Filling the blanks: tying PROMETHEUS to ALIEN
Ridley Scott's new movie Prometheus has won a fair amount of critical acclaim (though a more mixed general reception) and an impressive opening week's worth of money, but it's also left a lot of people pondering over the precise relationship between the movie and Alien , to which it acts as a sort-of prequel. Through careful research (i.e. googling interviews) the following clarifications can be made: NOTE: MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR PROMETHEUS , ALIEN AND ALIENS . An Engineer ship crash-landing on the surface of LV-223 in 2093. Time and Date Prometheus opens in 2089 with the discovery of a cave painting in Scotland which points the way to the Engineer base. The ship arrives at this location in the final week of 2093, with the final moments of the film taking place on New Year's Day, 2094. No date is given in Alien for the action, save that it happens in the 22nd Century (due to the presence of a crew uniform patch that says, 'Flag of the United Americas 2104 to pres...