It was recently confirmed that Sir Ridley Scott’s next Alien film being written. It looks like we may not have to be referring to it as Alien: Covenant 2 for too long as Ridley may have revealed the current title of the next film.
Also coming out of the SXSW coverage, in a new interview with Fandango’s Erik Davis, Ridley Scott was asked about the next Alien film in his prequel series, Ridley may have let slip the title for the next film:
“It will go Prometheus, Awakening, Covenant.. fairly integral where this colonization ship is on the way….” He is quickly cut off by Katherine Waterston who screams “you’re giving away too much!” Scott does add that “if this is successful, and then the next one, and then there will definitely be three more.”
Judging from the order in which Scott listed the titles, that would make Alien: Awakening a prequel to Alien: Covenant and also a sequel to Prometheus which seems like an unlikely release order. Perhaps he just listed it out of order or it maybe the title for another project? Perhaps Alan Dean Foster’s prequel novel?
Alien: Awakening – Has Ridley Scott revealed the title of the next Alien film?
Adding more confusion to the pot, Scott seems to state that Alien: Covenant is the second in the prequel trilogy (with Prometheus being the start) and not the start of a brand new trilogy as is generally reported:
“There will be another one before we kind of literally and logically, clockwise, back into the rear back head of [the original] Alien.”
Building on his recent comments about being interested in doing more Alien films after the conclusion of this series, Scott mentioned wanting to do a further three films, clarifying that the films would also be set prior to Alien.
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I imagine the final confirmation will be from Scott during promotion. But it's nice to see someone who's actually involved confirm the rumors are false.
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she wakes her up. stories will be shared. david reappears after having downloaded his conciousness into an alien trapped against a wall.
a predator appears out of nowhere whilst a predalien pops from its chest. a neomorph suddenly pops out to eat the predalien. the predship will decloak and show them they're in the matrix and it's all a dream.
yes it makes no sense, but i think 90% on what to happen to shaw is similarly nonsense.
Well, we don't have all the context so I think "footnote" is harsh, but it's unlikely her screen time is long.
So, Shaw is just a footnote? I find that hard to believe
This is the big surprise of the movie.
Or increasingly ridiculous - which is how I feel about an alien outbreak 20 years before the original film honestly, or the distinct possibility of the LV-426 derelict cargo being created only then. Which is why I still feel they should've (and can still) walk(ed) away from prequel timeline stuff entirely after Prometheus. Set it in the far future. David and Shaw could've emerged from cryo post-Resurrection.
Okay. Wait and see if anyone but David has a major role in future prequel films beyond being alien food. There is no way they can unless they go into the freezers for decades, otherwise they'd alert Earth.
That would have been ridiculous
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It would be funny if every one of these prequels had an entirely different, new protagonist with the previous one killed off offscreen.
From memory, they give the CO2 concentration as 3%. It wouldn't be lethal until is gets to around 7%.
I'll make sure to give that a look when I get a minute!
Looks HAWT. Great job.
Thanks to SiL for getting involved with this.
Not saying that they should do this btw, just to be clear. It's heading in that direction I think. Who knows, RS might surprise us all. :-)
Wot? Don't tell me Prometheus got it's science wrong yet again?
This would be especially bad because, if it IS where THIS film is headed, it renders 2 sequels redundant, because it could have just happened at the end of PROMETHEUS.
It also doesn't make sense that the Nostromo wouldn't know or have any indication that there was a failed attempt at Colonization on this moon, next to the other moon which they land on. It seems like news of something like that would make it's way around the galaxy.
Well, if that's the direction Ridley Scott wants to take it, I guess since he was the original director in the Alien/Nostromo film that started it all, then he can move it in this direction. Me personally...I think it's a let down and kind of a crappy way to handle the entire mystery of the Spacejockey, Engineers, etc., but that's just my opinion. I'm just having a really difficult time getting around...
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Nervously anticipating the first release of the film to find out what people have to say.
1] David takes control of the covenant
2] Makes eggs of the colonists somehow
3] Heads back to 223 to find a fresh bomber
4] Takes off and our heroes take em down somehow. (maybe with whats left of the covenant)
5] Crash on 426
6] Chestburst of David
7] start of Alien
While the size of the jockey is weird, I think it's one of those things Ridley will ignore or David will somehow inject hiself with the black goo and starts to mutate into something larger. Which would indicate organic material present in Davids body somehow. Maybe his experiments went even further and he used parts of Shaw to enhance himself or to make it so he CAN absorb the black goo.
Or not... I love science fiction!
This conversation just remind me of Kate Dickie's horrible delivery.
Except the concentration of CO2 given in the film wouldn't actually be fatal
I assume, based on Holloway's dialogue that the temple in Prometheus was some sort of terraforming- atmospheric processor, like Hadley's Hope. In the original Spaihts draft, as many of you know, that is what Weyland was there for - to steal that technology. Lindeloff messed that up and made him search for Eternal Life or something. It was very very silly. The terraforming tech was far more logical and keeping in step with the narrative of the franchise. Was one of the biggest failures in Lindelof's changes I think. One thing I hope we never hear about again, is this immortality crap on the part of the Weyland Corp or whoever. I really dont want to hear some shit about the xeno's being able to give people eternal life and that's why the Company wants them, or some crap like that.
What I would like to see is some gray area explored regarding the companies motives. For instance, maybe they want to save us from something else. It would be interesting to develop that in such a way that still makes them wrong, and doesn't step on Ripley's story, while also kinda making us rethink the Company's actions a bit.
It would be if one can get the CO2 levels down. Two minutes without a suit, you're dead.
Prime candidate for terraforming though.
Agree with you 100% on this. Does Ridley Scott actually think this is a clever idea or concept?
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I guess I'll see what happens with the Covenant release and if it starts looking like this is the direction Ridley is heading (see spoilers above), then I'm out and I'll catch up with anything else he makes after Covenant when it's a re-run on the Syfy channel.
I sure hope not. What Riddles said about where they're going got me considering stuff. They've thus far skirted the 'too convenient' prequel-i-tis. With the exception of maybe the ship's crashing 10 times and landing identically. I hope it isn't LV426 either. That's even worse to me.
I'm quoting Holloway in Prometheus there. He says LV223 is a moon "capable of sustaining life."
It isn't capable of sustaining life.
The road to Alien is paved with good intent.
My money is on them going to Colonize LV-223, since the Company is at least, aware of the fact that it is capable of sustaining life. It makes sense for them to send a colony ship there, as opposed to LV426. This then provides for the extra (Derelict) ship, to take off and crash on LV426 at the end of the next film. See? So the Company sends the Covenant ship to Colonize LV223, knowing at least SOME of what happened there during Prometheus, and they don't tell them about it - OR MAYBE SOMEONE KNOWS ABOUT IT, so then they land and x, y and z happens, and THEN, at the end, someone tries to escape in another Engineer ship (David piloting?) with a massive cargo of eggs (egg-morphed colonists?) and that ship ends up crashing on LV-426 AND, I HOPE EVERYTHING IM F'IN TYPING RIGHT NOW, IS COMPLETELY WRONG!
Rather demystifies Alien altogether, as opposed to Prometheus and its story which, while imperfect, at least preserved the larger vague mystery of the epic cataclysm that destroyed the Engineers and led to their dead being strewn across the galaxy on various planets like 223 or 426. We don't have to know everything to know that terrible things happened with their experiments thousands of years ago and something they created destroyed them, leaving their vicious weapons behind - which is what we essentially had been told for decades about the derelict from Alien. As opposed to, let's say, a renegade android planting the eggs there 20 years prior after cooking up some aliens and a fun summer bughunt.
Oh no. That would be dreadful.
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On PARADISE, Shaw AND David are both 'ALIENS.' It makes sense if you think about it.
man its crazy you said that because me and my 10 year old watched the AVP movies and afterwards Alien and to my surprise he liked Alien better...he said simply the first movie was scary and the AVP movies were excessively gory
Everything this says.
Ironically, I recently observed that younger people find Alien boring. They actually like AVP better. The sample group is small, but I found it interesting all the same.
The real answer, and it was apparent all along, is that it can't be proved either way. There's no way to measure that particular effect in either direction.
Enough time wasted here.
Fair enough, that's certainly possible but I don't think it would do so to any egregious degree.
It's highly unlikely to bomb if that's what you're suggesting by "fail". At worst it might make slightly less than Prometheus.
My original response was with regards to you questioning SiL's statement that Covenant will suffer because of Life when the reverse is in fact considerably more likely with it's much bigger marketing budget.
And enough with the attitude dude.
So in three days it would already have made back half it's production budget? That's a pretty big bomb!
People moan about the Alien franchise being tired or creatively bankrupt, but I'd easily go for 6 more Alien films than just one more bloody superhero movie.