'Alien: Covenant' Will Be First Of Three Prequels: Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott has stated that his upcoming movie ‘Alien: Covenant’ will be the first of the three Prequels before the story of Prometheus will meet the original 1979 Alien. In a press conference held in Sydney, the filmmaker has further revealed that he is starting with the pre-production of Covenant. All the three films will be shot in Australia, reportedly.

Scott said, “Prometheus 1 was borne out of my frustration that on Alien 1 in 1979 - I only did one as I don't normally do sequels. I was amazed that in the 3 that followed  that no-one asked the question "why the Alien, who made it and why?" Very basic questions. So I came up with the notion of Prometheus 1, which starts to indicate who might have made it and where it came from”.

“So I’m 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’ll kind of pick it up there and it will evolve. When that’s finished there’ll be another one and then another one which will gradually drive into the back entrance of the film in 1979”, he said. 

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