Alan Dean Foster will also be writing the Alien: Covenant sequel novel! Back in September we broke the news that Alien literacy veteran Alan Dean Foster would be returning to the Alien world to pen the novelization of Ridley Scott’s upcoming Alien: Covenant. We also reported on a comment that Mr Foster had made regarding also writing “original material” regarding Alien: Covenant and it may appear we now know what that is!
According to Titan Books Frankfurt RightsGuide document, Alan Dean Foster will be returning to write the Alien: Covenant sequel novel!
“We are delighted to announce that both the official novelization and official sequel to Alien: Covenant will be written by the accclaimed and multi award-winning Alan Dean Foster. Alan Dean Foster penned the novelizations of Alien, Aliens and Alien 3.”
Alan Dean Foster will also be writing the Alien: Covenant sequel novel as well as the film novelization.
Both the Alien: Covenant novelization and the Alien: Covenant sequel novel are slated for release August 2017, the month Alien: Covenant is released to the world. Thanks to felix for the link.
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Man everybody got dicked around on that production. I wonder what crafts service had to go through?
Does it make sense to ask him if he might be at all inclined or allowed to write a Prometheus novelization, perhaps expanding on it in some ways? Maybe fleshing out the characters pre-Prometheus? That might give it a valid reason to be made as a novel. I'm thinking along the lines of Orson Scott Card's novelization of the Abyss. It is a much more fleshed-out story. Ideally if there was a release of an Alien: Prometheus extended cut Blu-Ray, it would coincide well with such a release.
Hopefully it would be good to give Rapaces Character some closure, and move on.
I wouldn't be surprised if this prequel was a result of ADF reading the script for Covvie and going "we need to tell the story of Shaw and David" or some such. That's me assuming about what the prequel is about.
But why does their story have to novel form!!
This has actually been my hunch for a while now.
http://www.alandeanfoster.com/
I thought you were on holiday.
But the announcement of a 'sequel' novelization to the ALIEN:COVENANT novelization is a strange one - if it turns out that they mean he's also writing a version of the follow-up's actual onscreen storyline, then great...although I wouldn't want to spoil the next movie by reading it first!
On the other hand, if it turns out that this follow-up novelization is NOT representative of the storyline in the next movie...then it's effectively a type of 'fan fiction' which will turn out quite differently to the actual next movie. If this is the case, I certainly wouldn't want to read it...in case it turns out to be a far better storyline than the movie turns out to be, thus rendering the movie disappointing for myself!
I just wish that the Japanese PROMETHEUS novelization could be made available everywhere, as I'd sure like a read of how it expanded on the movie's events. The only real info. I've ever been able to find about it's contents are listed here, for anyone that's interested - avp.wiki.com/wiki/Prometheus_(novel)
apologies, as I've missed an 'a' from that link! Here's the correct version - avp.wikia.com/wiki/Prometheus_(novel)
It really depends where the film goes. The film may have a couple of loose threads at the end of it - Covenant 2 the film follows one thread (the main thread) and the sequel novel picks up another one?
I'm excited, but at the same time what's the point if there are going to be more movies? I can only guess the sequel films will be about entirely different things to the book.
There was, but it only came out in Japan.
Wrong. He turned down Resurrection because he didn't like how the studio treated him with the third book.
I'm not holding my breath for it, but if he would do some sort of "expanded" adaptation of Prometheus, that would be epic...
You said it much better than me!
We are delighted to announce that both the official novelization and official sequel to Alien: Covenant will be written by the acclaimed and multi award-winning Alan Dean Foster. Alan Dean Foster penned the novelizations of Alien, Aliens and Alien 3.”
And it does say "official sequel" ?? That release date has got to be a mistake, it cannot come out before the film, surely.
But I'm curious what the sequel means, and that it is original. Why would we be getting a novel that ostensibly would be the equivalent of the third Prometheus film released before the film starts filming? And if it isn't the story of the third film, then why do it at all? Obviously such a book couldn't have any serious reveals. I'm perplexed, but cautiously optimistic.
Ridley in fact have given some ideas to Alan Dean Foster in making the book.
Sorry, I meant to say Ridley might have given Alan Dean Foster ideas for the sequel book. The computer is evil!
Now we just need a third part the Fire and Stone/Life and Death saga set on Paradise!