20th Century Fox and Ridley Scott‘s production company, Scott Free, are officially moving to make a sequel to 2012‘s Prometheus. Relative newcomer Jack Paglen has developed a story that Scott has signed off on, and will write the screenplay.

Though a highly divisive film, drawing much scorn from fanboys who had high expectations for the prequel to 1979‘s Alien, Prometheus was a financial success, grossing $403 million worldwide on a budget of $130 million.

Paglen has drawn attention for his screenplay for Transcendence, a sci-fi script currently being directed by Christopher Nolan’s longtime cinematographer, Wally Pfister. That film, being produced by Nolan and starring Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman and Kate Mara, is due to be released in April 2014.

Prometheus, whose original script by Jon Spaights was heavily rewritten by Damon Lindelof, ended with Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) as the last human survivor of a team that had gone searching for the Engineers, an alien race who served as the architects of the human race. Alone with the remains of an android named David (Michael Fassbender), Shaw will no doubt feature in the sequel. What Paglen will do with her – and the alien that burst from the body of an Engineer in the film’s final shot – remains to be seen.

Despite the controversy over the plot of Prometheus and its loose connections with Alien, it is ranked #18 among 2012 films on Flickchart.

via The Wrap