Acclaimed director Ridley Scott has released his plans for the "Prometheus" franchise, and they include three more sequels and the official link to the first "Alien" film he directed back in 1979.

According to FilmFutter, a German language website, translated by The Guardian, the "Prometheus" franchise will have a much larger story to tell, and it will come over the course of three planned sequels by director Ridley Scott.

Scott's first film in the franchise, which for the most part divests itself from the "Alien" franchise except for the ending, is not just an origin film for the alien but an origin film for all of mankind. The film is set in the future and centers around the search for mankind's creator.

After ancient evidence was unearthed, a band of explorers go on the search for mankind's creator in space with coordinates that link them to the exact location.

But even though the premise for the journey for the characters was to seek out a creator, it was a little different for Scott.

"The whole point of 'Prometheus' was to explain the how and why of the creation of the Alien itself," Scott said.

"I always thought of the Alien as kind of a piece of bacterial warfare. I always thought that that original ship, which I call the Croissant, was a battleship, holding these biomechanoid creatures that were all about destruction."

In regards to how or when the franchise will catch up to the "Alien" franchise, Scott said it wouldn't be in the next one, but it might come as soon as the third or fourth film.

What might complicate things for fans is the "Alien" franchise is about to release its fifth film, and it is said to be skipping the other sequels and going back to the end of the James Cameron sequel film "Aliens."