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Even ‘Covenant’ Star Katherine Waterston Still Has No Idea What’s Happening With ‘Alien’
With the recent Disney acquisition of 20th Century Fox, and in the wake of Alien: Covenant not exactly being a huge hit at the box office, the future of the Alien franchise is hanging in the balance right now, with no plans in motion for a new film. Will the next one be a full-on reboot or a continuation of Ridley Scott’s prequel franchise? We don’t know.
As it turns out, Katherine Waterston, who of course played new main character Daniels in Alien: Covenant (a sort of rebooted Ellen Ripley), doesn’t know either.
“I have no idea [what’s happening with Alien],” Waterston just told Metro, ahead of this week’s Alien Day. “I always feel as though the actors are the last to know. But I also feel as though I could have a great deal to do in that film, or just be rolled out in a body bag. I had heard some rumors about where it might go a long time ago that were really interesting to me and my character.”
“But I haven’t heard anything in ages,” she added.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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