Ridley Scott Explains Where PROMETHEUS 2 Will Take Audiences
We've got some more details on Prometheus 2 thanks to director Ridley Scott, who is out making the press rounds for his upcoming sci-fi film The Martian. Prometheus 2 will be Scott's next film project and it will see the return of Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace. The filmmaker doesn't really give any plot details, but he does tease where the story is going to take audiences. This is what he told Empire in a recent interview:
"You [could] 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?
"That raises the question to me. Same as was depicted in 2001 when... that ape that had been grubbing around in the water hole with all of them bickering at each other... has a bigger thought injected into his brain than Newton got sitting under a tree and seeing an apple fall. That is one gigantic, magnificent leap of a thousand years of evolution; that is where the world begins. 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?"
Scott is really passionate about doing Prometheus 2, as he chose to make that film over Blade Runner 2, which just seems crazy to me. For me, doing Blade Runner 2 seems like a no-brainer, but he hired Dennis Villenueve to direct it. Scott says,
"He has taken my script, from Hampton [Fancher] and Michael Green, and that’s what he’ll make. I can’t direct them all, and I have to do Prometheus."
I thought the first Prometheus was good, but it could have been so much better. I hope this sequel turns out to be an all-around better movie. It sounds like Scott has come up with a lot of interesting concepts to play with in the film, and it will be interesting to see what he does to implement those ideas of the origin of creation into the story.