Quote from: Ingwar on Jun 19, 2017, 11:22:51 PM
Quote from: 0321recon on Jun 19, 2017, 08:40:19 PM
Crossing my fingers that Fox is taking notice of this and if its still possible to course correct for the final film - try at best to close the Dr. Shaw's narrative via flashbacks and explore the engineers.
I hope they won't correct anything. Otherwise it will make things even worse. They should have done it in Covenant. It's too late now. Just leave it as it is.
When thinking about the next Alien prequel, there are many things affecting box office as already mentioned.
One problem I'd add is the deep split among the Alien franchise fans. So, there is no correct story that will please every group of franchise enthusiasts.
* Examples from well known YouTube channels about "Covenant";
- Angry Joe hated the parts about "Prometheus" and loved the parts with the xenomorph.
- Jay Bauman of Red Letter Media loved the parts from "Prometheus" and hated the parts with the xenomorph.
Bottom line; "Covenant" underperformed. In terms of the ratio of box office divided by production budget, it's done a bit better than "Resurrection" and not as well as AVP.
To me it's premature to talk about the next Alien movie.
With the weak performance of "Covenant" it's not certain what Fox will do with the next Alien film.
My guess is that the studio will go for a very cheap production budget and Ridley may not be the director. Who knows?
- If "X-Men Apocalypse" is used as a comparison, the sequel for that, "Dark Phoenix", will have a director change. Bryan Singer is stepping aside and Simon Kinberg will direct.