Alien Prequels Haven't Been Delayed?

So, after all this talk of the Goddamn Alien prequels, not only are those reports of it being pushed back a year (with signs it could be shitting the bed altogether) wrong. But the movies themselves actually, oh dear Lord, reboot the franchise instead?!?

Vulture reports production on Paradise, yep that's the title, will commence in March. Those delayed reports stemmed from an ill-fated attempt to woo Leonardo DiCaprio into the fold, and waiting till he finished work on Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar. But since that didn't work out, they're back in an early 2011 start.

Ridley Scott is currently hunting down other actors to star. We were already aware of Noomi Rapace up for the lead role (although still uncast), but her character has a name: Elizabeth Shaw.

Also up for roles are Michael Fassbender for the android David (although that appears unlikely as he wanted too much money) and Michelle Yeoh as the "fortysomething, tough-but-sexy" Vickers if Scott gets his way. Most interesting is the character of Engineer 1, to be portrayed by an unspecified 6'5" actor and, in the finished product, will be entirely CG in the vein of Gollum.