Alan Dean Foster writing Alien: Covenant prequel novel, not sequel novel? Last September we revealed that Alan Dean Foster would be returning to the world of Alien literacy with a novelization of Alien: Covenant. The month after, Titan Books announced that he would also be writing a sequel novel. It looks like that may no longer be the case.
According to an update made to Alan Dean Foster’s website, he’s actually working on a prequel: “The novelization of ALIEN:COVENANT has been turned in and approved. I am working with Titan Publishing and Fox on what will be an original prequel to the film story. Sorry…no can hint (yet) at what it might contain.”
In Alan Dean Foster’s initial announcement, he mentioned that he was also working on additional “unique original material” that many assumed to be the sequel novel that was eventually announced.
A representative of Alien vs. Predator Galaxy spoke to Mr Foster who confirmed that he was only working on a prequel novel, not a sequel novel. We approached Titan Books for clarification but they were unable to comment at this time.
Will we be seeing more of Shaw and David in Alan Dean Foster’s Alien: Covenant prequel?
While we have no further details at the minute, with a ten year gap between the events of Prometheus and Alien: Covenant it’s likely Alan Dean Foster’s prequel will be visiting those earlier years and revealing what David and Shaw were up to in those intervening years.
The sequel novel is still available for pre-order on Amazon with a release date of September 26th so it’s possible the sequel is still coming but under a different author. The novelization is currently slated for release on the 23rd of May, the week after Alien: Covenant’s release.
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Will be sharing it to the website shortly. Synopsis is here -
I'm recording our interview with ADF on Thursday for release ASAP and Titan should be sending over the cover art for this when they've settled on a final one.
About the Covenant crew instead of Shaw and David?
Good to hear it's still on, regardless.
you always say that Ultramoprh... you always say i gotta bad feeling about this drop!
This just made my night.
I haven't gotten one. It still says the release date is 9/26/17 on the Amazon website.
If Ridley is not involved in any way with the novels and probably isn't even aware of them being made... Foster could fix any of the nonsense from Covenant, we might actually get some answers.
I hope we get more info on the engineers.
YES YES YES YES YES
Spoiler
David found xenomorph recipe ?
https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=KZyPDgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Thanks to felix for the notice.
Just because the story's set beforehand, that doesn't mean it wouldn't still make sense to release after the film.
What if it reveals story details that are meant to be a plot twist in the film?
In fact, the very definition of a prequel is a story that is released later but takes place earlier.
More to the point, backstory on the crew members is something you'd expect to find in the novelisation of the film rather than the prequel (unless those characters are somehow important to the prequel).
That would be cool.
I think this is likely to be the real reason.
As long as it gives ADF adequate time to put together a good book, I really don't mind. I'm quite looking forward to it.
I didn't know that. Hopefully, that means the studio thinks they have a winner on their hands.
Let's not forget River of Pain, an 'Aliens' prequel novel released decades after the movie came out.
I'm guessing the prequel may have come out prior to this, then the novelisation would follow the film. The change in release date may have swapped the writing and release schedules around.
From a business standpoint it makes perfect sense. Fox has a lot of merchandise coming out for Covenant this May. There's toys from NECA, the official art book, and the movie novelization, and no telling what else. I guess they don't want to flood the marketplace with so much stuff. Four months is a rather long time, but again I'm thinking they want to save it for the dvd/bluray release.
Maybe if the movie turns to be very popular they'll bump the release date up.
Four months after? That's called dropping the ball. I hope that date is wrong.