Following the premiere of Alien: Covenant, Sir Ridley Scott has been fielding many questions from the press at the various junkets. IGN UK has posted their own chat with Ridley Scott where they put across some questions about Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5/3.2 and the sequel to Covenant, Awakening:
“We’re writing [a sequel] now, as we speak. I’ll be filming that within 14 months.”
Ridley Scott has spoken previously about how he wanted to move onto the next Alien prequel fairly quickly, stating that he didn’t want to leave another substantial gap between the films.
Interestingly, Ridley Scott seemed to suggest that the name for Blomkamp’s aborted Alien project might have been Alien: Awakening. This may just be a slip of the tongue though. He does re-emphasize that 20th Century Fox didn’t want to proceed with the new Alien sequel:
“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.”
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Awakening from what? From cryosleep-nightmare (alien3/R) of course!
Neill's Alien5:Awakening??Is that correct?
Can't wait for Covenant ! But I also want films post-Alien Resurrection. And I'm all for the Ripley clone showing up again !
Ridley could film the sequel easily next summer as fast he works.He wraps a movie within 3 month or less.He could just film his other project this year and covenant sequel a year later.If Covenant is a hit than Fox will want to have the next for the 40th anniversary as mentioned.Than could be Alien 5 next if these movies doing great.I hope so.
@SyntaX : please no spoilers like this:
"Although David is responsible for the creation of a Xenomorph himself"
thanks
Things could've been alot better. The more I think about Covenant, the more I start to hate it
I really hope an upcoming Alien movie doesn't mess around with what has been established in Alien/Aliens. Although David is responsible for the creation of a Xenomorph himself ... I'd really hate the idea he was responsible for all of them.
Let's hope Ridley Scott is able to connect the dots himself instead of reinventing the entire franchise. Leave Alien and Aliens out of this. Connect to Alien and leave it at that. Damn shame Alien 5 (Blomkamp's version) has been canned. Could've been a great ride seeing Hicks, Ripley and Newt return.
While I enjoyed Covenant, I still found it's flaws really groan inducing, I think it's time to hand over the reins again.
So does this confirm that Neill's Alien 5 movie was meant to be titled Alien Awakening?
In that context, when youre getting the same questions 10 times a day from different outlets, who *wouldn't* have a little fun and tell each one something different?
Edit - just to be clear, what I'm saying in all seriousness is Ridley might make another, it might be in only 14 months ... but it's unlikely, and I wouldn't believe what he says now. Not because he's lying, but because he's spitballing, and thinking aloud, as he does.
People shouldn't take what he says as being fact, until the movie actually starts pre production. Then and only then will we know, huh, he is making a new alien film
Thank god for that!!
After Prometheus, I believe they were clueless about the proper direction of the story. But now it's different, they have a clear vision of where to go. But I could be wrong
That's a great idea.
And they'd for sure want to capitalize on that Alien Day promo!
-Windebieste.
Right, although this time it's a bit different. They're already working on the script with the same writer and there is more focus with what they want to do next, now that the prequels are back on track. Delays could still happen but if they go ahead with shooting next summer, we could easily get the next one in 2019.
It sounds a bit optimistic to be shooting next year. Unless there is some way to cash in on pre-Brexit film studios etc...
He did have the support of Weaver though.
I'm sure Scott probably liked his idea, but the prequels are what he and Fox are focusing on at this time.
Because star wars is absolutely guaranteed box office returns. Aliens is not.
It would ultimately still have been the studio's decision. But Scott seems to contradict himself since he also says; "If I could have, I would have [produced it]". And why wouldn't it make sense? If Disney can produce two new Star Wars movies in different time periods why can't Fox do the same with Alien?
Also a lot of confusion with regards to Alien: Awakening. First it was supposed to be a prequel to Alien: Covenant and now it was apparently the title of Blomkamp's project? WTF?
He also asked question:
That means studio might have listened to what Ridley was thinking and they killed it.
Well he said; "I just kind of kept out of it". I interpreted that as, he didn't want to get involved with the studio's politics.
Yeah, that will be the determining factor. He's doing "All the Money in the World" next, a relatively small project that will probably keep him busy for the next six months or so.
Hoping for the best though. Just worried that public perception of the movie might not be up to par. Googling Alien Covenant will drop some rather tepid/disappointing reviews on the first page of results.