Question about the name Prometheus and other things.

well we are lead to believe that,on both counts?

they gotta be on LV426

Actually guys if you look at the planet and LV-426 you will see they are 2 completely different places. LV-426 is a barren moon and the planet in the trailer has an atmosphere like earth's and is much more well lit. Regards, Rick

could be ancient earth..

Maybe I'm wrong with what I say below, but what if the scene of the vehicles on the road are actually on the Earth? I'm not sure but maybe the ship is sighted on the horizon is not the Prometheus. On the other hand the landscape of snowy mountains could also be a scene of the Earth. I think that part of the trailer esposible occurs during archaeological or paleontological discovery, who knows, in fact I remember the first trailer for STAR WARS Episode 3 exhibited several scenes and sequences that mostly had no connection or simply were disorganized and random. Another explanation is that LV-426 is a terraformed moon or another planet of Zeta Reticuli system. Regards

please, someone can kill or burn down this stupid troll, honestly this is pretty nasty and is totally out of control.

thats fucking disgusting

i think the ancient earth idea is interesting. what if they went back in time, but we don't know that they travelled into the past until the end of the film like in planet of the apes. That would be a surprise.

^^^ THAT! actually makes sense to me. Traveling back in time. They went looking for out begining! What they found could be our end! The movie Aliens VS Predator is set at modern day time. Weyland corp finds the frozen piramid. and determins that its been there for thousands of years. and that predator had been hunting aliens for thousands of years. If the 1979 film is set in the future, and prometheus is its prequal, then its possiable that prometheus sumhow by accident or on purpose gets sent into the past to find our begining but insted tampers with unknown things and creates the alien species or something to that effect. therefore creating a new species actually BORN on earth. ridley has talked about a part 2 already. Something tells me that prometheus isnt the prequal that leads up to Alien. but the part 2 will lead up to alien on the LV426 moon. just thoughts....

Oh no you didn't... Shame on you L u )/( a R u S, shame on you...

Prometheus is the name of the ship, that has been confirmed. No, it's not LV-426.

NO..NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....NO time travel...please, no cop out-stupid-cheap-time travel laziness......the idea is way too trite and over done, please God, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...

Anyhoo....all signs point to the ship being called the Prometheus.....the planet we're not so sure on.............for one, In the film 'Alien', they refer to LV-426 as a planetoid and give no other description as to its size. It's in the novelization that they determine it's only 1,200 meters across. I think the fact that the film is non-specifc as to size is why Cameron made it a reletively large looking planetoid in 'Aliens'. Two, if LV-426 was terraformed by the SpaceJockey's and the events of 'Prometheus' destroy that aparatus, then it can easily be LV-426 in this film. Three, I don't see them approaching earth in that opening shot and it seems unlikely that they land on earth, only to exit the ship in spacesuits.....whereever it is they're landing, it isn't earth and it doesn't have to be LV-426 either......I find that particularly interesting.

There's the speculation of the guy in the elevator behind the mercenaries possibly having been aged unnaturally. I hate to say it, but that could possibly hint at the involvement of some effects of time travel or involve it in the plot somehow.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO on the time travel......................anywhoodle....Why then is it only affecting one of them?

Time chamber or something like that. You ever saw the time machine with Guy Pearce, at the end when the guys head gets stuck outside the time machine and his head ages while those inside the time bubble don't. Something like that, but nobody here including myself want to see Time Travel in the movie, Especially the we just traveled thousands of light years just to end up back on earth theory. I was just pointing out the aged guy connection, so I'll end with that.

I see your point @Alien DNA......I'm just touchy about that idea....................it rankles me

I can safely assume that there is some time travel or some manipulations of law of physics in PROMETHEUS. Have you seen Damon Lindelof's work in LOST? Of all the screenwriters in H'wood, why they pick Damon? There is a reason why Damon was brought on board the project. Also, there is a speculation that if the plot starts with Earth, there is a high chance that all the subsequent planets the crew "visits" are all Earth at different age (!). Remember Damon's interview at Comicon [paraphrase] "..the movie will take place in the past, present & future.."