Terror Time has some bad news. Alien is on hold.

For people who have been following the updates know it’s been iffy at best. So this isn’t a shock but plans for a Neill Blomkamp directed film in the Alien franchise have been put on hold and possibly set aside entirely, and the District 9 director is moving on to other projects. Blomkamp took to Twitter to say

In February it was announced the Blomkamp would be directing a film to be set at some unspecified time after the events of the then-still up in the air Prometheus 2 story, and Alien-director Ridley Scott was set to produce for 20th Century Fox. No story or script was at the time ready, but Blomkamp indicated on social media it would be a proper installment of the Alien series.

A change of vision on Scott’s part might have had something to do with putting Blomkamp’s film on hold. As initially conceived Prometheus 2 would have followed the further adventures of Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw as she seeks to uncover more about the events of Prometheus. However, Scott eventually set those plans aside, revealing in a recent interview that Prometheus 2 is going to be more of a proper prequel to Aliens, saying in an interview “it’s going to be Alien: Paradise Lost“. That concept is a bit closer to where Blomkamp wanted to go. More information about the future direction of the franchise will presumably come later.

Either way, Bloomkamp’s Alien movie appears for all intents and purposes comatose for now, while Prometheus 2 is slated to go into production in early 2016.

Bummer.

via Deadline.com