Alien vs. Engineer? Ridley reveals more details about Alien: Paradise Lost

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While he does press for his well-received sci-fi drama The Martian, director Ridley Scott hasn’t been shy about talking up his other science fiction extravaganza, Prometheus 2. Earlier this week, he announced that the film would no longer be called Prometheus 2, but Alien: Paradise Lost. This was interesting for a couple of reasons: firstly, that the Prometheus series - previously thought to be doing its own thing outside of the Alien-verse - will link directly to the Alien franchise, and secondly, it strongly suggests that the series will continue to expand the religious themes explored in the first entry.

Quite how the film will tie into the world of Alien is still a mystery, but according to Scott, the big chap will appear in Paradise Lost in some shape or form. Will series’ fans finally get to see the creature’s true origin? It’s certainly looking that way.

“I think I have to go again,” Ridley told Empire during a recent podcast. “We will see who made it, and why. That’s what’s interesting.” Whether that happens in this movie, or in the other two planned Promethalien movies, remains to be seen.”

Ridley also took the this chance to scupper the persistent rumours that his return to the franchise would put Neil Blomkamp’s planned Alien sequel on ice. “I’m producing it,” he stressed. “The design is for it to go out next, after this.” He went on to say that Paradise Lost would link to the Alien franchise in a more oblique fashion, whereas Blomkamp’s effort would be the true sequel, chronicling Ripley’s ongoing battle with the Xenomorphs.