The director's mystery movie for 2016 is no longer a mystery. It's the Prometheus sequel.
Remember that announcement a few days ago about 20th Century Fox setting March 4, 2016 as the release date of an untitled Ridley Scott film? Turns out we now know what that movie is.
It’s Prometheus 2.
That will be the director’s next project, which he’ll start working on as soon as he finishes his current one, Exodus.
That’s not all. Scott has brought in screenwriter Michael Green, who recently completed a script for Scott’s Blade Runner movie, to rewrite Jack Paglen’s first draft. The good news is that Scott must be happy with Green’s Blade Runner script if he asked the writer to stick around and work on Prometheus 2; the bad news is that Blade Runner now gets pushed farther into the future.
A Prometheus sequel has been part of the conversation even before the first movie came out, but the lukewarm public and critical response to the film seemed to defuse the idea of finding out what happened when Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and the android David’s head (Michael Fassbender) took off in that ship for the Engineers’ homeworld. Despite the sense that Prometheus underperformed, it did haul in $400 worldwide – enough to convince Fox to let Scott move forward with a sequel.
Where exactly the story will lead is unknown at this point, but Green’ s script will apparently involve multiple Davids and will be more “alien-y,” meaning more like the earlier films in the Alien franchise and less like its immediate predecessor.
Whatever Scott and Green have up their sleeves – and there’s a good chance the title will change from Prometheus 2 as well – we now know that, one way or another, the Prometheus tale will be continued on March 4, 2016.
Source: The Wrap
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