Following the release of his new film The Martian, Ridley Scott is set for an instant return to the sci-fi genre as production gets underway early next year on the follow-up to 2012’s Prometheus. Speaking to Deadline at the Toronto International Film Festival, the British filmmaker has revealed that filming on Prometheus 2 will likely start in February, as well as touching upon what he wants to explore with the story:
“You can either say, leave the first film alone and jump ahead, but you can’t because it ends on too specific a plot sentence as she says, I want to go where they came from, I don’t want to go back to where I came from. I thought the subtext of that film was a bit florid and grandiose, but it asks a good question: who created us? I don’t think we are here by accident. … It is pretty grand thinking, and that’s what I want to explore. You’ve got to go back and find those engineers and see what they are thinking. If engineers are the forerunners of us, and therefore were creators of life forms in places that were possible for biology to function, who created that? Where’s the big boy? You think this was all an accident?”
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Prometheus 2 is set for release on May 30th 2017, with Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender both reprising their roles from the first movie.
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Originally published September 13, 2015. Updated April 14, 2018.
