Ridley Scott Tells Us What This 'Alien' Prequel Is All About

What's going on with that ol' Alien prequel? Here's what: Speaking recently to MTV, Ridley Scott elaborated on how he'll probably further dilute the franchise with an explanation for that beautifully cryptic hole-in-his-chest alien guy from the first film:

Scott: [The prequel is] set in 2085, about 30 years before Sigourney [Weaver's character Ellen Ripley]. It's fundamentally about going out to find out 'Who the hell was that Space Jockey?' The guy who was sitting in the chair in the alien vehicle — there was a giant fellow sitting in a seat on what looked to be either a piece of technology or an astronomer's chair. Remember that?

... I'm basically explaining who that Space Jockey — we call him the Space Jockey— I'm explaining who the space jockeys were.

MTV: And is the Weyland-Yutani company in existence at this point?

Scott: It's Weyland. Weyland hasn't joined Yutani yet, so they go and see Weyland. [The film] is about the discussion of terraforming — taking planets and planetoids and balls of earth and trying to terraform, seed them with the possibilities of future life.

I'm horribly intrigued, yet annoyed this is going to destroy all the mystery surrounding the "Space Jockey." This is totally going to discredit all the erotic fan fiction that's been written about Tom Skerritt surreptitiously going down there and fucking the hole in his chest.

Via iwatchstuff