First he changed the title to Alien: Paradise Lost, and now Ridley Scott has announced that his upcoming follow-up to Prometheus has undergone another change of name, and will now be called Alien: Covenant.
Speaking about how The Martian came about, Scott said that: “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…’”
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Ridley Scott is currently rewriting the Prometheus sequel with John Logan (Gladiator, Spectre) ahead of production in February, while the film itself is slated for release on May 30th 2017. So plenty of time for more title changes…
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Originally published November 14, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
