In a new article from Entertainment Weekly, Sir Ridley Scott has made some new comments about what direction he sees future Alien films going in. As well as confirming that he is still working on another Alien film, Scott re-affirms some of his recent comments about the shift of focus towards artificial intelligence in the films.
“We are [going to make another], we are,” Scott told EW from the set of All the Money in the World. “I think what we have to do is gradually drift away from the alien stuff.” Say what? Scott’s Alien: Covenant, which came out earlier this year, felt like a return to some legit old-school scares but failed to set the domestic box office ablaze (though, combined with international sales, it ended with north of $240 million in ticket revenue). “People say, ‘You need more alien, you need more face pulling, need more chest bursting,’ so I put a lot of that in Covenant and it fitted nicely. But I think if you go again you need to start finding another solution that’s more interesting. I think AI is becoming much more dangerous and therefore more interesting.”
Since Covenant’s release, Scott has since started to say these things of thing again. Scott most recently commented that he thought “the beast has almost run out“ and prior to this he also spoke about how he thought the focus would shift more onto artificial intelligence.
While it’s unclear if these particular comments came during principal photography on All The Money In the World or during the recent reshoots, Scott’s latest film is due for release later this month so Scott will soon be making the promotional rounds so we may start to hear a little bit more about what progress has been made on the sequel to Alien: Covenant.
Back in September, 20th Century Fox CEO Stacey Snider also spoke about the future of the Alien series, saying that she “trust[ed] Ridley [Scott] and Emma [Watts] to know the right story when they find it. When universes are as rich as “Alien,” they can stay in a too familiar groove — in which case you’re in trouble — but they can also find a planet or a storyline or a villain that also lives in that universe that can be groundbreaking.”
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They touch on the familiar whilst bringing in a lot of new ideas - what decent companion films should do.
The backburster or medpod scene wasn't horror enough?
And Covenant or even Prometheus aren't?
Alien3 has some interesting ideas so I admire some aspects of it, all the others just rehash Alien to lesser effect.
Aliens, Alien 3, Alien:Resurrection? or all of them?
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That response naturally led to a question about more "Alien" movies, and Scott was unequivocal in his response. "I would like to; they're crazy if they don't," he said. "David is a fantastic villain. I love what (Michael Fassbender) did in 'Covenant.' But it's f—ing hard, dude. We lifted 'Alien' out of a ditch and made "Prometheus.'"
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/12/ridley-scott-alien-star-wars-star-trek-1201910690/
Salvaged it from endless generic runarounds IMHO.
Wishful thinking.
Why would Scott care about that now? He cares about AI now, not in this Disney Land creature as he called it. This guy is going to make it bad out of spite, because he is a mean old man.
the biomech alien, his perfect organism...
and other things, too.
Gonna be good to move away from the fleshy aesthetics
that we've had... for way too many movies now.
That's in the works. My next film is one about the cartel.
I was a big fan of Alien: Covenant. I feel it was one of the more misunderstood films of the year.
Yeah, I think it was pretty good. It should have been much bigger, right? I was amazed, actually. It should have done better. It did fine, but it should have done way better. It was a good front path to the next phase. We're trying to pull away from the beast and go somewhere else with the story. There's a plan.[/i]
https://www.gq.com/story/ridley-scott-loves-the-stress-of-filmmaking
Yep. Nothing get's a group of characters frightened and saying "what do we do now?" quicker than offing the one I charge.
"I Think AI is becoming much more dangerous"
Yes Sir, especially to the future of the Alien franchise. Sorry, I've been saving that one for way too long.
Andrews definitely would've been a liability. His death was necessary for Ripley to be able to assume a leadership position, although it might be arguable that the position she took was more of a proxy through Dillon, who held the others in check and gave much needed pushes when required.
While clemen's was a great character, his relationship with Ripley may have provided an unnecessary level of human interest at times when survival needed to take center stage. His death also was a stout twist of the blade for Ripley, as the last chance of her having any kind of close personal relationship with another human was taken. Whether this mentally played even a small role in her decision to end it all or not, it sure must have been one of the last "little" nails in the coffin.
As far as Hicks 2 goes, I think Dillon really takes that cake. Dillon was a good parallel to Ripley, though his troubles were probably of his own making, he was a strong leader and intelligent individual who chose to fight rather than die. It's funny, sometimes when people think about the Alien movies, they think of the strong female leads. But I think it's fair to say that Parker, Hicks and Dillon had very strong Male roles in each of the films.
I will add though, that like Parker and Dillon, Hicks should've been allowed to go down fighting. However, with the script for Alien being what it was, he would've spent that film trying to protect Ripley from the inmates and the Alien, and it would have added too much drama. I have a feeling we would've been looking at Hicks making good on that "I'll do us both" promise near the end of Alien 3.
I didn't pay much attention to that flaw. What concerned me more was the dreariness of the setting. I was hoping for something set in a space station coupled with conspiracy involving the company, thus making the fourth film (and probably even subsequent ones) unnecessary.
Prometheus is the better of the two recent films, but is flawed because of plot holes and characters doing stupid things. A:C is worse because it has similar plus jams content borrowed from the earlier films, leading to a mess. I do realize, though, the difficulty of envisioning an ancient astronaut story line that doesn't look out of place in light of the previous films.
Sure, I get that the deaths are unexpected shocks, but for me, their deaths at the hands of a creature they are not even aware exists robs the film of the more interesting characters discussing the options in their crises. In particular it might have been interesting to see how Clemens, the negligent medico, had reacted to discovering Ripley's condition. I agree that Dillon and 85 are the more interesting characters around her towards the end of the film, but if Clemens and Andrews had to accept Ripley's greater experience and had been involved and died in the runaround section, that whole sequence might have felt grander, more coherent, and far more significant within the plot. Instead Ripley takes the lead, because she's.. Ripley.
It wasn't too much of a cliche in 1992 but killing off major characters earlier than expected is one of those 'curveball' ideas that is fairly well worn, and is done for good or bad, and in Alien3's case I feel it saps the film of potential far more than it shocks.
Andrews would've been a continually annoying obstacle. Had someone else been got in the mess hall and Andrews lived, he still would've tried to assert his authority in combatting the Alien instead of deferring to Ripley. Clemens probably would've been Hicks Mark II. Not only did Ripley have to be thrust into leadership, but she had to do it with guys who wanted to rape and murder her. There's no support network like in Aliens.
I agree, Dillon and Ripley's dynamic through the movie is very interesting and useful to the movie itself
"indistinct runaround" is a pretty fair description though.
My views on Alien3 have never changed. It starts well, it's got an interesting plot around Ripley, but essentially it's flawed because two of its major protagonists are killed off mid-film which could have added much needed character interplay in the third act. As it is the rest of the movie is an indistinct runaround interspersed with Ripley's dilemma. It's the best film of the sequels, because of Fincher's talents, but in any version it remains flawed.
Prometheus and Covenant not so much, like them or not they have a vision that seems to me to be uncompromised, the scripts have developed with some fluidity but they are heading in a solid direction - IMHO. No rewrites required.
I kinda cared about her character and just thinking of what David did to her still disturbs me.
Shaw looked too much like a Giger painting for me, too staged, I didn't feel too much from it.
I remember reading an article in SFX magazine around the time Alien Resurrection came out.
I genuinely hope that Disney gets behind the Aliens franchise like it did with Star Wars. Though the Aliens franchise isnt quite as big as Star Wars, its still a lucrative and good investment choice for Disney to come in and put some money and new talent behind. Personally I believe that Disney shoudl let Scott finish out his trilogy of films, then get Neil Blomkamp back in the picture and have him make his Alien 5 film. There were A LOT of people out there (myslef included) who were VERY excited to see Blomkamps film become a reality, if nothing more to see him PROPERLY close out the Ripley storyline. It would make sense to allow Scott to finish his trilogy as well as allow for the Blomkamp Alien 5 to be made as BOTH films would tie up 2 storylines neatly and nicely... then allow for additional Aliens films to be produced that exist in the same universe, but have nothing to do with the David/Ripley storylines (much like the comic books and novels have done for decades that STILL continue to sell well to this day).
"They are the best creation of THE humanity."
Guys I think Windie is losing it.
I'm hoping to hear more details within the next couple of months as All the Money in the World gears up for award season. Plummer is at least nominated.
I'm sure Ridley's thoughts on Disney's acquisition of Fox will be at the forefront of most journalistic goals during that time.
-Windebieste.
More details on that will certainly help.
Doesn't mean anything, until we hear confirmation it's been cancelled. From all indications, it's still going ahead, although that could change in the future. The change of ownership one likely reason, but I'll wait until it's confirmed.
In the meantime, I look forward to Covenant 2.
"At one time."
How about you both tone it down and act like adults interacting with other adults in a mature fashion? I'm bored of having to remind you BSG and you've been dropping on the radar for the same reasons lately, Alionic. Can we just act like grown-up's please. It's boring when I have to make comments like this. Thanks.
Anyway, BSG isn't wrong. Though I loved Fassbender and David in both Prometheus and Covenant, central doesn't automatically equate to better.
This is so good. Really flosses my brain from all the negative fanboy stuff. 3 is great, Res is what it is. Sigourney's reign of the character is a very special thing that definitely needs another round, whether it's Chappie or Blade Runner. Mouse house will probably get it right.
And I actually think Awakening might get the budget it deserves. People needed to stop blaming Ridley and put the heat on Rupert Murdoch. Have you watched his news channel? He's captured Mick Jagger's wife! All this Disney aquisition shit is so predictable that I bet that big layout was part of a big Hollywood plan laid out years ago. The Xenomorph has been at MGM Studios for a long time...
And there was me thinking he was just a robot.
Whatever one may think about "Alien 3" and "Alien Resurrection," they were works of vision and ambition by serious-minded filmmakers that had the misfortune to follow in the footsteps of two of the greatest films of their type and wound up to a great extent suffering from the impossibly high expectations of moviegoers."......rogerebert.com
That's not entirely true. Alien 3 was being re-appraised even before the Assembly Cut was released in 2003.
lol wut? Central = better? That's not how life works.
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You're evidently not too bright.
It's probably because of other film versions of Alien 3. These two prequels, though, need major rewrites.