Now that Ridley Scott is on the press circuit promoting Robin Hood Alien Prequel
talk is resurfacing. "It'll be two," revealed Scott. "Prequel one and two, then Alien 1."
Asked if he would shoot the two films back-to-back, he responded: "At
the moment I'm just trying to get the first one out."
"It's set in 2085, about 30 years before [Sigourney Weaver's
character] Ellen Ripley. It's fundamentally about going out to find out
'Who the hell was that Space Jockey?' The guy who was sitting in the
chair in the alien vehicle — there was a giant fellow sitting in a seat
on what looked to be either a piece of technology or an astronomer's
chair ... Our man [Tom Skerritt as Captain Dallas] climbs up and says
"There's been an explosion in his chest from the inside out — what was
that?" I'm basically explaining who that Space Jockey — we call him the
Space Jockey — I'm explaining who the space jockeys were ... [The film]
is about the discussion of terraforming — taking planets and planetoids
and balls of earth and trying to terraform, seed them with the
possibilities of future life."
Scott also states he will be approaching H.R. Giger to talk creature designs in
an effort to create something new because he feels, "The alien in a
sense, as a shape, is worn out."
Scott said he planned to shoot the films in dazzling brightness to help
the 3D process, before darkening the screen in post-production to suit
the franchise's sombre tone.
