So far, there isn't much detail regarding about Ridley Scott's highly-anticipated ALIEN prequel, PROMETHEUS, which scheduled to hit theaters on June 8, 2012. But the veteran director himself has recently stepped out and spills some details on his latest movie. According to him, PROMETHEUS evolves into a movie similar to his 1979 classic, ALIEN, in its final moments. Here's an excerpt from a recent interview right below.
The last eight minutes of the Prometheus story evolve into 'a pretty good DNA of the Alien one.
In addition to that, Ridley Scott also explained his long absence from the sci-fi genre, claiming he just never found the right screenplay to work with before PROMETHEUS.
I think the reason why I haven't attempted science fiction in a number of years is because I haven't really come across a script that I really liked. This developed and came out extremely well.
As for the story of PROMETHEUS, it was actually inspired from the mythological story of Prometheus, the god of fire. In the movie, the story centers on a group of scientists stranded on a distant planet in which they discover the answers to humanity's most burning questions. Here's what Ridley Scott had to say below.
The central metaphor of Prometheus is about a 'higher being' who challenges the gods, and the gods don't want to give him fire. 'Fire is our first form of technology,' Scott says, and so by taking fire, the higher being is punished 'in perpetuity in a horrible fashion.' Much like the story of the mythological god, Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus and for his actions was bound to a rock with an eagle eternally devouring his liver.
