Back in March,Aliendirector Ridley Scott revealed that the title of hisnext prequelwill be calledAlien: Awakening, although he teased that the timeline of these movies isn’t linear, and will goPrometheus,Alien: Awakeningand then the upcomingAlien: Covenant. The filmmaker didn’t clarify his comments, but it seems that won’t be necessary, since that apparently isn’t the title of his next Alien movie at all. While promotingAlien: Covenant, the filmmaker revealed that the next prequel script is already being worked on, but it won’t be calledAlien: Awakening.
During a new interview withIGN, the director explained that the now-deadAlien 5movie, which was once moving forward with Neill Blomkamp at the helm, was actually calledAwakening. While Ridley Scott was set to produceAlien 5, a.k.a.Alien: Awakening, he didn’t seem to fond of having both projects happening concurrently. Here’s what the director had to say about the matter.
“They wanted to doAlien, er,Awakening,Neill Blomkamp, I said fine. I was going to be the producer. If I could have, I would have. Except I do question, why have both (Blomkamp’sAlienand Scott’sAlien) out there? It seems like shooting your big toe off, it doesn’t make sense. But they didn’t go forward with it, Fox, so I just kind of kept out of it. I mean, I’d literally ignited this thing to bring it off the ground again, because it was lying there dormant on a shelf. I had this thing to bring it back up, but here we are.”
Ridley Scott also teased in March that he is planning6 Alien moviesafterAlien: Covenant, while revealing he’ll be ready to shoot the next sequel in 2018. The director reiterated this plan, teasing that the sequel script is already being written, and that he plans to be filming within the next 14 months, at least by July 2018. Here’s what the filmmaker had to say.
“We’re writing [a sequel] now, as we speak. I’ll be filming that within 14 months. That’s why I’m doing it, so you’re asking these questions.”
He added that the story ofAlien: Covenanthas been left “wide open” on purpose, teasing that he plans to continue answering questions posed in these movies as the franchise continues. Ridley Scott never revealed who is writing thisAlien sequel script, but he teased in March that it was already written, and that he’d be ready to shoot in 2018. It isn’t known what theAlien: Covenantfollow-up, formerly known asAlien: Awakening, will now be called, but it’s clear there is a plan in place to start shooting next summer.
