Alien On The Horizon

In an exclusive chat Empire caught up with director Sir Ridley Scott for a quickie concerning his anticipated Alien Prequel that he hopes "to direct soon-ish".



However the new film may not lead into the first Alien as has been the conventional wisdom…

“It’s a brand new box of tricks, we know what the road map is, and the screenplay is now being put on paper. The prequel will be a while ago. It’s very difficult to put a year on Alien, but [say the first] Alien was towards the end of this century, then the prequel story will take place thirty years prior.”

I take that to mean that Jon Spaihts' script will focus on how the beasts got to be on the planet seen in the 1979 feature...and the 1986 sequel...

“I never thought I’d look forward to a sequel,” said Scott. “But a prequel is kind of interesting. I’m looking forward to doing that.”

Scott has so many films in the pipeline that I wonder when this will actually hit the cineplex?