Ridley Scott Says ALIEN: COVENANT is The Best Alien Film For a Sequel
Last week we learned that Ridley Scott is developing a new Alien movie for 20th Century Studios. There were no details revealed on what this Alien project will be, but we speculated that it could be a sequel to Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.
Well, during a recent interview with THR, Scott was talking about the franchise and he said that Alien: Covenant is the best choice for an Alien sequel.
He explained: “Covenant is the best one [for a sequel] because it leaves the girl in the [cryo pod] and [Michael Fassbender’s killer android] David has alien eggs and 2,000 colonists hanging around. It’s a perfect beginning.”
With a comment like that, it’s a safe bet that the film Scott is working on just might be the Covenant sequel. 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.”
It’ll be interesting to see what kind of Alien movie Scott ends up making, but there are a lot of fans out there that would like to see the filmmaker make a sequel to Covenant.