On Friday, we brought you some new details about Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, which surfaced as the director discussed the film at the San Diego Comic-Con. While the director only appeared via satellite link-up (he’s still busy shooting Prometheus in Iceland), writer Damon Lindelof and actress Charlize Theron were at the convention to provide a few new details about the finished film.

The first footage from Prometheus was shown off to attendees, too, though sadly this still hasn’t made it outside the hallowed halls of Comic-Con. Upon listening back over what Scott had to say about Prometheus, in footage recorded at the convention and put up on YouTube, we noticed something that somehow escaped our attention before – at one point, the director dropped some fairly strong hints that he may be planning a sequel to Prometheus. Here’s what he had to say:

“This film, I’ve honestly had a better time with [it] in many years. Probably because I felt secure in having a terrific script from [Damon Lindelof]. That said, I want [Lindelof] to do the second one immediately. That’s the only reason I’m buttering [him] up.”

It’s a hint of a sequel rather than a definitive announcement that there’ll be one, of course, and the creation of a second Prometheus will inevitably hinge on the success of the first.