The Official Prometheus (Alien Prequel) Thread

Rumours always been that the alien race was created by the space jockeys, as a weapon of some type.

This could be evident, as you do see some sort of first sight of a facehugger in the green tube thing.

I don't think well see any aliens in the movie though, you might see an egg lying around, or a facehugger as we know them though.
 
If there's a chest bursting scene, it has to be the one that kills "the pilot" space jockey, as shown in Alien.

Looks like the crew of the prometheus turn up, see space jockeys playing god, want in on the tech, it all goes belly up and the biological weapon aka the facehuggers get out and kill the pilot which sends the derelict crashing down to LV-426.

How the eggs go from urn -> egg, as shown in Alien is anyone's guess at this point.
 
One thing we haven't mentioned yet is the Queen alien. She is supposed to provide the eggs. So it's doubtful the eggs were manufactured or transformed from the urns. (Of course, Ridley may discard the events in Aliens also and see only his Alien film as canon.)
 
It was cut from the first Alien (although it's in the Alan Dean Foster novelisation), but originally the creature cocooned Brett and Dallas, with Ripley finding them before fleeing the Nostromo; Brett's body has turned almost completely into an egg (an alien egg with a facehugger in), Dallas is still alive and she euthanises him. As this didn't make the final cut, it's not really cannon, but it's clear the original intent was to have a single creature capable of reproducing rather than any sort of hive mind/structure.

Also from what I've read about early leaks or drafts of the script from years back, the idea is that humans stealing/messing with stuff they don't understand leads to a corruption of Engineer biotech, with the result being that (conveniently) humans foolishness is what creates xenomorphs in the first place, or takes them off the leash/allows them to reproduce etc.

I don't really like this as one of the appeals of sci-fi is human insignificance next to a cosmo that already has history going back thousands/millions/billions of years. It's cliched and lazy.
 
Somnambulist said:
It was cut from the first Alien (although it's in the Alan Dean Foster novelisation), but originally the creature cocooned Brett and Dallas, with Ripley finding them before fleeing the Nostromo; Brett's body has turned almost completely into an egg (an alien egg with a facehugger in), Dallas is still alive and she euthanises him. As this didn't make the final cut, it's not really cannon, but it's clear the original intent was to have a single creature capable of reproducing rather than any sort of hive mind/structure.
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Hmmmm

After just watching the making of aliens, that part was cut as it interrupted the exit of the ship and they found it might not have went down well in the cinema release.

But they stated that brett and dallas were being fed on.
 
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Heres my thoughts:

Considering Alien 1 for a moment, the crew are awakened from hypersleep cos the ship computer picked up a signal. They believe it to be SOS and have to check it out on company orders. When they get down there and find the alien craft, Ripley is still aboard the ship and after looking into the signal she thinks it may be a warning not SOS.

So, in a nutshell I think in Prometheus a ship with crew is dispatched to LV426 (the same planet in Alien) for some reason, the reason for this is still currently unknown and all speculation. (see EDIT below) They discover a new race and where they live (the huge head statue from the trailers). Whilst there, something goes wrong somehow causing the alien craft to crash. This is the same craft that is in Alien years later. All the crew are killed off, both the alien race and the human crew. But near the end of the movie I think either the humans or the aliens set up a warning signal not to come here. Its this signal that the crew in Alien discover and they check it out.

EDIT: Also, if you fast forward to Aliens (the sequel to Alien) near the beginning Ripley is explaining her actions for self destructing the freighter ship they were on. The chairman of the meeting summaries Ripleys actions and says something like " You set down on LV426, an unsurveyed world at that time, for reasons unknown..." So, this means LV426 was an unsurveyed planet in Alien and definately in Prometheus, so why are the Prometheus crew going there? Who knows, but something that is consistent with the Alien, AVP and Predator movies is Weyland Industries and how things are covered up. I wonder if the science division (as mentioned in Alien) of Weyland Industries knows something is on that planet (LV426) and sends out the Prometheus crew to investigate. They dont return and that is why as I quoted earlier, the chairman at Ripleys meeting says "for reasons unknown". I think Weyland Ind. cover up the story that will be Prometheus.

2 movies on (Aliens) and the colonists have setup an atmosphere processing station on LV426 and that family (Newts family) discover the alien craft. Burke - the 'company' man (Weyland Ind.) goes down with Ripley and the Marines. Again, I think Aliens confirms he went down there on behalf of the 'company' to get specimens of the alien because he was already informed that the reason for the colony losing contact was because of the alien craft that has been sat there for years and whatever is inside it.
 
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neoglow said:
Heres my thoughts:

Considering Alien 1 for a moment, the crew are awakened from hypersleep cos the ship computer picked up a signal. They believe it to be SOS and have to check it out on company orders. When they get down there and find the alien craft, Ripley is still aboard the ship and after looking into the signal she thinks it may be a warning not SOS.

So, in a nutshell I think in Prometheus a ship with crew is dispatched to LV426 (the same planet in Alien) for some reason, the reason for this is still currently unknown and all speculation. (see EDIT below) They discover a new race and where they live (the huge head statue from the trailers). Whilst there, something goes wrong somehow causing the alien craft to crash. This is the same craft that is in Alien years later. All the crew are killed off, both the alien race and the human crew. But near the end of the movie I think either the humans or the aliens set up a warning signal not to come here. Its this signal that the crew in Alien discover and they check it out.

EDIT: Also, if you fast forward to Aliens (the sequel to Alien) near the beginning Ripley is explaining her actions for self destructing the freighter ship they were on. The chairman of the meeting summaries Ripleys actions and says something like " You set down on LV426, an unsurveyed world at that time, for reasons unknown..." So, this means LV426 was an unsurveyed planet in Alien and definately in Prometheus, so why are the Prometheus crew going there? Who knows, but something that is consistent with the Alien, AVP and Predator movies is Weyland Industries and how things are covered up. I wonder if the science division (as mentioned in Alien) of Weyland Industries knows something is on that planet (LV426) and sends out the Prometheus crew to investigate. They dont return and that is why as I quoted earlier, the chairman at Ripleys meeting says "for reasons unknown". I think Weyland Ind. cover up the story that will be Prometheus.

2 movies on (Aliens) and the colonists have setup an atmosphere processing station on LV426 and that family (Newts family) discover the alien craft. Burke - the 'company' man (Weyland Ind.) goes down with Ripley and the Marines. Again, I think Aliens confirms he went down there on behalf of the 'company' to get specimens of the alien because he was already informed that the reason for the colony losing contact was because of the alien craft that has been sat there for years and whatever is inside it.
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Says on wikipedia that this is not a prequel or has'nt anything to do with the Alien franchise :confused:
 
Personally I think Scott is going to have a tough time selling this as a 'non Alien prequel'. Its inevitable everyone is going to brand it as this no matter what.

Besides, Im sure I read in a recent Scott interview/article he said the last 8 minutes of Prometheus has 'Alien DNA' in it. He put it like that or something similar. In layman terms to you and me: The end of Prometheus sets up the beginning of Alien.
 
"When the first Alien movie and Blade Runner were made, I thought that in the near future the world will be owned by large companies. This is why we have the Tyrell Corporation in Blade Runner, and Weyland-Yutani in Alien. They sent the Nostromo spaceship.

The Prometheus is owned by an entrepreneur called Peter Weyland, and is played by Guy Pearce. That’s the connection between the two films, and nothing more. Prometheus is a new film, a new world, and is full of new ideas. And of course new monsters as well."
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Hmmm...surely the space jockeys link the movies as well!

Source: http://www.avpgalaxy.net/2012/02/25/guy-pearces-role-in-prometheus-revealed/
 
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