{"id":82428,"date":"2015-11-29T22:18:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T22:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=82428"},"modified":"2015-11-29T22:18:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T22:18:51","slug":"alien-covenant-will-get-2-ridley-scott-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/alien-covenant-will-get-2-ridley-scott-sequels\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien Covenant will get 2 Ridley Scott sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news for <em><strong>Prometheus<\/strong> <\/em>fans, and probably bad news for anyone hoping to see Neill Blomkamp\u2019s <em><strong>Alien 5<\/strong><\/em> any time soon: Ridley Scott has revealed that there will be no less than two sequels to the recently renamed <em><strong>Alien: Covenant<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a press conference in Sydney, Scott said, \u201cIt\u2019s a very complex story. It\u2019s an evolution of what I first did with<em><strong> Prometheus 1<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong><em>Prometheus 1<\/em><\/strong> was born out of my frustration that on <strong><em>Alien 1 <\/em><\/strong>in 1979\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0I only did one as I don&#8217;t normally do sequels. I was amazed that in the three that followed\u00a0 that no one asked the question: \u2018Why the Alien, who made it and why?\u2019 Very basic questions. So I came up with the notion of <em><strong>Prometheus 1<\/strong>,<\/em> which starts to indicate who might have made it and where it came from.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I\u2019m now going to the next one, which is the next evolution directly connected with the first one, which was this Shaw, when he replaced Michael Fassbender in two pieces and we\u2019ll kind of pick it up there and it will evolve. When that\u2019s finished there\u2019ll be another one and then another one, which will gradually drive into the back entrance of the film in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo in other words, why was this space jockey there and why did he have an Alien inside him? And those questions will be answered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The director half jokingly admitted to having been inspired by <em><strong>Star Wars<\/strong><\/em>\u2019 recent example as the reason for the upcoming films (\u201c<strong><em>Star Wars <\/em><\/strong>will be a juggernaut. Why do you think I\u2019m doing sequels?\u201d), though it\u2019s interesting at how much of a future he sees in the <em><strong>Prometheus<\/strong> <\/em>sequels. It may not necessarily be what all the fans want to see, but it\u2019s clearly where his passion is, and if nothing else we\u2019re intrigued to see where that takes us.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Alien: Covenant<\/em>\u00a0will be released on 30\u00a0May 2017. Keep up with the latest genre news with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imagineshop.co.uk\/magazines\/scifinow\/scifinow-issue-113.html\">the new issue of SciFiNow.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2 films following Prometheus 2 will lead up to Alien<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":82429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[4872],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Prometheus-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}