Ridley Scott is about to enter the most important fall of his long career thanks to the premieres of ‘The Last Duel’ and ‘La Casa Gucci’, but the filmmaker has had time to remember the adaptation of ‘Alien’ that Noah Hawley, showrunner of ‘Fargo’, is developing for FX.
Not without my ALIEN
Despite gaining favoritism in the face of the Oscar and rave reviews with his two works, it seems inevitable that the media will overwhelm Scott with questions about his immortal horror space odyssey and movie classic. While promoting his work Scott expressed some disbelief at the rebirth of the ‘Alien’ franchise. The filmmaker relaunched the franchise with ‘Prometheus’ in 2012 and continued it with ‘Alien: Covenant’ in 2017, but the disappointing box office results the latter have put the franchise in an indefinite slumber.
“I never showed an alien in ‘Prometheus’ “and it still raised more than 400 million dollars, but for the studio it was not a good result because, according to them, there were no aliens. ‘Alien: Covenant’ did have them and the movie did. much less money. Even if you have a wonderful beast, it wears out and you have to stop and think again“.
While there are no ‘Alien’ films in official development (ask Neill Blomkamp), FX is currently developing a property-based TV series with ‘Fargo’ and ‘Legion’ showrunner Noah Hawley at the helm. head. Hawley has already recorded that the ‘Alien’ TV series It is not centered on Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley and takes place on Earth.
“Wherever the series goes, whatever it does, it will never be as good as the first movie. ” Scott claimed. Regarding going back to alien cinematic universe, Scott states: “It’s in the works. We follow a route to try to reinvent the wheel with ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Covenant’, but you keep asking yourself questions and it’s all up in the air.“.