Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant opens in May, and recently, he’s been showing off footage and talking about the franchise’s future. He made waves saying he already has a script for the next film, and even said there could be three more after that. Now, he may have slipped and let us know the title of that next Alien film… maybe?
Ridley Scott and Danny McBride on the set of Alien Covenant. Image: Fox
Speaking to Fandango, Scott said the following when asked about the timeline between Prometheus, Covenant and, eventually, Alien.
There will be another one before we kind of literally and logically, clockwise, back into the rear back head of [the original] Alien…. It will go Prometheus, Awakening, Covenant… fairly integral where this colonization ship is on the way….
It’s here that, apparently, he was cut off by his Covenant star Katharine Waterston for giving away too much information. Scott then finished by saying, “If this is successful, and then the next one, and then there will definitely be three more.”
So it seems like, maybe, the next film would potentially be Alien: Awakening, which is a cool title and certainly a fitting one to potentially lead into the original Alien. But there are two problems with this exchange. The first, obviously, is that Scott makes it sound like Awakening comes before Covenant. So either it’s a prequel to Covenant (unlikely) or he simply misspoke (more likely).
Then there’s his first quote. Scott says there “will be another one before” linking back up with Alien. Later he said there will be three more after that. Which is it? One more or four more? If I had to guess, Scott himself isn’t sure. Maybe he has a story that he could tell in four movies if there’s a demand for them. But, if there isn’t, he could wrap it up in one movie. Obviously, we don’t know for sure. What we do know is any future Alien movies ride on audiences turning out for (and liking) Alien: Covenant on May 18.
[Fandango]