Following the earlier reveal of Prometheus 2’s title now being Alien: Paradise Lost, Ridley Scott talked further with HeyUGuys explaining more about the upcoming sequel’s title:
“Well, because we’re heading back to why and how and when the beast was invented. We’ll go back into the back door of the very first Alien that I did thirty years ago.”
Perhaps this represents a turnaround on Ridley Scott’s thoughts on the Alien no longer being effective or interesting? What are you thoughts on this latest information regarding Alien: Paradise Lost? Thanks to hfeldhaus and Comic Book Movie.com for the news.
Whhy.
All around exciting. I'm still optimistic for these films. It's good to hear some actual information from Scott himself.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=125357
This x 1000. I honestly think this is the painful end to a franchise we've loved for decades.
Well, according to Fox you can't have an Alien movie without Ripley in it. Or even a video game or novel it seems.
"Prometeus - Paradise lost"
or even just
"Paradise Lost"
I also seem to recall that this new thing "Prometeus" would not be connected with Alien and would be moving even futher away from Alien, which in my opinion is absolutly unnecessary. The Pilots were bio engineers. Plural, which means there "weapons" proberly have several forms of "infectious stages" and by that logic we´ve only seen some of the outcomes of one of there weapons.
Oh jesus, not young rookie prequel Ripley. Please god no, just no......
Well, apparently Alien: Paradise Lost will have some connection with Ripley according to an interview Empire magazine had with Ridley Scott.
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=45507
He also mentions Blomkamp's film and says it's still going ahead. Next up in fact.
The best parts of Prometheus were when it was doing its on thing, and I was really hoping for more of that.
I don't see how anyone is "beating about the bush on it". The film is still in the early stages of production and a certain amount of secrecy around the details of the plot is to be expected. They are under no obligation what-so-ever to tell us anything.
And yet he's also said he won't be undoing 3 and 4.
When he's finally flat out confirmed, "Yes, I'm reconnecting/scrapping/overwriting/*whatever* the later films," then fine. But for now everyone just seems to be beating around the bush on it. And I don't see why they'd do that if the decision's been set in stone like some fans are saying. If the decision's made, just say so. But they haven't.
No one will go on record about it. Are you seriously telling me you don't find that kinda strange?
How more "outright" does he need to get? He even had little pictures made!
Ugggggh please don't let it end with Shaw being in the suit and releasing the warning signal......that would be too painful.
And i wonder if it will be a slow progression like will we just a little in this one and then the full connnection in third or fourth film.
Also will he introduce Ripley and the Nostromo picking up the signal, and it ends where Alien begins, and also we don`t know how long that ship was stranded there before they come along.
That's exactly my point. They seem to have totally changed their minds.
Seriously, he can "seem to deliberately convey" whatever he wants, until he just outright says it, who knows what's going on.
Remember when Prometheus 2 was apparently gonna have nothing to do with Alien, and now they've literally called it Alien?
He said he already met with Blomkamp so it's probably safe to assume he knows a little bit more about the plot than the rest of us grunts.
The concept/pitch art that Blomkamp released is also a bit of a giveaway.
I don't see this interfering with the Blomkamp movie, though.
Got a giggle out of "ALIEN 5: PROMETHEUS - Ripley vs Predator".
https://twitter.com/NeillBlomkamp/status/647186673730646016
Really though I think it all just comes down to marketing and how they are promoting the movie. Probably as simple as that.
He never said the movie won't be related to Alien, just that it won't connect directly to the first movie!
I didn't literally mean why is it in the title. I meant why has he suddenly pulled a 180 on the whole "we're moving away from Alien" thing? That kinda rash concept change was probably the biggest cause of the problems in the first movie, and it looks like he's doing it again.
Because they are going in the backdoor of the Alien? Didn't you read his quote?
Really? Well even so, that's just talking about tone. Das Boot is claustrophobic like Alien, but you'd never say it has a similar plot.
Ridley was talking about actual plot when he said any Prometheus sequel would move further away from Alien. That's what makes this title so baffling. If its plot has nothing to do with Alien, why does it have Alien in the title?
There definitely was one it's just near impossible to find at the moment. It basically said the movie was to be more claustrophobic like ALien.
No. Literally every report said the sequel was going to be less Alien... because that's what Ridley repeatedly said. That's why I'm so concerned by this apparent u-turn.
So he's going in the backdoor of the Alien. Sounds sexy Ridley!
Also does anyone remember the report that came out a year and a bit ago saying Prometheus 2 was going to be more Alienish......I know we have to take those things with a grain of salt but it was said by someone.....