Speaking at a press conference
in Sydney Australia, where he is getting ready for the arduous 16-week shoot of
Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott confirmed that he has two additional movies
already lined up that will get us closer to the events of the 1979 film.
Alien: Covenant and the
following two films will be origin stories, answering the "very basic
questions posed in Alien: why the alien, who might have made it and where did
it come from?"
Scott who of his own accord doesn't
make sequels, says that what drove him to do Prometheus was the fact that none
of the Alien sequels ever tried to explain where the Aliens come from and who
made them.
"Prometheus
1 was borne out of my
frustration that on Alien
1 in 1979
- I only did one as I don't normally do sequels. I was amazed that in the 3
that followed that no-one asked the question "why the Alien, who made
it and why?" Very basic questions. So I came up with the notion of Prometheus 1, which starts to indicate who might
have made it and where it came from."
The
filmmaker also spoke about Alien: Covenant, and how it will connect to the Alien
franchise.
"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."
Last week 20th
Century Fox released the official synopsis for Alien: Covenant that reads:
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.
So far only Fassbender has been officially confirmed
by the studio, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, Noomi Rapace will also
return though they say her role will be significantly smaller in comparison to
Prometheus where she was one of the leads. In fact, the site says that she will
have a brief appearance.
Alien: Covenant
hits theaters on October 6, 2017.
Source - THR
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