Ridley Scott has ideas for where his Alien franchise could go next.

"I still think there's a lot of mileage in Alien, but I think you'll have to now re-evolve," Scott told The LA Times. "What I always thought when I was making it, the first one, why would a creature like this be made and why was it traveling in what I always thought was a kind of war-craft, which was carrying a cargo of these eggs. What was the purpose of the vehicle and what was the purpose of the eggs? That's the thing to question -- who, why, and for what purpose is the next idea, I think."

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Scott famously directed 1979's Alien, which introduced a world of Xenomorphs and Facehuggers. James Cameron stepped in as director for Aliens, and Scott didn't return to the franchise until Prometheus in 2012. Prometheus was intended to launch an eight-movie prequel series that would lead up the events of Alien.

Prometheus, which released a whopping 33 years after the original film, introduced the Engineers as well as a new crew of doomed humans. After the success of PrometheusAlien: Covenant provided an origin for the Xenomorphs and questioned theology. While Noomi Rapace's Elizabeth Shaw was tipped to be the "new" Ellen Ripley, her absence in Alien: Covenant saw Katherine Waterston's Daniels take over as the de facto female lead.

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Scott previously revealed where the third movie would have gone, with the tentatively titled Alien: Awakening featuring Michael Fassbender's David doing battle with the Engineers while presumably resolving Covenant's cliffhanger ending. Between Disney's acquisition of Fox and Covenant's underperformance at the box office, though, the future of the franchise was left in doubt. However, Scott's latest interview shows he isn't necessarily done with Xenomorphs just yet.