Ridley Scott produced Alien: Romulus, however would slightly see a sequel to his film Alien: Covenant than to Fede Alvarez’s film
Final month, twentieth Century Studios president Steve Asbell confirmed {that a} sequel to director Fede Alvarez’s lately launched Alien: Romulus is within the works – so when The Hollywood Reporter talked about in an article that producer Ridley Scott “revealed he’s developing a new Alien movie for 20th in the wake of Romulus’ success,” they’re most likely speaking about that Romulus sequel… although Scott thinks a better option can be to make a follow-up to his 2017 movie Alien: Covenant.
Scott advised THR, “Covenant is the best one [for a sequel] because it leaves the girl in the [cryo pod] and [Michael Fassbender’s killer android] David has alien eggs and 2,000 colonists hanging around. It’s a perfect beginning.” Interviewer James Hibberd instructed that the subsequent movie may very well be a sequel to each Covenant and Romulus, since “both films ended with ships headed to a planet we’ve never been to; there’s no reason those characters couldn’t end up in the same place.”
Scott began the Alien franchise when he directed the 1979 movie, then left the collection behind for a number of years. Now, he has made it clear that he’s attempting to take possession of this franchise (and the Blade Runner franchise as properly). He mentioned, “I made Alien and Blade Runner, but then I moved on. I should have locked them up — as Spielberg would have with Jurassic Park, and everything he does, and Cameron has done. Studios paid for them, but there’s a way of locking yourself into [ownership] during the negotiation. I watched Alien 2, 3 and 4 and realized, ‘Oh, you just ran that firmly into the ground.’ Then I went back to [former 20th Century Fox chief Tom Rothman] and said, ‘Listen, there’s a way out. We should resurrect Alien with Prometheus.’ They made half a billion dollars — by now probably a billion with all the resales. It’s not what happens at the box office, it’s what happens after the box office. Then I went back with Alien: Covenant, and that was big and ambitious and maybe too intellectual to play as well. It still did $250 million, and I still stupidly didn’t lock it up. I don’t blame me, because I’m busy. I blame a couple other people, which is why we parted company.” Scott admitted that Aliens was enjoyable, “after which three and 4 simply evaporated.“
Justin Alvarado Brown, president and COO of Scott’s manufacturing firm Scott Free, and the remainder of the group at Scott Free now work to make it possible for the corporate will keep concerned with any continuations of Scott’s legacy titles, which is why Scott was a producer on Alien: Romulus and is producing the upcoming TV collection Alien: Earth. Brown mentioned, “It would make no sense that another (Alien or Blade Runner) movie is made without Ridley and us.” On the Blade Runner facet of issues, Scott Free is producing the Prime Video collection Blade Runner 2099.
What do you consider Scott Free being concerned with each Alien and Blade Runner mission going ahead, and do you agree with Ridley Scott that Alien: Covenant is the Alien movie that ought to get a sequel? Tell us by leaving a remark under.
