There’s been a ton of rumors floating through cyberspace about Ridley Scott‘s hotly anticipated, Untitled Alien Prequel for 20th Century Fox. Most of it was complete crap. The only thing’s that we’re sure of, have come from Ridley Scott himself. Over the last few months, the director has talked about Damon Lindelof jumping aboard to rewrite Jon Spaihts‘ draft of the script and he’s talked a bit about the setting and direction for the film – saying,

“The film will be really tough, really nasty,” he notes. “It’s the dark side of the moon. We are talking about gods and engineers. Engineers of space. And were the aliens designed as a form of biological warfare? Or biology that would go in and clean up a planet?

Now, AvPGalaxy reports that H.R. Giger‘s wife, Carmen Scheifele says that the Academy Award winning visual effects artist is working on Ridley Scott‘s Alien prequel.

The Untitled Alien Prequel is slated to hit theaters in 2013.