20th Century Fox‘s upcoming film Alien: Covenant is only a few days away from the silver scree near you weekend, but talk about the when sequel will begin shooting is already happening. Director Ridley Scott told IGN UK, “we’re writing [a sequel] now, as we speak. I’ll be filming that within 14 months.”
He also gave some new info on Neill Blomkamp’s now defunct Alien film, calling it Awakening, a title that Scott has used in reference to the possible upcoming films in the series.
Scott told the site, “They wanted to do Alien, er, Awakening – Neill Blomkamp. I said fine. I was going to be the producer. If I could have, I would have. Except I do question – why have both [Blomkamp’s Alien and Scott’s Alien] out there? It seems like shooting your big toe off – it doesn’t make sense.
“But they didn’t go forward with it, Fox, so I just kind of kept out of it. I mean, I’d literally ignited this thing to bring it off the ground again, because it was lying there dormant on a shelf. I had this thing to bring it back up – but here we are.”
Alien: Covenant stars Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Amy Seimetz, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Nathaniel Dean, Alexander England, Benjamin Rigby, and James Franco.
John Logan (Spectre) and Dante Harper provided the Alien: Covenant screenplay. Alien: Covenant will open in theaters on May 19.
