It looks like Michael Fassbender ’s twisted android David may finally get to finish what he started. Ridley Scott says a follow-up to Alien: Covenant is in the works, and the story will continue David’s disturbing journey as he attempts to create a “brave new world for himself.

Despite recent calamitous examples to the contrary, a subtle sign that the cosmos might be healing arrived in a recent Los Angeles Times interview with director Ridley Scott, who told the paper that a...