Ridley Scott is Developing a New ALIEN Movie
Following the success of Alien: Romulus, word comes that director Ridley Scott is working on another Alien flick.
The Hollywood Reporter recently published a profile on Scott and his Scott Free Productions and according to the article, Scott is “developing a new Alien movie for [20th Century Studios].”
There are no details on what this Alien project will be, but maybe it will be the sequel to Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.
Scott’s Alien: Covenant sequel was titled Alien: Awakening and a script for it was written by John Logan.
The film would see Michael Fassbender‘s android David finding himself up against the Engineers on LV-426, which is the moon where the Xenomorph was discovered in the first Alien film.
It was revealed: “Logan’s script would have seen the return of Prometheus’ Engineers, with that species’ survivors coming after the genocidal David. Setting-wise, Scott said it was obvious ‘We’re gonna actually go to the planet’. by which we assume he means LV-426.”
Seeing David facing off against the Engineers on LV-426 would be interesting to see. We’ll just have to wait and see if this is actually the Lien film that Scott is developing.
Fede Alvarez is developing the sequel to Alien: Romulus, so this Scott project appears to be a completely separate thing.
Fox president Steve Asbell previously talked about the Alien: Romulus sequel saying: "We're working on a sequel idea now. We haven't quite closed our deal with Fede [Alvarez], but we are going to, and he has an idea that we're working on.
"The two survivors, Rain and Andy, played by Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson, were real highlights of the film. And so I always think of it like, 'Wow, where do people want to see them go next?'
“We know there's going to be aliens. We know there's going to be great horror set pieces. But I fell in love with both of them and I want to see what their story is."
When asked about the possibility of a sequel, Alvarez said: “Yes, I definitely can [pitch a sequel right now]. We tend to do that naturally, not even thinking about sequels.
“For us, movies have not become franchises, tentpoles and sequels. This is a language that I’ve only learned in the last ten years of my life working [in Hollywood]. For me, it’s always been about story.”
He continued to tease where the story could go: “So, once we finished, we started thinking, ‘What do you think happens when or if they get to Yvaga? Is it going to be great? Or is it a terrible place?’
“We tend to believe it’s probably a terrible place that they think is great and fantasize about, so we naturally started thinking about where it goes and what’s going to happen.
“And then, a few minutes in, we go, ‘Oh, that sounds like a sequel.’ But we really try to think about it more in terms of story and if it needs another chapter and whether people want to know what happens next.”
“So we’ll wait to see what people think and if people ask for it. My philosophy is that you should never make [a sequel] in two years. You’ve got to get away. You’ve got to get the audience to really want it.
“If you think about Alien and Aliens, there’s seven years between them. But we definitely have ideas about where it should go.”
