With Prometheus, director Ridley Scott returns to the universe of his 1979 classic Alien and makes his first science fiction since 1982's Blade Runner.  Since he's dipping back into one fondly remembered sci-fi world, Scott's making it a twofer, having signed on to a continuation Blade Runner last summer.  It looks like he's making it a reunion, since the original's co-writer Hampton Fancher is talks to write the sequel.

Wow.  Two weeks ago to the day, we learned that Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy had taken a break from writing his stripped down novels of violence in order to write his first feature screenplay, The Counselor, which will presumably be a stripped down tale of violence as well.  Producers quickly grabbed up the spec script, and at the time said that they would sort out funding then set to work finding a director.  Seems they may have skipped a step, as one of the biggest directors in the game is in talks to direct: Ridley Scott.

Alcon Entertainment partners Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove have owned the rights to Blade Runner for a while now.  Up until this last August, fans of Ridley Scott's hugely influential 1982 adaptation of Philip K. Dick's expected the producers of The Blind Side, Dolphin Tale, and The Book of Eli to bastardize the beloved property.  Then, Ridley Scott himself signed on for the mysterious new Blade Runner, at which point the internet uttered a collectively puzzled, "Huh?" 

The director, who is currently in post-production on his Alien prequel, has now spoken about the project's development, saying that it will probably be a sequel, and answering the question of whether or not we'll be seeing Harrison Ford return as Rick Deckard.