Trio Joins Prometheus

Director Ridley Scott said in an interview with The Daily Mail that Idris Elba, Sean Harris and Kate Dickie have joined the cast of his upcoming Alien sci-fi film project Prometheus.

The three actors join the already cast Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender.

Scott also talked about how he's gone to great lengths to keep the script of his new movie secret--and revealed that the actors, who've all signed secrecy clauses, were only allowed to read the script at Ridley's production office.

Asked about the plot, Scott says "It’s the story of creation, the gods and the man who stood against them. It’s not a small film."

Scott also re-iterated that it's not an "Alien" prequel, despite a recent report via Bleeding Cool which claimed film's setting "is, in part, a planet that has been terraformed to create the perfect environment in which a particular bioweapon would prosper."

Jon Spaihts. wrote the original script which was generally thought to serve as a prequel to Scott's 1979 classic and would explore the alien “Space Jockey” seen during one scene in the original. flick Now, Scott and Lost's Damon Lindelof worked together on the current script which has taken the story into a whole new direction.

The same report indicates that the creatures will be in the film, but not in the same form that we know.

As the previous films in the franchise have indicated, the xenomorphs take physical traits from their hosts - that's why the ones in the first two films they're bipedal in nature while the creature from the third film was more like its canine host. As the creature here has no human DNA, it won't be recognisable.

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