Gemma Arterton (The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Tamara Drewe) revealed in a recent interview that not only has she joined the cast of the Christopher Nolan (Inception,The Dark Knight) penned adaptation of Ruth Rendell‘s novel The Keys to the Street, she is also set to meet with director Ridley Scott (Robin Hood, The Kind One) about starring in his upcoming Untitled Alien Prequel and it’s possible sequel.

TheSundayTimes reports that Scott himself called Arterton for a meeting after being wowed by her performance in J Blakeson‘s thriller, The Disappearance of Alice Creed in-which Arterton plays a young woman who is imprisoned in her own apartment by two ex-convicts.

[Update]

MTV spoke with Gemma Arterton’s publicist, who denies that Arterton was in talks to star in Scott’s Untitled Alien Prequel – stating,

“There’s no truth to that.”

Of course, she could very well be covering for Arterton and it is in-fact true. Stay tuned to SciFiMafia.com and we will update you when we get more info!

The Untitled Alien Prequel is slated to hit theaters in 2011.