Different locations/planets in the movie.

and what about space? I don't know if I have read in these forums or in another place (I have to make some research I think), but I heard that the main action of the movie is going to be in space, like ALIEN.

I've actually read the exact opposite: Lindelof said at one point that the crew spends less time on the ship and more "on the planet" - and as the official synopsis implies, the film apparently revolves around the crew of the Prometheus becoming stranded on a world "at the darkest corner of the universe". It'll probably mirror the Nostromo landing on LV-426, except they don't take off again.

I think there are 2 planets at least. I think they left one of the guys behind on a planet, traveled somewhere else to do something.. When they came back to the planet, the guy they left behind became old, due to traveling at speeds close to light.

Another point to note is that when the ship is decending through the mountains, every mountain is littered with snow. And it looks like they are decending into a valley. In the scene with the dry dusty environment, we see the mountains, and what could be the same valley they landed in.

thanks for that information about Lindelof @Robotpo. Concerning to the "breadcrumb theory", I don't agree with that. As I said in another threat, maybe the Prometheus went on a planet, find the ampules in the strcucture-temple-whateveritis and on their way back to earth, they are intercepted by space-jockeys' ship, they hit and the derelict crashes on LV-426. What do you think about it? Two planets, one with breathable atmosphere and other not (until ALIENS, of course, ...)

If the ship we see in this trailer is the derelict from "Alien", then this movie is unquestionably a direct prequel, in which case, Scott has simply lied.

Maybe we don't have to think about it as a "regular prequel", but a movie which is connected to ALIEN and that develops the most interesting aspects to Ridley Scott: the Space Jockey and why his ship was carrying the eggs. But I think this ship crashing IS the ship we saw in ALIEN. Think about it: two different ships crashing on two different planets in different times? Wouldn't that be strange and a bit ridicoulous?

Not necessarily....shit happens......but if it is the same ship, then Scott has clearly lied. Same ship with an explanation for how it ended up as the dereclict from "Alien" = a direct prequel.

Jeffomorph wrote: "We know they find something on Earth. Have we seen any earth based scenes in the trailer?" I think so. IMO the "waterfall" scene is on Earth because, for me, the disc-shaped craft is sufficiently distinct to perhaps represent an ancient vehicle of the Engineers used during their visit to Earth in its prehistory. With the above premise, I'd suggest the "waterfall" scene is the part of the film where it is described how the Engineers first come to Earth - so a scene from the distant past.

Even if there are no ALIENs in it? Maybe Scott is playing with rumours and how you can maintain a secret nowadays. In 1979 there wasn't forums like this one... not even internet almost for normal people. Now is very difficult to make a movie and that everything keeps in secret until it releases, not like it was in 1979.

I think its possible the waterfall and saucer scene is in the past. It would fit, but here is why I hope not: It would make the movie, the way the story is told, just another movie. The mystery behind some things HAS to stay a mystery. I think no matter what questions are answered in Prometheus, there will still be more questions unanswered, and some new questions raised. That is what made Alien so good. If Prometheus starts with some kind of discovery that leads to this outworldly tempe, there is no reason we have to know how the "map" got there or why. At least not yet. There is talk of more movies. I don't know that I want to know all the how's or why's or even to meet the space jocky, assuming the SJ is actually the "god" which we don't know for sure. I just think it would be very "typical" to try and explain to much in a sci fi movie such as this and ruin it with leaving too many holes for people for us to stew over. Its better to leave the questions, and for us to fill in some of the blanks, and at the same time get some new information. Thats what makes a good story.

NachoFleischman, no problem and I'm sure there will be more than one location, but no idea if the ampule room is one and the planet on which they crash is another. We've seen images where the crew are wearing their helmets in what appears to the structure containing the "ampule room", (such as the unfortunate who gets sprayed with...well, something unpleasant :P ), but others where they're helmetless...so, it IS rather vexing...

Jeffomorph wrote: "We know they find something on Earth. Have we seen any earth based scenes in the trailer?" There's a shot of conventional centre-line-marked blacktop road in the trailer, a curiously banal item to drop in such a package.