Meanwhile, I can see NB stumping for his pet project now that Disney, and not Fox, have final say over what gets made. I say let SRS finish out his trilogy, then consign it to the same "what-if" corner as Alien3 and Resurrection. Interesting story, but too many things don't fit with Alien (not even touching on the later films), and too many things are just bad storytelling. I also wouldn't mind seeing NB start a Halo movie universe. Longform. No compression of the story. Start with the titular space donut showing up, and all the initial activity that leads up to starting the Spartan program. Don't even throw Master Chief in until he has some context. I think he'd be good at it, with someone riding herd on story, and he'd be able to channel the energies he wanted to put into Alien5 into a different war-torn sci-fi universe.
--Jonah