‘Prometheus 2': Ridley Scott teases plot details, Australia as possible filming location

Movie director Ridley Scott has shared some details about his plans for “Prometheus 2.” Scott revealed some plot points and also teased a possible filming in Australia.

Deadline caught up with the director during the advance screening of “The Martian” at the Toronto International Film Festival, where he talked about his plans for “Prometheus 2.”

“I’m in prep, now. I’ll either shoot in Aussie, or here,” he said.

Ridley was also asked whether Michael Fassbender will be in the sequel considering rumours that he’s tied to do “The Snowman.” When quizzed if the actor will not just lend his head for his android role in “Prometheus 2” but will also reveal the rest of himself Scott replied, “Fassbender will do this one with me, and it’s meant to start production in February.”

When asked about where the film starts, whether it will pick up from the ending in the first movie or start on a different timeline altogether, Scott teases the plot will address the question, “who created us?”

“That raises the question to me, same as was depicted in 2001 when that object comes hurtling through space, and lands in Ethiopia. Stanley then picks something metaphorically poetic in its violence, as the ape picks up a hip bone and brains the anteater so they can eat him. That is one gigantic, magnificent leap of a thousand years of evolution; that is where the world begins. It is pretty grand thinking, and that’s what I want to explore,” he explained to Deadline.

The first “Prometheus” reportedly ended with Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and the robot’s head heading off to search for the engineers. Scott teases that this will basically be the plot point in “Prometheus 2.” According to Comicbook, the director clearly doesn’t want to start from scratch and instead will have the sequel’s story continue with Shaw’s search for the ancient architects that shaped civilization.

“You’ve got to go back and find those engineers and see what they are thinking. If engineers are the forerunners of us, and therefore were creators of life forms in places that were possible for biology to function, who created that?” Scott told Deadline.

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