Ridley Scott Says Alien Franchise Needs to Get Rid of the Xenomorph

@Nick Delmacy you see this fuck shit? Going forward its gonna be about 'David"? ...oh my bad, you a stan so nevermind. This is now on Walking Dead level for me so I'm good.

"transcend and move to another story, which would be taken over by A.I.’s. The world that the AI might create as a leader if he finds himself on a new planet. We have actually quite a big layout for the next one.”4


Oscar-winning director Ridley Scott thinks his fan-favorite Alien franchise needs to leave out the xenomorphs in future installments. The iconic antagonist was featured in his most recent entry in the series, which he returned to direct, Alien: Covenant.

Speaking in a new roundtable interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Scott expressed his disinterest in revisiting the series’ classic alien species. “We went to Covenant to perpetuate the idea and re-evolve the universe of the alien, who — I think the beast has almost run out, personally,” Scott said. “You’ve got to come in with something else. You’ve got to replace that.”

He added, “And so I was right, I was ahead of the game,” likely referring to the negative-to-mixed reception to his Prometheus sequel, which chose to center around the infamous beast, yet again.

Scott has expressed this kind of sentiment already, having noted on the Empire Film podcast, “I think the evolution of the Alien himself is nearly over.” He continued, “But what I was trying to do was transcend and move to another story, which would be taken over by A.I.’s. The world that the AI might create as a leader if he finds himself on a new planet. We have actually quite a big layout for the next one.”

Asked about a follow-up to Covenant early this year, Scott said “I’ll probably be filming it within a year,” adding that scribe John Logan had already given him a script for a direct sequel he plans to shoot after he finishes All the Money In The World and The Cartel.

Delving a bit further into when the film might begin development, Scott revealed “It’ll be out within a year and nine months. It’s weird when you’re writing, doing, planning, thinking about franchises, it’s amazing how it opens up and starts to evolve.” Declining to divulge a title for the project, Scott did tease he might make “maybe two more [films], or maybe one more.”

Ridley Scott Says Alien Franchise Needs to Get Rid of the Xenomorph

 

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Bob Bergeron ·
OSU Okmulgee
lets take all the Predators out the next Predator movie and have it about a cop on the edge traing to make up for lost time with his kids. and he has PTSD
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Marc Myslowski ·
Toronto, Ontario
Yeah let's dissassociate ourselves from that thing that EVERYBODY ASSOCIATES US WITH. Smh
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Royce Rasmussen
Um, what?!? If you don't want to make a movie about xenomorphs, don't. But don't call it "Alien" in any way, shape or form.
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Adam Wade
No, they need to ditch Scott, and bring back Signorney Weaver. That's what people really want. Not this prequel garbage.
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Ryan Little ·
Works at Stay-at-home dad
No Ridley, the Xenomorph is not the problem, you are. Your stylistic approach in the first Alien in 1979 was fine because that's all we had. But then we got James Cameron's Aliens. THAT's what we want to see more of. Not David Fincher's gritty, filthy noir approach, not Jean-Pierre Jeaunet's whatever the hell that was in Alien Resurrection, and certainly not more of the same tired style you insist on bringing to the table. Maybe do us all a favor and take a walk from the francise and maybe let Neill Blonkamp take his shot. It looked a lot better than the excrement you crapped out in Covenant.