Now that Neill Blomkamp's been confirmed as the director of "Alien 5" (or whatever his future "Alien" sequel's going to be called), it's going to shake things up for Ridley Scott's "Prometheus 2." "Prometheus," as a prequel to the original "Alien," was still fairly dependant on the franchise for its monsters, story, structure and mythology. Now, with "Alien 5," it may be the case that "Prometheus 2" makes things a little freaker- and departs drastically from the original films. Especially considering that Ridley Scott will be involved with both films- as reported by Scified.

We already know at least a few members of the "Prometheus 2" cast. Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace, who starred in the first film, will likely return for round two. Fassbender played David, an android (reduced to a severed, yet still alive head at the end), while Rapace played Elizabeth Shaw, a scientist looking to find out the truth about how human life was created.

Most importanty, though, is that Ridley Scott may be changing up the design of the creatures in a massive way for "Prometheus 2." In the first film, every monster had some kind of close tie to the "Alien" franchise- the Engineers were first seen in the original film, the giant octopus-like monster resembled a facehugger, and the creature at the end was clearly some kind of proto-alien. In the new film, we may be seeing creatures never before glimpsed in the "Alien" franchise.

Meantime, according to Ridley Scott, "Prometheus 2" will "introduce a fresher form of alien in the third act." What exactly does "fresher" mean, as far as aliens go? It's not clear- but it's also not likely to be anything like the original monster. "Prometheus 2" is still in its early stages of production, but Crossmap reports the film will be out in 2017.