History Trivia / Prometheus

*** [[TaitenKusunoki Captain Janek]] is [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Ibiki Morino]].
*** [[MitsuruMiyamoto David]] is [[Anime/TheBigO Roger Smith]] and [[Disney/TheLionKing Simba in Japanese]].
*** [[RokuroNaya Peter Weyland]] is [[VideoGame/{{Disgaea2}} Adell's father]] and [[Manga/SaintSeiya Aquarius Camus in the TV series]].

*** [[KeijiFujiwara Fifield]] is [[Anime/TigerAndBunny Jake Martinez]], [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Ali Al-Saachez]] and [[CrayonShinChan Hiroshi Nohara]]
*** [[MasakazuMorita Chance]] is [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Ichigo Kurosaki]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Tidus]].

**** The final narration suggests it was [[spoiler: Shaw]], not the Engineers, who sent the message.

*** Ayame Gouriki (who played Shiori Genpo in the ''Manga/BlackButler'' live-action film) voices Elizabeth Shaw and her younger self is [[GJBu Megumi Amatsuka]].

* FakeNationality: Swede NoomiRapace playing a British woman. German-born Irishman MichaelFassbender playing an "English" android. Brits Creator/IdrisElba and Rafe Spall playing an American. And so on.

** [[TheMillenniumTrilogy Lis]][[NoomiRapace beth]]

*** Another Flip-Flop occurs in regards to the Engineers/Space Jockeys. In ''Film/{{Alien}}'', the signal picked up by the crew of the Nostromo is revealed to be a warning to stay away, and some of the characters muse that the race must have been extremely noble to make their last act such a warning (not just for their own kind, but any species). In ''Prometheus'', the Engineers/Space Jockeys are revealed to be nowhere near that noble, and according to WordOfGod now, actually are all monstrous assholes. Then again, it HAS been nearly 35 years since ''Alien'', long enough for Ridley Scott to change his mind/get more cynical.

* LyingCreator: Ridley Scott seemingly made some real effort to misdirect people about the film, likely to create some degree of surprise when it was actually released.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Original drafts of the script would have included more elements from the ''Alien'' franchise; [[spoiler:including Holloway dying via chestburster]], and different motives for Weyland. Jon Spaihts' original draft was more closely tied to the original series and set the movie up as a direct prequel to ''Alien'' while still leaving room for a sequel featuring David and Shaw (or Jocelyn Watts, as she was originally known) going to the Engineer's home world, and averted most of the IdiotBall moments introduced in the rewrite.

** Lastly he claimed that there would be no xenomorphs. However, a form of xenomorph makes a brief appearance in the last scene.

** "Cloaky" fr the first Engineer seen.

* MethodActing / EnforcedMethodActing: All over the place. As seen in the making-of documentary ''The Furious Gods'', Scott repeatedly told the crew not to tell the actors certain things or to let them see storyboards to procure more genuine responses, notably in the scene where a snake-like creature bursts from the dead Millburn's mouth; the actors were unaware that that was going to happen, and Kate Dickie's shriek of surprise is quite real. Theron also noted that she was very nervous about (repeatedly) setting the stunt man on fire for the scene in which Vickers kills Holloway, thus giving the character a believably conflicted attitude. (Her mild HeroicBSOD over it is expanded upon in a deleted scene with Janek.) And mutant!Fifield was originally going to be an entirely-CGI creation, but they eventually decided to let actor Sean Harris do the scene himself with extensive prosthetic makeup. Harris was perfectly willing to be set on fire for the sequence, prompting even Scott to call him a "crazy bastard."

**** The final narration suggests it was [[spoiler Shaw]], not the Engineers, who sent the message.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Original drafts of the script would have included more elements from the ''Alien'' franchise; [[spoiler:including Holloway dying via chestburster]], and different motives for Weyland.

** And on the side of the Engineers, we have [[Series/GameOfThrones The Mountain that Rides]].
*** Not to mention [[Series/GameOfThrones Lysa Arryn and Marillion]] as the ship's medic and one of the co-pilots.
*** It's more notable that the Engineer is played by a [[Film/AlienVsPredator Predator]].

** [[Film/InglouriousBasterds Hicox]] aka [[Film/XMenFirstClass Magneto]]

** [[TheMillenniumTrilogy Lisbeth]]
** [[Film/{{Thor}} Heimdall]] aka [[Series/TheWire Stringer Bell]] aka [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Truck]] aka Series/{{Luther}}

*** Not to mention [[Series/GameOfThrones Lysa Arryn and Marillion]] as the ship's medic and one of the co-pilots!

* HeyItsThatVoice: The ship computer is voiced by RobinAtkinDownes.

* FakeNationality: Swede Noomi Rapace playing a British woman. German-born Irishman Michael Fassbender playing an "English" android. Brits Creator/IdrisElba and Rafe Spall playing an American. And so on.

* FlipFlopOfGod[-/-]ShrugOfGod: Whether or not it's an ''{{Film/Alien}}'' prequel. Upon actual viewing it most certainly is.

*** Another Flip-Flop occurs in regards to the Engineers/Space Jockeys. In ''{{Alien}}'', the signal picked up by the crew of the Nostromo is revealed to be a warning to stay away, and some of the characters muse that the race must have been extremely noble to make their last act such a warning (not just for their own kind, but any species). In ''Prometheus'', the Engineers/Space Jockeys are revealed to be nowhere near that noble, and according to WordOfGod now, actually are all monstrous assholes. Then again, it HAS been nearly 35 years since ''Alien'', long enough for Ridley Scott to change his mind/get more cynical.

** [[{{Film/Watchmen}} Nite Owl]]

** Elizabeth Shaw also shares her name with the first companion of the Third Doctor on DoctorWho.

* FakeNationality: Swede Noomi Rapace playing a British woman. German-born Irishman Michael Fassbender playing an "English" android. Brits IdrisElba and Rafe Spall playing an American. And so on.

* FakeNationality: Swede Noomi Rapace playing a British woman. German-born Irishman Michael Fassbender playing an "English" android. Brits Idris Elba and Rafe Spall playing an American. And so on.