‘Alien: Covenant’ Will Be The First In A New Trilogy
Within the past couple weeks,Prometheus 2officially got anew title and a synopsis detailing the sequelto the prequel to the Alien franchise from directorRidley Scott. The movie is calledAlien: Covenant, and the fast track for this project ended uppushing back Neill Blomkamp’sAlien 5to an undetermined time, and if Scott’s new plan for the Alien franchise continues, it might be a long time before we see that movie.
At a press conference in Sydney, Australia where Scott is in pre-production on Alien: Covenant, he revealed that this will actually be the first in a new trilogy that will lead us all the way back to the original Alien from 1979. More below!
THRhas the details from the press conference where Scott spoke vaguely aboutAlien: Covenantand what we can expect from the follow-up to Prometheus:
As we know now,Alien: Covenantwill follow the crew of the colony ship Covenant discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world — whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition. And this is just the beginning as Scott revealed a wholeAlienprequel trilogy in the works:
“So I’m now going to the next one, which is the next evolution directly connected with the first one, which was this Shaw, when he replaced Michael Fassbender in two pieces and we’ll kind of pick it up there and it will evolve. When that’s finished there’ll be another one and then another one which will gradually drive into the back entrance of the film in 1979. So in other words, why was this space jockey there and why did he have an Alien inside him? And those questions will be answered.”
Honestly, there’s a part of me that doesn’t really want to know the origins of the xenomorphs fromAlien, if only due to the risk of being disappointed. That’s a risk you take with any movie, but sincePrometheuswas largely disappointing, I’m skeptical about Scott being able to deliver something great that satisfies longtime fans of his classic sci-fi horror film that has influenced so many filmmakers over the years.
But this movie is happening whether we’re optimistic or not, and it sounds like two more will be following it. However, since this is Ridley Scott we’re talking about, who knows how long it will take for him to get those off the ground.
In the meantime,Alien: Covenantis set to shoot at Fox Studios in Sydney for 16 weeks beginning in March of 2016 with Michael Fassbender confirmed to return and Noomi Rapace appearing briefly in Covenant (as confirmed by Scott). Scott will be using a mix of location and studio sets including “monumental forest and monumental rock [sets] and the rest will be in the studio with fairly formidable CGI.”
Here’s hoping this sequel is worth waiting for when it arrives onOctober 6th, 2017
