Ridley Scott spoke with the Independent about the two 3D Alien prequels he's in development on. The last we heard about the projects, Damon Lindoff of Lost as going to do a pass on the scripts.

Here's an excerpt from the Independent's article which reveals some of the questions the prequels will answer:"You can sense the competitor in Scott, desperate to put his stamp back on the film series that launched him. "Jim's raised the bar and I've got to jump to it," he says, in a friendly jibe at Cameron. "He's not going to get away with it."

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