Neill Blomkamp Teases Mysterious New Project

The last we heard of Neill Blomkamp, things weren’t going well for the South African director. His latest feature, Chappie, was the critical and financial hot people expected, and his proposed Alien 5 was canned as fast as it was green lit in favour of Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant. But you can’t keep a good director down, but his latest project is one I don’t think any one saw coming. Having made his name with short films like Alive in Joburg (the inspiration for District 9) and the Halo short Landfall, Blomkamp is heading back to that medium, but with a twist: this new series of experimental shorts, coming from the newly formed Oats Studios, will be going straight to online gaming platform Steam. Simply titled Oats: Volume 1, the first trailer for the project has come online, chock full of the usual fantastic visuals and unique concepts from the modern Sci-Fi master, with an appearance from Sigourney Weaver thrown in for good measure.

Several indie films and documentaries have already found their way on Steam in recent months, but this is the first time someone with serious mainstream clout will be working on the platform exclusively, and could lead to a new viable streaming service. Very little is known is know at this stage, but you better believe I’ll be watching Steam very closely over the next few months, waiting for these to arrive.