Prometheus 2 update: Ridley Scott says no aliens will be featured

Last Updated on July 22, 2021

Regarding the article’s title: no xenomorphs will be featured in PROMETHEUS 2. I’m sure there will be aliens of some kind.

But it’s true, folks: If you were let down by the lack of multi-mouthed extraterrestrials in PROMETHEUS, you shouldn’t expect to have you appetite sated by PROMETHEUS 2, according to director Ridley Scott.

In an interview with Yahoo UK, Scott reveals that he’s eager to continue the story of Elizabeth (Noomi Rapace) and David (Michael Fassbender) and that the script-phase is coming along fast and furiously.

Right now, as we speak, it’s being written. I’ve had 15 drafts evolving. I definitely want to do that again because I really enjoyed doing ‘Prometheus’.”

Regarding the lack of familiar aliens, Scott doesn’t seem to be interested in revisiting those slimy beasts.

The beast is done. Cooked. I got lucky meeting Giger all those years ago. It’s very hard to repeat that. I just happen to be the one who forced it through because they said it’s obscene. They didn’t want to do it and I said, ‘I want to do it, it’s fantastic’. But after four (he has conveniently forgotten the ‘AvP’ movies), I think it wears out a little bit. There’s only so much snarling you can do. I think you’ve got to come back with something more interesting. And I think we’ve found the next step. I thought the Engineers were quite a good start.”

So where does PROMETHEUS 2 pick up?

You’ll probably have to go with [Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw] and [Michael Fassbender’s android David] – without his head. Find out how he gets his head back on!”

GREEN LANTERN scribe Michael Green is currently writing PROMETHEUS 2, which doesn’t yet have a release date.