Ridley Scott Expresses His Willingness To Make Six More Movies Set In The Xenoverse After ALIEN: COVENANT
It looks like the 79-year-old director is not willing to retire anytime soon, as he's planning to explain the Alien mythos in not one, not two - but at least SIX more installments of the main series
If anybody's eagerly waiting to see Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5 with Sigourney Weaver, Ridley Scott has some bad news for you - he's not done with those damn Engineers yet. The British director seems to be determined to explain every single bit of the Xenomorphs' origin with six more movies, following this May's second prequel to his directorial debut from almost 40 years ago, the original Alien.
In the recent interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, Scott confirmed that he wants to deepen the mythology of Alien, after raising new questions instead of answering old ones in Prometheus; "What we did really well on Prometheus, considering that it was a ground zero idea that was starting all over again, was I discovered that people do have an appetite for the alien and what he means and his evolution – the egg, the facehugger, the chestburster as we call them. People still want to see it. So I return to a little bit of that but not wholeheartedly; there's a lot in here which is new as well.[...] I’m not going to close it down again. No way.”
The director also gives us some idea of when he might be planning to shoot these Alien: Covenant sequels: "You’ve got to assume to a certain extent success and from that you’d better be ready. You don’t want a two-year gap. So I’ll be ready to go again next year.” To make the future installments on time, Scott may need to film the movies back to back, just like James Cameron and his Avatar series.
Do you think the original Alien needs so many sequels and prequels? Be sure to leave your thoughts down below! The horror begins on May 18.
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.