With Alien 5’s future now in doubt, Ridley Scott has confirmed that he has big plans for the Alien prequels which pick up after the events of 2012’s Prometheus. That’s right, prequels. Alien Covenant looks set to be the first part of a trilogy answering, “very basic questions posed in Alien: why the alien, who might have made it and where did it come from?”
“Its a very complex story. Its an evolution of what I first did with Prometheus 1,” the filmmaker continued. “So in other words, why was this space jockey there and why did he have an Alien inside him? And those questions will be answered.” Scott clearly has big plans for the franchise then, but one person whose role is going to be much smaller than initially expected is Noomi Rapace. Scott confirmed that while Michael Fassbender is returning as the synthetic David, the actress is only going to end up appearing very briefly in the movie.
Alien: Covenant is set to shoot in Australia for sixteen weeks, and Scott said he’s keen on using Australian actors (he even revealed that he wanted Cate Blanchett for The Martian).
Production is going to be a mixture of location and studio shoots, with “monumental forest and monumental rock and the rest will be in the studio with fairly formidable CGI. The Martian was made for the most part 94 pecent in a Budapest studio. With green screen I now can’t tell what was studio and what was shot in Wadi Rum.” The Prometheus sequel has been such a long time coming that it remains to be seen when these Alien: Covenant follow-ups will happen, but it’s clear that Scott definitely has a plan in place for this trilogy anyway!
