“It’s a brand new box of tricks…We know what the road map is, and the screenplay is now being put on paper. The prequel will be a while ago. It’s very difficult to put a year on Alien, but [for example] if Alien was towards the end of this century, then the prequel story will take place thirty years prior.”
The mighty words of Alien director Ridley Scott in an interview with UK magazine Empire. Slowly progressing as we predicted.
