Alien prequel or not

I decided to do a Alien prequel news search tonight and discovered that it's just been announced that the Alien prequel that Ridley Scott had been working on will no longer be an Alien prequel.

Huh?

It seems that they will be filming the script they have but severing the contunity with the existing movies. The new movie will be called Prometheus and will be released in March 2012.

I don't know if we can expect face-huggers or chest-bursters in the new movie but I do hope we're 'going on a bug hunt'.

Find out more here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/17/alien-prequel-ridley-scott-prometheus

So what is Ridley Scott directing next?

OK, I'm confused. A while back it was reported that Ridley Scott was returning to SF and would direct a movie based on Joe Haldeman's The Forever War.

The book deals with an interstellar war from the point of view of one of the Earth soldiers. Due to the effect of time dilation many years pass between each battle and by the time the soldiers make it back to Earth they find 1000s of years have passed and human society has changed dramatically.



Fair enough. I'll look forward to that. Then a few weeks ago it was reported that he would be directing a prequel to his original Alien. Great! I love the original and am glad the next movie is in his capable hands. No more AVP please, thank you very much.

Now today you can add to the list Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. (Plus if you look at the IMDB you can see many more projects under his name.)

I guess time will tell...