Ridley Scott on 2 3-D ‘Alien’ Prequels: it’ll be about space, gods and engineers
UPDATED WITH EARLY PHOTOS PROMOTING “PROMETHEUS”
From the Independent:
The anticipation for his next project is building to fever pitch: it will be a two-part prequel to Alien, shot in 3D. Scott was never asked to make a sequel to Alien; that honour went to James Cameron, before a further two sequels and two Alien vs Predator spin-offs milked the franchise dry. But with the Lost co-creator Damon Lindoff polishing the first prequel’s script, you can sense the competitor in Scott, desperate to put his stamp back on the film series that launched him. “Jim’s raised the bar and I’ve got to jump to it,” he says, in a friendly jibe at Cameron. “He’s not going to get away with it.”
Set 30 years before the 1979 original, so with no room for Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley, the prequels will explore the origins of the deadly aliens. “The film will be really tough, really nasty,” he notes. “It’s the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?”
It’s a bold move, one that could taint Scott’s earlier contribution to the series if it goes wrong. But Scott loves a gamble, whether it’s taking on the sequel to The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, or resurrecting an unfashionable genre with Gladiator. “Everyone sniggered because they thought I was going to do a sandals and toga movie,” he remembers. Given the success he’s had since, Scott has had the last laugh.
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