Ridley Scott does not seem confident that the upcoming Alien TV series for FX will live up his 1979 original. During an interview with The Independent, Scott briefly discusses his revival of the Alien franchise which started in 2012 with Prometheus and ended with Alien: Covenant in 2017 before making comments about the upcoming Alien series being developed by Legion showrunner Noah Hawley:
[Scott is] more vocal about the ‘Alien’ franchise, which he resurrected with 2012’s origin story ‘Prometheus.’ ‘I never showed an alien in it” — it still made $404 million at the box office — ‘and the studio … said, “See, it didn’t do so well!” Really?’ He returned with 2017’s ‘Alien: Covenant,’ ‘put the aliens back in there,’ and the film made much less: $240m worldwide. ‘When you’ve got a marvelous beast, it does wear out and you have to actually think again.'
Wherever [the series goes], whatever they do, ‘It’ll never be as good as the first one,’ [Scott] grins. ‘That’s what I’ll say.'
Sounds like Scott isn't too impressed with the direction Alien is being taken, after losing his opportunity to dive deep into the Alien mythos for some time. Although there have been talks of Scott making another Alien film in the future, his most recent remarks concerning that suggest the next Alien film will abandon the Prometheus / Covenant plot entirely.
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