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  • District 9 Director Shows Off His Alien Film Concept Work

    Neill Blomkamp made a big splash with his debut film District 9 in 2009. It was nominated for Best Picture in the process. I did not like it as many did, but did think his next release, Elysium, was more my style. His next film, Chappie, releases this March.

    The director took to his Instagram to reveal that he was working on a new Alien film, which the studio may or may not have been aware of.

    “Was working on this. Don’t think I am anymore. Love it though.  #alien #xenomorph”

    “They didn’t really even know I was working on it ha”

    Alien is my favorite film franchise. I will even defend Alien 3 (bring it) and enjoyed Prometheus even if it wasn’t what everyone expected. After seeing Blomkamp’s concept art, I would give my first born future child to see this come to fruition. Check out the shots.

    Looks like Blomkamp was going to act like the events of Alien 3 never happened with the return of Dwayne Hicks.

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    Weyland-Yutani seems to have got a hold of a derelict ship. 

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    What is this obelisk-type monument in the warehouse?

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    Ripley finds a cocooned human.

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    An Alien queen makes her return.

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    Blomkamp’s desk with xenomorph head. Notice the Master Chief helmet possibly left over from his work on the Halo film.

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    The most interesting shot. Looks like Ripley in a xenomorph headdress. Note suggests it is actually the helmet of the space jockeys from the original Alien.

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  • See The Trailer For Alien: Isolation DLC “Crew Expendable”, Featuring The Voices Of Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt & Yaphet Kotto

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    Alien: Isolation was already near the top of my list for new games this year. Everything I have seen from the new game by The Creative Assembly made me believe that they knew just what Alien fans were expecting, especially after being violated by Gearbox with Aliens: Colonial Marines.

    Now with the DLC titled Crew Expendable, they have taken another step towards owning this Alien lovers heart.

    The cast of the 1979 original (Sigourney Weaver, Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Skerritt, Yaphet Kotto and Veronica Cartwright) will voice their game counterparts as you try to find and flush the alien from the Nostromo. Ash will be in the DLC also, but Ian Holm will not be voicing him.

    I wish I could convey the amount of feels hearing Weaver, Skerrit and Kotto in the new trailer for the DLC. Alien is my favorite film franchise, making this something special.

    Alien: Isolation releases on October 7th.

  • Alien: Isolation Wants To Make You Think, Not Learn Patterns

    Alien: Isolation is very high up on my list of games to play in 2014 and for good reason. It sets you in a giant space station with little to no weapons and one smart xenomorph, then tells you to survive.

    The Creative Assembly is developing Alien: Isolation as a survival game set firmly in the world of Ridley Scott’s Alien film. You play as Amanda Ripley, daughter of Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen, as she tries to find out what happens to her mother.

    The video shows how the makers are wanting the game to be about the terror. The alien is not on a set course of searching for you, but rather an A.I. that will do its own thing. This means no two playthroughs will be alike. Hiding in the same spot won’t always work because the alien will always be taking new paths and adapting to the sights and sounds you leave behind.

    After the disaster that was Aliens: Colonial Marines (which we gave a 4.5 in our review), Alien: Isolation is shaping up to be the balm for that burn left by Gearbox.

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