+1
I tend to bristle at people's insistence that Blomkamp would be guaranteed to do a "fresh" take on Alien compared to what Scott did, especially if the complaints against Scott are "trying too hard to recreate the original" and "over-reliance on special effects". I could make the case that the reason Covenant bears similarities to the original is a compromise for all the people who complained about Prometheus not being enough of an Alien film, so it's a real damned-if-you-do kind of situation. As for Blomkamp, District 9 is an Alien Nation riff with a blunt apartheid allegory and an even greater dependence on special effects than your average Alien film - and that's still leagues better than the diminishing returns of either Elysium or Chappie. The fact that so much of the conversation surrounding a potential Blomkamp entry revolves around Aliens (such as the set-up being a direct sequel to Aliens that would disregard the unpopular entries in the franchise) seems a little hypocritical, too. That would be like The Force Awakens trying to overcompensate for divided responses to the prequels by trying to make the most deliberately appealing film possible and being derided as a hollow knock-off - again, damned if you do. Like I said, I'd rather that the series kept getting weird rather than try too hard to please an unpleasable fanbase, but of course that's not going to make the big bucks. And people wonder why big movies don't take risks.
Also, this is a better use of Scott's talents than the stodgy period dramas that make up at least half of his filmography.