Ridley Scott is once again chatting up the proposed ALIEN prequels, this time at the Hero Complex Film Festival, where they screened two of his best films, ALIEN and BLADE RUNNER. Though he didn’t dish on anything brand new, he did expand on some thoughts we’ve heard before. One of the chaps from AintItCoolNews was in attendance, and brought forth the following details.
Said Scott regarding the “Space Jockey” from the first flick: “I sat thinking about the franchise, which now has died on the road somewhere way back and lying in the dust, and thought what I should do is go back… in the first Alien, when John Hurt climbed up and over the top of the rise… there was a massive giant lying in a chair. The chair was either a form of engine or some piece of technology and I always thought no one has ever asked who was the space jockey?”
“I think beneath that carcass… it’s not a carcass, it’s a suit. Inside the suit is a being.”
We’ll apparently find out who the Space Jockey is, and “where his people come from” – which makes me rub my hands together in comical fashion – as well as explore Zeta 2 Reticuli, the same star system where ALIEN takes place. Specific deets on the plot, however, are still sadly missing.
The plan is still to release these films in 3D, although whether or not they will shoot that way is up in the air right now. For more talk from Scott, head on over to AICN.