Since revealing that the follow-up to Prometheus is going by the title of Alien: Paradise Lost, Ridley Scott’s press tour for The Martian has been dominated by talk of his impending return to the Alien universe, and speaking to Yahoo! Movies the director has revealed more details about the sequel, as well as discussing Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming Blade Runner 2.
“It continues after [Prometheus], where Elizabeth Shaw [Noomi Rapace] says, ‘I wanna go where they came from,'” states Scott. “And you’ve got Michael Fassbender in two parts, so she’ll slowly put him back together. They will go to the world of the Engineer… That’s where they’re going to go. They will find out who would design such an awful bio-mechanoid creature, like a massive piece of bacteria.”
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Moving on to Blade Runner 2, and despite handing over directing duties to Sicario helmer Villeneuve, Scott has revealed that he retains final cut on the finished film.
“I always have final cut on everything, really. Partly because I’m very user-friendly. I always believe when you’re given X amount of money by someone to fuck around with and make a movie, you can’t draw lines in the sand. If I was an investor and you did that to me, I’d remove your ankles. So don’t do the auteur shit. I respect the guy for giving the money and I respect the studio for saying, “Yeah, you want to do this, here we go.”
Alien: Paradise Lost is set for release on May 30th 2017, while Blade Runner 2 – which may be titled Androids Dream – is currently without a date.
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Originally published October 1, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
