Alien 5 Delayed Due To Prometheus 2

The fact that Neill Blomkamp is fixing up a new Alien movie is old news now.  But what we really want to know is when the hell we’re getting it.  I mean Sigourney Weaver and Michael Biehn aren’t getting any younger, but more importantly we’re just impatient.

Well it looks like it’s not happening for a while. And now, Bloody Disgusting has those details on why.

According to their source, Scott is insisting that 20th Century Fox hold off on Alien 5 until after Prometheus 2 goes into production. Here’s the full quote:

“Alien 5 is still very much in the works, as Fox remains hot on the idea. Blomkamp continues to work on the script (only an outline existed previously) and refine the tale he is telling. Ridley Scott is still producing, but has insisted on Prometheus 2 being made first.

Right.  So it looks like we won’t see the re-jig of a third Alien movie until 2018, maybe later.  I also hope Ridley Scott makes this new Prometheus movie, you know, an Alien movie this time too.