Prometheus marks Ridley Scott’s return to the Alien universe. In an upcoming issue of Empire the director reveals his passion to return to explore the back story especially the Space Jockey – an obsession of mine too.
“[I’ve wanted to revisit it for] years! Years, years, years,” he stresses of Alien‘s space traveller subplot. “I always wondered when they did [Aliens] 2,3 and 4 why they hadn’t touched upon that, instead of evolving into some other fantastic story. They missed the biggest question of them all: who’s the big guy? And where were they going? And with what? Why that cargo? There’s all kinds of questions.”
Prometheus is out June 1st. The Empire issue is out March 29th.