{"id":2113543,"date":"2026-08-26T21:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2113543"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:25:19","slug":"ridley-scott-is-developing-an-alien-covenant-sequel-with-michael-fassbender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2113543","title":{"rendered":"Ridley Scott Is Developing an Alien: Covenant Sequel With Michael Fassbender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-cy=\"article-content\" class=\"jsx-2154984108 article-content page-0\">\n<section data-cy=\"article-subtitle\" class=\"article jsx-3932497636 article-section jsx-862658659 news\" data-autopogo=\"true\">\n<section class=\"article-page\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Ridley Scott has confirmed he isn&#8217;t done with the Alien franchise, as he&#8217;s developing a sequel to <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/alien-covenant\">Alien: Covenant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">When speaking with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2026-08-26\/ridley-scott-director-dog-stars-alien-blade-runner-gladiator-artificial-intelligence-ai\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LA Times<\/a>, Scott confirmed he is still developing a sequel to Alien: Covenant, one that would follow Michael Fassbender&#8217;s character, David. Scott revealed that the film would see David creating a \u201cbrave new world for himself&#8221; and deal with AI going awry. The android character was introduced in Scott&#8217;s Alien prequel, Prometheus, and returned for Alien: Covenant. Throughout the two films, it has become extremely clear that his character plays a significant role in the Alien universe. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The end of Covenant teased that his story was far from over, but that follow-up film has been in <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2017\/05\/09\/alien-covenant-sequel-will-begin-shooting-within-14-months-says-ridley-scott\">development hell for nearly a decade<\/a>. Covenant itself missed the mark financially, and then Fox was acquired by Disney, which likely caused all kinds of issues with the film&#8217;s development. Still, the Alien IP is very active with FX&#8217;s Alien: Earth series and 2024&#8217;s Alien: Romulus, which was a big hit. There&#8217;s also the <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/alien-isolation-2-hands-on-preview\">highly-anticipated Alien: Isolation 2<\/a> on the horizon for gamers.<\/p>\n<p><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"><\/button><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Ranking the Alien Movies<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"As the Alien franchise heads into new territory -- both thematically and format..ily -- with the TV series Alien: Earth, we&apos;re Weylin&apos; our Yutanis at the seven Xeno-movies that have landed in theaters. Yes, we&apos;re gonna rank them all from worst to best, from wasteful to masterful. Did your top Alien film make it to number one? Find out...\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3027214138 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/RightChevron.272be43c.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-list\" class=\"scrollbar jsx-2072772685 jsx-4243969252 images-list\"><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"7. ALIEN: RESURRECTION (1997)&lt;p&gt;\n\nThey were definitely thinking outside the bun with Alien: Resurrection, hiring Delicatessen co-director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and setting the story 200 years after the events of Aliens and Alien 3. It has some visually gorgeous moments, but it&apos;s tonally all over the place. Sigourney Weaver came back, but she&apos;s not playing Ellen Ripley...not any version that we knew, anyhow. She&apos;s a super soldier-style clone made from Ripley blood left behind from Alien 3, a rather callous fusion of humanity and Xenomorphity. Alien: Resurrection has space pirates, a new model of android, a nefarious scientist, gnarly deaths, and the series&apos; first-ever abomination in the form of the &quot;Newborn,&quot; but it all unspools in messy fashion, and just like its place on the timeline, it never rises above being a funky outlier\/misfire.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"rounded jsx-412047461 overlay progressive-image jsx-2338608387 expand\" data-cy=\"slideshow-image-overlay\">\n<div data-cy=\"element-caption\" class=\"caption jsx-1762799490\">View 8 Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6. ALIEN 3 (1992)&lt;p&gt;\n\nThere have been attempts to retro-redeem Alien 3, giving it the old &quot;it&apos;s good actually&quot; treatment, but...nah.&lt;br&gt;\n\nAfter initially teasing a third Alien movie set on Earth, Fox instead delivered a grim misery parade set on a remote decommissioned Weyland-Yutani prison, mostly filled with shaven-headed men donning brown rags who you couldn&apos;t tell apart. What&apos;s worse, it coldly removed the emotional stakes that allowed 1986&apos;s Aliens to reach such emotional highs by killing off Newt and Hicks during the first few minutes and transforming the entire franchise, up until that point, into a morose tragedy.&lt;br&gt;\n\nIt was also the first time the series employed CG for its Xenomorph (the &quot;Runner&quot;), and some of those effects haven&apos;t aged gracefully. The end result of this very troubled production, which sadly was David Fincher&apos;s first feature film (don&apos;t worry, he&apos;d rebound with Se7en), was a story that felt like it was punishing Ellen Ripley for surviving and thriving. No, we will have none of that contrarian re-examination. This movie is a &quot;woof.&quot;\u00a0\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5. ALIEN: COVENANT (2017)&lt;p&gt;\n\nAlien: Covenant is better than you remember, deepening the lore surrounding the towering, buff Engineers and Michael Fassbender&apos;s David (who becomes the perfection-seeking mad robot that develops the standard &quot;Xenomorph&quot; -- and the Queen -- using innocent victims in heinous experiments) while also &quot;getting back to basics&quot; following the wild swings of Prometheus. &lt;br&gt;\n\nIt&apos;s also very much a course correction from Ridley Scott&apos;s original &quot;new trilogy&quot; idea, reining in the Xenomorph-free elements of Prometheus and trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. It&apos;s another new planet and another new lambs-to-slaughter situation, but this time the monsters are more familiar in design and the ramifications more or less drop us off at the doorstep of 1979&apos;s Alien (though we&apos;ll probably never find out the fate of David, who is still out there somewhere, living forever as a Synthetic). &lt;br&gt;\n\nAlien: Covenant also pulls a &quot;Newt,&quot; killing off Noomi Rapace&apos;s Dr. Shaw off-screen, despite the crucible she endured in Prometheus and her crusade, at the end of that movie, to take the Engineers to task. That sucks, though the harrowing horror movie-style twist at the end almost makes up for it.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"4.  PROMETHEUS (2012)&lt;p&gt;\n\nRidley Scott returning to the Alien franchise after over 30 years? Not a single nerd was skeptical; all were psyched and stoked. But what Ridley Scott delivered was polarizing. Some fans were super into the new lore -- with the Engineers and the Black Goo bioweapon and the early Xeno-variations brought about by its contaminative properties -- and some thought it overly convoluted a simple, terrifying species of predatory alien, a case of a classic movie monster getting explained to death.&lt;br&gt;\n\nAhead of the film, Scott himself said that Prometheus wasn&apos;t directly related to Alien, but that still didn&apos;t stop some from feeling deflated by this new direction. Regardless, Prometheus is gorgeous, from its costumes to its sets to its awesome effects, and it opened up a whole new corner of AI sci-fi, which Scott himself helped pioneer in a modern sense with Alien and Blade Runner. Michael Fassbender&apos;s David represents Peter Weyland&apos;s only recourse for immortality (man, billionaires hate sharing death in common with the poors, don&apos;t they), so it stands to reason that the tech CEO would travel light years to try to find out the secret to evading the Reaper.\u00a0&lt;br&gt;\n\nOh, and that MedPod C-Section scene, as Dr. Elizabeth Shaw removes the Trilobite from her abdomen? THAT&apos;s a freakin&apos; scene, dude.\u00a0&lt;br&gt;\n\nEven though Alien: Covenant isn&apos;t a bad flick, the fact that Scott didn&apos;t get to complete his original extensions of Prometheus ultimately hurt the movie, and it made it so that future films have to contend with its\u00a0mythology.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3. ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024)&lt;p&gt;\n\nFede \u00c1lvarez (Evil Dead, Don&apos;t Breathe) might not have added anything new to the mix, per se -- unless you count the &quot;Offspring&quot; creature at the end of the film -- but what he did with Alien: Romulus was take the DNA of 1979&apos;s Alien and fuse it with 2012&apos;s Prometheus, pitting a ragtag crew of miners and farmers, out to steal cryopods from a research station, against a vicious Xenomorph hive spawned from the exact same Xeno from the first movie. Yes, the one shot out into space by Ellen Ripley. &lt;br&gt;\n\nSo you get the Facehuggers, the Chestbursters, and the Xenomorphs, now mixed with the Black Goo and Weyland-Yutani&apos;s wicked plans to use the Goo to evolve humans into better deep space slave laborers. Some didn&apos;t like how much it called upon past movies (with even Alien: Resurrection getting its flowers thanks to the Offspring), but in the end, Romulus is a savage, inventive heist-gone-wrong tale with amazing visuals and a fan-favorite character in David Jonsson&apos;s Andy, a faulty-but-kindly Synthetic companion. Romulus ties most everything together, which is never an easy feat; some feel it crumbles a bit under that burden, while others find it to be the balance we&apos;ve been searching for. \n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Ridley Scott had previously stated that he wanted to make a whole series of Alien prequels that lead into the original film, and his follow-up to Covenant would be one of many entries to build up to that. As of right now, it&#8217;s unclear when Ridley Scott plans to break out the chestbursters again. He just released The Dog Stars, starring Jacob Elordi (<a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-dog-stars-review\">which IGN gave a 5<\/a>), and has a Treasure Planet adaptation with Hugh Jackman set to begin filming in November, a Bee Gees project at Paramount, and a variety of original films in different stages of development.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Scott is a prolific director who cranks out a movie every other year at this point, but he&#8217;s also 88. He doesn&#8217;t have any plans to stop making movies, but it&#8217;ll be interesting to see if he can get to the next Alien movie within the next couple of years. A <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/alien-romulus-sequel-rain-andy-fede-alvarez\">sequel to Alien: Romulus is also in the works<\/a> at Fox, but there&#8217;s no word on when that will arrive either.<\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"accent-divider\" class=\"jsx-3449795453 divider jsx-2786329600\"><\/div>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Cade Onder is a freelancer for IGN&#8217;s news team. He covers all things entertainment, including gaming, film, and more. You can find him on Twitter @Cade_Onder.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"jsx-2511205168 preferred-source\"><strong class=\"jsx-2511205168\">Get IGN&#8217;s Biggest Stories FIRST. Set Us as Your Source.<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.ign.com\" class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--secondary jsx-3027214138 icon-button contained centered large\" title=\"Add Source\" aria-label=\"Add Source\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ign-icon icon-google jsx-2750866048 jsx-3701596282\" role=\"img\" aria-hidden=\"false\" data-cy=\"icon-google\" alt=\"Google\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/Google.9e99a9d7.svg?cors=0\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 large\">Add Source<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"stack jsx-1475529924\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jsx-2155806329 adunit-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jsx-2155806329 bobble bobble-1 pogocnt pg-article\">\n<div data-mix-name=\"secondaryMedrec\" data-pos=\"1\" data-pogo-hide=\"1\" class=\"jsx-343126785 pogo-slot\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<section class=\"article-page\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Ridley Scott has confirmed he isn&#8217;t done with the Alien franchise, as he&#8217;s developing a sequel to <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/movies\/alien-covenant\">Alien: Covenant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">When speaking with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2026-08-26\/ridley-scott-director-dog-stars-alien-blade-runner-gladiator-artificial-intelligence-ai\" class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LA Times<\/a>, Scott confirmed he is still developing a sequel to Alien: Covenant, one that would follow Michael Fassbender&#8217;s character, David. Scott revealed that the film would see David creating a \u201cbrave new world for himself&#8221; and deal with AI going awry. The android character was introduced in Scott&#8217;s Alien prequel, Prometheus, and returned for Alien: Covenant. Throughout the two films, it has become extremely clear that his character plays a significant role in the Alien universe. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The end of Covenant teased that his story was far from over, but that follow-up film has been in <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/2017\/05\/09\/alien-covenant-sequel-will-begin-shooting-within-14-months-says-ridley-scott\">development hell for nearly a decade<\/a>. Covenant itself missed the mark financially, and then Fox was acquired by Disney, which likely caused all kinds of issues with the film&#8217;s development. Still, the Alien IP is very active with FX&#8217;s Alien: Earth series and 2024&#8217;s Alien: Romulus, which was a big hit. There&#8217;s also the <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/alien-isolation-2-hands-on-preview\">highly-anticipated Alien: Isolation 2<\/a> on the horizon for gamers.<\/p>\n<p><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"><\/button><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Ranking the Alien Movies<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"As the Alien franchise heads into new territory -- both thematically and format..ily -- with the TV series Alien: Earth, we&apos;re Weylin&apos; our Yutanis at the seven Xeno-movies that have landed in theaters. Yes, we&apos;re gonna rank them all from worst to best, from wasteful to masterful. Did your top Alien film make it to number one? Find out...\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3027214138 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/RightChevron.272be43c.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-list\" class=\"scrollbar jsx-2072772685 jsx-4243969252 images-list\"><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"7. ALIEN: RESURRECTION (1997)&lt;p&gt;\n\nThey were definitely thinking outside the bun with Alien: Resurrection, hiring Delicatessen co-director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and setting the story 200 years after the events of Aliens and Alien 3. It has some visually gorgeous moments, but it&apos;s tonally all over the place. Sigourney Weaver came back, but she&apos;s not playing Ellen Ripley...not any version that we knew, anyhow. She&apos;s a super soldier-style clone made from Ripley blood left behind from Alien 3, a rather callous fusion of humanity and Xenomorphity. Alien: Resurrection has space pirates, a new model of android, a nefarious scientist, gnarly deaths, and the series&apos; first-ever abomination in the form of the &quot;Newborn,&quot; but it all unspools in messy fashion, and just like its place on the timeline, it never rises above being a funky outlier\/misfire.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"rounded jsx-412047461 overlay progressive-image jsx-2338608387 expand\" data-cy=\"slideshow-image-overlay\">\n<div data-cy=\"element-caption\" class=\"caption jsx-1762799490\">View 8 Images<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6. ALIEN 3 (1992)&lt;p&gt;\n\nThere have been attempts to retro-redeem Alien 3, giving it the old &quot;it&apos;s good actually&quot; treatment, but...nah.&lt;br&gt;\n\nAfter initially teasing a third Alien movie set on Earth, Fox instead delivered a grim misery parade set on a remote decommissioned Weyland-Yutani prison, mostly filled with shaven-headed men donning brown rags who you couldn&apos;t tell apart. What&apos;s worse, it coldly removed the emotional stakes that allowed 1986&apos;s Aliens to reach such emotional highs by killing off Newt and Hicks during the first few minutes and transforming the entire franchise, up until that point, into a morose tragedy.&lt;br&gt;\n\nIt was also the first time the series employed CG for its Xenomorph (the &quot;Runner&quot;), and some of those effects haven&apos;t aged gracefully. The end result of this very troubled production, which sadly was David Fincher&apos;s first feature film (don&apos;t worry, he&apos;d rebound with Se7en), was a story that felt like it was punishing Ellen Ripley for surviving and thriving. No, we will have none of that contrarian re-examination. This movie is a &quot;woof.&quot;\u00a0\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"5. ALIEN: COVENANT (2017)&lt;p&gt;\n\nAlien: Covenant is better than you remember, deepening the lore surrounding the towering, buff Engineers and Michael Fassbender&apos;s David (who becomes the perfection-seeking mad robot that develops the standard &quot;Xenomorph&quot; -- and the Queen -- using innocent victims in heinous experiments) while also &quot;getting back to basics&quot; following the wild swings of Prometheus. &lt;br&gt;\n\nIt&apos;s also very much a course correction from Ridley Scott&apos;s original &quot;new trilogy&quot; idea, reining in the Xenomorph-free elements of Prometheus and trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. It&apos;s another new planet and another new lambs-to-slaughter situation, but this time the monsters are more familiar in design and the ramifications more or less drop us off at the doorstep of 1979&apos;s Alien (though we&apos;ll probably never find out the fate of David, who is still out there somewhere, living forever as a Synthetic). &lt;br&gt;\n\nAlien: Covenant also pulls a &quot;Newt,&quot; killing off Noomi Rapace&apos;s Dr. Shaw off-screen, despite the crucible she endured in Prometheus and her crusade, at the end of that movie, to take the Engineers to task. That sucks, though the harrowing horror movie-style twist at the end almost makes up for it.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"4.  PROMETHEUS (2012)&lt;p&gt;\n\nRidley Scott returning to the Alien franchise after over 30 years? Not a single nerd was skeptical; all were psyched and stoked. But what Ridley Scott delivered was polarizing. Some fans were super into the new lore -- with the Engineers and the Black Goo bioweapon and the early Xeno-variations brought about by its contaminative properties -- and some thought it overly convoluted a simple, terrifying species of predatory alien, a case of a classic movie monster getting explained to death.&lt;br&gt;\n\nAhead of the film, Scott himself said that Prometheus wasn&apos;t directly related to Alien, but that still didn&apos;t stop some from feeling deflated by this new direction. Regardless, Prometheus is gorgeous, from its costumes to its sets to its awesome effects, and it opened up a whole new corner of AI sci-fi, which Scott himself helped pioneer in a modern sense with Alien and Blade Runner. Michael Fassbender&apos;s David represents Peter Weyland&apos;s only recourse for immortality (man, billionaires hate sharing death in common with the poors, don&apos;t they), so it stands to reason that the tech CEO would travel light years to try to find out the secret to evading the Reaper.\u00a0&lt;br&gt;\n\nOh, and that MedPod C-Section scene, as Dr. Elizabeth Shaw removes the Trilobite from her abdomen? THAT&apos;s a freakin&apos; scene, dude.\u00a0&lt;br&gt;\n\nEven though Alien: Covenant isn&apos;t a bad flick, the fact that Scott didn&apos;t get to complete his original extensions of Prometheus ultimately hurt the movie, and it made it so that future films have to contend with its\u00a0mythology.\n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><button data-cy=\"gallery-image\" type=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"3. ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024)&lt;p&gt;\n\nFede \u00c1lvarez (Evil Dead, Don&apos;t Breathe) might not have added anything new to the mix, per se -- unless you count the &quot;Offspring&quot; creature at the end of the film -- but what he did with Alien: Romulus was take the DNA of 1979&apos;s Alien and fuse it with 2012&apos;s Prometheus, pitting a ragtag crew of miners and farmers, out to steal cryopods from a research station, against a vicious Xenomorph hive spawned from the exact same Xeno from the first movie. Yes, the one shot out into space by Ellen Ripley. &lt;br&gt;\n\nSo you get the Facehuggers, the Chestbursters, and the Xenomorphs, now mixed with the Black Goo and Weyland-Yutani&apos;s wicked plans to use the Goo to evolve humans into better deep space slave laborers. Some didn&apos;t like how much it called upon past movies (with even Alien: Resurrection getting its flowers thanks to the Offspring), but in the end, Romulus is a savage, inventive heist-gone-wrong tale with amazing visuals and a fan-favorite character in David Jonsson&apos;s Andy, a faulty-but-kindly Synthetic companion. Romulus ties most everything together, which is never an easy feat; some feel it crumbles a bit under that burden, while others find it to be the balance we&apos;ve been searching for. \n\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Ridley Scott had previously stated that he wanted to make a whole series of Alien prequels that lead into the original film, and his follow-up to Covenant would be one of many entries to build up to that. As of right now, it&#8217;s unclear when Ridley Scott plans to break out the chestbursters again. He just released The Dog Stars, starring Jacob Elordi (<a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/the-dog-stars-review\">which IGN gave a 5<\/a>), and has a Treasure Planet adaptation with Hugh Jackman set to begin filming in November, a Bee Gees project at Paramount, and a variety of original films in different stages of development.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Scott is a prolific director who cranks out a movie every other year at this point, but he&#8217;s also 88. He doesn&#8217;t have any plans to stop making movies, but it&#8217;ll be interesting to see if he can get to the next Alien movie within the next couple of years. A <a class=\"link jsx-1337145738 jsx-3925284146 underlined\" data-cy=\"styled-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/alien-romulus-sequel-rain-andy-fede-alvarez\">sequel to Alien: Romulus is also in the works<\/a> at Fox, but there&#8217;s no word on when that will arrive either.<\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"accent-divider\" class=\"jsx-3449795453 divider jsx-2786329600\"><\/div>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Cade Onder is a freelancer for IGN&#8217;s news team. He covers all things entertainment, including gaming, film, and more. You can find him on Twitter @Cade_Onder.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ridley Scott has confirmed he isn&#8217;t done with the Alien franchise, as he&#8217;s developing a sequel to Alien: Covenant. When speaking with the LA Times, Scott confirmed he is still developing a sequel to Alien: Covenant, one that would follow Michael Fassbender&#8217;s character, David. 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