{"id":871123,"date":"2026-08-28T06:06:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/871123\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T06:06:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T06:06:12","slug":"ridley-scott-confirms-third-alien-prequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/871123\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridley Scott Confirms Third &#8220;Alien&#8221; Prequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ridley-scott-confirms-third-alien-prequel.jpg\" data-caption=\"20th Century Studios\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ridley-scott-confirms-third-alien-prequel.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"ridley-scott-confirms-third-alien-prequel\"\/><\/a>20th Century Studios<\/p>\n<p>Filmmaker Ridley Scott confirms he\u2019s still pursuing a follow-up to 2017\u2019s \u201cAlien: Covenant\u201d film, a project that would essentially end the trilogy that began with 2012\u2019s \u201cPrometheus\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/movies\/story\/2026-08-26\/ridley-scott-director-dog-stars-alien-blade-runner-gladiator-artificial-intelligence-ai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Los Angeles Times<\/a> while out promoting \u201cThe Dog Stars,\u201d Scott confirms his follow-up is still in the works and would once again center on Michael Fassbender\u2019s David android character.<\/p>\n<p>He tells the outlet the story will pick up with David creating a \u201cbrave new world for himself\u201d and remains fascinated with the malfunctioning AI character: \u201cAIs can go off, and if they do, it\u2019s like a bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A little over a year ago, Scott had indicated he was done with the franchise and had seemingly handed the keys over to \u201cAlien: Romulus\u201d director Fede \u00c1lvarez to helm a follow-up to that film.  At the same time, the \u201cAlien: Earth\u201d series aired on FX with a second season currently in production.<\/p>\n<p>Reports emerged months ago that \u00c1lvarez exited the \u2018Romulus\u2019 sequel over creative differences, possibly involving Scot, while filmmaker S\u00e9bastien Vani\u010dek was also linked to some non-\u2018Romulus\u2019-related project.<\/p>\n<p>Then, earlier this year, Scott told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Radio Times<\/a> that the potential for more stories with David was \u201csuper fascinating\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Will Scott\u2019s film get the go ahead? We\u2019ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20th Century Studios Filmmaker Ridley Scott confirms he\u2019s still pursuing a follow-up to 2017\u2019s \u201cAlien: Covenant\u201d film, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,142132,134,344],"class_list":["post-871123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bigslider","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871123","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=871123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}