Just in case you were wondering what had happened to Neill Blomkamp’s sequel to Aliens, which would somehow bring Newt and Hicks back from the dead, the word has officially been released that it is now deader than the hopes for the franchise circa 1997.
Speaking to Allocine before being translated by the lovely people at ComicBookResources, Scott said the following:
“There was never a screenplay, just an idea that evolved into a pitch of 10 pages…I was always just a producer, but it didn’t go any further because Fox decided that it didn’t want to do it.”
Although many people would like to see a world where Alien 3 and Resurrection are canonically jettisoned into space, it would make things too confusing. Scott is currently working on a whole load of new Alien movies in the same timeline as the original “quadrilogy”, so it would be a logistical nightmare.
Oh well. We’ll always have the delicious concept art.
Alien: Covenant drops on the 18th of May.
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