According to a comment in a new article from Variety, John Logan is currently working with Ridley Scott to revise the script for the Prometheus sequel, Alien: Paradise Lost:
“Following that double-whammy, it was 30 years before Scott tried his hand at sci-fi again, though he now seems firmly re-entrenched in the zone. “Prometheus,” 2012’s oblique prequel to “Alien,” returned him to the extraterrestrial territory he revisits in “The Martian,” while he and scribe John Logan are revising the script for an as-yet-untitled “Prometheus” sequel — inspired, he says, by Milton’s epic poem “Paradise Lost” — set to start rolling in February.”
John Logan has written such films as the recent Bond films, Skyfall & Spectre and the very well received Hugo.
This comes from an article about Ridley Scott getting his much deserved star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame last week so the comment about Prometheus 2 being unnamed in a recent article (the news of Prometheus 2 being titled Alien: Paradise Lost came back in September) is a little off.
John Logan has been writing for screen since the 1990s. He is responsible for the recent James Bond films Skyfall and Spectre. John Logan has previously worked with Ridley Scott on Gladiator in 2000, one of several films he has been nominated writing awards for.
What do you think of John Logan working with Ridley Scott for Alien: Paradise Lost? Let us know in the comments below!
Loved Nemesis. It was quite good IMHO. What else has he written ??
Wow from what I have read about him he is very good. Sounds good.
which my favourite.John Logan wrote the screenplay . It is sad that it flopped..
Unless they did and Scott actually realized what a hack Lindelof was and threw it out. I can hope.
And that's scarily closer to the truth than most realise.
Isn't that the exact same reason they hired Lindelof.......because Spaights was untested!
This. Such last-minute revisions are rarely a sign of good things. Not when it's supposedly been through so many drafts already. Really not expecting much from this movie.
This is what annoys me more than anything about the first film. It came across as though it thought it was some high and mighty philosophical piece that was asking all these big meaningful questions about existence and what have you, but if the development of the sequel is anything to go by, even the people making it had no f*cking clue what the answers were.
Scott also called Lindelof back for a chat with regards to a sequel after Prometheus was released.
Of course Lindelof suddenly had all kinds of other engagements and excuses but thankfully it turned out that Scott wasn't going to ask him to write a sequel anyway.
That's pretty cool! Did you publish what he talked about with Paradise Lost?
I think some of the old Prometheus vehicles are in a museum somewhere?
Hotel in Paris, it was October 16!
We mostly talked about The Martian. Do you know that the rover of the movie was offered to the king of Jordan, I am jealous!
I hope that new vehicles will be built for the prometheus sequel!
Then again, with Lindelof's departure it sounded like Fox didn't know what to do with the story. I'm hopeful that's sorted now.
Ah! Fair enough! Where did you get speak to him?
Correct. I am not sure that the DEPTH of thinking behind it was to the level it should have been.
I work occasionally for the cinema section of my local newspaper.
Scott said something exciting, there will be carnage in Paradise planet, many characters will die in the first part of the film. Elizabeth Shaw is still the main character, Scott wants to talk about the conflict science / religion, for him the two are not incompatible, he knows many scientists who believe in God and it will be even approaching A: PL. He also says that a scene will be even more intense than the cesarean section.
The guy is really passionate, I am eager for his film, I loved Prometheus too.
That's true but I just wonder how well the back story for Prometheus was thought out and to what DEPTH the sequels were discussed. In other words the overall story.
Like with the martian. The story was there before the script was written.
I also don't think Ridley was totally at a loss for what to do with this sequel. Both writers of Prometheus mentioned having very frank discussions about where the series was headed,.. I just think that after that film was released Ridley saw the errors he made, and decided to correct them, so he knew he had to add stuff to the mix, and that's what all this has been about.
The script is the most important thing.
Terrible news for us
Nah this isn't going to be another alien³, if Ridley f**ks it up it'll be his fault.
The parallels to Alien 3 are worrying. From the sounds of it, I don't think Ridley really knew what direction he wanted to take the sequel in but I think he figured it all out. Remember they were taking pitches from just about anyone.
From what we know Logan would be the 3rd writer mentioned in conjunction with the script but whether the other 2 named writers actually did work, I'm not sure. It was said Jack Palgen was "in talks" and numerous articles list Michael Green as rewriting the Palgen script.
That said, I do feel positive about Logan. He seems to have a nice battery of work and accolades behind him.