Ridley Scott continues to tease fans with tid-bits of plot information surrounding his upcoming Prometheus sequel, Alien: Paradise Lost. Prior to this new interview, Scott had revealed that Paradise Lost would have some connections to Ellen Ripley - the badass heroine from the original Alien series, who will also be present in Neill Blomkamp's Alien 5. How this connection will be made is anyone's guess and fans in the Prometheus sequel forum are already contemplating possible scenerios.
Today however, comes a new interview once again with Ridley Scott, by Yahoo!, who picked the director's brain about Alien: Paradise Lost's plot synopsis. In a brief response, Scott reveals that Shaw and David will in fact make it to the Engineer homeworld, which he describes as "spooky". Our guess is that this world will emulate the biomechanical artwork of the late H.R. Giger; at least we hope it will. Check out Ridley's comments below:
Yahoo!: And Prometheus 2 will be a continuation of the story?
Ridley: Of course. Have you ever read Paradise Lost, by Milton? In a funny kind of way, it’s an interesting basis for the darkness of [Prometheus 2]. Where the good-looking guy, who is evil as s–t, gets all the girls and goes to the nightclubs. The other guy, who is not quite as good-looking, is boring as hell and stays home. So in a funny kind of way, we used that as the basis for it, it’ll be Alien: Paradise Lost. Which is very spooky, because it continues after the last one, where Elizabeth Shaw [Noomi Rapace] says, “I wanna go where they came from.” And you’ve got Michael Fassbender in two parts, so she’ll slowly put him back together. They will go to the world of the Engineer.
Yahoo!: To the core of that planet.
Ridley: That’s where they’re going to go. They will find out who would design such an awful bio-mechanoid creature, like a massive piece of bacteria.
As Ridley explained recently, the reason Prometheus 2 is now titled Alien: Paradise Lost is because he's going to explore how the Xenomorph was created initially and for what reasons. This likely won't directly explain how the Derelict crashed on LV-426, but will definitely shed more light on its mystery than Prometheus did.
For those of us who still wish to explore the Engineer mythology, don't worry, Ridley still plans to explore that avenue of the franchise as well. Remember, Prometheus spawned a host of sequels, which may eventually equate to a full blown quadrilogy, focusing on two main storylines which parallel eachother and the Alien franchise.
What are your hopes for the Engineer homeworld? What aesthetic are you expecting? What nightmares do you think await Shaw and David for when they arrive? Let us know in the comments section or in the Prometheus sequel / Alien: Paradise Lost forums!
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