Has The Alien Covenant Sequel Been Canceled

From Screenrant
\nFox has reportedly canceled plans for a sequel to 2017’s Alien: Covenant. Prospects for a sequel have long looked shaky, ever since Covenant limped to just $74 million in domestic box office grosses. Even the polarizing Prometheus was able to scare up $126 million in the U.S.
\nSet years after Prometheus, Covenant concerns a space crew stumbling upon the home planet of the blue skinned space-god Engineers. There they find the android David (Michael Fassbender), who has wiped out the Engineers and taken over experimenting with their life-form altering black goo. The film’s ending set up a possible sequel that would take David’s experiments even farther. Ridley Scott himself has mentioned wanting to further explore David’s god-like activities in yet another Alien film. But at this point, does anyone but Ridley Scott even want another Alien film?
\nThe sequel to Covenant was originally due to start preproduction this month in Sydney. After the box office results filming was canceled, and a warehouse storage unit full of stuff was auctioned off a few months ago. So the original plan of pumping out another quickly has definitely changed with no immediate plans for anything.
\nThe only way the Alien franchise gets another life now is if Ridley Scott marshals all his clout and forces the movie through. Scott surely has prodigious power in the industry, but can even he convince anyone the world wants/needs yet another Alien? Scott claims he has ideas for multiple sequels, and good for him. But after Alien: Covenant it’s clear the franchise has run its course in the eyes of the movie-going public. Fox, apparently, has had enough as well.
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