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Neill Blomkamp’s Anthem Short Is Out Now On YouTube

Neill Blomkamp’s Anthem Short Is Out Now On YouTube

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Neill Blomkamp, who seems to have found his niche in shorts, has directed a new one — and it’s out now for all to view for free. This is because it’s a commercial product meant to hype a video game, but it’s probably one you’re interested in anyway. The three-minute short is called Conviction: An Anthem Trailer, and it’s set in the world of Bioware’s anticipated upcoming MMO, decades before the game’s story takes place. “I was really blown away by this incredible world BioWare created the very first time I saw Anthem,” said Blomkamp. “Conviction sets the stage with a narrative that touches on Anthem’s beautiful and immersive world, which is ripe for exploration by these powerful Javelins. A world where danger is lurking on every ledge and in each valley.”  Time will tell if Anthem becomes enough of a sensation for people to want shorts like this. The beta test was conducted a couple weeks ago, and public opinion among those who experienced it was mixed. Bioware will need to fix

Neill Blomkamp To Direct Short Based On Bioware’s Anthem

Neill Blomkamp To Direct Short Based On Bioware’s Anthem

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In 2015, Neill Blomkamp was on track to direct a new Alien sequel. In 2017, he announced those plans had been scrapped but that he was using the ideas from them to create a series of alien-related shorts (starring Sigourney Weaver). Now Blomkamp seems to have found his niche in shorts, as he’s bringing us another one – this time for an unproven property. The short is called Conviction, and it’s set in the world of Anthem — Bioware’s anticipated upcoming MMO. It’s set decades before the game takes place, and though details on its exact plot are tight, Blomkamp can’t stop singing the praises of the game he was hired to dramatize. He felt inspired. “I was really blown away by this incredible world BioWare created the very first time I saw Anthem,” said Blomkamp. “Conviction sets the stage with a narrative that touches on Anthem’s beautiful and immersive world, which is ripe for exploration by these powerful Javelins. A world where danger is lurking on every ledge and in each valley.” 

Now In Production: Robocop Returns

Now In Production: Robocop Returns

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Part machine, part man, all cop: What was once known as Alex Murphy is stomping back to the big screen. Robocop Returns is the name, and Neill Blomkamp is the director. This newly proposed movie would throw out Robocops 2 and 3 and set the story directly after the first movie. This seems to be a growing trend in Hollywood lately, with the upcoming Halloween and Terminator films utilizing the same magic eraser to eliminate yards of unwanted continuity. Wish the same could be said for Alien (and Blomkamp was attached to that one!) This time, though, there’s a second reason: the script for Robocop Returns came first. It was originally written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, creators of Robocop as well as writers of the first film. It would’ve been made, but the 1988 writer’s strike halted production. In the end, the studio wound up releasing Frank Miller’s take on Robocop in 1990. So it’ll be interesting to see what this resurrected sequel winds up doing. Blomkamp is

Neill Blomkamp Shares Two Sketches From Canned Alien 5 Project

Neill Blomkamp Shares Two Sketches From Canned Alien 5 Project

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Alien 5, oh Alien 5….how I wish that you were alive. Bringing thrills and bringing fun, showing Ridley how it’s done. Sigourney Weaver back again, Newt a living next of kin. How I wish this art was real, Covenant had no appeal. Director Neill Blomkamp never got to make his proposed Alien 5 movie, mainly due to Ridley Scott’s current stranglehold on the property. He released drawings online of a Weyland-Yutani warehouse, a grown-up Newt, and Ellen Ripley in some kind of bio-organic weaponized Alien suit. The story told itself and sounded amazing. But while he did attract the attention of Fox for a while, the movie just couldn’t happen. Blomkamp had to dump some of his ideas in a series of short films he released earlier this year, one starring Sigourney. Today the director published two previously unseen pieces of art from the proposal. One is another look at the warehouse: We haven’t gotten to see that ship before. Wonder how it would have played in the movie plot.

Neill Blomkamp Working On Mysterious Sci-Fi Project

Neill Blomkamp Working On Mysterious Sci-Fi Project

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Recently Ridley Scott crushed director Neill Blomkamp’s dreams of making an Alien sequel into the dust. What was the man to do but carry onward? He announced a new project today, and it’s quite different for him: a series of mini-movies being created exclusively for the Steam platform. That’s right, the online marketplace traditionally known for video games. You can buy a few indie films and documentaries there, but never anything on this scale before. Blompkamp released a trailer for the first of several shorts he has in the works. There is no title, but it mentions a production company called “Oat Studios.” We suspect that some of the ideas Blomkamp wanted to use in Alien 5 were recycled for this project. What gives us that idea? Well, that’s really Sigourney Weaver at the forty second mark. We also see a military soldier who bears a strong resemblance to Hicks, and does the little girl in the thumbnail resemble Newt to you? Another thing the trailer doesn’t reveal is when

The Dream Of Alien 5 May Be Dead

The Dream Of Alien 5 May Be Dead

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Director Ridley Scott has been holding a grip on the Alien franchise for the last few years, making middling prequels. All this time we’ve held out hope that eventually, SOMEDAY, director Neill Blomkamp would be allowed to make his proposed “Alien 5″ picture — a movie that would once again bring Sigourney Weaver back to the franchise to revive the character that made her famous, one last time. According to sketches the movie would have also brought back Colonel Hicks and a grown-up Newt, thereby retconning their deaths between Aliens and Alien 3. But according to Scott, sketches of Alien 5 are all that exist. Keep in mind since he isn’t personally responsible for this project like he is with his own Alien movies, he doesn’t know everything about it. But his statements sure aren’t optimistic. “I think [the project] will never see the light [of day],” he told the French website Allocine. “There was never a scenario, just an idea that evolved into a pitch of ten pages. I