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John Logan rewriting Alien: Paradise Lost with Ridley Scott

November 11, 2015 by Gary Collinson

Originally published November 11, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.

With production on the Prometheus sequel Alien: Paradise Lost set to get underway early in 2016, Variety is reporting that Ridley Scott is currently reworking the script with John Logan, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter behind Gladiator.

SEE ALSO: Neill Blomkamp’s Alien 5 now on indefinite hold due to Ridley Scott’s Alien: Paradise Lost

Logan – whose other credits include the likes of The Aviator, Hugo, Skyfall and Spectre – will be working on a script that has already been developed by Jack Paglen (Transcendence) and Michael Green (Green Lantern).

Alien: Paradise Lost is set for release on May 30th 2017, with Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender reprising their roles from Prometheus.

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Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News Tagged With: Alien, Alien: Paradise Lost, John Logan, Ridley Scott

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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