Ridley Scott has been waxing lyrical to Empire Magazine about the status of his recently announced Alien prequel/sequel thingy: "It’s a brand new box of tricks," he spewed. "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." So, it looks like he does want to go down the prequel route as he finds them "more interesting." It could also be that, with the exception of Aliens, all the other sequels were pretty muck. Fincher's third one had its moments, but that one where she humped the alien was just plain wrong.
