Prometheus Sequel’s Title Goes in a Very Unexpected Direction

In a new interview, Scott has revealed the follow-up to Prometheus will bear a title that directly connects it to the franchise that bore it.

According to Ridley Scott – a guy who would know – the follow-up to the highly-disappointing Prometheus will be called Alien: Paradise Lost.

Today, in an interview with HeyUGuys, Ridley Scott revealed the title of his sequel to be…

“Yes”, replied Scott when asked by German outlet FilmFutter whether the franchise will directly link up with the Alien series, “but it won’t be in the next one”.

Details regarding the sequel to Prometheus have been hard to come by, but the film is expected to take the adult Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and the android David (Michael Fassbender) to the home planet of the Engineers – the race of giant aliens that created the deadly, acid-blooded xenomorphs at the heart of the franchise.

Doing the rounds for his latest film The Martian, Ridley Scott has told us that the next film in the Prometheus saga will be called Alien: Paradise Lost.

Four Prometheus films? Think of all the unanswered questions and plot-holes we’ll have by the time they’re all out! So much for tip-toeing around how these movies tie into the iconic Alien franchise. The Alien movies haven’t been big earners in years-Prometheus’s domestic haul of $125 million in 2012 was the highest gross in the history of the series, and that barely matched the film’s budget.

It’s unknown if this will have any impact on Neill Blomkamp’s planned “Alien 5” movie. He then stated that the Engineer spacecraft – which he referred to as the Croissant – seen in the first “Alien” film is a battleship that houses “biomechanoid creatures” that are exclusively for destruction. Find out the Prometheus 2 title after the jump.

Many originally thought that point would be explained in the original Prometheus, even with the notoriously answer-phobic Damon Lindelof as co-writer.