Ridley Scott on 'Alien' Prequel: "Alright, Guys, I'm In!"
Ridley Scott, who parted from the continually-declining Alien franchise after his first installment, is officially returning to direct that prequel people have been talking about. Says Variety:
Twentieth Century Fox is resuscitating its "Alien" franchise. The studio has hired Jon Spaihts to write a prequel that has Ridley Scott attached to return as director.Spaihts got the job after pitching the studio and Scott Free, which will produce the film.
The film is set up to be a prequel to the groundbreaking 1979 film that Scott directed. It will precede that film, in which the crew of a commercial towing ship returning to Earth is awakened and sent to respond to a distress signal from a nearby planetoid. The crew discovers too late that the signal generated by an empty ship was meant to warn them.
Of course, this assumes he'll still have a career after Monopoly: The Movie. Because Ridley Scott is making a Monopoly movie, and you'd think that would be enough of an indicator of dementia people would stop letting him use film cameras.