Though Ridley Scott is currently filming his Prometheus follow-up, Alien: Covenant, there’s still a future for the franchise as director Neill Blomkamp’s planned fifth film in the series is still in the cards. Speaking with EW, franchise star Sigourney Weaver revealed some new details about the film, saying:
““It’s a great story and it’s satisfying to me to give this woman an ending…The script itself has so much in it that’s so original, but also really satisfies the, I would say, the primal needs of the aliens. It’s a tribute to all of the great work that the other directors have done, in a way, but goes in a completely new direction. I hope we’ll do it.”
Weaver also clarifies the film’s divergent path from Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection.
“It’s just as if, you know, the path forks and one direction goes off to three and four and another direction goes off to Neill’s movie,” Weaver says. “It’s just more, I would say, following Jim Cameron’s story about these characters, rather than just ending up in this sort of monastery in space, which was [Alien3 screenwriter] Vincent Ward’s idea and Fox elected to go in that direction. I think Fincher was fine with that. Each director kind of wanted to create a whole new set of circumstances. In this case, it picks up, it follows directly the circumstances of Jim Cameron’s Aliens.”
Blomkamp and Weaver have currently moved to other projects for the time being, but she remains hopeful the film will be made soon.
“I hope it won’t be a few (years). I hope it’ll be a couple. But we’ll see.”
Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant is currently shooting in Australia for an October 6, 2017 release. Blomkamp’s proposed Alien film would see the return of Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley and Michael Biehn as Cpl. Dwayne Hicks.
