Ridley Scott Planning Another Three ‘Prometheus’ Films?!

By MrDisgusting on September 22, 2015@bradmiska

Ridley Scott’s Prometheus was originally meant as a one-shot prequel to his 1979 Alien – at least until Damon Lindelof got his hands on the screenplay and butchered the synergy.

Now, Scott is pushing the envelope as far at the edge of the universe, planning as many as three sequels to the Noomi Rapace-starrer that is slowly unveiling the origins of the Xenomorphs and the Engineers behind them.

Funny enough, in an interview with German website FilmFutter, Scott confirms that Prometheus does in fact connect with Alien, only not in the next sequel*.

“It won’t be in the next one,” explained Scott. “It will be in the one after this one or maybe even a fourth film before we get back into the Alien franchise…

“The whole point of it is to explain the Alien franchise and to explain the how and why of the creation of the Alien itself,” he added. “I always thought of the Alien as kind of a piece of bacterial warfare. I always thought that that original ship, which I call the Croissant, was a battleship, holding these biomechanoid creatures that were all about destruction.”

*Now, for those of you who have been on board since day one, you’ll remember that we broke news (via an on-set tipster) that the end of Prometheus was originally set to connect directly to Alien in that the ship that crashes is the exact same ship Ellen Ripley and her crew discover in Scott’s first film. Prometheus was changed to a different planet, thus expanding the universe and pushing the connection to the end of the third of a planned trilogy.

Now, Scott is eluding to plans of a fourth film – but who knows if the Neill Blomkamp Alien sequel is somehow part of this timeline.

Whatever the case may be, could this be too much backstory and information? Does knowing more retroactively hurt Alien? I guess time will tell. Too bad nobody in space will be able to hear me scream in anger if it does…

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RidleyScottIsADirector@gmail.c

Ok, let me clear this up: The Prometheus films and Neill Blomkamp’s Alien film will NEVER meet because the Prometheus group of films precede Alien and Neill’s film succeeds Aliens, which takes place 57 years after Alien.
- Erick Lorinc
  
  I didn’t ever really think they were, but at the same time, characters have slept in this universe for years and years and years. Time isn’t really a factor
  - RidleyScottIsADirector@gmail.c
    
    Nahhhhh overlap can get really messy
RidleyScottIsADirector@gmail.c

And it was originally meant to be a two-part prequel with DiCaprio starring and a $250 million budget for both hard R movies.
J Jett

this concerns me a little (i AM excited for PROMETHEUS 2). i really hope they don’t end this upcoming sequel on a big cliffhanger making fans wait 3 or 4 years for a completion (that might never come).
- RidleyScottIsADirector@gmail.c
  
  I really hope it’s just a trilogy. If Scott was younger, I’d be craving for more, but he’s almost 80. I want him to complete his trilogy.
  - J Jett
    
    i’m all for a trilogy absolutely. i just worry about what if the 2nd film doesn’t do very well and they decide to cancel the 3rd film. i’d die.
WalkingDeadGuy

I do not like that they are assuming that they’ll even get around to a third and fourth film. I’d love it, of course, but for a while there we didn’t even know if Prometheus 2 was ever going to be made. I just hope they don’t hold anything back on the second one because they want to save something good for the later sequels, only to have FOX axe the series before they get around to it.
- RidleyScottIsADirector@gmail.c
  
  He has a lot of material for a 3 AND a 4, is what I’m inferring.
Vader the White

Oh sweet Giger, WHY? Why do we need four of these fucking things! Look, I am a huge Alien fan. I can even accept the flaws in Alien 3, Resurrection, and AVP. And Prometheus was a gorgeous film, but the story wasn’t very good. I don’t know if even I can sit through three more of these.
Can we please just get back to what was good about Alien and Aliens? Please?
- TDimension Studios
  
  They’ll keep making them as long as people will be watching them and I’m pretty sure you’ll keep watching.
- Here is Subzero Now Plain 0
  
  I agree with a lot of what you say, but cannot accept AVP.
- Dev
  
  Anyone who can accept AVP doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
wehoaks

These film universes are getting out of hand and it clearly shows that it hurts each film. Never a complete focus on just ONE MOVIE. Everyone is thinking ahead and it shows. Terminator is the biggest culprit thus far. These seems like it may solidly win the silver.
Geno1987

Oh man, he’s pulling a James Cameron here.
Look Ridley, I love ya man. But your first film on this was utter crap. You completely forgot this was supposed to be an Alien prequel. If you want to make Chariots of the Gods, don’t tie it into the Space Jockeys. We want horror, not universal pondering and bad scripts.
- RidleyScottIsADirector@gmail.c
  
  Damon Lindelof said it best: “Ridley Scott at 40 just wants to scare the shit out of you. Ridley Scott had 70 has experienced a lot of life since then, and has a lot of questions and opinions, and is really grasping for the fruit of knowledge.”
  
  Ridley has done corridors, and can do corridors well, he doesn’t want to repeat that.
- Dev
  
  Ridley Scott was always very clear that it wasn’t an Alien prequel or to be viewed as such. Prometheus isn’t a horror film, get used to it – it’s pretty much pure sci-fi, in quite a traditional and old-fashioned sense, something we don’t get enough of in my opinion. Prometheus and Interstellar are the only two that spring to mind that came out in the last few years, although Scott now has The Martian too, so we’ll see about that one.
Blade

Damn, 3 more films? I’m not a huge fan of the Space Jockeys but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t curious to learn more about the Xenomorphs so im down lol
Trisha Tachanawa

It seems like every franchise is expanding its Universe. The only problem that I have is the obvious “getting a head of yourself” too much talking. Put passion and thought into the next film instead of thinking 5 movies a head. It just seems forced and not really the plan from the beginning. These sequels could turn out to be complete trash.
Fracassi

If I take Prometheus as a stand-alone film it is absolutely amazing. I think there is a lot they can do from the end of that movie to make it tie in, luckily they really did a good job of making the scenery seem like it could be pre-Alien. From the comments it seems like I am on the out here, but I really loved Prometheus. Can’t wait for the next one.
- Vicente Garcia
  
  As a stand-alone film, it’s a pretty great creature-feature!
- KSE1977
  
  I also enjoyed it for what it was and if we never see another sequel, we still get the gist of how the Aliens actually formed. Seems relatively obvious given the way the film ended.
Flu-Like Symptoms

I gotta say I’m not real thrilled about the possibility of a Prometheus “quadrilogy”. After the first one was f*cked all to hell and all the events we see which were obviously intended to be the lead-in elements of Alien were changed to make way for more films I kinda lost my gitty on this. Will probably watch Prometheus 2, but not sure beyond that. At this point I’m much more interested in Alien 5, or whatever it ends up being called.
BossWalrus

My only worry is that they go all out and only finish a second or third film. I’m sure these are films are going to need massive budgets, and it’s not unlike studios to crap on our hearts by killing films we look forward to so much. But I’ll be optimistic and try not to think of what happened with Cary Fukunaga and It (sad face)
Batt Damon

I’m really getting sick of everyone blaming Lindelof for this mess. We get it, you didn’t like how Lost ended. That doesn’t change the fact he was literally just writing what Ridley Scott wanted. Scott has such a patchy track record with little substance to the majority of his films aside from from nice looking cinematography. It’s pretty clear that he’s to blame for everything wrong with Prometheus.
- RawBeard
  
  Lidelof has been on record saying he pitched the idea of ditching most of the Alien aspect of “Alien: Paradise” and the result morphed in Prometheus. I agree Ridley is just as much to blame but seriously Lindelof whilst he does occasionally have some good ideas the guy just can’t seem to write endings.
Vicente Garcia

Honestly…the Alien films will still be there. And I actually LIKED Prometheus–was a cool high-budget creature feature–so I’m fine with more!
- Here is Subzero Now Plain 0
  
  I’m pretty much right there with you. I was happy enough to see someone other than Paul W.S. Anderson operating in that universe. So it wasn’t Alien or Aliens, but neither was Resurrection. If a sequel can bring the same imagery with some clarity to the plot, I’ll be there with my fingers crossed that it’s good.
doomas10

The first Prometheus was one of the biggest disappointments of all time. Acting, script, incoherence in the plot and a total alienation for me from the film. Having said that, technically it was marvelous but do we really need another three films?
Jonathan Larsson

Dude, he won’t live that long. What is his deal anyway? The first one didn’t properly do what it needed to do, and had a very stupid ending featuring a cadre of unlikable characters. Besides, all this preachy nonsense about our origins, really brought it down and out of focus.
RawBeard

Updated from a previous post: So Prometheus is the beginning of the beginning of questions beginning to be asked that begun in the Sequel to the prequel of the original that might begin after the next 3 sequels which has begun to answer the question at the beginning where does it all begin?… but it still doesn’t have an ending!
KSE1977

Okay, I will think of this a series just as soon as they get around to making an actual sequel to Prometheus. kind of the way I feel about Avatar. You can tell me you have 10 sequels lines up, but until they have finished wrapping on the second one, this is all just a lovely exercise in theory.
Susan Roberts

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PsychoMantis18

LaaaaAAAAAAAMMMEEE!!!
CR

Dudes…what was the net take-home of the first incomprehensible miasma that was Prometheus that it could produce THREE goddamn sequels?
- Weresmurf
  
  It did 403 mil worldwide in a 130 million budget. That’s not too bad. It officially didn’t flop, turned a tiny profit and no doubt DVD and online sales helped it across the line securing the whole sequel deal. Movies have done worse and gotten sequels.
  
  Personally I hated the movie, detested it, but hey it’s possible he might still make a better movie… just hope it isn’t bloody PG this time.
CR

Zero fuck given. Blomkamp…please speak up about Alien 5, also known as “The Sequel People Actually Give a Fuck About.”
- Dev
  
  I don’t feel particularly excited by Bombkamp’s fan art or his vague as fuck ideas for an Alien 3 semi-reboot. If we get more Alien films, they need to not be for fanboys.
marklola12 .

lol load of crap, sorry but the 1st did badly which usually means no one will watch the 2nd…not that many anyway
- Roberto Ciamora
  
  The 1st one made over $400 million at the international box office. Sure, those aren’t “Inception” numbers but for a dark Sci Fi film I thought that was pretty damn good.
- Dev
  
  It made loads of money.
Shelly Wichman

“Now, Scott is eluding to plans of a fourth film …” It’s alluding.
You’re welcome, Grammar Nazi
Charlton

I’m really sad that Alien 5 is being done AFTER Prometheus 2.
Krug09

Part 1 was messy as all hell but i still think its a good film.
CR

So, accorting to Scott…we have to suffer through THREE more goddamn incomprehensible miasmas before we see Alien 5. Great. Fuck you, Scott. No one gives a shit about this quasi-“strands of Alien DNA” bullshit franchise you crammed down our throats. So I estimate we will see Alien 5 no sooner than…2025? The only good thing about 2025 is Nuketown 2025 of Black Ops 2. And I haven’t played that game since 2012.
- Dev
  
  Actually lots of people give a shit, including myself, so you’re wrong there. I’m looking forward to Prometheus 2 and right now, any other films that follow it. And, ‘crammed down our throats’? Unless you were suffering under the Ludovico technique, nobody made you watch that film. Stick to your COD sequels.
  - CR
    
    Much meta. Wow. Very edge. I haven’t played COD since the mediocre Black Ops sequel. So kindly drinks pail of lead-based paint and retard yourself out of existence. A COD jab? Nice try, handi-tard. Prometheus sucked. On all fronts from the billion dollar mission populated by complete morons, who still get lost even with all their sci-fi mapping devices, a woman walking, running and jumping after having surgery through her abdominal muscles (which was a cool scene, I admit – even though it was the only one). Don’t you have a for-profit online class you should be doing? Even you could be a Phoenix!
    - CR
      
      Oh, and wasn’t there a ginger zombie and a woman only capable of running in straight lines instead of doing 8-10 lateral steps to the left or right. Fuck off, douche.
    - Dev
      
      It’s not ‘meta’ to reference something, just because you had to Google it. And I only mention Call of Duty because you did, and it seemed to agitate you so much when you did.
      
      Anyway, my point was that you asserted that nobody liked the film, when lots of people did, so bite me.
anthony

I’ve been hearing great reviews of The Martian so I am a bit hopeful as long as Damon Lindelof stays as far away as possible.
J Jett

the main thing i hated about PROMETHEUS (along with the ridiculous playing with the vagina snake thing) was the soundtrack. it was completely ill fitting. it was a good soundtrack for say SUPERMAN or an optimistic, uplifting superhero movie but not for a dark, supposedly intense/creepy sci-fi movie. the music used during the trailers for the movie worked infinitely better at creating intensity and dread.
Ridiculous

It seems that the comments mostly come from bitch ass whining kids or something…
I liked Prometheus, it didn’t had much Alien stuff nor Engineers as much as I hoped, but I still liked it, because lets be real…it’s a movie before everything, it wasn’t supposed to show an alien hunting or a fucking terminator coming out and blowing shit up for basically no reason at all…
C’mon, kids are commenting here or what ? Be rational, it only makes sense, as if your life doesn’t have parts that suck, if you didn’t you’re probably lying. When you read a book there’s nothing in the beginning, everything is being set up for couple of pages, and later it gets some nice things, a nice cake, and maybe even a cherry on top.

I have grown out some time ago, and I wish to know the origins of things that never had origins explained…meaning that I do not care about that much action, tho I wish there would be some decent action, but prequel is prequel, it’s interesting to me to know how everything develops instead of watching braindead murdering with no meaning to it, because I had already seen that, and now I’m hungry for origins, how shit started…

Every hater here does not think rationally imo, if you didn’t liked, ok, but if you didn’t like it, respond with hate, and how no aliens was there or anything like that, then you are just a child that simply does not get it…basically these movies are not meant for you in this case, so don’t watch it, your opinion is your opinion, box office says entirely something else about this movie…so your ranting is invalid.
Halloween_Vic

I liked the first one, I mean I did want more backstory as how the Xeno’s came about, yea we see the huge leggy alien thing insert the parasite in the engineer, then the alien comes out from it which looks a lot like a Xeno but not it exactly. I do want more info on that and back story, but maybe it is a good thing to not reveal to much about the ”Aliens” but in a way I do want more since they teased us with that much. Like were did those parasites come from to even create the Xeno’s, you get me? But 3 more sequels? I mean………
TrackRecord162

I disliked EVERYTHING about that film.
- Dev
  
  Sucks to be you then I guess.
Toby From HR

I don’t get why there are so many people hating on the first Prometheus. I am a huge Alien fan and i thought this film as fantastic. There are so many whiny ass people on this site. Let’s see you make a better film. End Rant.
- Dev
  
  It’s not perfect but I liked it a lot, and was left hungry for more. I really, really liked the way it expanded upon the mysteries left in Alien by the derelict, but didn’t just give us another Alien sequel/prequel but instead had a quite different tone that was more exploratory (but still scary and foreboding).
Kevin Hickey

alluding not eluding… either get an editor or at least a proofreader
- Joseph Vermillion
  
  Allude: Imply, foreshadow, point towards
  Elude: Evade, Hide, avoid.
  - Kevin Hickey
    
    Exactly!
- SugarShane333
  
  You’re fighting a lost cause with these writers. I mean righters.
  - Kevin Hickey
    
    LOL, I see what you did there.
I Am Colossus

Why blame a single writer for butchering a film this guy directed. Plenty of directors see problems with scripts and go in and rewrite things themselves. Scott’s finished product is solely on his own.
bizzle13

The Lindelof hate has gotten so old.
Gabbi Cordero

there’s no question that lindelof is a hack at best, but let’s not let ridley off the hook so easily as if he wasn’t onboard with this debacle. now that this is being stretched out into 3-4 movies, how about we throttle back our hero worship of scott as if he’s course correcting what someone else screwed up. he’s just as much to blame for the failings of prometheus he being THE DIRECTOR
xyzpfl

I loved Prometheus, it was so tantilizing, giving out hints and clues as to the origin of the alien. My own perspective is that the alien is a sort of super bug that has learned two things, how to zombify or control other beings, and how to create new life forms based on collected and mixed genetics from original life forms. They modified the engineers to serve them, to build and fly space ships so they could travel to distant worlds to find more prey as they obviously overun planet life quickly. They developed the life cycle to support long distance space travel though eggs that stay dormant until prey is near. How they developed so and if the engineers had anything to do with it is still a mystery. That is what alien is really about, the mystery of the beast. Almost every movie monster’s creation is established instantly in most movies, but in Alien it has yet to be revealed.
Prometheus is not perfect, but it is still a wonderful step towards unraveling the mystery.
Scott is a master of piddling out clues and background just enough to peak your interest.
He is on the same level or above Hitchcock, knowing the what you don’t see and have to imagine your self is always the most scary thing.
JaBooty

I’m confused how they’re gonna write several more when the plot of the first one was “At the Mountains of Madness with More Aliums”. Which HPL story could they cram more aliums into next?
- ulysses 31
  
  Yeah kinda torpedoed Del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness (that and the PG-13 version the studio wanted). There is a ‘sequel’, called Hive, not HPL of course, but I’m sure they could steal from a second rate knock-off, for a second rate knock-off…
jimmytwohands

Prometheus was absolute fucking garbage. The sequel should be called Absolute Fucking Garbage II: Port of Call New Orleans Fuckoff Bullshit. Or just throw in the fucking towel already, old man, and try not to fuck up Blade Runner.
- SugarShane333
  
  Please don’t procreate.