It didn’t feel like the project would be cancelled, as Blomkamp’s vision was still pretty popular with fans of the original films, in particular James Cameron’s Aliens.
Neill Blomkamp himself made this announcement on his Twitter recently, and to hear it from the man himself makes us even sadder to hear it.
As you’ll remember, Alien 5 was being hinted at around the same time the sequel to Prometheus was being toyed around with.
But, unfortunately, it now seems like the delay was a quiet death for the project over time.