{"id":536544,"date":"2026-03-12T23:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536544\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:27:10","slug":"ridley-scott-said-no-to-huge-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/536544\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridley Scott Said No To Huge Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier today, we reported<\/a> that filmmaker Michael Sarnoski (A Quiet Place: Day One) has emerged as the frontrunner to take over from\u00a0Fede \u00c1lvarez as the Alien: Romulus sequel’s director.<\/p>\n

There’s since been some chatter about the Evil Dead helmer walking away from the movie because\u00a0David Jonsson wasn’t interested in reprising his role as\u00a0Andy, an android reprogrammed by Rain’s late father as her surrogate brother. He was reportedly pivotal to\u00a0\u00c1lvarez’s vision for the follow-up.<\/p>\n

Well, it seems that the rumour was half-right.\u00a0Trusted leaker @ViewerAnon<\/a> has chimed in to claim that the real reason \u00c1lvarez\u00a0stepped away from the Alien franchise was that producer Sir Ridley Scott stopped him from bringing back a familiar face from Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.<\/p>\n

“Curious when we\u2019ll learn the real truth, but I heard Fede and Ridley were butting heads A LOT and that led to Fede’s exit,” the insider wrote on X.\u00a0“A friend I trust told me Fede wanted to bring Fassbender back as David, and Ridley shut him down pretty hard.”<\/p>\n

Introduced in Prometheus,\u00a0David was an android commissioned and built by Sir Peter Weyland. He served as the basic template for the David 8 and Walter model lines, but possessed creative and emotional capabilities in excess of commercial models. In 2091, he was assigned to the crew of the USCSS Prometheus for its mission to LV-223, and was one of the two survivors of the disastrous expedition, along with Dr. Elizabeth Shaw.<\/p>\n

David would go on to discover Planet 4, where he would live alone for a decade after committing genocide against the species that inhabited the planet, carrying out genetic experiments involving the black liquid mutagen and seeking to create the “perfect organism.”\u00a0He was later discovered by the crew of the colony ship USCSS Covenant and ultimately hijacked the vessel for his own nefarious\u00a0ends.<\/p>\n

Neither of Scott’s prequel movies set the box office on fire, meaning he didn’t get around to concluding David’s story or\u00a0fully explaining the origin of the Xenomorphs. However, if this rumour is correct, he clearly wasn’t happy about allowing\u00a0\u00c1lvarez to tie up those loose ends\u00a0in his place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I don’t think I was ever going to [return],”\u00a0\u00c1lvarez previously said\u00a0of his decision not to come back for the follow-up.\u00a0“We always knew right when we finished \u2013 this is one of those things where you come in, and you do one, and get out.\u00a0Cameron, Fincher.\u00a0all those directors I love, they went and did one. Obviously, Ridley created it, he has the right to make a bunch of them.”<\/p>\n

“We did want to write it. Honestly, it\u2019s because we love the characters we created, so we want to make sure no one kills them right at the beginning of the next one. They went and killed Hicks and Newt just like that. Hey, let\u2019s not let that happen,”\u00a0he continued.\u00a0“We wrote it and made sure they stayed alive, and now we can let someone else make it.”<\/p>\n

Alien: Romulus\u00a0has an 80% score on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed\u00a0$350.9 million at the worldwide box office. It was widely considered a return to form for the franchise, and while\u00a0\u00c1lvarez penned the sequel’s screenplay with\u00a0Rodo Sayagues, we don’t know how much of that will make it into the version that eventually arrives in theaters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier today, we reported that filmmaker Michael Sarnoski (A Quiet Place: Day One) has emerged as the frontrunner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[85916,64,63,134,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-536544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-alien-romulus","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}