PROMETHEUS opens today

Fans have been waiting patiently for a mere 30 years now for director Ridley Scott to return to the sci-fi genre, and the wait will finally be over with the release of PROMETHEUS which opens today.

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Many of you may be familiar of this little movie entitled ALIEN directed by Ridley Scott. It was one of the milestones in sci-fi and horror cinema. From that movie, it spawned sequels; there came "Aliens" by James Cameron, "Alien 3" by David Fincher, and "Alien Resurrection" by Jean Pierre Jeunet. Much later, it had various spin-off adaptations in books, comics, and video games; one of which is the "Alien vs Predator" games and comic books which pits the Alien xenomorph crossing over against the predators from the Predator movies (Xenomorph is the name given to the Alien in the Alien movies). "Alien vs Predator" was later adapted into 2 awfully-made movies. After those films negatively outraged fans to their boiling point, it was high time that the Alien franchise reclaim its dignity (just like how the Predator franchise reclaimed its dignity with the 2010 movie "Predators").

But Ridley Scott, the creator of Alien had different plans. Scott wanted to make a movie which is set in the same universe of the Alien movie, but not just solely about a story revolving the alien xenomorph. That movie is PROMETHEUS. The film was originally intended as a direct prequel to the 1979 science fiction horror film Alien, set approximately 30 years before the events depicted in the first movie.

PROMETHEUS is still set in a timeline before the first movie. But the catch is that this will NOT be a movie that will focus on the Alien. This movie is NOT an Alien movie. Instead, this movie will focus on a different theme. Oh, it may probably may not or may have anything or everything to do with Ellen Ripley (the main character of the Alien movies), it may or may not have to do with the planetoid in the first Alien movie; but the movie's overall theme is not just about the Alien Xenomorph.

PROMETHEUS will have deeper themes, and will explore its own mythology and ideas. This movie is written by Jon Spaihts (for the first draft), and Damon Lindelof who said: "...We're exploring the future... away from Earth and [asking] what are people like now? ... Space exploration in the future is going to evolve into this idea that it's not just about going out there and finding planets to build colonies. It also has this inherent idea that the further we go out, the more we learn about ourselves. The characters in this movie are preoccupied by the idea: what are our origins?"

I'm sure PROMETHEUS will be taking us into many various places of sight and mind. See you at the movies!