It’s been nine months since we last heard from Katherine Waterston regarding Alien: Awakening (aka Alien: Covenant 2). She told the world then that she hadn’t “heard anything in ages.” In a new interview with ThePlaylist (via Bloody Disgusting) Waterston revealed that nothing has progressed since but she’s still very much interested in reprising her role.
Speaking of “Alien,” has there been much talk with Ridley about the next installment?
No, basically. I don’t live in Hollywood, and I’m always usually the last person to know even what’s going on in my own career. So, [I’m] probably not the best person to ask. But I did get some sense of where they thought they might like to take it when we were shooting ‘Covenant,’ and it sounded really interesting. I would be absolutely game to do more if they wanted to have me. But that’s all I know. I’m sure they’ve changed their minds anyway. And there’s been probably loads of different ideas going around and everything. But just in case I spoil something by talking about it, I wouldn’t dare.
Following Alien: Covenant’s disappointment at the box office, Sir Ridley Scott has spoken a few times about potential directions for the next film and it gave us flashbacks to the times of Prometheus where Scott was sure the Alien was no longer interesting, instead wanting to focus on the A.I of the Alien series.
20th Century Fox just this week confirmed that there was no new Alien film was on the horizon.
“Alien: Blackout,” the mobile survival horror game revealed earlier this week, is part of a broader 20th Century Fox initiative to tell new stories in the franchise around Amanda Ripley. The initiative, branded around the “ReadWatchPlay” slogan, won’t include any other games, nor is it tied to a new feature film, 20th Century Fox’s FoxNext tells Variety.”
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Whereas I think Prometheus and Resurrection fluctuate for last place.
I hate what Resurrection did to the lore, and the Resurrection of Ripley.
(Hopefully someday we'll get a film set after Resurrection,
with everything we knew and loved from the OT back- intact and then
this complaint would be mostly non-existant, aside from the cloning itself.)
But as it's self contained thing, it's infinitely more coherent as a film.
Whereas Prometheus' lore creations I really, really appreciate.
The Pathogen, Peter Weyland, the timeline, the gear, the ship.
Aside from the Engineers = Space Jockey concept.
If the Engineers were established as their own thing,
that problem would be solved for me personally but
the film itself, Resurrection's always the victor.
Alien Trilogy, TCF, Isolation, "Covenant", Resurrection, Prometheus.
If that was the intention, it strikes me as a tad pretentious when viewing the result. Still, I'll try to put myself in that frame of mind the next time I watch it and see if any of my feelings differ towards it.
How would you rank Covenant among the Ripley trilogy?
I think it would be cooler if the Alien itself, with the invention
of the hive structure terraformed an entire celestial body.
Rather than having David be involved, in that directly.
David's motivations are clearly delineated from the opening scene, also; the creator/creation dynamic is more clearly presented with Weyland and David's dialogue exchange and interaction there and it also sets up Milton's influence throughout - the white room being heaven, Weyland being the Creator and David being the most brilliant angel that threatens his throne, etc.
Covenant asks the question - what if the Devil or Frankenstein's monster could create? I for one NEED to see David's planet of the juicy dongs.
The editing in Prometheus is completely f**ked, Covenant's is not.
Covenant knows what it is, Prometheus does not.
Nah, Covenant- aside from the Xenomorph in the ship at the end being somewhat lacklustre but not always- is a superior film.
(when it's standing up and moving around slowly like a man it's pretty fantastic and so is the visuals of the atmospheric decompression.)
Aside from some of the production design of the human crafts, spacesuits and weaponry which I thought were much more interesting looking in Prometheus, Covenant is much, much better film it's probably just that because Prometheus doesn't know what it's about- in your head you can define it therefore in whatever way you want, whereas Covenant actually has a strong narrative theme. As many smarter than me have said, Covenant's a Romanticism; Gothic Horror in space and if you're not willing to approach it like you would that genre of literature, you're not going to be interested.
While Prometheus had just a wonderful, thrilling final trailer, I would agree Covenant trailers were very lackluster. I honestly would equate that result to the film itself feeling lackluster. Watching Covenant gives me the feeling that Ridley Scott was just going through the motions, and his heart was no longer in it, if that makes any sense.
I'm not at all calling Prometheus a perfect film, but for me, nothing is superior in Covenant over Prometheus. From casting, to acting, to the narrative, to pacing and direction, Covenant just fails in almost every comparison.
A bad script is a fairly strong argument to say it's a bad film, wouldn't you agree?
"Oh you won't fool me this time, Ridley Scott!" is in reference to
Prometheus' script, and therefore a lack of anticipation towards 2017's Alien.
Oof
Well, it's obviously a flawed film like Covenant but the visuals, special effects, music and acting (Fassbender mostly) is why I still love it. I guess it's sort of a matter of opinion anyway.
Yeah...
Trust me, I more than anyone would've loved for Prometheus to be good
and for a long time I was infatuated with the idea that it was
and people simply didn't understand it, but it isn't.
It's still more interesting than the vast majority of films that are "good"
(passable) but it itself, is not good.
Yeah, it is.
With the awareness that Prometheus was crap, a sense of "Oh you won't fool me this time, Ridley Scott!" was in the air,
which most likely contributed to it's decrease in commercial success despite IMO, being a superior film in the narrative.
And a concept that we'd seen before.
(From the trailers perspective.)
It's more easy to see why audiences didn't have a interest when you compare it to what Prometheus did have.
Prometheus' the return of Ridley Scott to Sci-Fi, a cast of hot new stars and an return to sense of legitimacy in that Prometheus was described as it's own thing in the Alien Universe, the complete opposite of the abortion of AVP/AVPR people had suffered five years prior- that had little to do with the series history creatively, aesthetically, narratively or thematically beyond the creature itself.
Quality is not just how the movie looks. Quality for me is the story itself with its characters, dialogues, tension, pacing and so on. Quality in overall. Prometheus and Covenant don't have that quality.
As seen with Blade Runner 2049. Then you'll have a movie like Avatar. A technical showpiece that'll make all the money in the world, but is narratively bankrupt. Or franchise movies like Fallen Kingdom and Star Wars.
We could also argue whether people simply felt Covenant was a worse movie, but that's harder to quantify.
I disagree. Genre definitely is a factor. Covenant was marketed like a slasher film, to be like a classic Alien movie, with emphasis on gore and the return of the classic creature. Prometheus, even though it's related to the franchise, had much more broader appeal because it wasn't sold like a slasher.
It's the f**king writing.
Granted. But not under the 'Alien' name.
Alien and Aliens became famous (don't know if they were actual blockbusters in their time) and made money because they were good films. Nowadays they try to do it the other way around.
It is a bomb because the marketing for AC was really expensive.
I understand the disappointment but AC did not bomb. It underperformed.
A box office "bomb" is when a movie can't make double the production budget at the box office. (Studios get about 1/2 of box office money partly through strange Hollywood accounting.)
So a "bomb" can't even pay for its production budget (and make up other costs through streaming, cable, disk sales).
- Examples of box office bombs; "Solo: A Star Wars Story", "Star Trek Beyond", "Green Lantern", "John Carter".
"Alien Covenant" had a Production Budget = $97 million.
Total box office = $240,891,763.
AC made 2.48 times its production budget.
That's about the same ratio as "Batman Begins" (box office 2.49 times the production budget); also not a bomb.
The difference is that in the past Fox and Warner Brothers would do sequels for underperforming films.
Disney which is now in charge of Fox films, wants blockbusters. Alien and Predator movies haven't been blockbusters for decades.
I'm sure he'd have figured out a way to make it more aesthetically pleasing to him.
"A superior species, no doubt?"
That would have looked f'king ridiculous. Can you imagine a little pinheaded David noggin mounted on top of a humongous Engineer body?
Transporting to recess thread.
Sponsored by Club Giger.
Just calling them dongs, would've sufficed.
"If you've got a hankerin' for something different, then come on down to Planet David, home of the Juicy Dong".
"Sink your canines into a Colonist Combo Meal, and wash it all down with a refreshingly large Black Goo Cola."
"Trying to watch your figure? Can't decide what you want? Try something from our new Neurosis Menu. You'll never believe it, or anything else again".