The Director decided to change the Prometheus sequel movie title months before production begins!
[dropcap size=small]A[/dropcap]t the AFI Film Festival, Ridley Scott sat down with Scott Foundas for an hour-long interview, which included his successful film The Martian and the upcoming Alien movie. The Martian was one of the best movies of Scott’s career, so expectations will be high for his new movie that just had a title change from Alien: Paradise Lost to Alien: Covenant.
Recently, Scott said that he wanted to claim complete ownership over the Alien franchise.
“I’ve got no plan,” Scott said, discussing his overall career and which project follows another. “I go from pillar to post randomly. I have this childlike fascination and thrill of doing it.” He then launched into a story about how The Martian came about.
“I was going to be doing what will be called ‘Alien: Covenant,’ which starts shooting next February, 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]…’”
After the script was written, Scott was given the project as Goddard actually recommended Scott for the job originally. Alien: Covenant (or whatever the title is going to be) is set to be released on May 30th, 2017. With this franchise far from over and more sequels to come, Scott will have mind-shuffling what he wants to name each movie and if he sticks with the first title he decides on. You can listen to the entire interview down below or you can skip to 20:40 when Scott announces the new title for the movie.
Production for Alien: Covenant will begin in February 2016 in Australia!
