Ridley Scott Says Hard R Rating for Alien: Covenant

Talking after the Golden Globes this Sunday, the director dropped some fresh intel about what he has planned for the franchise, promising that he’s aiming for “a pretty hard R” rating (essentially an 18, or possibly 15, depending on the violence) before adding that he’s got something “much worse” in store for us than the iconic chestburster scene from the original.

Alien: Covenant director Ridley Scott is know for one of the more intense sequences in film history: the chestburster scene in Alien.

While he was surprisingly left out of the Academy Award nominations (for directing at least), director Ridley Scott is coming off of great success with The Martian and is now gearing up to return to the property that helped make him a household name: Alien.

When a reporter commented on fans being interested in the horror aspect of the Alien series, Ridley Scott responded “that’s why I’m doing it. I’m going to do pretty Hard R”.

“I felt a sense of responsibility of had I gone too far”, he said. There’s a strong possability that this was whilst scouting for locations for Alien: Covenant. Many are looking forward to seeing a similar scene in “Alien: Covenant”. That means he wants the movie to carry what he calls “a pretty hard R rating” in order to keep things fresh.

In a report of ComingSoon, the Alien franchise is known to only have one movie to not go for an R rating, which was Paul W.S. Anderson’s Alien vs Predator. It begins with the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy.

Alien: Covenant opens in theaters on October 6, 2017 and will be set 10 years after Prometheus. There, the crew discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, risky world – whose sole inhabitant is the “synthetic” David (Michael Fassbender), survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.