Prometheus has only been out for a week yet director Ridley Scott is already talking about an upcoming sequel to the sci-fi thriller.

The veteran film-maker of Alien and Gladiator revealed that the sequel could be named Paradise and discussed further details about the direction the film would take in terms of its plot.

“From the very beginning, I was working from a premise that lent itself to a sequel. “I really don’t want to meet God in the first one. I want to leave it open to Noomi Rapace’s character Dr Elizabeth Shaw saying, ‘I don’t want to go back to where I came from. I want to go where they came from’. Because the Engineers are such aggressive f**kers, I always had it in there that the God-like creature that you will see actually is not so nice, and is certainly not God. I’d love to explore where Dr Shaw goes next and what does she do when she gets there, because if it is paradise, paradise cannot be what you think it is. Paradise has a connotation of being extremely sinister and ominous.”

Scott’s ideas about the sequel were echoed by writer Damon Lindelof who insisted that it would take a different direction and not completely link itself to the Alien series.

“Prometheus has two children – one of these children grows up to be Alien, but the other child is going to grow up, and God knows what happens to them. And that’s what the sequel to Prometheus would be.”

Despite the mixed reviews, Prometheus has done well at the box-office so far which probably signaled Scott’s desire to make a follow-up. But the denial about Prometheus being linked to Alien is a little predictable now especially when some of your main cast members also agree they’re both related.