Ridley Scott talks Prometheus 2 story and the return of Michael Fassbender

We have heard about Neill Blomkamp's Alien movie being altered by the very existence in Prometheus 2 and that the sequel to Ridley Scott's film would be finally entering production, but we have yet to hear very much about the film itself. There's been very little on exactly where Scott in the universe is taking us in the sequel and who is coming along for the ride.

Speaking with Deadline in an interview covering a number of films, Scott revealed that Michael Fassbender would be making a return as the bodiless android in Prometheus 2. On top of Fassbender's return Scott revealed a bit of the film's plot.

If you haven't watch Prometheus and don't want the end spoiled, turn back now — I'm going to do a brief recap of the film's end. Prometheus ended with Noomi Rapace (as Dr. Elizabeth Shaw) requesting Michael Fassbender, who has been reduced to a robotic head, to take her to where the Engineers came from.

The Engineers were the big blue guys that created humans and xenomorphs alike. In Prometheus 2, the film will explore the story of Rapace's search the Engineers. The film will look to answer the question of who created us and why (in the film)?

You can either say, leave the first film alone and jump ahead, but you can’t because it ends on too specific a plot sentence as she says, I want to go where they came from, I don’t want to go back to where I came from. I thought the subtext of that film was a bit florid and grandiose, but it asks a good question: who created us? I don’t think we are here by accident. I find it otherwise hard to believe you and I are sitting here at this table, because the molecular miracles that would have had to occur were in the trillions, since the first sign of human life that crawled out of the mud with four fingers, would bloody well be impossible, unless there was some guidance system.

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? Where’s the big boy? You think this was all an accident?

After Prometheus released in 2012, there was a lot of arguing on character motivations, what exactly the film was about, and plenty of speculation on whether it was an Alien prequel or not. It doesn't seem like Prometheus 2 will be very different in most regards, but it does seem like the story will be pretty fleshed out.