The events of Prometheus remain secret for about 300 years

Why do you want to link Prometheus with that bloody abortion of a film? Ridley Scott has said a million times, slight exageration, this is not a bloody Alien prequal., doh! "...Maam, have IQ's dropped since I've been away...?"

Since the writers of Alien 4 were unaware of RSs intent to do an "Alien 5" (he has even been quoted saying this, making the exploration of the SJs OK to be called a "sequel", but NO, let's not admit its a "prequel" - whatev...) there can be no obvious conclusion other than the one you have furthered. It is a secret -or- the info never made it back to the network because it was intentionally sabotaged so that no more company ships would venture out to re-investigate.

There is another possible answer. Maybe Fox has put the SJ on reserve for Ridley himself incase he wanted to come back. he had been talking about the SJ's story and wanting to do it in passing since the 80's. Maybe fox kept it as a lure to get him back into the fold at a later date. I wonder if the writers of those films were told not to focus any attention on that character for that reason. Leverage on the sake of fox.

As George Lucas will attest in his auto-biography 'Skywalking', studio executives are basically morons.

Thus the reason, why GL IS Hollywood (Skywalker Sound, THX, Industrial Light & Magic). Almost nobody deals with those other morons. Everyone wants the best for their film and GL re-created the entire industry on the back of one movie and the sequels he "stole" from Fox.

@wirrn Yeah I probably am. All I know is that if I knew I had a way to get Ridley Scott to maybe come back and make a movie attached to a sinking franchise I would totally hold that card near and dear till he was ready to make it. There are a lot of names attached from the original picture, maybe one of those guys played that card? Or I am thinking way to much about this. Which I tend to do. Ridley hasn't exactly been quiet about the jockey since even before Aliens. It always seemed like his story to tell.

@You have my sympathy Excellent use of the phrase, "that bloody abortion of a film".

Alright... Prometheus is definately a prequel. It's painfully obvious. If the SJ wasn't in Alien, there wouldn't be a Prometheus. It's the "question" RS refers to in correlation to Alien.The film's main focuses are the SJs, and everything in the film directly relates to them. I don't know why anyone would dismiss Prometheus being a prequel. The SJs, the ship from the first film; which is clearly the exact same ship from Prometheus. RS just won't admit it initially. Anyone who thinks otherwise is crazy. Remember,folks, anything can relate to profit nowadays... Specifically NEGATIVE profit.

@Shane: It's screwed up that the folks who run Hollywood are nothing more than "bean counters". That's what one of my film professors called them. Or, better yet, no talent hacks who leech off the success and true talent of the artists themselves. I would have enjoyed seeing Ridley make a film about the SJs about a decade ago. While he does good in other genres, he should stick to his bread and butter, which is science fiction.

Naw, it just means that this prequel starts an alternate timeline where none of the later stuff actually happened.

Sure, its a prequel of sorts, but this could honestly go ANYWHERE if it RS's ideas work out. I prefer to think of this a Star Trek style REBOOT, with a lot of potential. I would love to have a new & fresh vision of the "Alien Universe" ((of course still linking to 1979's original...which is very easy)). Quite honestly, if we can get a new round of more serious & thoughtful stories where we could throw out most of if not all of the later "sequel" events, that would make me very happy.

Hmmmm... my post got deleted. I'm not sure what rule, if any, I broke but I certainly didn't insult anyone or curse or anything too terrible. I'm looking at the forum rules right now and I'm hard pressed to figure out what I could have possibly done wrong. I'm going reiterate what I said and if it gets deleted again I guess my opinion is just against the rules. ;) @You have my sympathy No one is trying to link the Alien films to Prometheus, they [i]are[/i] linked. They are set in the same fictional universe (even using some common characters, settings and themes). And Ridley Scott has also mentioned (a million times) that the last eight minutes of Prometheus link it to Alien... so, unless you think the preceding two hours of Prometheus don't link to the last eight minutes of Prometheus... As far as this possibly being a reboot of the franchise, I just don't see Fox allowing Ridley the leeway to render four films non-canon (or even just two or three). I can't imagine them doing anything that would prevent them from releasing a new Alien Pentalogy box set and getting everyone's money all over again.