Ready to have the waters muddied in regards to Ridley Scott's Prometheus sequel? While he's talked about expanding the franchise's scope in exploring the origins of the life-creating "engineers", he also revealed there would be a closer connection to his original Alien movies, but not until later sequels. He may have been pulling our legs a little bit because Scott has revealed the title of Prometheus 2, and it suggests that connection begins much sooner.
In a conversation with HeyUGuys, Scott says the title of the film is Alien: Paradise Lost...
“Actually, it’s going to be called Alien: Paradise Lost, so Prometheus 2 isn’t what it’s really going to be. You know the poem? I doubt you’ve ever been through it, have you? The poem’s a book, Paradise Lost! It sounds intellectual, but there’s a similarity to it, and that’s where it stops.”
Okay, it makes sense the sequel would have a different title because Prometheus was technically the ship they were flying around in, and it's no longer around. But if there is no specific tie-in to Alien why give it this title? Is this a way to draw a straighter line to Neill Blomkamp's eventual film?
Only time will tell. Alien: Paradise Lost is expected to open in 2017.
