Alien 5 and an Alien Rerelease news

[j7wild]

No Noomi?

Is this a direct sequel to Prometheus in the Prometheus franchise or closer to the Alien Franchise as a Prequel to Alien?

I thought Neill Blomkamp was making an Alien prequel?

[jacques1400]

the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with PROMETHEUS -- and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 seminal work of science fiction.

This was a Press Release I received directly from FOX, what you see is what I got, that's why there's no source link.
"Covenant" identical to Prometheus, refers to the name of the ship.

Reading this, Prometheus was probably always a prequel to Alien, the third installment will bring us back full circle to the beginning of the original Alien (1979). Also possible that they had a change of plans.

Maybe they have plans for a parallel Alien franchise with Bloomkamp, or maybe they just decided to link Prometheus into the "Alien" Franchise. It's anyone's guess at this junction.