‘Alien: Covenant’ Will Be The First In A New Trilogy
By Ethan Anderton/Nov. 27, 2015 8:00 am EST
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!
THR has the details from the press conference where Scott spoke vaguely about Alien: Covenant and what we can expect from the follow-up to Prometheus:
As we know now, Alien: Covenant will 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 whole Alien prequel trilogy in the works:
Honestly, there’s a part of me that doesn’t really want to know the origins of the xenomorphs from Alien, if only due to the risk of being disappointed. That’s a risk you take with any movie, but since Prometheus was 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.
“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.”
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.
Here’s hoping this sequel is worth waiting for when it arrives on October 6th, 2017
