Two new concept images of the shelved "Alien 5" movie were exposed

Some new concept art for Alien 5 has leaked online, giving fans a glimpse at the sequel that Neill Blomkamp had originally planned for the Alien movie.

The concept map comes from artist Geoffroy Thoorens, who was involved in Neill Blomkamp's now-shelved "Alien 5". According to the original plan, "Alien 5" will ignore the plots of "Alien 3" in 1992 and "Alien 4" in 1997, and bring back previous characters such as Bishop, Corporal Hicks and others.

Thoorens said the above pictures show the team's various ideas before the final script. These early concept drawings include a room with alien eggs, and another one where the heroine Ripley dressed as an alien and fought an alien queen. Thoorens later told fans that this was actually a biomechanical suit.

Thoorens confirmed that there were about 30-40 concept sketches for the canceled Alien 5 film, tentatively titled Alien: Red Harvest, before it was halted as 20th Century Fox chose to focus on Ridley Scott's Prometheus sequel Alien: Covenant. Blomkamp confirmed in October 2015 that Alien 5 had been shelved indefinitely and that he had moved on to other projects.

Alien: Covenant opened in the United States in 2017 with about $36 million, a 34% drop from the first-week box office of Prometheus in 2012. Later, Alien: Covenant's second-week box office also fell sharply by 71%.

Ridley Scott once revealed that he wanted to make two more sequels (prequels) after "Alien: Covenant", and the second movie would be directly related to "Alien 1". However, the merger of Disney and Fox in 2019 caused the two sequels to be postponed.

But that hasn't stopped Scott from thinking about where the 40-year-old sci-fi franchise could go next. Just last year, the filmmaker shared his thoughts on the future of the Alien franchise, specifically his ideas for a third prequel film, explaining how he'd like to see the next Alien explore the secret origins of the alien egg from the 1979 classic original.