The Ship Prometheus.

Yea, make me wonder too. It's like naming your ship ICARUS (from the movie SUNSHINE featuring Benedict Wong, an actor in PROMETHEUS). As we all know ICARUS comes crashing to Earth when he flies to close to the Sun. I wouldn't board that ship. Makes you think about naming your space shuttle ATLANTIS when we know what happened to that continent. (Maybe that is about ATLANTIS rising). But it serves as a literary device used very often in Hollywood.

Love that movie. At least they didn't name it Titanic.

That's a very good point. Calling the ship Prometheus was like having a sign on the ship saying 'Hey, aliens, we're coming to steal your technology, and you're going to eat our guts for doing so'

Unless you´re naming it not because of the myth, but because of the name´s meaning: in classic greek, "Prometheus" means "forethinker".

Makes me wonder if the whole Prometheus myth idea is a non plot. Although RS has talked about the myth several times. Frustratingly facinating.

Great point centrospere I hadnt thought of that angle. Although its double meaning could be seen as misleading dont you think? It seems to me that our imaginations have been let loose on this film which can only be a good thing. Makes you wonder if RS "pops in" every now and again to give himself some entertainment in plot speculation.

Forethinker may have a positive vibe to it but you know what happens to the Great Forethinker in this particular Greek mythology. He is chained to a rock with an Eagle pecking at its liver...for an eternity. But forget all this logical thinking, it's a poetic license.

I'd infer (from the TED footage) that Peter Weyland reveres the character of Prometheus - an Icon who's daring enough to take from the "gods" and give to mankind. If so, and the "Prometheus" mission is anticipated (in planning) as a major landmark for the Weyland compnay (most probably as Peter Weyland's coming towards the end of his natural life - or even comes to fruition after he's expired) it sort of makes sense that they'd give the ship that name. It's then ironic that the events of the mission turn out to be Prometheus-esch (as they initially assume it to be an invitation).

At the end of the TED talk, Weyland states that we are the gods now. Maybe it isn't about stealing from the SJ/Aliens/whatever, but [i] who's[/i] gonna steal [i]what[/i] from [i]us[/i]?

Oh, and the use of flametrowers... Prometheus did steal [i]fire[/i] from the Gods.

@truman, Your original post on this thread made me laugh---how true. I hope RS does poke in here to see what his fuss is about, that would be great. Because there is a hell of a lot of GREAT ideas and theories floating around on this site. I love it.

I do think that Ridley Scott should have named the ship something like USS .....o. I mean for example USS Nostromo, USS Sulaco etc. To be honest I am not sure whether Prometheus belongs to Weyland/Yutani or to the navy.....or where Nostromo or Sulaco belonged to.

It's not uncommon to name ships after mythology. Narcissus anyone?

If you examine the Prometheus Project files on the Weyland Site you can see that the funds appropriated for the endeavor are in the neighborhood of 2.3 Trillion dollars. 50% of this coming from Weyland Industries, 25% being allocated by Government, this does not mean the US, and the final 25% coming from private contributions. The companies valuation being 218 Trillion, this project would be more like a generous charatable contribution rather than a hardship. However look on the bright side. The financial future of our world economy is simply dazzling!

We are searching for truths of plot/film here. My question on this link is "Why be so arrogant" as in why call your ship something that becomes its own reality? I

herE you go XENNO the Narcissus ship on the left , Calling the ship Prometheus, i don`t have any issue with it , but l`m sure there is more to the name in the movie we do not know yet ..maybe at take off time the other ICARUS ship (named from the fans) of planet of the Apes was one more cool ship