Neill Blomkamp's unrealized projects

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The following is a list of unproduced Neill Blomkamp projects in roughly chronological order. During his long career, South African-Canadian film director Neill Blomkamp has worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Some of these productions fell in development hell or were cancelled.^[1][2]

Halo

In August 2006, it was reported that Blomkamp was to direct a film based on the Halo video game for 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures.^[3] Blomkamp confirmed in October 2007 that plans to make the film were officially scrapped.^[4]

Alien 5

Blomkamp's involvement with the Alien franchise goes as far back as 2015.^[5][6][7] Blomkamp originally planned to an Alien film in which Sigourney Weaver, Lance Henriksen and Michael Biehn would reprise their roles as Ellen Ripley, Bishop II and Dwayne Hicks respectively.^[8][9] The film was to have been a sequel to Aliens (1986).^[10] Ridley Scott said in 2017 that it was likely that Blomkamp's would not be made.^[11][12] Blomkamp himself said in 2021 that the film was never made because 20th Century Fox chose to produce Alien: Covenant (2017) instead.^[13][14] The box office failure of Alien: Covenant also served as a factor as to why Blomkamp's film was never made.^[15] Blomkamp confirmed in subsequent interviews that he was no longer interested in making the film.^[16][17]

In June 2021, concept art related to Blomkamp's version was released.^[18][19]

In April 2023, Weaver confirmed that she would no longer reprise her role as Ripley and admitted that she wanted to do the film with Blomkamp.^[20]

The Gone World

In November 2015, it was reported that Blomkamp was in talks with 20th Century Fox to write and direct a film adaptation of Thomas Sweterlitsch's novel The Gone World.^[21] In July 2017, it was announced that Blomkamp was still attached to direct the film.^[22]

Robocop Returns

In July 2018, it was announced that Blomkamp was to direct Robocop Returns for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.^{[23][24][25][26]} The film was to have been a direct sequel to RoboCop (1987).^{[27][28][29][30]} It was reported that Blomkamp was to rewrite the script that was initially written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner.^[31][32][33] It was also reported that Blomkamp wanted Peter Weller to reprise his role as Robocop.^[34] In August 2019, it was announced that Blomkamp was no longer involved with the project.^{[35][36][37][38]}

Inferno

In October 2019, it was reported that Blomkamp was to have directed Taylor Kitsch in a film project titled Inferno.^[39][40][41]

District 10

In February 2021, Blomkamp announced that a screenplay titled District 10 was being written and would serve as the sequel to his 2009 film District 9.^[42][43][44]

Offers

Dune

On October 28, 2009, Blomkamp was offered to direct the film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune for Paramount Pictures, which eventually became the 2021 film and it’s sequel Dune: Part Two.^[45]

References

External links

• Neill Blomkamp's unrealized projects at IMDb