Will Prometheus 2 even happen?

If you watch the documentary 'Furious Gods: Making of Prometheus' you will see no one really dictated anything to Ridley, he called all the shots and was very confident in what he wanted to portray in the movie. It's an awesome documentary. 

Here is a link to the full HD documentary (give it a couple minutes to load): The Furious Gods: Making of Prometheus

Well from what i make of it Ridley was happy with Spaights draft, but wanted to make few changes to tone it down, then he and Fox got together they got Lindeloff on board and they made a new script.

No one can be sure of the process, as Spaights seems to indicate Ridley was pleased with his draft and gave it go ahead, while Lindeloff seems indicate Fox asked him onboard.

In truth i think it was a compromise,  maybe after reading Spaights draft, they felt they should be trying to explore more of the Engineers than the Xeno, and Spaights draft kind of lent more to a direct prequel and also changing the plot to be more about the Engineers and where they came from etc etc gave more potential for a sequel to explore them and drift away from the Xeno that had been seen over and over on the big screen.

Yes Ridley had a lot of say..... does he have the FINAL SAY...Nope!

If Fox wanted to make Paradise about Xenos more than Engineers and Xenos being creators of Engineers or even if Predators created the Xeno and Engineers stole that from them.

Ridley could go.. no way am i having any part to do with that, but Fox owns the franchise, they can ultimately go anywhere they want with the sequels, Ridley cant say..

No i came up with Alien and Prometheus and you cant change it....

Fox can simply bring in who they want to finish it.

It is however for this reason, that Ridley would make compromises he would like to put as much influence on the plot and story as he would want, even if that means some sacrifices.

As opposed to lose chance to have much influence in how the franchise goes, ultimately Ridley could not change how the Alien Franchise went, the Queen, Alien 3 etc etc.

But the door was left open to explain who the Space Jockey Race was and how the Xeno came to be, and so playing a part of the process to explore and explain those things is something Ridley would want to have a part in.

I hear ya BigDave, though when Lindelof comes in they change a lot but he says Ridley wrote it with him and you can see that Ridley was there every step of the way in the creative process. Heck he even asks Giger to be brough into the creative process too and to look at the designs. I'm Simply responding to Gfan98's concerns about a sequel. It's shown in the 'Furious Gods' documentary that after the writer changes Ridley (and probably Fox) intended there to be 3 parts to Prometheus so he need not worry about not having a sequel. :D

Furious God's is good but I doubt it is the whole truth. These things are edited and controlled and never have the studio guys in them.  I was surprised we saw spaights showing his frustration. And I am pretty sure ridley mentions the studio pays the bills through a fake forced smile which is about as far as he can go in saying he didn't like what happened. 

I'm hoping for it to come out sooner rather than later...but its pretty clear that the best we can hope for is to see this movie in 2016 at the earliest. Honestly, I don't think its going to get made at all. I really hope im wrong though.

Its not that Scott's lying...its just that Scott/the script being "ready to go" doesn't mean much until all parties are signed on and working together. Sure, its nice to hear, but until they actually start filming...don't hold your breath.