His next, The Martian, is due out in the autumn. After all, his slate of projects is hardly small, and he’s making major, complicated films at a rate of one a year right now. There were suggestions at one stage that Ridley Scott would pass on directing the sequel to Prometheus, and take a producer role on the new movie. Our earlier story, from the end of August, is here… Even Stephen Hawking now says, I am not sure. If engineers are the forerunners of us, and therefore were creators of life forms in places that were possible for biology to function, who created that? Where’s the big boy? You think this was all an accident? I don’t know. You’ve got to go back and find those engineers and see what they are thinking. Scott added of the film that “it is pretty grand thinking, and that’s what I want to explore. Are you telling me there are no other planets with human life? I simply don’t believe it.” Also, you have the sun approximately the same distance from earth as it is from maybe millions of planets and planetoids that are almost identical distance and therefore enjoy the value of sunlight on their soil. I find it otherwise hard to believe you and I are sitting here at this table, because the molecular miracles that would have had to occur were in the trillions, since the first sign of human life that crawled out of the mud with four fingers, would bloody well be impossible, unless there was some guidance system. I thought the subtext of that film was a bit florid and grandiose, but it asks a good question: who created us? I don’t think we are here by accident. “I don’t want to go back to where I came from. “You can either say, leave the first film alone and jump ahead, but you can’t because it ends on too specific a plot sentence as she says, I want to go where they came from,” Scott said.