We are still a couple of months away fromAlien: Covenanthitting theaters, but that isn’t preventingRidley Scottfrom planning way ahead. Assuming this movie is everything we hope it could be, and it looks like it will be, that is probably for the best. Not only does the director have a script written for the next installment, but he has revealed the title for it as well.
While speaking withFandango,Ridley Scottrevealed that the title for the nextAlienmovie will beAlien: Awakening. That, in itself, is pretty interesting but it is how he said it, or more, where he said it that really raises some eyebrows.
“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. (T)here will be more after this. If this is successful, and then the next one, and then there will definitely be three more.”
Alright, so that is pretty interesting. There are one of two things going on here. One,Ridley Scottslipped up and said the titles of these movies in the wrong order. Two, he is going the completely crazy route andAlien: Awakeningwill be a prequel toAlien: Covenant. That would be enough to make anyone’s head hurt.Prometheus, a prequel to the originalAlien, will be followed byAlien: Covenant, a movie that is a sequel toPrometheusbut also still a prequel toAlien. Then will comeAlien: Awakening, a movie that will be a prequel to theAlienprequelAlien: Covenantand a sequel to the prequelPrometheus. Or, hopefully, it is just that he screwed up and he meant to say “Prometheus, Covenant, Awakening.”
What is also interesting is thatRidley Scottpretty much confirms that afterAlien: Awakening, we will be bumping right up against the events of the originalAlien, which is very exciting. But as he has said previously, he wants to make these movies for a long time and possibly as many as six of them. He reiterates that here, saying that ifAlien: CovenantandAlien: Awakeningdo well, there will beanother Alien trilogy. As for where that trilogy will fall in the timeline is unclear, but it looks likeRidley Scottis going to be completely happy making these movies until the day he dies. If the movies are good, there probably won’t be any complaints.
There is the elephant in the room here that possibly needs to be addressed.Ridley Scottis 79-years-old andAlien: Awakeningisn’t even going to be his next movie. It has been announced that he will helmAll the Money in the World, a movie based on the true story of the kidnapping ofJohn Paul Getty III, which may haveNatalie Portmanplaying Getty’s motherGail Harris. Scott isn’t going to live forever, even if he wants to, so he may at some point have to pass the torch on theseAlien movies. Or he might be a robot. One of those two things.
We’ll have to see how this all winds up going down, but fans can rest easy at the very least knowing thatRidley Scottdoesn’t seem to have any plans to retire. At least not in the near future.Alien: CovenantstarsMichael Fassbender,Noomi Rapace,James Franco,Demian Bichir,Katherine Waterston,Danny McBride,Carmen Ejogo,Amy Seimetz,Jussie Smollett,Callie Hernandez,Nathaniel Dean,Alexander England,Benjamin RigbyandBilly Crudup.Alien: Covenantis directed byRidley Scottand is set for release on May 19.
