‘Prometheus 2’ to Answer the Long-Sought Question of Where Xenomorph Aliens Come From!

“Prometheus 2,” which is now officially titled “Alien: Covenant,” will start production early next year and will hit global theaters on October 6, 2017.

It has been reported previously that the “Prometheus” trilogy is the prequel to the “Alien” franchise and the connection will be made eventually on the third “Prometheus” film according to critically-acclaimed director, writer, and producer Ridley Scott.

Also according to latest reports, the next two “Prometheus” films will eventually answer essential questions including where the xenomorph aliens came from or who made them and why, notes Venture Capital Post.

As it is, while there is no link in the plotlines between the first “Prometheus” film shown in 2012 to the first “Alien” film released in 1979, the common denominator is the ghastly and deadly xenomorph aliens.

In a recent interview, Ridley Scott confirmed that the upcoming “Alien: Covenant” will serve as the origin story to explain events and questions arising from the first “Alien” film that starred Sigourney Weaver and Tom Skerritt.

However, the connection to the plotlines would not yet happen on “Alien: Covenant” but on the third movie titled “Alien: Paradise Lost” of the prequel trilogy.

Ensuring continuity

And in order to ensure the continuity of “Prometheus” to “Alien: Covenant,” despite the change in the title, the upcoming movie will pick up where the first film left off.

It can be recalled that at the end of “Prometheus,” only the android David 8, played by Michael Fassbender, and Elizabeth Shaw, played by Noomi Rapace, survived the doomed “Prometheus” expedition. However, in the sequel, David 8 shall reportedly play more than one version of the android.

It was also Ridley Scott who announced that the filming for “Alien: Covenant” will be done in Sydney, Australia, where pre-production has already begun. Filming for the movie will start in March 2016.

Reports also have it that Michael Fassbender is already scheduled to arrive in Sydney in mid-March next year and will stay in the country for 16 weeks to complete the filming.

In a recent interview, Scott was also asked about the plotline of “Alien: Covenant” and he said that Elizabeth Shaw can no longer go to earth because there is nothing left for her there really. He disclosed that she will decide to go where the alien creatures come from, which is to be the dark paradise in the film, notes Crossmap.

There are also reports that the paradise in “Alien: Covenant” will be extremely sinister and ominous as it shall be the source of the xenomorph.

No more ‘Prometheus’ in the title

Up until late in October, the “Prometheus” sequel had the working title of “Prometheus 2.” But Ridley Scott has apparently announced that the movie shall no longer have ‘Prometheus’ in the title of the upcoming movie.

Eventually, it was retitled to “Alien: Covenant” and the upcoming movie now has an official logo and synopsis from 20th Century Fox.

The production film says that Ridley Scott returns to the universe he created in “Alien” with “Alien: Covenant,” the second chapter in a prequel trilogy that began with “Prometheus” and connects directly to Scott’s 1979 critically-acclaimed science fiction work.

As for the movie’s official synopsis, it said that the crew of the colony ship Covenant, who are in a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world whose sole inhabitant is the synthetic David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.

The description by 20th Century Fox confirms that there will be another film after “Alien: Covenant.” Scott has said previously that the first sequel would not lead straight to the original and that it would take time for the series to explain what happened.