Ridley Scott announces plan to make four more Aliens movies, including prequel to upcoming Covenant - Sensationalist Headlines

Not to be outdone by James Cameron and his love of announcing more Avatar movies before he's even finished the first sequel, Ridley Scott had this to say today before Alien Covenant is even out: [url]http://www.fandango.com/movie-news/how-noomi-rapace-will-return-for-alien-covenant-plus-at-least-four-more-alien-movies-in-the-works-752049[/url] (note: this article has Covenant spoilers, even sorta in the title. Less spoilery recap [url=http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/827213-ridley-scott-alien-movies]here[/url]) [quote]“There will be another one before we kind of literally and logically, clockwise, back into the rear back head of [the original] ‘Alien’,” says Scott. “…If this is successful, and then the next one, and then there will definitely be three more.”[/quote] and then if this news wasn't enough, he also said one is tentatively called "Alien: Awakening" and would take place between Prometheus and Alien Covenant. Just to fuck with audiences' heads some more. ofc who knows if any of this will actually happen, especially since it's all riding on if Alien Covenant meets whatever Fox's box office expectations are.

i really dont fucking want this

He should hold off on the idea of more movies, especially if covenant turns out to be generic garbage with a xeno in it.

please no

Just because one popular sci-fi series from the 70s has successfully remained relevant, doesn't necessarily mean all of them should. Especially not with this attitude about it. I would be thrilled to have more Alien universe content, but if it's at the cost of the gravitas of the series' legacy for The Quest for More Money? No thanks. To quote a wise man, "ENDLESS TRASH!" Heed these words

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;51975179]He should hold off on the idea of more movies, especially if covenant turns out to be generic garbage with a xeno in it.[/QUOTE] From the trailer it already looks like it's repeating Prometheus far too much. Someone needs to reel Ridley and make him look at what made his older movies great.

This is already a bad idea.

Wait wasn't prometheus the prequel to covenant?

if Alien: Covenant is good then I don't see why Ridley cannot spend his last years doing Alien movies. All in all, it's Ridley Scott, he has the overall authority for Alien and without him you'd be left with shit Alien vs. Predator as its finale. So stop moaning, and let the movies come. Prometheus was very good.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;51975263]Wait wasn't prometheus the prequel to covenant?[/QUOTE] no, covenant is the sequel to prometheus. The prequel will take place between prometheus and covenant, great :downs:

[QUOTE=AK'z;51975266]if Alien: Covenant is good then I don't see why Ridley cannot spend his last years doing Alien movies. All in all, it's Ridley Scott, he has the overall authority for Alien and without him you'd be left with shit Alien vs. Predator as its finale. So stop moaning, and let the movies come. [B]Prometheus was very good[/B].[/QUOTE] good set design and one two good performances doesnt make for a good movie if everything else is trash.

[QUOTE=BANNED USER;51975179]He should hold off on the idea of more movies, especially if covenant turns out to be generic garbage with a xeno in it.[/QUOTE] prometheus wasn't "generic garbage" though [editline]17th March 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=LeonS;51975281]good set design and one two good performances doesnt make for a good movie if everything else is trash.[/QUOTE] I enjoyed it and would watch it again. I haven't watched Alien 3 again and don't really intend to.

[QUOTE=AK'z;51975266]if Alien: Covenant is good then I don't see why Ridley cannot spend his last years doing Alien movies. All in all, it's Ridley Scott, he has the overall authority for Alien and without him you'd be left with shit Alien vs. Predator as its finale. So stop moaning, and let the movies come. Prometheus was very good.[/QUOTE] Imagine a world where George Lucas directed TFA and the consequences of that: [QUOTE]if TFA is good then I don't see why George cannot spend his last years doing Star Wars movies. All in all, it's George Lucas, he has the overall authority for Star Wars and without him you'd be left with shit TCW as its finale. So stop moaning, and let the movies come. The Prequel Trilogy was very good.[/QUOTE] Both two auteurs with a legendary series, both of who made a comeback to the series with an arguably questionably ok but nice-looking movie. My point is, just because it's Ridley doesn't mean he hasn't lost his touch.

James Cameron wants to make four more Avatar movies. Ridley Scott wants to make four more Alien movies. What, will Disney announce they're going to make four more Avenger movi- wait.

[QUOTE=LZTYBRN;51975280]no, covenant is the sequel to prometheus. The prequel will take place between prometheus and covenant, great :downs:[/QUOTE] So we will get a prequel to the sequel of the prequel...?

[QUOTE=AK'z;51975284]prometheus wasn't "generic garbage" though [editline]17th March 2017[/editline] I enjoyed it and would watch it again. I haven't watched Alien 3 again and don't really intend to.[/QUOTE] how is alien 3 related to this? prometheus is bad and this is an objective fact.

[QUOTE=LeonS;51975315]how is alien 3 related to this? prometheus is bad and this is an objective fact.[/QUOTE] i thought alien 3 was the last alien film but i forgot alien 4... nevermind.

now that I think about there are quite a lot of alien movies.

[QUOTE=AlienCreature;51975313]So we will get a prequel to the sequel of the prequel...?[/QUOTE] Yep! and then after that, I think Neil Blomkamp's Alien is a sequel to Aliens. Glad they're finally continuing Ripley's story

[QUOTE=LZTYBRN;51975300]just because it's Ridley doesn't mean he hasn't lost his touch.[/QUOTE] [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)[/url] this was released only 2 years ago. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gangster_(film)[/url] this was released 10 years ago. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchstick_Men[/url] a few years before that. This proves Ridley Scott still has it. I don't know what kind of Ridley Scott fan only likes his early work because throughout his career is a mixture of hit/miss.

[QUOTE=AK'z;51975266]Prometheus was very good.[/QUOTE] yea maybe before they cut out all the scenes that actually made shit make sense and kept redoing the script to make the alien connection more and more vague lol. I mean the script I can at least get over but some of the scenes they deleted really needed to be left in. I just really want an extended cut. [QUOTE=LZTYBRN;51975325]Yep! and then after that, I think Neil Blomkamp's Alien is a sequel to Aliens. Glad they're finally continuing Ripley's story[/QUOTE] that films probably never gonna happen now. it was delayed at first to put space between it and Covenant, but now that Ridley keeps announcing more and more Alien movies and Neil's confidence in the film happening gets less and less i don't think they'll ever actually get around to it

Directors cut of Prometheus would have made it so much better in cinemas - it was still a rather interesting movie given the time that it was released (plenty of weird "xenoterrestrial" movies at the same time) Here's hoping that Ridley can pump out more enduring quality.

we as a society and human species need to defy the algorithms used for box office success and purposfully boycott opening weekends of films, instead opting for the monday following at a morning time, in order to thwart stupid and unambitious film studios from creating spectacle garbage for our eyes to view and money to spend. altman be praised

[QUOTE=AK'z;51975358][url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)[/url] this was released only 2 years ago. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Gangster_(film)[/url] this was released 10 years ago. [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchstick_Men[/url] a few years before that. This proves Ridley Scott still has it. I don't know what kind of Ridley Scott fan only likes his early work because throughout his career is a mixture of hit/miss.[/QUOTE] I'm not speaking in terms of his other work, I'm talking about Alien in specific. Prometheus had decent elements but by and large, the script was contrived and had a ton of plot holes and simple common sense seemed absent past when the one dude gets infected. Ridley Scott needs a good script for his movies to be good, because his vision is a huge expanse, but it gets bogged down by terrible writing. Ridley allowed that to happen. I will point out that two of the movies you've linked are based on pre-existing material that was widely acclaimed, adapted for screen by award-winning writers, and American Gangster was written by the same guy who wrote Schindler's List, M:I, Hannibal, and so many other quality movies. There is a significant amount of evidence to suggest that Ridley's best work comes when he's around artists of equal caliber, not damon "it was all a dream" lindelof

this is more an issue with bad writers then because that schindler's list guy, didn't really do a great job with hannibal, I did still like the movie because ridley's commentary is ridiculously engaging. i think if people listened to ridley's commentary to Alien and then Prometheus, you can focus on what he really cared about. [editline]17th March 2017[/editline] Hannibal was by miles more disappointing. At least Red Dragon was made.

[QUOTE=AK'z;51975695] i think if people listened to ridley's commentary to Alien and then Prometheus, you can focus on what he really cared about.[/QUOTE] if you need to listen to external material to understand the movie better, then the movie wasn't successful at communicating what the director wanted it to. As an aside, I don't not like prometheus, I enjoy it for what it is, but as a movie it fails to work as non-literal prequel. It relies too much on throwing together iconography from what worked because it was easier for damon to write a flashy showpiece than to write a critique of the hubris of man and how it will be his downfall

[QUOTE=LZTYBRN;51975723]if you need to listen to external material to understand the movie better, then the movie wasn't successful at communicating what the director wanted it to[/QUOTE] I'm not saying you need to, I'm saying it's very engaging and imo rewards and highlights little things that you might have missed. If you're actually interested in films, you'd bother actually reading/talking about them and commentary is one of the key things i think are special because you rarely get to see how a director intends a certain scene to be. you might interpret the scene one way, and it was actually intended something different. it's not trying to make you understand, but it makes you rethink a few things. because i thought prometheus was kind of standard but afterwards it was profound in its underlying message.

[QUOTE=AK'z;51975733]I'm not saying you need to, I'm saying it's very engaging and imo rewards and highlights little things that you might have missed. If you're actually interested in films, you'd bother actually reading/talking about them and commentary is one of the key things i think are special because you rarely get to see how a director intends a certain scene to be.[/QUOTE] I'm not arguing against that, but gaining that extra bit of appreciation for an average movie doesn't make it any less of an average movie, it just means you were one of the few willing to go out of your way to understand what the director was thinking while filming it. You can find deeper meaning in the star wars prequels if you try hard enough

[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;51975303]James Cameron wants to make four more Avatar movies. Ridley Scott wants to make four more Alien movies. What, will Disney announce they're going to make four more Avenger movi- wait.[/QUOTE] What if one of said upcoming movies is secretly an Avatar/Alien crossover?

[QUOTE=Last or First;51975795]What if one of said upcoming movies is secretly an Avatar/Alien crossover?[/QUOTE] If this means we get to see the Xenos tearing the blue elves to bits I am ok with that.