More than 30 years after creating the original Alien, Ridley Scott is looking to do a prequel film. The main story is already finished; a female will be the main character and hopes are to get the film out by late 2011 or early 2012. Alien is one of those movies that really resonates with the gaming audience, so we could certainly envision some interesting marketing tie-ins as this project progresses.
“It’s set in 2085, about 30 years before Sigourney [Weaver’s character Ellen Ripley],” described Scott. “It’s fundamentally about going out to find out ‘Who the hell was that Space Jockey ‘ The guy who was sitting in the chair in the alien vehicle there was a giant fellow sitting in a seat on what looked to be either a piece of technology or an astronomer’s chair and our man [Tom Skerritt as Captain Dallas] climbs up and says ‘There’s been an explosion in his chest from the inside out what was that?’ I’m basically explaining who that Space Jockey we call him the Space Jockey I’m explaining who the space jockeys were.
When asked about appearances by the Weyland- Yutani corporation, Scott said, “It’s Weyland. Weyland hasn’t joined Yutani yet, so they go and see Weyland. [The film] is about the discussion of terraforming taking planets and planetoids and balls of earth and trying to terraform, seed them with the possibilities of future life.”
Source: MTV
