‘Alien: Paradise Lost’ Will Introduce New Explorers To Get Mercilessly Slaughtered In Space
By Jacob Hall/Oct. 7, 2015 8:30 am EST
Everything we know about this so far can be found after the jump.
Speaking with Gregory Ellwood at Awards Campaign, Scott revealed that Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth and Michael Fassbender’s David will not be alone on their quest to track down the mysterious Engineers. After all, a movie about a dangerous space voyage where 50% of your cast is literally a severed head doesn’t sound like much fun. Anyway, our intrepid space travelers will apparently encounter a new group of people along the way:
So put on your prediction caps, Alien fans. Who could this new “group of travelers” represent? If the movie wanted to make a cheeky reference to the original franchise, they would be a crew of space marines, possibly even a rescue party. They could be rival scientists, exploring the same turf as Dr. Shaw and her late, crushed/blown-up/ripped-to-shreds brethren. Maybe they’ll be space truckers, totally average folks who find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time. In any case, most of them will probably become fodder for an angry Xenomorph at some point.
“It’s going to be it’s own separate thing because they are going to the planet of the Engineers and they are going to see what happened there. It was a disaster. And they will be in that alien craft that takes them there, but with a new group that’s incoming, a new group of travelers in the beginning of the first act.”
With The Martian going over like gangbusters with critics and audiences, Scott has been using his new supply of goodwill talk about Alien: Paradise Lost without sounding like a total crazy person. Prometheus was a mixed bag – a gorgeous, technically jaw-dropping, dumb-as-a-pile-of-moon-rocks mixed bag – so everyone was rightfully skeptical when he started going on about Prometheus 3 and Prometheus 4. Still, The Martian is Scott’s best movie in years, maybe even decades. If he wants to ride this high into another Alien movie, bless his heart. We’ll follow him down this rabbit hole.
Alien: Paradise Lost is still set for a May 30, 2017 release date.
