Ridley Scott has been out and about on the press tour for Alien Covenant, the Prometheus sequel which officially launches in the UK this very week. Speaking with the UK arm of IGN, the director revealed that work is already underway on the next instalment in the series. More on the Alien Covenant sequel below.
Scott told IGN UK, “we’re writing [a sequel] now, as we speak. I’ll be filming that within 14 months.”
Great news! Scott also touched on the now defunct Alien 5 project which was set to be directed by Chappie and District 9 helmer Neill Blomkamp. It was revealed that the film was officially a no-go just last week.
“They wanted to do Alien, er, Awakening – Neill Blomkamp. I said fine. I was going to be the producer. If I could have, I would have. Except I do question – why have both [Blomkamp’s Alien and Scott’s Alien] out there? It seems like shooting your big toe off – it doesn’t make sense.
“But they didn’t go forward with it, Fox, so I just kind of kept out of it. I mean, I’d literally ignited this thing to bring it off the ground again, because it was lying there dormant on a shelf. I had this thing to bring it back up – but here we are.”
Alien Covenant starts to roll out in U.K. cinemas tomorrow with U.S. audiences getting the chance to see it on screens from May 19th. The film has been getting some fairly mixed reviews, but we caught the movie late last week and really liked what Scott and co. were attempting to do with it. You can read our full review of the film over here.
Alien Covenant stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Amy Seimetz, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Nathaniel Dean, Alexander England, Benjamin Rigby, and James Franco.
More on the Alien Covenant sequel as we get it.
