Report: James Cameron Wants To Return To ‘Aliens’ Mode With ‘Prometheus’ Sequel?
UPDATE: Insiders at the studio tell me that James Cameron might have made a slightly humorous off handed comment about a Prometheus sequel on the red carpet, but it’s not true he’s planning a Prometheus sequel; this falls into the April Fool’s category as I surmised in the original post. He’s too busy with Avatar sequels to consider anything else. Some Deadline commenters said the entire Guardian piece was based on a hoax story. What fun.
EARLIER: Here is a shocker. James Cameron tells The Guardian that after making a groundbreaking sequel to Ridley Scott’s classic film Alien, he now says he wants to make the sequel to Prometheus, Scott’s return to that hallowed ground. The proximity to April Fools always heightens one’s skepticism, but Cameron was out stumping for the 3D conversion of Titanic and when the journalist, Henry Barnes, directly quotes Cameron, you’ve got to pay attention. “There’s a gap of a few years between Prometheus and the original Alien,” Cameron told The Guardian. “That gap is meant for me to answer all the questions raised in Prometheus.”
There was a seven year gap between Scott’s film and Cameron’s sequel Aliens, and there might be that kind of time gap if this really goes forward. After all, Cameron committed to make two more installments of his all-time box office champ Avatar for Fox, when that studio pried him away from directing Cleopatra for Sony Pictures with Angelina Jolie starring. Fox releases Prometheus on June 8. Trying to find out more about this.
Why can’t he make a kick ass sequel to aliens instead with sigourney weaver????
I would love to see another Aliens with Ripley again. She has been killed off a couple of times in other not so good Alien movies. She is not quite as svelte as Ripley once was. Maybe a real adviser and not packin so much bad ass fire power!
I’d kill to watch Alien 5 with Sigourney Weaver, I’d just kill. Why FOX doesn’t want to greenlight Alien 5? Is it because Sigourney is a woman in her 60s? Harrison Ford was almost seventy when he did Indy 4 and Siggy can still kick ass like no one else.
you dont think Fox would greenlight Alien 5 if James Cameron volunteered to write/direct it?
you bet your butt they would
Cameron was going to produce part 5 with Ridley Scott directing it. But Cameron told Fox that if they made AvP he would refuse to be a part of the franchise anymore. Fox made their decision.
At least Scott came back after all these years.
No they wouldn’t infact he did come in with a script for Alien 5 back in 2005 but they rather wanted to do Alien Vs Predator, i’m pretty saticefied with Prometheus though i don’t get why peope are so pissed about it, but in the neer furture Shaw need’s to team up with Ripley and in sci-fi that’s possible.
No kidding. Alien 4 should’ve begun with Ripley waking up in the Sulaco cryo-tube while running her hand through her hair to make sure its still there and then telling Hicks and Bishop about the messed dream she had.
Sorry Jim but I’d rather see Ridley answer those questions.
He deserves to do a sequel to this film you go make True Lies 2.
C’mon give the guy a break. Aliens as a sequel is right behind only Godfather 2 and Empire Strikes Back.
You can diss Jim about Titanic and Avatar – but do not mess with Aliens. One of the all time great sequels.
Maybe 15 years ago, but this is not the same man who made Terminator and Aliens, this is the new and improved Cameron. He can make the next Aliens about how mankind is encrouching on the Aliens enviroment and lecture the humans to simply give in to being living incubators. Only when we embrace the face hugger can we truely understand the damage we are causing to acid based life forms.
/sarc
I thought we were still pretending Prometheus wasn’t an Alien prequel. I guess I need to stay on top of these things better.
Have I died and gone to heaven?
Cameron may have made the comment in jest, but the idea of doing a sequel to Prometheus is something that’s grounded in history.
Years ago, right after Cameron made Aliens, he said he’d return to the franchise and do the fourth film if Ridley Scott made the third one. That never happened, so Cameron turned away from the series, which just kept getting worse and worse with III (thanks, Fincher) and Resurrection (thanks, Whedon).
Depending on how exactly Scott’s film turns out (and whether the box office merits a sequel, and how badly Scott wants to make that sequel, as opposed to working on say, Blade Runner 2) I could see Cameron being tempted back to the Aliens universe.
Has no one clocked that this has to be an April Fools!
Aliens and more to do with the book Starship Troopers than the movie that was made of that name.
And how about a sequel to The Abyss, that is actually an original from Cameron.
Maybe he was joking, but the fact he said it shows he has at least been thinking about it. Personally, I hope he gives up making more Avatar crap and makes Prometheus 2 his next project.
This was a joke. Not real news.
So, I am confused. Is this or does this have anything to do with the Alien movie’s?