Ridley Scott Gives Some Details Of Blade Runner And Prometheus Sequels

Though it's not at all clear where either Blade Runner 2 or Prometheus 2 will fall in the release [...]

By Brendon Connelly

Blade Runner & Prometheus

Though it's not at all clear where either Blade Runner 2 or Prometheus 2 will fall in the release calendar, let alone Ridley Scott's busy schedule, the director continues his work on both. He's been speaking to Yahoo about Exodus: Gods and Kings and managed to slip in a little extra something about his sci-fi sequels along the way.

Blade Runner 2 will come, Scott suggests, when Star Wars permits Harrison Ford to make the film. Is this a hint that Ford will be in Episode VIII and maybe even IX too? It would be easy to read that into it, but probably not safe.

Scott clarified that the film is a follow-up, which Ford's involvement all but guaranteed. "It's a sequel," he said, "it's what happens next. It's quite surprisingly clever."

Yeah? Well, that's intriguing. My main concern about this film is how it will play the whole "Deckard is a replicant" business. It could put too much of its energies into that, and not get on with telling us something new, something we didn't know just from the piano dream sequence.

Meanwhile, Scott said of Prometheus 2 that they're up to fifteen drafts of the screenplay and writing continues.

"You'll probably have to go with [Noomi Rapace's Elizabeth Shaw] and [Michael Fassbender's android David] without his head," Scott explained, before dropping an apparently minor spoiler, "Find out how he gets his head back on!"

As for how much Prometheus 2 will tie into the larger Alien movie mythos, Scott cut down any hope - or, arguably, fear - that the Giger-designed xenomorph would be back.

He said "The beast is done. Cooked," and added, "I think it wears out a little bit. There's only so much snarling you can do. I think you've got to come back with something more interesting. And I think we've found the next step. I thought the Engineers were quite a good start."

Well, as long as they're only the start. I think they wore out their welcome already.

What the next step for these projects might be, we'll have to wait and wait and wait to see. Exodus: Gods and Kings will be along this December, and Scott is about to get underway with the very promising The Martian. I'd imagine that the Hollywood sequel machine will see to Prometheus 2 happening sooner rather than later, though I wouldn't personally bank on seeing it before mid 2016. Blade Runner 2 is not so tied into the studio system, so that's the one I'd think is more volatile.

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