{"id":66070,"date":"2014-09-24T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T14:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=66070"},"modified":"2014-09-24T15:18:13","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T14:18:13","slug":"prometheus-2-ridley-scott-doesnt-want-any-hr-giger-aliens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/prometheus-2-ridley-scott-doesnt-want-any-hr-giger-aliens\/","title":{"rendered":"Prometheus 2 Ridley Scott doesn’t want HR Giger aliens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The classic HR Giger design as seen in Aliens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

The status of Prometheus 2<\/em><\/strong> seems to be tricky to pin down at the moment with Ridley Scott hard at work on pre-production on Matt Damon sci-fi The Martian<\/em><\/strong>, but Yahoo! <\/a>managed to get some answers from the director.<\/p>\n

“Right now, as we speak, it’s being written, I’ve had 15 drafts evolving,” he reveals. “I definitely want to do that again because I really enjoyed doing Prometheus<\/em><\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

When the site raised the question of whether we’d see any of the late, great HR Giger’s classic designs in the sequel, Scott was able to offer something definitive.<\/p>\n

“The beast is done. Cooked,” he said. “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 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.”<\/p>\n

He also offered a hint of what the story might entail, suggesting that we will indeed follow Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw and Michael Fassbender’s David. “You’ll probably have to go with [Shaw] and [David] – without his head. Find out how he gets his head back on!”<\/p>\n

It’s interesting to hear that the film is being written as many were speculating that The Martian hopped into the slot that Prometheus 2<\/em><\/strong> was supposed to occupy in Scott’s ludicrously busy schedule (he’s got Exodus: Gods And Kings<\/em><\/strong> coming out too, let’s not forget).<\/p>\n

He also told Yahoo that Blade Runner 2<\/em><\/strong> would depend on Harrison Ford’s schedule with Star Wars<\/em><\/strong>. “It’s on the charts. I can’t say when that would be yet, because of [Ford’s] thing with Star Wars<\/em><\/strong>. It’s a sequel – it’s what happens next. It’s quite surprisingly clever.”<\/p>\n

So that’s three sci-fi films on his agenda that are actively in development… but it’s good to hear that he’s up for directing Prometheus 2<\/em><\/strong>. Unless you hated Prometheus<\/em><\/strong>, of course, in which case all of the above was probably a bit like hearing nails on a chalkboard.<\/p>\n

You can buy Prometheus<\/em> on Blu-ray for £16.40 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a> Keep up with the latest sci-fi news with the new issue of SciFiNow<\/a>.<\/strong>
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