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7 Reasons To Have Faith In Alien: Paradise Lost

Ridley Scott may currently be doing the press rounds to promote his latest film, The Martian, but that hasn't stopped him from getting the wheels in motion for his next project. The follow-up to 2012's Prometheus, now titled Alien: Paradise Lost, is already lined up as Scott's next film as director, and will - as indicated by the title - have connective tissue with both Prometheus and the Alien franchise.

6) Sci-Fi Is Ridley’s Natural Territory

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There’s something about worlds foreign to him – the past, as in The Duelists, Gladiator, and Kingdom of Heaven, or the near future, as in Alien, Blade Runner, and The Martian – that brings out the best in Scott.

Science fiction in particular is a good fit for the filmmaker, perhaps because it’s a relative blank slate (relative to historical movies and pictures set in the modern day, anyway) that allows Scott to really indulge his creative side. With genre high-points Alien and Blade Runner, and now The Martian to his name, it could be said that sci-fi is the director’s natural territory.

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Even Prometheus, with all its flaws, is full of ideas and spectacular imagery. Occasionally damned by a too-dumb script, the film is a mixed bag with more positives than negatives – meaning that Scott still hasn’t produced a bad or uninteresting sci-fi movie.

It’s likely no accident that he chose The Martian to stage his comeback – for all the poor movies he’s made set in a contemporary world, Scott just can’t seem to make a bad science fiction film. If nothing else, it bodes well for Paradise Lost‘s chances.