Ridley Scott thinks Fox and Disney would be crazy not to continue on from Alien: Covenant with a sequel explaining the fate of Daniels, Tennessee and David. During a recent press junket, the Alien and Blade Runner filmmaker addressed questions concerning the future of the Alien franchise, given Fox's new ownership at Disney and Covenant's poor box office returns. Despite recent rumors suggesting the contrary, Scott still believes his Alien: Covenant sequel is moving forward and that it will indeed pick up where Covenant left off:
I think they have to. There’s no reason why Alien should now not be on the same level for fans as Star Trek and Star Wars. So I think the next step as to where we go is, do we sustain the Alien (series) with the evolution of the beast or do we reinvent something else? I think you need to have an evolution on this famous beast because he’s the best monster ever, really.
Regarding if Scott would like to return to direct the sequel:
I would like to; they’re crazy if they don’t. David is a fantastic villain. I love what Michael Fassbender did in Covenant. But it’s f***ing hard, dude. We lifted Alien out of a ditch and made Prometheus.
You can watch the interview below:
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2017-12-27 18:40:47
Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in ALIEN with ALIEN: COVENANT, the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with PROMETHEUS -- and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science fiction. Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, 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.
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