Oh his current press tour for The Martian, Ridley Scott shed light on two of his upcoming projects: the respective sequels to Prometheus (which he will direct) and Blade Runner (which he will produce).
Speaking with Yahoo!, Ridley Scott discussed heading to the Engineer world in Prometheus 2, aka Alien: Paradise Lost, Ryan Gosling's role in the the future of the Blade Runner franchise, and much more.
Ridley Scott on where Alien: Paradise Lost—will pick up:
"[Alien: Paradise Lost] is very spooky, because it continues after the last one, where Elizabeth Shaw [Noomi Rapace] says, “I wanna go where they came from.” And you’ve got Michael Fassbender in two parts, so she’ll slowly put him back together. They will go to the world of the Engineer.
That’s where they’re going to go. They will find out who would design such an awful bio-mechanoid creature, like a massive piece of bacteria."
Scott on whether or not he'll have the final cut on Blade Runner 2:
"Oh, yeah. I mean, I always have final cut on everything, really. Partly because I’m very user-friendly. I always believe when you’re given X amount of money by someone to f–k around with and make a movie, you can’t draw lines in the sand."
On making Blade Runner into a franchise similar to the four-film Prometheus plan:
"Listen: Everyone else is, so why not? I love to work."
In the interview, Scott also mentioned that Ryan Gosling's character will be the future centric figure of the Blade Runner franchise after Harrison Ford's Rick Deckard passes on the torch. Scott went on to discuss the time period of Blade Runner 2:
"It [the first Blade Runner] was 2017, so coming back it’ll be 2047, roughly. As young as you can play Ryan Gosling. He’s 34, but he looks 27 when he’s doing his push-ups. So maybe 2050."
Stay tuned to Daily Dead for more updates on the sequels to Prometheus and Blade Runner.
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