How would you end it?

It's never been done in cinema history before as far as my memory and knowledge serves but I would turn the projector off 5 minutes from the end of the film and make some kind of announcement telling everyone they would have to buy another ticket for a sequel if they wanted to see the ending. The sequel would then start by showing the last 5 minutes of the previous film. I have no reliable information on this practice but my gut feeling tells me it's only a question of time before franchises start adopting this reinvention of the cliffhanger of old.

I would create such a pull from relaxed viewing to total terror, get to know the crew and watch them perish, allow some room for those left alive to go into survival mode, and then bring out the 'big guns' to take the survivors out completely. Then, the last eight minutes of the movie I'd recap on my famous films in a montage! lol Just kidding. I am putting a lot of faith in RS to really go for gold on this one. The second half of the film should make you want to crawl under your seat and ask your friends/mates if it's ok to look! I like your idea of a climatic build toward the end, left with a cliff hanger! Perhaps we will all be brought to the edge of said cliff, and get the mindset to want to jump?

I always love a "No F***ing Way" moment at the end of my sci fi films, like in "Planet of The Apes" when they see the Statue of Liberty!! OMG....the derelict ship on LV-426:OO

I wouldn't end it.... I would churn out sequel after sequel after sequel in true Hollywood fashion.... Endings don't keep the money coming, honey....

Civilized xenos save the day.

a total good end for once ... David cooking ...shaw and holloway kissing each other ...vickers playng with their little kid "squiddy" ... janek and fifield drinking a beer ... grandad Weyland watching tv with a cat on his legs ... Milburn playng with a little cobraarmhugger in the garden ... jokes apart is really difficult to find a great ending avoiding the same cliches .

I know this is WAY out there sooo here it goes.... We see this climatic scene where Shaw is running for cover. Leaving Vickers behind and trying to hide from the ensuing Space Jockey. Shaw runs back into the temple, in a frantic attempt to find a place to hide she stumbles upon a room. Inside this room she notices a suit hung up in the far back. The suit is something that she and the crew of prometheus have not seen when first exploring. In the distance she hears the impending doom awaiting her. She gives the suit a look. Appears to be made for someone her size. Very futuristic, seems to be a combination of human space suit and the engineers technology. On the side of the suit is a button on the wall. She presses said button and the area lights up. Suit lowers to her level. The suit opens up. Shaw then turns around backs up into the suit. The suit begins to close around her, encasing her. Something she didn't notice is that the suit only had one hand, and where her right hand would be is a "cannon" of some sort. As Shaw is trying to figure out what and or how this suit works, she hears something. The door at the other end of the room opens up. Shaw's pursuer is standing there before her. Suddenly the helmet on the suit shoots down a visor, in turn giving Shaw complete control. Space Jockey goes running towards Shaw. Shaw raises her cannon arm, her visor on the helmet flashes green. *Charging* sound comes from the cannon and WHOOSH!! Blast of energy hits its target. Screen cuts to black, credits role. This is totally my fantasy for having a metroid tie in.

....they all open their xmas presents..... Xenomorphs burst out

it would have it end wide open for a sequel, now the trick is, making it so the audience is left with a certain sense of satisfaction, yet wanting to see more and more i wouldn't wall all my questions answered not having seen the film yet, i can't really say how i'd end it exactly and i agree with you on TDKR. lol!

I'd be happy with this: [url=http://youtu.be/osYEW3Q-mSY]P R O M E T H E U S ending[/url]

shaw and vickers stop and watch Mordor in the horizon... THE END! yeah, that'd work!

I would want some of the old questions I have answered, not all but some, with enough information about the rest of my questions to be able to mull them over for another 20 years, but at the same time would want there to be enough for me to start asking new questions altogether about the universe Ridley has created here......

I thought I heard (/it-was-established) that Ridley has intended this to be a "two-parter". Prometheus1-BladeRunner2-Prometheus2? We just may get an unbelievable cliffhanger at the end of this one. BTW, I can't believe I cannot buy tickets to Prometheus yet. All the feature said was to keep on checking Fandango and when it appears there then they're for sale. I checked Fandango last night and it only goes up to the end of May. I won't buy them from Fandango because I despise the fees, but it at least tells me that the movie theater is selling them.

@LV426JGPFM: Great idea for an ending! It would definitely work! The ending as I see it would have the surviving members of the Prometheus crew hauling @$$ through space trying to get back to Earth as a Space Jockey ship has already lifted off and is well on its way back to Earth. But, the problem is they have another Space Jockey ship tailing them, but the crew is unaware of that. What's worse, they have limited resources(i.e., weapons, food, and air). What's more, they'll have to go into cryosleep for the trip home, thus making them even more vulnerable for an attack. But, the ultimate kicker would be that one of the crew(say Vickers) has been infected with the DNA for the Xenomorph and the creature bursts out of her chest when she's out of sight....

This could possibly be a bit too cheesy, but here goes. How about, that the temple was built on the site of an archeological dig carried out by the Engineers. At the end we are show some sort of chamber that contains one urn. On the walls of the chamber/room there is a story depicting how the Engineers when out looking for their ancestry to discover this urn that contains the secrets of bio engineering, and is the ultimate source of their own technology. The temple was built on top to cover up this treasure, and possibly distract visitors from investigating further. But somewhere in this room with the urn, is a logo for Weyland Industries. so, Who are the Gods?

To add to this.... Not only is the logo for Weyland Industries, it is actually the Weyland-Yutani logo hinting at time travel..... ; )

Of course it would have to tie to Alien in some way. However, what I always find amazing in films is how certain directors show you a scene, and you think you understand it. Then when you're shown the entire scope of events towards the end of the film-you realize that your initial thoughts were completely wrong. The only thing we truly know from Alien is that there was a ship on a planet with the Space Jockey petrified to a cannon looking device. There's a cargo that seems to have infected the host. People tend to say that the Prometheus ending is completely known by I digress from any such conclusions. We don't know the entire story. How would I like it to end? Something that makes that scene from Alien more frightening or completely wrong from our initial thoughts.

I haven't been slaving away and reading all the discussion topics on the site but I recall hearing Prometheus lands on one of LV-426's moons. I could see and ending that mimics Alien 3 in that everyone dies and as seen in the trailer Vickers has to use an escape pod to get off Prometheus. I think Vickers is infected with whatever the Space Jockey's have stolen or are trying to protect and Vickers crash lands on LV-426 and bobs your uncle intro to Alien.

Have Rick Deckard "retire" the Jockey!

David returns to Earth with Weyland, who came looking for his exploratory mission with whom contact was lost.

@czelaya I agree, especially Ridley...his trailers have been all about misdirection and out of context material. I've seen people refer to this planet as barren, lifeless. I see the potential for life on the scale that we know here on Earth right in the trailers. I think even in Alien Ridley provided a direct visual line for the Jockey's infection....from below inside the ship to up where the Jockey was. I don't see much exploring of those lines. I'm glad you recognized the Jockey as petrified, I had a issue with continutity until I saw a clever resolution for it.

I would end it with a bang. New worlds, new civilizations, new xenomorphs. The beauty is the producers/directors have so much leeway because terraforming can be anywhere and include anything because space is infinite and the types of situations remain infinite as long as good directors can mix it up. I want to be terrified in a movie. I want to leave a theatre mentally changed forever. Alien and Aliens did that for me when I was a young child and my parents didn't know I snuck up to watch it. Those movies terrified me. Only a handful of Directors are capable of this.

EXTERIOR - PLANET SURFACE - DAYLIGHT [...] Alien ship (Juggernaut) falling down. SHAW It's pointing right towards us, we must run! VICKERS (shocked) Oh my! They've made it... Run for it!... They start running. Pieces of debris and fragments of the destroyed Prometheus begin to fall like rain near them. The alien ship hits the ground with a powerful roar and starts tumbling. We can hear the sound of the impact resonate within the structure of the alien vessel. A sinister honk shakes the air. SHAW Quick! Let's run in a straight line, let's maximise the risk of it falling right upon us! VICKERS Sure, we don't want to be out of its trajectory! That's not how movies work! (gasps) Look! It's going to take a slight turn to the left! The ship starts bending to the left, Shaw and Vickers steer accordingly. More debris falling closer to the pair. Dust and explosions all around. A long shot shows the two space-suited figures, dwarfed by the huge alien craft behind them, run frantically. A close-up on Vickers' face shows strain and desperation through the steamy glass of her helmet. Both women turn back to see if the ship is catching up. It is. SHAW Don't detour! Or you might go right out of its path of destruction! VICKERS True that! BRETT Right! The two women stare at each other, baffled . (we can hear in the background a sharp sound of bafflement) VICKERS Shaw... SHAW Yes...? VICKERS Listen... SHAW Huh...? VICKERS ...I am your father. SHAW (turning back, at Vickers) You were always an asshole, Vickers! A small item falling from above, a black flip-flop, hits her on the shoulder. SHAW (whimpers) VICKERS Faster! The wreck is getting clo- SPLAT! SHAW What the f- SPLAT! THE END CUT TO ENDING CREDITS

Maybe an infected Vickers uses the escape pod to get off Prometheus because she can't stand all the drama and crash lands on LV-426. Queue intro to Alien? Then again maybe not...

Nox....I like it...can I change my theory from David returning to Earth as a transformed being to yours? I was so wrong heh heh

Be my guest FW, speculation is serious business

Ok ok..I get the rule....over in the updates I can jive all i want..but here...I'll see if I can behave. Even if it grinds my gears.

@ Nox...brilliant!

Final sequence: As a result of coming into contact with the black goo, Weyland recieves the immortality he seeks, by morphing into an Engineer, just as a gigantic saucer lands. A queen xeno and her entourage disembark; they're dressed as royalty; festooned with jewels and exotic alien animal skins. Weyland bows before the master he will now be forced to serve for eternity. In the voice of Ellen Ripley, she asks why the place is such a damned mess, and which of her slaves is responsible. Weyland replies that the rest are all dead. With a dismiissive "humpf" she hands him a mop, wheels around, and starts back up the ramp to her saucer, whereupon he begins dabbing at the buckets of slimy drool she and her court have left in their wake. Fade to black.....

Arty, does that have something to do with evelyn waugh?

Why Evelyn Waugh? Actually, now that I think about it, that last bit sounds like something straight out of "Dune."

I just hope the engineer shows some vulger display of power and no one lives. It is getting old seeing some dues ex machina saving the one survivor. I'm even down with the whole engineers helping us evolve but if they are so advanced how would we stand a chance.