Quote from: xShadowFoxX on Apr 28, 2024, 12:13:03 AMIn favor of Ridley's direction, correct?
Yep, for a while the plan was to do
Covenant and then this, but Fox got cold feet and didn't want to commit to multiple projects simultaneously, and they put their money on
Covenant due to Scott being the "father" of the franchise and already being committed to this particular branch of the franchise via
Prometheus.
Then a few months after
Covenant's release, Disney was buying out Fox, and the rest was history.
I'm a bit hazy on the dates, but I'm pretty sure Noah Hawley's show was also pitched during, roughly, this same era, and Fox passed on that as well. It was only under Disney-owned 20th Century Studios (via FX/Hulu) that life sprung back into that one.