Warning: Prometheus SPOILERS follow.

IGN recently sat down with Guy Pearce to talk about his new movie The Rover , but we also couldn't help but ask him a few questions about Prometheus, in which he starred as the decrepit Peter Weyland -- especially since last month we heard a rumor that director Ridley Scott was scouting locations in Australia for the planned sequel.

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Of course, Weyland died at the end of Prometheus, but that character is somewhat unique in that Pearce has the monopoly on both the older and younger versions of him. (Even though Weyland is over 100 years old in Prometheus, Pearce also did a TED Talk viral video to help promote the movie.) Also, Weyland is probably one of the most likely characters to return, given his close ties to Weyland Corp and the Prometheus Project. He did after all pop up in hologram form after his presumed "death" at the beginning of the first film.

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The question is, would Pearce be down to come back for a sequel? "I'd love to go back and play that character again," Pearce told us. "To work for Ridley again, you know, he's great -- really wonderful to work for. So yeah, I'm very curious to see what he will do next with it."

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In Prometheus, Weyland's ultimate goal was to achieve immortality -- but is such a thing possible in the Prometheus universe? "Well," Pearce surmised, "based on my character's request for immortality and then getting whacked in the head with Michael Fassbender's head, uh... no. [Laughs] But I think it's possible. I just think it may not be for Peter Weyland. I mean, who knows? When you look at science fiction and the ways in which you can cut the pie and things can develop -- technologically speaking, etcetera -- anything's possible, really, isn't it? Particularly with Ridley at the helm." Prometheus 2 is scheduled hit theaters on March 4, 2016. Pearce's film The Rover, meanwhile, has a wide release set for June 20.

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