such a damn shame that things seem to have fallen through. Personally I think Blomkamp was just being tactful. "I don't want to undo Alien 3 and Resurrection per se...but I just want the movie to be the continuation of the first two." is basically politeness code in my mind for "Look, if you like those films...they're still there, but I want to make the followup to Aliens that I always wanted to see." It's space, so its easy to just handwave 3 and Resurrection as an alternate universe...but in this new branch of the timeline, something went different that changed the course of history. I don't know what they would have gone with, but all of it was so exciting to even speculate about so it's just so saddening that it didn't happen. In this day and age I feel like a lot of projects that were thought dead are getting second winds thanks to the new generation of film distributors so who knows...maybe there's still hope, but Weaver and Biehn aren't getting any younger... As for the art and what it suggests, I definitely get the impression that Ripley and Hicks together with a mercenary group were going to bomb Weyland Yutani's headquarters. I like to think that Ripley and Hicks were forced to live on the outskirts of society after Aliens, with Hicks probably becoming a mercenary and possibly Ripley in tow as a freelancer, forming a merc company of their own. It is interesting to think that maybe some of the members also had run ins with "bugs" and have their own hang ups with Weyland Yutani, which is how they maybe found out about the company getting its hands on another derelict ship. This is pure conjecture too, but I'm willing to bet the mission's considered a one way trip...maybe Ripley had a few good years of relative peace raising Newt for a time, but the two went their separate ways and all thats left for Ripley is revenge. But that mission of revenge probably becomes one last mission to save the world before the new Xenomorph or facehugger variants escape WT's headquarters. I think the most intriguing thing about this are not only the new mutations of the alien, but the potential equipment the company made out of their research of them. MAybe there could even be a small blurb about the ultimate goal of the alien hybrid tech like the exo-suit or the guns to be attempting to reverse engineer the technology of the Engineers themselves, connecting back to the Prometheus lore (but in a very light way, nothing too deep. I wouldn't want to bring even those movies up too much in this, just the Engineers.). As cool as Ripley facing off against a queen in an alien exo-suit is too, I do agree that it treads a bit too close to rehashing the Aliens conclusion so I'd hope there were some sort of additional twist to it. I can't even imagine what that could be. Though if you look at the picture with all the eggs in it, it looks like there's someone right in the middle of them and at least to me, it kind of looks like a child either drawing or playing around with some sort of console. Maybe there's something more to that.

I'd love to see that guy make an Alien movie. His stuff is so good visually

As odd as it sounds, I’d love to see an Alien film with the idea based on the story/warning of releasing a horde of snakes to take care of a rabbit infestation. The idea of a new breed of creature who’s primary prey are the xenomorphs themselves. The conflict being that in developing a “solution” to the out of control xenomorphs results in something far worse.

Fingers crossed that enough attention gets this movie made

I love how it's becoming increasingly clear that pretty much everyone in Hollywood except the studio execs who were in charge all regard Alien 3 as a mistake...apparently even David Fincher and Sigourney Weaver disagreed with major elements of that film's story, and yes, killing Newt and Hicks offscreen is still unforgiveable.

Thank you for this video. That might be the closest we come to experience this movie with you telling us this plot as close as you can.

Seeing the trio back together would have been amazing.

Of all the movies to not get made, this one is the most heartbreaking for me. Seeing Michael Biehn in battle armor on the Mandolorian recently made it all the more sad. I really think this film would have been amazing; the film executives are so clueless.

Will never get over the cancellation of this movie. I had full trust in Neil Blomkamp to nail a movie in the Alien universe

Bloomkamp’s film would have at least answered alien/aliens fans questions about the origin of the derelict ship on lv426. Two prequel films later, Ridley still hasn’t answered that question and led viewers down the AI and engineer rabbit hole.

Loving Blomkamp's work and what he was hoping to do set my soul soaring! And was devastated when it got shut down! I would truly love to see it come together after all!

This looks like a promising alien movie. Far better than the Prometheus and covenant disgusting abominations for sure.

I hope, HOPE, that at least we get this as a comic.

Even without the film, I have to say, this art by itself is stunning.

As soon as A.I. can generate full movies on demand, this will be my first request.

The Aliens sequel I always wanted. 🙏🏽❤️

The " Xeno Killer " mech-suit looked amazing 🤯 And we all know that, NB likes his mech-suits 👊🏼🎃👊🏼

I still want to see this. Glad I found this channel with likeminded fans. (Alien theory AND the subscribers)

Fantastic options and concepts. So many future opportunities. It’d be such a shame to not see something like this come into the storyline.

Really wish they make it... We need another good Alien movie!

I remembered a news saying that Ridley Scott forced Fox to cancel this movie because his movie Covenant..and now with the new series for Hulu I think will never happens

Is there anywhere to find all of the concept art for Alien 5 in one place, or a complete list of what has been revealed? I'd love it get it all together. Keep up the great vids man!

There's another script out there for what was supposed to be the original Alien 3 that takes place back at Gateway Station instead of Fury 161. That story focuses more on Hicks as the main protagonist. It's super gnarly and I recommend reading it.

I'd love to see another film in Cameron's continuity. This seemed like a perfect sequel to Aliens

Though I don't actually dislike Alien 3 and resurrection, it'd be a breath of fresh air to see something like his Alien 5 or a treatment of the Earth Wars comic's. Unfortunately because of the canon and the confusion it could create I doubt we'll ever see anything like that.

I like the art and your curating monologues.

i still hope they will make this movie happen. Blomkamp is the perfect match for this project and I have no doubt he would make it into an excellent movie worthy of its predecessors.

This definitely looks like something we need more of, if not the original movie then at least a graphic novel.

I strongly oppose the idea of relegating things from canon, but it would be interesting to see how this film would play into it, if it genuinely would create a new canon or just provide some workaround, and I would be interested to see the final product. Would be cool to see Ripley, Hicks, Newt, and Bishop again if anything. They are a strange but cool little family of sorts.

So good, I hope this come out /gets made eventually

I love Alien and Aliens! Theese pictures looked more interesting to me then all the movies that came after those two. I would love to see this!

I was sad to hear it cancelled. This could have been a great film.

I've seen the mech suit that looks like the alien queen that she's wearing in other videos claiming that it is Ripley as an alien after a transformation and I knew it was wrong. Here you go proving me right thank you.

this is everything we wanted in a sequel to aliens. looks perfect. its infuriating that this got shelved indefinitely, while Romulus got green lit in its place. I can't judge that film yet, but I have a hard time believing ditching this script for Romulus is justified.

I really loved the photos they released of Michael Biehn back in Hicks' armor. It breaks my heart that this movie wasn't made.

Thank you for sharing this, this art was excellent! I love to see this in any form! I'm a regular subscriber but I came from Facebook tonight! Keep up the great work! Everything after aliens was a nightmare of Ripley's!

It hurts my chest like having a chestburster inside that this project was cancelled, and personally I think it could be so easy to for example made a bridge between Aliens and Resurrection with this, leaving 3 as a vivid dream for example that Ripley had while in the sleeping pod, and then at the end of this one for example, weyland could just grab a DNA sample of her when she infiltrated the building, to start the cloning process (Resurrection), since they already know her long background story with the company, and thus can be the perfect subject to create a "new weapon" as they wanted with enhanced xenomorph attributes. Aaanyways, I'd love to see this project alive!

This would be an incredible take on the Alien series! I hope it enters into production.

I wished this would see the light of day. I blame the studio for allowing Scott to interfere even though he created this franchise. I would love to see an animated film of the original alien 3 script and maybe follow ups to it.

Blomkamp was the most ideal choice for director of another Alien movie, and still is.

This had so much potential, it’s a tragedy to me that it never got made.

I never minded 3 opening with Newt and Hicks having died. I missed Hicks as a character, but it always felt in line with the feeling of cold reality of the series - particularly Alien.

This would have been such a great sequel to Aliens. The Great acting and chemistry between Ripley/.Hicks, with the amazing directing and storytelling of Neil Blomkamp.

What I did not like about some of the later sequels is the heavy use of CGI over practical effects in regards to the Alien Mother or Alien "soldiers". There was a little mix of both in Alien Resurrections, but I'd prefer if they stuck 100% with practical effects.

I was always obsessed with this project, like the resurrection of Conan crown of ice, and would kill to see this realized. Scott Ridley’s Prometheus put this on the side burner. I pray to God they reconsider. They made a new Bladerunner, why not this.

The artist is a genius!

This looks quite amazing! An Alien film set on a futuristic Earth. One can only hope that this surfaces at least in comic book form someday.

Personally would love to see this, I mean Cameron's Terminator Dark Fate was a direct sequel to T2 which ignored T3, Salvation and, what was the last one, Cynigy or something? Fans can still like the other films, but this as a "what if" scenario would be interesting to see, and it wouldn't be such a bad thing if it ignored Prometheus and Covenant as well, it could just be it's own thing, I don't think the fans really care, they just want to see a good movie with an interesting idea. Hope they do green light it, why not. One other thing I've always thought about, Alien Resurrection was set way after Alien 3, not sure of the exact 'when', but it seemed rather redundant to be cloning Ripley. After the destruction of the colony on LV426, which only destroyed the colony, the original derelict ship full of eggs (although the eggs were in a giant structure underneath the ship, perhaps it was another facility (like that in Prometheus)) so why didn't they just go and get some eggs from there?

This is seems to have been quite heavily influenced by the earth wars storyline and I have to say that I would be really excited to see that make the screen

Wow, these artworks look sick as fuck. Would love to see it all in a movie.

This was a great video and a great breakdown of the possible plot of the Blomkamp film. I was so excited in 15 when I saw the concept art and read that this was a direct sequel to ALIENS. This art is really intriguing and it is a shame this project never came to fruition. I was very excited for it. I thought it was a great way to remove the bad taste from Alien cubed and Resurrection. I love Blomkamp’s work and thought he had a good vision for this film. That possible exoskeleton suit for Ripley really looks great. Oh, the possibilities of another interesting encounter between Ripley and another queen. It would have been nice as well to think that Carrie may come out of retirement and possibly appear in the movie or even a cameo scene.

I'd love to see this at least go to some sort of print. A graphic novel would be great! Maybe Weyland-Yutani was doing some genetic engineering resulting in new creatures? I would totally go opening night if this made it to the big screen.

Amazing concept art. Some really stunning artistry went into it’s creation. If we never see the film, I’m glad we at least got to see what it might have been.

Alien Isolation did a fantastic job of feeling like a film and playing like your in one and sitting nicely between Alien and Aliens - utter phenomenal. I have to say i would watch the hell out of this - i dont care that theres fan service - thats the whole bloody point! theres plenty of new stuff in there to keep you interested and the addition of the extra creatures, alien armour etc - this would be freaking cool! If I win a fortune i would be investing in this big time. That concept art of the alien climbing up the tunnel is terrifying as a frame - as a vfx artist i neeeeeeed to animate that :)

Thank you kindly Sir for this video.

This looks 10x better than the last 4 films we got.

Fantastic video! I highly enjoy the speculation. This movie needs to be made.

This is the most of the fan art I've ever seen; great imagery, and I still hope they plan on A5 sometime down the road

Would love to have seen this actually turned into a new Alien movie. I personally don´t think this will happen any time soon or at all... Thanks for the vids, Alien Theory!

Dude, those biomechanical exosuits would have been amazing. Imagine Ripley curiously approaching one that's in containment, and it jerks towards her like the Facehugger in a jar in Aliens II. Later, when she's forced to use it to fight the Queen, it hungrily "engulfs" her; it covers her with its own form, plates sliding over her arms and legs as it aggressively envelopes her. As she stands, fully encased in the armor, you can hear its eerie breathing. Maybe she can't fully control its movements, but it proves crucial in combating the Queen, since Alien carapace is immune to their blood. That would have been so novel and horrifying.

That artwork is off the wall, stunningly gorgeous . I wish I had the imagination to come up with art like that.

I would love to see this come to be! I love the Alien series and it would be fantastic if this was made and the series continued!

Man this looks soo good. How can this have been stopped but AVP got made TWICE ?? Just hope they see sense or maybe even do a super high Def animation or something.

All we can do is HOPE that someday it comes out. In the distant FUTURE

Imagine it's the end of Alien Resurrection and bam. Ripley wakes up and everything after Aliens was just a nightmare (Alien 3, Resurrection). And there you have the beginning of Alien 5? Maybe?

Damn shame if it doesn’t get made .....the concept art looks awesome!

I want a trilogy! Not of Blomkamp Alien films but of my three favorite action heroines; Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor and Laurie Strode in films that disregard previous endeavors that kill them off in order to tell more story. I love these updated takes on what happens next. Mostly. I like that Blomkamp is approaching his press from the perspective that his film simply connects to Alien and Aliens and don’t undo Alien 3 & Resurrection. I feel that the Halloween, Terminator and Alien franchises work best when the equally well known ladies that started our journey are on screen with their monsters. I don’t look at the latest films in the Halloween or Terminator franchises as reboots. To me, they don’t necessarily negate what happened in the other films although sometimes that is the director’s intention. The sequels happened. I saw them and remember them. The movies were made, they exist. To me these are just other fables showcasing some of my favorite action heroes of all time. I still hope that we’ll see Alien 5 get made.

I hope against hope, that somehow this still gets made....it just looks brilliant ohh and nicely done work yet again :)