THEY STILL CAN’T HEAR YOU SCREAM
Posted: 051117

Alien: Covenant will come out this summer as the latest installment of the Alien Franchise. Michael Fassbender is returning from Prometheus but will play two androids in the film. James Franco has a small part in the film as the captain of the Covenant. Covenant will get a direct sequel novel in September from Titan Books. Ridley Scott says he has more Alien films in mind including one called Paradise, which would go off in a different direction that the franchise has been. We had heard that there would be three more Alien films but Scott hinted that there could be six but is backing away from that. The script for the next film is already done and will go into production in 2018. One thing about Covenant was made clear is that Katherine Waterston’s character of Daniels is not Ripley’s mother. And on a Ripley note we had heard that District 9’s Neill Blomkamp was going to do a direct sequel to Aliens. The project was put on hold when Ridley Scott said he wanted Covenant out first. Now it seems that the film is dead Sigourney Weaver said she’d be surprised if Blomkamp’s sequel didn’t happen.