Ridley Scott Provides Update On The Upcoming ‘Alien’ TV Show

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Legendary director Ridley Scott is currently busy promoting his newest film – House of Gucci – but the 83-year old filmmaker revealed recently for The Hollywood Reporter not only that Blade Runner TV show is in the works, but also provided an update for FX’s Alien show which was announced last December.

Alien is now being written for pilot.

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Scott revealed that a huge script, worth around 10 hours of material, was written for Blade Runner, and he also confirmed that the same thing is happening with the Alien TV show. Following Disney’s acquisition of Fox, it was reported that the show was commissioned by FX, with Noah Hawley attached as showrunner. Scott is also set to direct.

The Alien franchise kicked off with the 1979 original film of the same name. The sequel Aliens, directed by James Cameron, followed in 1986, while David Fincher’s Alien 3 was released in 1992. The original series concluded in 1997 with Jean-Pierre Jeunet‘s Alien Resurrection. Of course, the franchise didn’t end there. Two Alien vs Predator crossover films were released in 2004 and 2007, respectively. In 2012, a prequel series kicked off with Prometheus, directed by the original director Ridley Scott, who also directed currently the latest movie in the franchise – Alien: Covenant – which was released in 2017.

Despite mostly positive reviews from the critics, Alien: Covenant was a box office disappointment, grossing only $240 million against a $110 million budget. Now, it’s time for the franchise to try its luck on the small screen. Alien is one of the best-known media franchises ever, and even with all the movies, graphic novels, and video games, hardcore fans still have some big projects to look forward to. Considering that Scott is also working on this project, we’re not worried about the future of the franchise.

Ridley Scott’s newest movie – House of Gucci – starring Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Salma Hayek, and Al Pacino, is set to open this week.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.

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