Once upon a time (aka, 2012), Ridley Scott made a "serious" science fiction film called Prometheus.
Originally, it had been reported that Scott was working on a prequel to Alien, but he and the rest of the production team soon made a concerted effort to distance Prometheus from Alien, admitting only that the two existed in the same universe. The implication was that Prometheus was a completely original story with only peripheral connections to Alien.
When the movie was released, it ended with a coda that revealed a baby creature that was a sort of proto-Alien. Really, though, the movie was mostly about the Engineers, the ancient species responsible for creating both humans and the Xenomorph creature from Alien. When talk of a sequel began, fans assumed it would connect the two stories, but Scott was noncommittal.
More recently, the director stated that the plan had changed and now there could be as many as three sequels to Prometheus. However, it was still being referred to as a Prometheus sequel, continuing that storyline. Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender are already signed to return.
Today, in an interview with HeyUGuys, Ridley Scott revealed the title of his sequel to be ...
Alien: Paradise Lost.
Yeah. Okay.
Aside from the atrocity that is that title, that whole ambiguity thing is right out the window, eh? Seriously, Fox and Scott have have come a long way from barely acknowledging a connection to putting Alien in the Prometheus sequel's title.
The Paradise Lost connection should be pretty obvious to fans. Prometheus ended with Rapace's Elizabeth Shaw setting off to the Engineers' homeworld, with android David in tow, to meet her maker. Paradise Lost is John Milton's classic poem about Lucifer's fall from grace and exile from Heaven.
Draw your own conclusions.
Alien: Paradise Lost is scheduled to begin filming in Feb. 2016, with an eye toward a May 2017 release.
Via: SuperHeroHype
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