There are plans for more installments of sci-fi movies. The plans are for over some time now. But the director, Ridley Scott has now disclosed more about the progress that is in its way.
Ridley Scott has directed the 1979 classic where James Cameron takes over for Aliens, David Fincher for Alien 3, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet taking over for Alien: Resurrection.
In 2012, he returned to take over the harness for Prometheus. And then again after 5 years for Alien: Covenant.
While speaking to Yahoo! Entertainment, Ridley Scott said that it is doubtful if he will be jumping back into the storylines.
Scott said, “That’s in process. We went down a route to try and reinvent the wheel with Prometheus and Covenant.”
“Whether or not we go directly back to that is doubtful because Prometheus woke it up very well. But you know, you’re asking fundamental questions like, ‘Has the Alien himself, the facehugger, the chestburster, have they all run out of steam? Do you have to rethink the whole bloody thing and simply use the word to franchise?’ That’s always the fundamental question.”
Ridley Scott Talks about Unanswered Questions
In June, he admitted that there were questions that were needed to be answered. At the time, he said, “I still think there’s a lot of mileage in Alien, but I think you’ll have to now re-evolve.”
“What I always thought when I was making it, the first one, 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.”
This will not be the only sequel that Scoot will be working on. He is writing a script as well, for the follow-up of Gladiator
Earlier this year, Doug Wick, one of the original movie’s producers, told Comic Book, “Ridley would love to do it. It’s really all about getting something on paper. Everyone [involved with the original] loves the movie too much to ever consider cheaply exploiting it and making something that’s a shadow of it.”
“It’s just really a clear creative problem, working on a script, and if we can ever get it to a place… Ridley’s working on it, it’s really just a question of whether we can get it to a place where it feels worthy to make it. It’s a real challenge.”
