Twentieth Century Fox officially announced this week that District 9 and Elysium director Neill Blomkamp will helm the next chapter in its immensely popular Alien franchise. Ridley Scott will produce the new sequel, which will reportedly follow the events in Scott’s Prometheus 2, currently in early development.

Blomkamp said on Instagram:

Um… So I think it’s officially my next film. #alien

Blomkamp scored the gig by taking to Instagram to post concept art for a new Alien sequel he had dreamt up. The art, which sees the return of Ellen Ripley and Corporal Hicks, caught the imaginations of fans hankering for a true Alien sequel after Scott’s kinda-cool, but mostly disappointing prequel Prometheus. That excitement apparently reached Fox.

To see Blomkamp’s Alien concept art, click here.