It appears the screams will continue to go unheard in space. Series creator Ridley Scott may be busy developing an Alien: Covenant sequel, but that’s not stopping him from fleshing out the world further with an upcoming producing stint on a new Alien film.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, the mystery project will reunite the filmmaker with Aaron Guzikowski, who wrote Denis Villeneuve’s English-language debut Prisoners and created the HBO Max sci-fi drama Raised by Wolves, following their collaboration on the latter. No director has been attached, and it’s reportedly not a follow-up to 2024’s Romulus, which remains in limbo, with Scott set to produce alongside Michael Pruss via their Scott Free banner.
The feature is, however, connected to Alien: Prometheus and its 2018 sequel, making David — the synthetic android played by Michael Fassbender in both movies — the common thread, though the actor’s casting has yet to be confirmed. To recap, David is a malfunctioning AI android introduced as a maintenance crew member on the Prometheus who killed everyone on board and later pretended to be Walter, whom Fassbender also portrays, to gain the trust of the last few survivors.
The character will also be the central focus of the earlier-mentioned Covenant follow-up, coming 47 years after the original film directed by Scott himself. Starring Sigourney Weaver in her breakout role as Ripley, a member of a commercial starship crew who investigates a derelict space vessel and is hunted by the deadly Xenomorph, it has spawned three mainline sequels, the Alien vs. Predator crossover movies, the standalone Alien: Romulus sequel to Prometheus and Covenant, and Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth prequel show.
Instead of returning to helm the in-development Romulus sequel, Fede Alvarez has been tapped to produce alongside Scott. As for Guzikowski, the scribe is currently penning an original sci-fi film for Jon Watts at 20th Century, adapting a Philip K. Dick short story for Sony Pictures, and working on the animated Death Stranding movie, based on Hideo Kojima’s hit video game of the same name (not to be confused with the 2027 live-action big-screen adaptation by A Quiet Place: Day One‘s Michael Sarnoski).
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