Fans of the Alien franchise may have bemoaned the lack of xenomorphs in the quasi-prequel Prometheus , yet according to Ridley Scott, they shouldn’t expect to see them in the next film either.
Speaking to Yahoo Movies about his current film, Exodus: Gods And Kings , which stars Christian Bale and tells the story of Moses, Scott addressed some of the projects in his future. Among those is a sequel to Prometheus , which was released in 2012. According to Scott, the second film is well on its way to production with a script already in the works.
“Right now, as we speak, it’s being written,” Scott said. “I’ve had 15 drafts evolving. I definitely want to do that again because I really enjoyed doing ‘ Prometheus ‘.”
20th Century Fox has previously announced an unspecified Ridley Scott feature for a 2016 release, which is believed to be Prometheus 2 , as The Inquisitr has reported. While many fans have expressed hope that Prometheus 2 will feature far more of the alien xenomorphs, which were largely absent from the first film, it appears they are going to be disappointed.
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“The beast is done. Cooked,” Scott asserted. “I got lucky meeting Giger all those years ago. It’s very hard to repeat that. I just happen to be the one who forced it through because they said it’s obscene. They didn’t want to do it and I said, ‘I want to do it, it’s fantastic’. But after four, I think it wears out a little bit. There’s only so much snarling you can do. I think you’ve got to come back with something more interesting. And I think we’ve found the next step. I thought the Engineers were quite a good start.”
In addition to Prometheus 2 , the director is also working on pre-production for an adaptation of Andy Weir’s novel The Martian , set to star Matt Damon, according to A.V. Club . Scott also revealed he has recently met with Harrison Ford to discuss a sequel to Blade Runner . Their meeting, it turns out, happened the night before Ford’s high-profile accident on the set of Star Wars: Episode VII .
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“It’s on the charts,” Scott said of Blade Runner 2 . “I can’t say when that would be yet, because of [Ford’s] thing with ‘ Star Wars ‘. It’s a sequel – it’s what happens next. It’s quite surprisingly clever.”
With Exodus: Gods And Kings hitting theaters December 26th and his other projects in the works, it will be some time before Ridley Scott will be revealing Prometheus 2 .
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