Talking to Digital Spy in new interview, Sir Ridley Scott spoke about the merger between 20th Century Fox and Disney and his thoughts on the possible continuation of the Alien franchise under the House of Mouse.
“I’m hoping I’ll still probably be there so whether or not they go ahead with such a dark subject, being Disney, as aliens remains to be seen. I think they should because I think, when people have a hard and fast franchise which has ongoing interest, it’s crazy not to do something with it.”
While Disney is not known for directly releasing more adult content like Alien, in the past they have owned companies that have such as Miramax, Dimension Films and Touchstone Pictures. Disney has spoke about retaining Fox Searchlight and Fox 2000 as separate entities following the merger so it’s possible any future Alien or Predator films could be put out under those banners.
On the subject of other R-rated material, Disney’s CEO Bob Iger recently confirmed that there was a place within a Disney owned Marvel universe for more R-rated Deadpool films, saying that: “we think there might be an opportunity for a Marvel-R brand for something like Deadpool. As long as we let the audiences know what’s coming, we think we can manage that fine.” So Disney are definitely open to the R-rated content coming from the merger.
In the interview with Digital Spy Scott also spoke a little more about having a plan for where Alien: Covenant 2 would be heading: “I’m in tune with where Covenant 2 would go. We already know what we’d do with that. You’ve got to have a fundamental platform and target where you would take it. It’s a bit like having the skeleton before the meat goes on.”
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They should call it Venis Pagina.
I knew what you meant, semantics aside...
Yes!! Gigerworld! Please!
That seems to be the predominate fan theory/fan fiction before Prometheus.
touché
When Prometheus gave it to us, you mean.
...or a golem if you're that guy.
David's fire is the black goo and he has bent it to his will. So the goo and xenomorph dna existed before David but it is what you do with that fire that makes one a creator. Considering the aliens in Covenant look and act differently from Big Chap, there's still work to do and it's what David does next that becomes The Modern Alien.
It doesn't have personal origins though. It has so many origins it is intentionally difficult to place any one point of central divergence. Will we ever know just how many times it has been wiped out and brought back from extinction by AI or others who become so enraptured with it as though it were some long-lost lover or relative? And even then, there are still many unanswered questions and mysteries left open before the prequel series is concluded (if it ever is), but I don't think they should be answered. The connection between the bio-mechanical appearance of the Xenomorph and the Engineer biotechnology, the organism on the Derelict, the eggs on the Derelict, ANYTHING about LV-426 in relation to the prequels, among other things, such as how David knew they required a Queen as a physical manifestation of a pre-existing hive-mind... guys, the Xenomorph is more than just a physical creature, it's more like a force. That is basically what I'm getting from all of this. The Engineers, even if they didn't make it, they SAW it somewhere before. There is an entirely "other" layer and component of this equation. The Xenomorph when looked at as more of an essence than merely a physical being makes more sense. What would a perfect organism be? Well, an organism that comes from somewhere inorganic, obviously, or beyond mere organics. There is no such thing as a perfect organism - ergo, its origins are far more complicated than the physical creation aspect of the beast, because the physical creation is just the tip of the iceberg...
I would argue that from a narrative standpoint giving the alien 'personal' origins is anathema to what was great about the original film.
Yeah, that.
I don't know why everyone want to see a Xeno... It's a Deacon, the production wanted to put a Deacon, the Engineers created it. And now you will say that in Prometheus it was random circumstances, but no. Human genome and Engineers genome is the same, so same result. Moreover, the effects of the black goo show that every administration create a creature which have similar characteristics : acid for blood, elongated head, no eyes for example. David has just advanced the Deacon to create the Xenomorph. I don't know why everybody always want to find something to contradict that, maybe it's a problem because you don't like that but David create the Xenomorph, that's it...
a movie I watched called prometheus shows a crew of explorers going to a far away star system where they come upon a structure ( at least 2000 years old ) that features paintings and sculptures of the Alien.........
not really much you can argue with that .
unless you think David is a time traveler 😂😂😂
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He created the alien. Not sure what movie you were watching.
What "10,000 years according to Prometheus"?
Of course he did because Scott is so in love with David that I'd be surprised if he isn't retroactively responsible for the birth of the f**king universe
hang on a moment ....... what ?
all we have seen is David bring to life an old science project that was obviously already perfected a long long time ago
at least 10,000 years according to the movie prometheus .
has David really created anything
Gotta make that film only two hours long, so let's cut all the character development scenes out to make room for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYGSYq6QgxE
Does it surprise me that Ridley believes the dark subject matter would be the reason they wouldn't go ahead with the next one?! No! He can't seem to look inward and hold himself accountable for under performing returns. When better fan edits of his own films are made using the scenes he cut, it doesn't inspire confidence in his decision making!
Jar Jar was annoying and I wasn't a massive fan of the prequels. I don't think I ever said to myself though " I'm not wasting my time on the next one".
I feel like this is the same problem the Alien universe has suffered only bigger. They write these things like they are part of a story, but there's no story, the next movie has to pick dependant on what the director or the studio calls for.
Star Wars is a bit more confusing though since it suffers no budget or age restraints like Alien.
Predator is 100% going to do the same thing. It's practically locked in. There will be Predator language translated by a kid and it'll be a one liner.
Unfortunately there's not much similarity. TLJ could quite easily be a stand alone movie that happened to have the same characters in it. You might like it, but it's a very different movie from FA. In some way's it actually makes more sense to start the trilogy at TLJ.
Never this much hate? People are still whining about Jar-Jar and midiclorians nearly 20 years on.
I dunno man. I'm super interested to see the numbers on the next one. They will naturally be lower, but it does feel like a blow to the universe, there was never this much hate even on the prequels. If Alien didn't turn out the way fans thought it might, Star Wars just said hold my beer.
Still, it does follow; either an imperfect recreation by David, or his first original effort that he perfects in the finale.
http://collider.com/alien-covenant-spoilers-things-to-know/#effects
Thank you for finding that. However, it's hard to know here what he's saying 'yes' to. I think there's a world of difference between careful and consistent production design and making the Alien a 'flayed man' on a whim because the director thinks it fits the tone of the movie better. I'd lay money on it being Ridley's personal preference only. I very much doubt that they'd bother to follow through on having David upgrade his version with the full biomech treatment. Those of us who would notice or care are a subset of a subset (passionate fans). Realistically, this is like the constant changes to the Klingons in Star Trek; for all intents and purposes the same character, but radically different in the reimagining.
There was a similar conceit for the damp fleshy Pumpkinhead A:R design of course; human DNA. But in reality it was just ADI & co changing things up based upon personal preference. Same deal here. Except the Covenant interpretation is fantastic IMO. If you're going to change stuff for the sake of it, they did a hell of a job here of making the creature a proper gothic monster, and despite what I just said, an awesome organic forerunner design if anyone does care enough to follow through and biomech it up (grafting on the Engineer suit technology is the obvious way, as others have remarked). I just wish they'd kept the shoulder tubes.
Anyway, it's academic if we never get the third Ridley movie.
I feel in a similar way when I see the legs and the foots of the original monster. Even if the creature couldn't be able to move quickly and easily with the original design, those legs are elegant in comparison.
https://i.imgur.com/kjE8iaJ.jpg
Dude, I had all confidence you would catch on, eventually.
Moving on, as I had already stated earlier and now again, works for me.
100% agree with this and the rest of your post. Some have stated Scott has been an accomplished director, but he is no storyteller.
This is not the first time he's inserted a gimmick without any rhyme or reason to an already established and professional piece of literature. i.e. Blade Runner and the Deck-a-rep gimmick, which P. K. Dick never endorsed despite die hard fans insisting Dick saw footage and approved. True he saw footage, but it was only scenes of the city, Scott never revealed to Dick he was turning Deckard into a replicant. Dick died before the film was finished.
Dude, you just mirrored a joke that I did, and since then you have been exaggerating about it. But I agree, just move on.