New Alien 5 Movie In Development With Ridley Scott To Produce
Ridley Scott will produce a new Alien 5 movie with Fede Álvarez on board to write and direct. Scott directed the original Alien, released in 1979, which starred Sigourney Weaver and spawned a massive global franchise. James Cameron directed the epic sequel, Aliens, in 1986, with David Fincher directing Alien 3 in 1992. Alien: Resurrection was the fourth film in the series, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and released in 1997. Scott did a prequel to the series with Prometheus in 2012, then followed up with a sequel to that film, Alien: Covenant, in 2017.
Currently, an Alien TV series is in the works from showrunner Noah Hawley, which is set to debut on FX. That series will take place roughly 70 years in the future and take place on Earth and will not feature Weaver's lead character of Ripley, who has become synonymous with the franchise. A number of planned sequels have fallen to the wayside in recent years, including a new sequel to Cameron's Aliens that was to be directed by Neill Blomkamp, and a follow-up sequel to Covenant that was to be directed by Scott.
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Now it's been announced that director Fede Álvarez (Don't Breathe, Evil Dead) will write and direct a new Alien 5 film (via THR), which will not be part of the regular continuity and will feature new characters. Álvarez is a huge fan of the franchise and pitched an idea to Scott years ago, which is now greenlit to move forward. 20th Century Studios' Steve Asbell said that the green light came “purely off the strength of Fede’s pitch," and that «It was just a really good story with a bunch of characters you haven’t seen before.” The film will debut on Hulu and is said to be »unconnected to the
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