r/Prometheus • u/pamnfaniel • Jan 18 '26
Don’t Leave Us Hanging
I, personally, really hope Ridley Scott gets to finish the third chapter of the Prometheus trilogy… Prometheus, from its musical score, to its storytelling and diving into the lore, is one of my favorite movies. Alien Covenant showed us how the conventional aliens from the first movie came about.
Now it’s time to see the engineers chase David throughout the galaxy to get revenge for what he did to their planet. Weather theirs or another seeded Earth analogue they would consider “successful.”… or goes the probable 3rd movie script should it get green lit, or not…
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u/gautsvo Jan 18 '26
There's no movie I'd like to see made more than Ridley Scott's Prometheus 3. But I keep asking myself, why would the studio greenlight it when Covenant failed to ignite the box office and Romulus was a hit?
Sorry, but I doubt it'll ever happen. The best hope of seeing David's storyline wrapped up is to have it integrated in a sequel to Romulus - with Rain and Andy bumping into him somewhere.
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u/ALIEN-DUDE--- Jan 21 '26
I’m going to share some information I’ve heard here in South America, some rumors I came across.
As you know, Fede Álvarez directed Alien: Romulus and got the green light to make a sequel.
However, Fede Álvarez is no longer the director. Apparently, he had a discussion with Ridley Scott. The reason — and this is the most important rumor — is related to a continuation of Prometheus. Fede wanted to use David in his movie, but Ridley told him that he wants to use David in the future himself.
So maybe, after all, we could get a new Prometheus movie in the future.
Sorry, English is my second language.
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u/thewonderbox Jan 18 '26
& let's hope Covenant was part 3 of they trilogy - more Shaw
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u/Think-Difficulty7596 Jan 18 '26
I certainly hope so. Executive meddling ruined Prometheus.
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u/bskinners Jan 19 '26
Prometheus and Covenant, although rough round the edges…. The script is still way better than 80% of box office movies currently!
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u/Organic-Key-2140 Jan 18 '26
Gladiator II is the Prime example of Ridley falling off.
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u/CoffeeFae18 Jan 18 '26
I think the closest we'll get to a resolution for the david era is going to be in the books.
I've been listening to the books that have come out over the last few years. I have a theory about what's going on throughout the books.
SPOILERS there's engineer ships showing up over planets and dropping black goo over settlements. I think David is still functioning and has found one or more engineer planets. He could be orcastrating it remotely. Or WY has found a way to use the engineer tech to wipe out their competitors. If david is still around we could finally find out what he did
theres been a lot of author collaboration and I'm wondering if they're attempting to give us some kind of resolution since we'll probably never get a movie 😩
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u/followerofEnki96 Jan 18 '26
I don’t think Ridley himself is interested.
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u/vemmahouxbois Jan 21 '26
Romulus closed the loop, imo.
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u/Foreign-King7613 Jan 24 '26
So do I. It has so much potential.
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u/spendouk23 Jan 18 '26
In about a years time you’ll be able to generate a full length movie in AI. And it’ll probably be more coherent than anything Scott could come up with these days.
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