Discovering Alien: Paradise Lost #1 – Mankind and the Zeta Reticuli system

Discovering Alien: Paradise Lost is a new web article series exclusive to Scified.com, which will aim to shed light on the many mysteries surrounding the highly anticipated upcoming Prometheus sequel, Alien: Paradise Lost. Before Scified was even launched, we started out as Prometheus-Movie.com – a fansite dedicated to covering the latest news, scoops and rumors for the Ridley Scott-directed Alien prequel. Since that website took off, we became the top website on the web to find and discuss news and early scoops on Prometheus. Due to the site’s popularity, we thankfully managed to accumulate some reputable friends – some of which who worked on or around the production of Prometheus. With the sequel beginning to film this January, we’ve attracted more people who again, work close to the production of this film. Throughout this series, we will try our best to limit the amount of spoilers we share and instead focus on revealing “guidelines” for discussion and point fans in the right direction for speculation. Prometheus was a great film for engaging discussion and Alien: Paradise Lost will undoubtedly elicit this same engagement on a whole new level. This series aims to help that process along and engage fans worldwide as we discuss and debate the many theories and mysteries present throughout this film’s production.

Before we get started I must make clear, that the information provided to us has not been confirmed or denied by 20^th Century Fox. The information present in this series was also provided from information current as of March, 2015. Since then, the script for Alien: Paradise Lost may have been tweaked or revised, changing some of the details we’re about to cover throughout these articles. As a disclaimer, we urge everyone reading this to please take what we post with a grain of salt – as I did not read the script personally, there is no way for I or any member of our editorial staff can confirm or deny the legitimacy of this information. Despite our numerous credible plot leaks and scoops for Prometheus, consider this information as rumor.

Alright then, on with the show…

The Prometheus mission was NOT the first time man have been to the Zeta Reticuli system.

Yes, according to our sources, the Weyland mission to Zeta Reticuli was not the first time man... or mankind have been to that system. However, it may have been the first manned mission to LV-223 from Earth. The source didn’t expand on this plot element and remained vague with their description. What we could see is humans being created or experimented on in that system, on LV-223, or neighboring planets. On the flip side, it could mean Weyland or a competing company like Yutani had already sent a small group to the system to investigate. Remember, at the time of the Prometheus mission, Weyland had already terraformed and colonized many planets – deep space travel would not be something only the Weyland corp would be capable of.

Our source also mentioned that there would be a new crew (back in March, 2015), which has since been confirmed by Ridley Scott himself – adding legitimacy to our source’s statements. It’s likely this new group is part of a flashback scene in which they first visit the Zeta system, before the events of Prometheus. However, at this point these assumptions remain as such until more information surfaces.

Alien: Paradise Lost will have a much larger cast than Prometheus

The second piece of info provided to us explained that this film will utilize a much larger cast than Prometheus did. The reasoning for this will become apparent below…

We will be introduced to many new ‘beings’…

When our source explained the presence of new ‘beings’ they made sure to emphasize that the different ‘beings’ were more like different ‘races’ of the same species. Whether this relates to different beings/races within the Engineer population, Human population… or something else, has yet to be determined.

We’ll end our first segment of Discovering Alien: Paradise Lost here. We’ve got a lot more information to share over the coming weeks and months, but as you can imagine, we don’t want to spoil too much right away. Our next segment however will contain some of the most detailed information provided to us yet and it involves something very Alien… something fans of both the expanded Prometheus universe and Alien universe will be eager to learn more about.

Promotional artwork heading, original work by Andrei Foss.