Alien Screenplay...Prometheus similarities

Yes it seems Ridley is using a few ideas from that and ideas he had to Alien that he never managed to do.

Yes captcrunch, Prometheus seems to be including all that was left out of Alien for budget reasons, plus some additional artwork from Giger that deserved to be used but ultimately wasn't (including the temple shape, from the scrapped "Dune" project by Jodorowsky).

Looks like my "discovery" is nothing new. I thought it was interesting when I read last night, the hieroglyphics, drawings depicting various creatures (squidlike), the "ampules", breathable air....etc. Based on this screenplay, the crew surmised two completely separate civilizations...the space traveller who lost to the parasites and those who built the pyramid, but I guess the questions is, who put the creatures inside the pyramid? The original builders or placed long after they were gone?

Alien was the first film that really grabbed me. I wanted to learn more about it and I found "The Book of Alien" in a local shop which I read and re-read endlessly. In that book it outlines the development of the story from its origins as an unfinished story about gremlins on board a WW2 bomber, through the epic pyramid discovery version and eventually to the version we all know and love. Spme of the ideas and sketches in the book look spookily similar to what we are seeing here. If anybody hasn't seen the book I would totally recommend it, I managed to get another copy off ebay recently. Interestingly in among the concept art there is a drawing of a ship which mentions Yutani as the engine manufacturer.