All your prometheus questions answered by the writer and cast etc

interesting reading the comments above....i can't wait for an extended or directors cut of this, and i also believe that this is NOT the planet we see in Alien....and if Ridley did things quite as deliberately as stated in previous comments, then i would agree that the way that engineer died was not the way the engeneer we see in Alien died....perhaps just one of themany ships carrying the goo or perhaps other permutations of the glue...my specific feeling is that this shoudl be followed up in WANING *****SPOILERS FOLLOW****** where dr. goes with David at the the end...i bet that's the ship we ultimately see in alien myself...anyone else wondert this?

[quote]And did something happen in between when those cave paintings were made — tens of thousands of years ago — and our arrival now, in 2093, 2,000 years after these things have perished. Did something happen in the intermediate period that we should be thinking about?[/quote] Humanity developed its own technology to the point where it could become a threat, or at least an annoyance, to the Engineers. We have aggression, bioengineering, WMD's, imperialism, and now space travel. They left the cave painting star maps not as an invitation to their homeworld for tea, but so we would inform them once our species became sufficiently advanced to become a potential problem. The Engineers knew damn well we'd be so curious, the star system in those maps would be high up on our list of things to explore once we had the ability. LV-223 provided a safe place where they could observe us under controlled conditions, and eliminate us if necessary. One of the basic principles of making first contact with [b]anything[/b] is [i]don't leave them a trail back to your own home.[/i]

Love it, ty for posting. :)

This is awesome! Thanks for finding this!!!

y w just thought it was interesting to get his perspective on things a little.

30 minutes of deleted footage!? I thought the Fox studio guys promised not one second would be cut from the film?

Thanks for posting :)

@ Drake, yeah...right lol. Even Ridley explains that he has to bow to studio wishes at times due to the business aspect of it. Almost all of Ridley's movie suffers the same fate. As a matter of fact both Robin Hood and Kingdom of Heaven were barely tolerable in theaters but upon viewing the extended cuts you get to see the very thing we all agree was a major absence from PROMETHEUS, character development. Studios seem to be doing this with films that have a longer than 2 hr running times. At least we KNOW for SURE that there was more and we'll get to see more lol. I'm happy with that. Remember ALIEN 3? They added back 20+ minutes for its extended edition and WHAM! A much better and more fully realized experience. A whole subplot revolving the true nature of the Xeno's birth, a much better understanding of why character's did what they did (ie the Zealot going crazy and believing the Xeno was some sort of god and letting it loose) and better yet another subplot explaining the military's intentions for why Ripley needed to be contained and the ALIEN kept safe. Makes the movie way better, and that's what I suspect will happen here as well.

Thanks for posting this, some of my questions were being explained......

how come in the first alien movie the man was still in the wreck ship chair but in prometheus he ran after the girl and died from the squid alien?

"All I'll say in response to your question is, nothing is an accident in Prometheus. Every single decision that is made by Ridley Scott is made for a very specific reason and purpose." Sounds like Lindelof is using Scott's name to back up his writing. -.-

hope you know its not the same planet tjbridgemon a story long before the events in alien .

Ok, comments welcome on this perspective please... so let's start with the Engineers on LV_223. Were these guys even engineers? They seemed "engineered" to me. Instead lets call them Sirians (from Sirius). Consider the scenario that LV_223 was a weapons outpost experimenting with the black goo maybe? Who is to say the original black goo drinking Sirian in the opening scene wasn't being punished? If there are engineers that have yet to be discovered (ending scene) couldn't it be the were unhappy with something the Sirian guys from LV_223 had been up to..? And that led to one of these Sirian guys having to drink the liquid (looked like it was different from the black goo) and seed earth? If that was the case the guys on LV_223 would have ample motivation to exterminate humanity on vendetta. As for the worms, maybe the original engineers realized LV_223 guys were on a extermination mission and introduced the "face huggers" to stop them? Sounds much more plausible than the "biological weapon gone bad" scenario.... thoughts?

what strikes me about that interview was ridleys comment that its not a given that the planet seeded was earth it could be any planet his words not mine.

[i]"Yes. David's dialogue with the Engineer has an English translation, but Ridley felt very strongly about not subtitling it. I spoke at length about this on my DVD commentary"[/i] Oh, come on, Sir Ridley. I want to know what he said. Well if you won't explain in the audio commentary, I hope you touch upon it in Paradise (the movie, I mean, if they stick with that name). ):<

As we talk here about a SCI-FI-MOVIE, i dont like this "riddler-style-story-telling" where you have to search the internet for some screenwriter interviews to find out what happens and speculate for weeks and month about the meaning of it all. Thats SHIT! Its not nice to muck around with someone, the audience could lose interest easily. They must not open it all, but the WHOLE movie is an strange puzzle with WAY TO MANY OPEN QUESTIONS, and if i want THAT i go to a David Lynch movie, where you EXPECT not to understand what it should mean, as it mostly means NOTHING, but is a random sequence of scenes. It is interesting, but you KNOW its not "normal human logic". But thats not what i expect from a sci-fi plot, sorry. PLus - even if there ARE open questions (like in Alien - there was never explained where this SJ came from and what is the purpose of that eggs), the STORY has to deliver enough scare-moments, good characters, an exciting ending and so on. But Prometheus did even not deliver THAT in comparison to Alien, as mentioned by myself and lots of other viewers. Flat characters, heavy script-mistakes, strange "scientist-behavior". We can think so much about it and see it 10 times at cinema but that does not make characters like Ms. Fickers and Dr. Ford (argghh...) better.

"the STORY has to deliver enough scare-moments, good characters, an exciting ending and so on. But Prometheus did even not deliver THAT in comparison to Alien" ^ To be fair, some girl sitting behind me in the cinema screamed in shock at least twice during the movie. Hahahahaha, i guess the scare factor is selective.

The film makers are totally trolling you guys. Why would the give you honest answers? Ridley dislikes fan boy fanaticism of expecting it all explained rather than figuring it out, especially when there's two more episodes. It's like asking George Lucas who Darth Vader is after seeing "Star Wars" - He's NOT going to tell you "oh, he's Luke's father" until you see that on screen for yourself. Have you ANY idea how much you are getting played right now?

@Spacyfreak [u]It is interesting, but you KNOW its not "normal human logic". But thats not what i expect from a sci-fi plot, sorry.[/u] Can't please everyone. If that's not the type of sci-fi you like, that doesn't make it bad. There are other sci-fi movies you can watch. But you shouldn't simply judge this one against what you WANTED it to be. That's what I did after first viewing and I was VERY disappointed in the film, until I figured out what I had just watched. You should also look at what it is meant to be. And on those grounds it's a really well crafted film.

Lindelof: [b]"And did something happen in between when those cave paintings were made — tens of thousands of years ago — and our arrival now, in 2093, 2,000 years after these things have perished. Did something happen in the intermediate period that we should be thinking about?"[/b] IMHO, above, is/was the most important thing he said in the entire interview.