Ridley Scott is planning on making three sequels to Prometheus.
The director has revealed that the Prometheus storyline that left us all a little bit dumbfounded after the original film in 2012 will eventually link back in with Alien narrative.
He told German website Film Flutter: “It will not be the next (film). It will be in the next but one Prometheus or perhaps even in a later film, before we are, in a sense, back in the Alien franchise.”
Prometheus was conceived as an Alien prequel but left both critics and filmgoers cold upon its release.
“The whole point (of Prometheus)Â is to explain the Alien franchise and how and why the aliens were created.
“I always saw the Alien as a type of biological warfare. For me, the original spaceship, which I call the ‘croissant’, is a warship containing these biomechanoid creatures, which are all about destruction.”
Scott’s next film, The Martian, arrives in cinemas on 30 September and has received universally positive reviews.
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