cpscdave said:
Didn't this movie have some changes while it was being made?
Like I originally heard about it as an Alien prequel.
But then Scott changed his mind and it was a stand alone project.
But then it kinda was a prequel but not really??
It gets worse than that.
Way worse:
Movies.com: You throw religion and spirituality into the equation for Prometheus, though, and it almost acts as a hand grenade. We had heard it was scripted that the Engineers were targeting our planet for destruction because we had crucified one of their representatives, and that Jesus Christ might have been an alien. Was that ever considered?
Ridley Scott: We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose. But if you look at it as an “our children are misbehaving down there” scenario, there are moments where it looks like we’ve gone out of control, running around with armor and skirts, which of course would be the Roman Empire. And they were given a long run. A thousand years before their disintegration actually started to happen. And you can say, “Lets’ send down one more of our emissaries to see if he can stop it. Guess what? They crucified him.
Ridley Scott's original synopsis for Prometheus was, "Jesus was an alien, and the aliens decide to exterminate humanity because humans crucified him, but they accidentally create parasitic xenomorphs instead." In another interview, he confirms that yes, that was actually the original plot.
Maybe that gives us a glimpse into how Hollywood works. Jesus Christ was an alien, and, and then xenomorphs, and ugggggh it's so stupid.
Not to mention, the Roman empire was bad, but the Aztec empire was just peachy? Why not the Japanese empire? Maybe Hirohito was the alien. Or Genghis Khan? Space Genghis sounds better than Space Jesus to me, but then I'm not an Academy Award-winning director, so what would I know?
