There's a core duality between humanity and the alien species, obviously. One of the things I was very aware of in composing the story is that in the Alien universe there are a number of dualities that leap to the fore. What storytelling archetypes did you inherit, and how did you weave the old and new mythologies together? We're opening up a whole new branch of science fiction mythology. There are also some scientific notions and some storytelling archetypes that we inherit, but we are really not telling the same story at all. This is a story that shares a storytelling universe with the Alien films, in particular the first film. If a prequel is a story that presets the conditions for another story-gives you everyone's back story and so forth-and is mated to a specific set of characters and a specific tale, then this is not that. Prometheus is not a prequel to Alien but both films are set in the same universe. Scientific American spoke with Prometheus co-screenwriter Jon Spaihts about the film's scientific pursuits, its portrayal of late 21st-century technology and the dangers faced by humans in such a hostile cosmos. The commonality of these images leads the scientists to believe that the map may help them discover humanity's origins. The Prometheus is following a star map found at various unrelated archeological sites on Earth. Instead, the new movie centers on scientific exploration-sponsored by Weyland, naturally-on board a spacefaring vessel named for the Titan in Greek mythology who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans-and paid a terrible price for doing so. Although the moviemakers are keeping many plot details confidential in advance of the film's release, Scott has made clear that Prometheus is not a prequel to Alien. Scott returns to this universe on June 8 with the opening of Prometheus, a movie set in the same cosmos as the Alien films but several years earlier than the original. The film's sequels and spinoffs over time created a rich mythology of a universe in which the films' predatory antagonists and doomed heroes coexist, complete with terraformed colonies, interstellar mining and commerce, and a recurring role for the fictional Weyland Corp., whose relentless efforts to capture and control the alien species set in motion much of the film franchise's narrative. More than three decades ago Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic Alien introduced moviegoers to a menacing, insectlike, parasitoid extraterrestrial species.
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