next movie - meld Prometheus/Covenant with Blomkamps Alien 5?
Now Blomkamps Alien 5 is officially dead and the lacklustre box office of Covenant is evident (unless it goes all Terminator Genisys/Resident Evil 6 in China) maybe they should look to doing 'Prometheus 3' as a crossover featuring Fassbender and Weaver to boost the box office especially as those shared universe team up movies are all the rage now (Marvel, DC, Universal Monsters, Godzilla/Kong, F&F) as a standard follow up to Covenant/wrap up of the Prometheus trilogy starring Fassbender and whoever else isn't really going to cut it at the box office..
It could be similar to XMen - you had the 3 original Xmen films (plus the Wolverine spin offs) - then they did the prequel First Class.. then instead of focusing solely on the prequel cast in the next one they melded them with the original Xmen in Days of Futures Past (and brought back Singer) to boost the box office….bringing them together giving audiences what was missing in the average box office prequel - Wolverine, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellan etc. Basically DOFP was the X3 we should've got (correcting X3 in the process and resurrecting ProfX/Jean) but also a sequel to FC. answering all the questions/tying up loose ends of both the prequel and the original X films - being the natural conclusion to what they foreshadowed -Human v Mutant war genocide. it worked - FC = 350m . DOFP = 750m.
so maybe Fox could do the same with Alien? you have the 4 original Alien films (plus the AvP spin offs), then you got the prequel Prometheus and now Covenant (which is what was originally envisioned for Prometheus and what people were expecting that movie to be with xenos/facehuggers etc) but the box office is suffering now as happened with XM:FC.. so what if the next one they meld the prequels with the Aliens films (specifically Blomkamps Alien 5/alternate Alien 3)…bringing them together giving audiences what was missing in the prequels Ripley (&Hicks). Basically the sequel to Aliens we should've got in 1992 (correcting A3 in the process and resurrecting Ripley/hicks) but also acting as a sequel to Covenant. answering all the questions/tying up loose ends of both the prequels and the original Alien films being the natural conclusion to what Aliens (and Alien) foreshadowed -The Company finally obtaining the alien and developing it as a bioweapon as Ripley battle to prevent an outbreak that would destroy humanity.. and featuring the derelict, LV426, alien homeworld, engineers, more classic looking xenos/facehuggers, more HR Gigerish stuff, colonial marines, blade runner-esque earth, (plus also what happened to Alien 3&4 timetravel? as in XM:DOFP/Star Trek 2009/Terminator 5) basically the all roads led to this final battle for both the prequels and the sequels. or even have all that but with the film set post Alien 4 with Ripley8? (ok probably nobody wants that lol - so maybe just leave it ambiguous as to if its set post Resurrection with the Ripley clone..or if its set 30y after Aliens with the proper Ripley and they are ignoring Alien3/4)
Brief outline of a storyline:
film opens as expected with David creating his planet of xenos from the 2000 Covenant colonists with all the giger biomechanical stuff, classic xenomorphs, gods & monsters, Paradise Lost/Shelley/biblical allegories etc. Daniels is finally woken up to this nightmare by an engineer after being left alone by David in cryo for years (he couldn't bring himself to kill her like he did Shaw). Engineer takes off its helmet. OMG its Ripley! (like in that Blompkamp art) WTF right?!…how!? because the twist would be the whole film is set after 'Aliens!' Daniels was in cryo for about 100 years (like Ripleys long cryo sleep in 'Aliens') . this would then lead directly into what was to be Blomkamps Alien 5 movie. (alternatively you could start the film with Ripley then they go and find the Alien homeworld - Davids world. actually that would probably make more sense as I guess Fox would want to distance it from Covenant and focus more on the Ripley/Aliens side of stuff).
Director – Scott or Blomkamp (probably Scott)