Club. It’s a big year for Ridley Scott—not only is his second Alien prequel debuting next month, but the long- awaited Blade Runner sequel is due out in October. The director only helmed Alien: Covenant, but he’s still feeling well chuffed about the overlap in cinematic follow- ups.
The Associated Press recently spoke to Scott about all the prequel/sequel action (he’s a producer on Blade Runner 2. I never look back. I only look forward and think I’m very lucky to be able to do that,” Scott said, which does seem a bit at odds with spending years getting a sequel to Prometheus off the ground. Get the latest international news and world events from Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and more. See world news photos and videos at ABCNews.com. Current news about UFO's, aliens, alien abductions and unexplained mysteries and psychic phenomenon. Of course, it’s no longer being billed that way; with the title, Alien: Covenant, Scott and 2. Century Fox are trying to tie the film more closely to the original franchise. But speaking of looking forward, Scott says a new trailer for Blade Runner 2. Alien: Covenant when the latter hits theaters on May 1. Blade Runner 2. 04. Current UFO news, alien news and alien abduction news. A British Navy warship may have come within seconds of opening fire on Unidentified Flying Objects above Merseyside, possibly narrowly avoiding the precipitation of an interstellar war and the extirpation of humanity by testy aliens. Reports have it that the UFOs - speculated to have been visiting spacecraft from beyond the solar system - were tracked on naval weapons radars. The revelation comes from the Telegraph, reporting on last week's sightings of . The orange, blob- like flying balls - said by some witnesses to have . Also, Chinese lanterns don't move 3,0. So far, so what. But then the Telegraph entered the debate with stunning revelations from . The broadsheet carries on to say: Countermeasure flares are designed to prevent radar- based missile systems locking on to aircraft by providing multiple targets. The warship, which was docked at Liverpool's cruise liner terminal, is fitted with radar- activated Phalanx guns, which are capable of firing more than 3,0. The plan is apparently to cannibalise weapons from older ships as they retire. But Daring does have her 4. The 4. 5. It would normally be seen as a poor choice for anti- aircraft work these days, but beggars can't be choosers - the ships' PAAMS missiles, their primary armament, aren't ready yet either. The . Countermeasure flares are for confusing infrared systems, not radar - though ordinary illumination flares are used occasionally as aiming targets for lighter manually- aimed guns. But you certainly aren't going to start letting off flares over a densely- populated urban area in the UK, so we're staying with the much more credible alien- visitors idea. So what we've got here is HMS Daring tracking extraterrestrial spacecraft, and possibly almost certainly coming within inches of triggering an interstellar invasion by an ill- timed freak accidental firing mishap. That is, in the unlikely event that the rather feeble weapons actually fitted to the navy's newest, billion- dollar destroyer were actually able to do any harm.
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