Acclaimed director Ridley Scott has shared his thoughts on the future of the Alien franchise, particularly his idea for a third prequel film.
Speaking to the LA Times in a recent interview, Scott spoke openly about a prospective return to the 40-year-old sci-fi franchise, saying that he would like to see the next Alien film explore the secret origins of the Xenomorph eggs from the original 1979 classic.
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“I still think there’s a lot of mileage in Alien, but I think you’ll have to now re-evolve,” he admitted. “What I always thought when I was making the first one [was] why would a creature like this be made and why was it traveling in what I always thought was a kind of war-craft, which was carrying a cargo of these eggs. What was the purpose of the vehicle and what was the purpose of the eggs? That’s the thing to question – who, why, and for what purpose is the next idea, I think.”
In the first Alien movie, Ripley and the other crew members of the Nostromo stumble upon the mysterious hive of eggs inside the abandoned Space Jockey ship on LV-426. In the decades since then, we have seen an entire franchise of seemingly unstoppable, acid-bleeding, double-jaw chomping xenomorphs burst from the chest of this original concept to breed a whole host of new storylines with some mixed results.
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Alien: Covenant opened to an estimated $36 million in the United States in 2017, a figure that was down 34 percent from Prometheus’ opening weekend in 2012. Further to this, Covenant suffered a severe 71 percent drop in its second weekend at the box office. Despite performing below some prior expectations, Covenant still had one of the Alien franchise’s strongest debuts, unadjusted for inflation.
In the past, Scott, who helmed the original Alien film for Fox in 1979, as well as the two recent prequels, revealed his intentions to make two further sequels to Covenant, with the last film planned to lead directly into Alien. However, the now-infamous Disney/Fox merger that took place in 2019 has likely put a pause on those prequels for now.
For more on the ramifications of that acquisition, find out what Disney’s rebranding of their Fox properties could mean for the future of those franchises.
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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.
Source: IGN.com Alien: Ridley Scott Says Prequel Film About Xenomorph Eggs Is the 'Next Idea'