Overview
- Ridley Scott told the Los Angeles Times he still wants to make a third prequel that continues the story from Prometheus and Alien: Covenant and follows Michael Fassbender’s android David.
- Scott framed the project around the theme of a runaway artificial intelligence, saying that an AI that goes off can be like a bomb and that the film would track David creating a “brave new world for himself.”
- The project is at an early, developing stage with no confirmed writer, director, production schedule, or attachments reported so far.
- 20th Century Studios is pursuing multiple Alien films at once: a Romulus sequel that Fede Álvarez will not direct though he will produce, a studio denial that any sequel has been shelved, and an unconfirmed report that Brian Duffield is writing another Alien screenplay.
- Scott’s push to finish his prequel arc would revive unresolved plotlines from Prometheus and Covenant and could shift the franchise back toward his A.I.-centered mythology while the studio balances several separate creative tracks.