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Jun 8, 2012 · Prometheus - Alien Connection Explained. Ultimately, Prometheus does not provide as many direct connections to Alien as some fans might have expected - based on the footage found in the trailers. However, the film lays the groundwork for the subsequent events that would later befall warrant officer Ellen Ripley, as well as the Nostromo crew.
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In the central timeline of the film, the ship Prometheus arrives on the moon LV-223, where the expedition comes across a large, ancient architectural structure which is found to contain a large ...
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Aug 18, 2024 · Alien: Romulus director Fede Álvarez has explained the movie's big Prometheus connection and breaks down how he went about dreaming up the final act's twisted creature. Find his spoilery comments ...
- Overview
- How does Prometheus Tie in With Alien?
- Time and Setting
- The Ships
- The Xenomorph
- The Old Script
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Ridley Scott bills Prometheus as a "loose" prequel to Alien. It's the first of three movies that eventually connect directly to the first Alien movie, explore the origins of the Alien creature, and may reveal the details behind the derelict ship on LV-426 and what made it crash. The ship featured in Prometheus is actually not the same wreck seen in the original Alien and Aliens movies.
According to a 2015 IGN interview with Ridley Scott, speaking about the Prometheus sequel: "I'm trying to re-resurrect the beast and let if off the hook for a while because I’m coming back into the back-end of Alien 1. I'm gradually getting to Alien 1."
Most of Prometheus takes place in the last week of the year 2093, between Christmas and New Year's Day (the events on Earth take place in 2089) -- a full 28 years before the events in Alien.
Even though the worlds and the crashed/landed spaceships resemble each other, Prometheus is set on a planetoid with the designation LV-223, while Alien takes place on LV-426 (aka Acheron). According to Ridley Scott, the two planetoids are in the same star system.
The two ships in Alien and Prometheus are different. According to Scott, the derelict spaceship seen in Alien was similar to the one shown in Prometheus, but was in fact a "brother," not the same ship. He suggests that the ship originated from LV-223, carrying dangerous cargo and landed on LV-426 more than a millennium before the events in both movies.
This suggests that the xenomorph infestation on LV-426 originated from the facility on LV-223 and that the events shown in the holographic footage in Prometheus may be related to how the (then known as) "space jockey" Engineer died. It is unknown whether the ship on LV-426 carried eggs that hatched and infected the Engineer(s) or if it was carrying the containers with the black substance shown in Prometheus.
Prometheus ends with the surving Engineer on LV-223 getting killed and infected by the squid-like creature given life by Shaw and Holloway. A xenomorph hatches directly from the dead body of the Engineer that resembles the traditional, eye-less Alien -- with the marked difference that it does not undergo the traditional Alien gestation cycle (egg -> Facehugger -> Chestburster/Alien). The Alien is fully formed when it emerges.
While it may be tempting to see the appearance of the xenomorph at the end of Prometheus as the beginning of the Alien creature, there are some hints that this is not the first time the Engineers have encountered it.
This mural is seen in the chamber holding the black substance:
Xenomorph_mural.jpg
The mural suggests that the Engineers had either already encountered the xenomorph or thought of it and were trying to engineer it -- possibly as a bio weapon akin to how Weyland-Yutani later seeks to utilize it -- or that they had already succeeded at creating it. The latter would suggest that the initial creation of the Alien requires the sacrifice of both an Engineer and a human being. As it mixes its DNA with more species, it becomes more advanced and ultimately evolves towards its most "perfect" (and perhaps deadly) form.
Either way, the Engineers cared about the xenomorph enough to create the mural. And whatever events took place in the facility on LV-223, the ship was planning to carry its cargo to Earth. One possible theory is that in their quest to genetically engineer/create new lifeforms, the Engineers merely saw humans as a step towards creating perfection -- namely the xenomorph.
The original script of Prometheus was actually centered much more around the classic Xenomorph.
Screenwriter Jon Spaihts says: "So one of Damon's major jobs when he came onboard was to replace the menaces of the xenomorphs with other things. Largely the other menaces in the film were present in my drafts as well - there was a black mutagenic compound that could change people in unpredictable way, Fyfield did morph into a monster and become a real danger in his own right, and of course the Engineers, the Space Jockeys, proved to be terribly dangerous creatures. In my draft, as well, we did resurrect one and he tore off David's head. Much of the mayhem of the final film was present in the drafts I wrote, but the xenomorphs were the major change, as well as the stockpiling of this black liquid as opposed to Alien eggs."
Dec 6, 2023 · Shaw runs and warns Janek that the Engineer is actually planning to release the black goo on Earth, killing their creation. Janek and the crew ram the Prometheus into the alien craft, ejecting the lifeboat in the process while Vickers flees in an escape pod. That alien craft crashes and kills Vickers as well.
Aug 30, 2024 · Prometheus Explained: Breaking Down The Ending. Ridley Scott's space-horror classic "Alien" doesn't exactly cry out for a prequel. The plot is pretty simple: The crew of a spaceship encounters a ...
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Budget. $120–130 million. Box office. $403.4 million. Prometheus is a 2012 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof. It is the fifth installment of the Alien film series and features an ensemble cast including Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall ...
