If you don’t want to know anything more about Ridley Scott’s Prometheus the what are you doing here? The headline alone told you not to click. However, if you want to read a possible plot synopsis for the film, which surfaced at Alien Prequel News earlier today then stick around.
Now I’ll tell you I have not read the quoted text below. I had to blur my eyes as best I could while posting it here because I don’t want to know anything about the film. The fact Scott is returning to the same territory and the same “space” he inhabited in 1979’s Alien is enough for me to be excited. Add to that the fact he’s got Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba and Guy Pearce as members of his cast and you just put the cherry on top.
So, I don’t know if this is real or not. And I’m sure by the time we get closer to that June 8, 2012 release date I will know much more about the film than I do right now, but for the time being I am happy being as unaware and confused as I am and I hope to stay that way. If you want to know what the film may be about, just check it out directly below. Or, if you would like to just get a spoiler-free taste of what angle screenwriter Damon Lindelof (“Lost”) took when he went about rewriting Jon Spaihts’s original screenplay back when it was a prequel to Alien click here
Earth. Year 2058.
Archaeological digs in Africa reveal alien artifacts that humans were genetically engineered by a advanced alien race (space jockeys). These “Alien Gods†also terraformed Earth in order to make it habitable for their human creations. Amongst finds are coordinates to the Alien God’s home-world, to Paradise. Months later the Weyland Corp launch the spaceship PROMETHEUS and his crew, into deep space to make first contact. Thanks to faster than light travel a few years later the PROMETHEUS enters the Zeta Riticuli star system. Humans are greeted by their makers, then transported further into space to a scary yet fascinating world. The Alien Gods are proud of their “childrenâ€, their first creation to reach such levels of intelligence.
As a reward they share bits of their astonishing bio-based technologies with the humans. But for one crew member of the Prometheus it’s not enough. In a treacherous act he steals the “bio-source code†to Terraforming, a technology at the origin of all Gods’ power, that could make humans equal to the gods. The Alien Gods may be scientists but are also ruthless conquerors, destroyers of worlds who will not accept humans as equals. They unleash on the escaping human crew their favorite bio-weapon, a creature used to “clean up†worlds before colonization. But something goes wrong in the process and humans manage to turn the bio-weapon against their makers. Giving birth to a smarter, nastier, bigger breed of gut eating creatures. Creatures that will be the demise of Paradise. What’s left of the Prometheus crew manages to escape the doomed planet.
On their trail a survivor Alien God in very familiar ship with one ultimate mission. Bring the wrath of the Gods to Earth.
