Ridley Scott is set to bring Prometheus closer in line to his original Alien movie with the upcoming sequel Alien: Covenant, and the filmmaker has revealed that as such, the new film will feature the classic Xenomorph alien. “Well, really it’s Alien,” Scott tells The Wrap when asked about the Prometheus sequel. “They’re going to […]
Ridley Scott confirms Noomi Rapace for Alien: Covenant
Last month 20th Century Fox released the official synopsis for Alien: Covenant, the upcoming follow-up to Prometheus, and while Michael Fassbender’s David was mentioned as returning, Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw was somewhat conspicuous by her absence. Well, director Ridley Scott has now confirmed that Rapace will be back, albeit in a minor capacity, while Fassbender […]
Michael Biehn talks Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5
Back at the start of the year, it was announced that Neill Blomkamp (Chappie) would be directing a fifth instalment of the Alien franchise, which would see the return of Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley, along with Corporal Hicks, who was played by Michael Biehn in 1986’s Aliens. However, last month it was revealed that Fox has […]
Ridley Scott says Alien: Paradise Lost in now titled Alien: Covenant
First he changed the title to Alien: Paradise Lost, and now Ridley Scott has announced that his upcoming follow-up to Prometheus has undergone another change of name, and will now be called Alien: Covenant. Speaking about how The Martian came about, Scott said that: “I was going to be doing what will be called Alien: […]
Damon Lindelof explains why he changed Prometheus from a direct prequel to Alien
As Ridley Scott puts the finishing touches to his script for the upcoming Prometheus sequel Alien: Paradise Lost, bringing the franchise closer in line to the Alien franchise, screenwriter Damon Lindelof has been speaking to THR about how he went about doing the opposite on first movie – rewriting Jon Spaihts’ script Alien Zero to make Prometheus […]
John Logan rewriting Alien: Paradise Lost with Ridley Scott
With production on the Prometheus sequel Alien: Paradise Lost set to get underway early in 2016, Variety is reporting that Ridley Scott is currently reworking the script with John Logan, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind Gladiator. SEE ALSO: Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 now on indefinite hold due to Ridley Scott’s Alien: Paradise Lost Logan – whose […]
Paradise Lost: The Already Troubled Production History of Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5
With Alien 5 being put “on hold”, Luke Owen looks back at the movie’s brief troubled production… “The way Fox dealt with me was not cool,” Neill Blomkamp recalls of his time on the unproduced Halo movie. “Right from the beginning, when Mary [Parent] hired me up until the end when it collapsed, they treated me […]
The Films That Should Be TV Shows
This week, Neil Calloway suggests some films that would work well as TV shows… With the new series of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. now underway, the Limitless TV show having just debuted in the US, and talk of a Game of Thrones movie being made (later denied). There’s even a TV show (the second, following a […]
The Week in Disappointment – Ghostbusters, Wolverine, Matt Damon as Daredevil, Prometheus 2, Hayden Christensen returning to Star Wars and more
Every week the entertainment world provides us with the unfortunate, the inexcusable, and the questionable. Here are this week’s disappointments. Annie Potts and Sigourney Weaver to appear in Ghostbusters reboot. None of this is surprising or even worthy of mention. When they figure out how to get Harold Ramis to appear in the film, wake […]
Sigourney Weaver says Alien vs. Predator “really depressed me”, caused Ridley Scott to scrap plans for an Alien sequel
Sigourney Weaver was at the London Film and Comic-Con this past weekend, during which she spoke about her iconic role as Lt. Ellen Ripley in the Alien franchise, revealing that she was “really depressed” by the spinoff Alien vs. Predator, and that the crossover caused Ridley Scott to pull out of a proposed Alien sequel. […]
