Ridley Scott Says Neill Blomkamp's ALIEN 5 is Coming in 2017

Ridley Scott is finishing up his promotional duties for The Martian (in theaters now) and getting right to work on Alien: Paradise Lost, his sequel to Prometheus. That begins filming early next year, and based on an early report we read a month or so ago, we understood that the film would be hitting theaters in 2017 while Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5 — a continuation of the story of Sigourney Weaver's Ripley that seems to conveniently ignore certain films in the franchise — would be arriving in 2018.

That no longer appears to be the case, or perhaps it never was the case to begin with. In an interview with The Daily Beast, Scott himself gives an updated timeline for the upcoming movies set in the Alien universe:

I’m actually going to be working again with Michael Fassbender in February on Prometheus 2. It’s written, so I’m not chugging along and trying to work out where we’re going to do it. With something like that, it’s six-month prep. We’re going to call itAlien: Paradise Lost. We’re getting closer and closer to the creation of the beasts—how and why they were created—and the first Alien film that I made over thirty years ago. And we have Neill Blomkamp’s Alien, which will be out in 2017. We just have the first [screenplay] draft in so far but it looks pretty good.

It remains to be seen how 20th Century Fox is going to handle having a different Alien movie come out in back-to-back years with Scott's taking place years before Ripley's adventures in the first film and Blomkamp's jumping forward to take place following the events of James Cameron's Aliens. It's enough to give the marketing department nightmares, and it'll be interesting to see how they decide to present these movies so general audiences don't get too confused.

Which one are you looking forward to more: Scott's Alien: Paradise Lost, or Blomkamp's Alien 5?