I came across this really interesting story regarding Alien 5. As it turns out both Ridley Scott and James Cameron had been talking about (and actually already working on) developing an Alien 5 project. They both liked the Alien story and wanted to keep moving it forward. Sounds good doesn’t it.
Yeah well, forget it. Apparently AVP (Alien vs. Predator) killed it instantly. This is another good example of why the consequences for some bads ideas keep hurting you long after the box office is done. The following comes via the good folks over at FilmForce. James Cameron on axing Alien 5:
“Ridley [Scott] and I talked about doing another Alien film, and I said to 20th Century Fox that I would develop a 5th Alien film. I started working on a story, I was working with another writer and Fox came back to me and said, ‘We’ve got this really good script for Alien vs Predator,’ and I got pretty upset. I said, ‘You do that you’re going to kill the validity of the franchise in my mind,’ because to me, that was Frankenstein Meets Werewolf. It was Universal just taking their assets and starting to play them off against each other.
Damn! Could you imagine another Alien film where Cameron and Scott worked together on it? Oh well. Now it’s just the same fantasy as Kate Benckinsale and Jennifer Garner showing up at my door asking for a threesome… it’ll never happen.
