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Sigourney Weaver Loved Neill Blomkamp’s Idea For Alien 5

It’s gone down in sci-fi folklore that District 9 director Neill Blomkamp was once deep into visualizing a fifth installment in the Alien franchise, one that would have served as a direct sequel to James Cameron’s 1986 classic Aliens and brought back Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley and Michael Biehn’s Hicks for a brand new adventure that wouldn’t be beholden to David Fincher’s threequel or Resurrection.

Of course, once Ridley Scott got a Xenomorph itch that he wanted to scratch, Fox decided to favor his plans for Prometheus at the expense of Blomkamp’s project. On one hand it made a lot of sense when Scott had launched the franchise and then spent the next 40 years etching his name in the history books as one of the greatest directors of the modern era, but for a lot of fans Alien 5 will always feel like a missed opportunity.

Blomkamp doesn’t ever think the concept will ever be resurrected, but in a new interview he did admit with the slightest hint of regret that Weaver was fully on board for what he had in mind.

“I also felt bad for Sigourney because she was really into what I had brought forward. I felt like for audiences who loved Aliens, there was an opportunity to do one more film with Sigourney in a way that may have satiated what people were looking for and what I think I was looking for. What doesn’t make sense is that I feel like it’s what the audience wanted so it’s strange because Fox would never really turn down money.”

Every Alien-adjacent rumor tends to circle back around to Ripley eventually, but Alien 5 was the closest it had ever come to being a reality. As prequels, Scott’s Prometheus and Covenant were never going to feature the iconic heroine, and Noah Hawley has made it clear she won’t be involved in the upcoming episodic series, so we could end up ruing the day that Fox let Blomkamp’s Alien 5 slip through their fingers.



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Ryan Reynolds’ Free Guy Repeats At The Top Of The Box Office

By the standards of the pandemic era, Free Guy opened roughly in line with recent blockbusters Jungle Cruise and Space Jam: A New Legacy, but Shawn Levy’s video game-inspired blockbuster is showing some seriously strong legs in its sophomore frame, indicating that it could play well for a good few weeks to come.

Plenty of titles released over the summer have dropped anywhere between 60-70% in their second weekends, but should the projections pan out, Free Guy is poised to haul in an additional $18 million for a dip of just 34%. That’s one of the best week-to-week holds we’ve seen this year, and stands that sequel in very good stead.

A commercial success by the standards of the time and a critical smash hit under any circumstances, star Ryan Reynolds may have credited his bevvy of A-list friends for Free Guy‘s success, but his charming lead performance and plenty of high concept thrills have clearly enamored audiences all over the country.

The leading man and producer acknowledged the irony of the Mouse House chasing a sequel when the story constantly mocks both the gaming and film industry mining IP for all it’s worth at the expense of original content, but at least that could provide a narrative springboard, when the ending of Free Guy hardly left the door wide open in terms of obvious directions to head in future installments.



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India vs England: 'It Will Take a Superhuman Effort from Home Team to Come Back in the Series'

England will require a "superhuman effort" to make a comeback in the ongoing five-match Test series against India, feels former Indian skipper Sunil Gavaskar.

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Jackie Chan Trends After New Shang-Chi Clip Goes Viral

Director Destin Daniel Cretton has hardly been shy when it comes to naming the movies, stars and genres that inspired his upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe blockbuster Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. Most of them are fairly obvious given that we’re talking about a fantastical marital arts actioner on an epic scale, but others come straight out of left field.

Good Will Hunting was most certainly a surprising title for the filmmaker to namedrop, whereas most folks would have expected him to list Kung Fu Hustle, Ip Man, Tai-Chi Master, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and in Cretton’s words, “every Jackie Chan move ever made”.

The latest clip from Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings features Simu Liu’s title hero fighting some bad guys on a moving bus, where he manages to use his jacket as a weapon to slow down his attackers, overpower them and then throw his coat back on without a care in the world. As you can see from the reactions below, it’s little wonder that Chan found himself trending, when it’s very reminiscent of his signature blend of martial arts and physical comedy.

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings may be tracking for a franchise-low opening at the box office, but the early reactions have been overwhelmingly positive, so hopefully the focus is more on quality than commercial performance when it comes to determining whether or not it deserves a sequel, because it would be fair to say that almost every project should get a pass during the pandemic era if it’s a great film in its own right.



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