A month after director Ridley Scott revealed that "Prometheus 2" would be related to the "Alien" franchise and will be officially called "Alien: Paradise Lost," the "Martian" director yet announced that the sequel has a new title, which is "Alien: Covenant."
"I was going to be doing what will be called 'Alien: Covenant,' which starts shooting next February," Scott revealed at the AFI Film Festival (via SlashFilm.)
"And we were struggling then with the screenplay there and then there was a phone call, somebody saying, 'Listen, we've got this thing which is completely written called 'Martian,' and I said 'Huh.' And I sped read it in an hour and by mid-afternoon, I talked to Fox and said, 'I need to talk to Drew [Goddard]," Scott added.
When asked about his plans for films and others, he said, "I've got no plan. I go from pillar to post randomly. I have this childlike fascination and thrill of doing it."
Ridley Scott previously opened up that he is keeping "Prometheus 2" and the other sequels for himself to avoid the mistakes he said he had committed with "Alien."
"I let the other one [Alien] get away from me- I shouldn't have," he said. Scott was the original director of the 1979 "Alien" film then it was passed to James Cameron who helmed the 1986 "Aliens" and then to David Fincher who directed the 1982 "Alien 3." Neill Blompkamp's "Alien 5" is temporarily on hold, so Blompkamp proceeds to helming the film adaptation of Thomas Sweterlitsch's new novel entitled "The Gone World."
Ridley Scott, on the other hand, promises fans that he is not letting "Alien" entirely get away saying that after the planned sequels of "Prometheus," it will go back to "Alien 1," where he would reveal who created the xenomorphs.
"I'm trying to re-resurrect the beast and let it off the hook for a while because I'm coming back into the back-end of 'Alien 1.' I'm gradually getting to 'Alien 1,'" Scott said.
