
When the crew returns, they find Millburn's corpse. Fifield falls face-first into a puddle of dark liquid. Inside the structure, a snake-like creature kills Millburn and sprays a corrosive fluid that melts Fifield's helmet. Shortly after, Shaw and Holloway have sex. He intentionally taints a drink with the liquid and gives it to the unsuspecting Holloway, who had stated he would do anything for answers. David investigates the cylinder and the liquid inside.

In the ship's lab, the Engineer's DNA is found to match that of humans. David secretly takes a cylinder from the structure, while the remaining cylinders begin leaking a dark liquid. The expedition is cut short when a storm forces the crew to return to the ship. Crew members Millburn and Fifield grow uncomfortable with the discoveries and attempt to return to Prometheus, but become stranded in the structure when they get lost. The crew finds other bodies, leading them to surmise that the species is extinct. Inside, they find stone cylinders, a monolithic statue of a humanoid head, and the decapitated corpse of a large alien, thought to be an Engineer Shaw recovers its head. The Prometheus lands on the barren, mountainous surface near a large, artificial structure, which a team explores. Arriving in December 2093, mission-director Meredith Vickers informs them of their mission to find the Engineers and not to make contact without her permission.

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The ship's crew travels in stasis while the android David monitors their voyage. They interpret this as an invitation from humanity's forerunners, the "Engineers." Peter Weyland, the elderly CEO of Weyland Corporation, funds an expedition, aboard the scientific vessel Prometheus, to follow the map to the distant moon LV-223. In 2089, archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway discover a star map in Scotland that matches others from several unconnected ancient cultures. Its remains cascade into a waterfall and the alien's DNA falls apart and recombines. A sequel, Alien: Covenant, was released in May 2017.Īs a spacecraft departs a planet, a humanoid alien drinks an iridescent liquid, causing its body to dissolve. The film grossed over $403 million worldwide. The film earned generally positive reviews, receiving praise for the designs, production values and cast performances, and criticism for an uneven script and unresolved plot points. Prometheus was released on June 1, 2012, in the United Kingdom and on June 8, 2012, in North America. Three videos featuring the film's leading actors in character, which expanded on elements of the fictional universe, were released and met with a generally positive reception and awards. It was promoted with a marketing campaign that included viral activities on the web.

The project was shot using 3D cameras throughout, almost entirely on practical sets, and on location in England, Iceland, Spain, and Scotland. Principal photography began in March 2011, with an estimated $120–130 million budget.

Prometheus entered production in April 2010, with extensive design phases during which the technology and creatures that the film required were developed. According to Scott, although the film shares "strands of Alien 's DNA, so to speak," and takes place in the same universe, Prometheus explores its own mythology and ideas. In late 2010, Lindelof joined the project to rewrite Spaihts's script, and he and Scott developed a story that precedes the story of Alien but is not directly connected to the original series. Spaihts wrote a script for a prequel to the events of the Alien films, but Scott opted for a different direction to avoid repeating cues from those films. Predator took precedence, and the project remained dormant until 2009 when Scott again showed interest. Scott and director James Cameron developed ideas for a film that would serve as a prequel to Scott's 1979 science-fiction horror film Alien. Seeking the origins of humanity, the crew arrives on a distant world and discovers a threat that could cause the extinction of the human species.ĭevelopment of the film began in the early 2000s as a fifth installment in the Alien franchise. It is set in the late 21st century and centers on the crew of the spaceship Prometheus as it follows a star map discovered among the artifacts of several ancient Earth cultures. Prometheus ( / p r ə ˈ m iː θ i ə s/ prə- MEE-thee-əs) is a 2012 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof and starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron.
