A peek inside the roller-caster world of Ridley Scott: he was riding high on the day of the much-buzzed-about Alien: Covenant release in 2017, announcing that he would begin work on a third prequel as soon as 2018. Then came an unfortunate turn of events, as Covenant underperformed at the box office with a $74 million take in the United States, and threw the fate of this new trilogy’s final installment into question.

2018 has come and gone, and Scott’s latest chapter has not entered production as promised. But a report from Variety confirms that Scott may be down, but he’s far from out.

In a feature about Scott’s original Alien film on the occasion of its release’s 40th anniversary, Variety states that the third prequel remains very much alive, in the scripting stage. (An earlier rumor suggested that the final film may be subtitled Awakening, but have not been verified.)

Covenant concluded on a sinister note, with Katherine Waterston’s terraforming expert Daniels in cold storage and a pair of alien embryos a-gestating onboard the ship heading to Origae-6, the setting of the original film. (Also, two androids in the shape of Michael Fassbender kissed.) Scott left himself room to close the loop, filling in what happened on the planet to cue up the events of his first film.

Though the Disney-Fox merger cast a shadow of uncertainty on Scott’s grand space opus (the non-Blade Runner one, anyway), he’s still forging onward. If we know anything about the Xenomorph, it’s that the creature is nigh-on impossible to kill.

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