With Rimworld players, as the film can be easily put in the context of the game: a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits on Death World, facing crazied locals and even more crazy high-tech mercenaries, all while trying to leave the place they are effectively stranded on and piling their assets together to survive. The film took Rimworld playerbase by storm.
With The Mandalorian, another Space Western in which Pedro Pascal risks his life and principles to protect an orphaned child. Lucasfilm actually didn't finalize his casting as Mando until after the executives privately screened Prospect, although Jon Favreau pitched Mandalorian to Pascal much earlier. Between this and Sophie Thatcher joining the cast of The Book of Boba Fett, the Star Wars influence on Prospect has come full circle.
How the gems are actually mined. Involves reaching into wet, slimy holes in the ground and cutting through layers of pale white acidic tissue. Do it wrong and lose an appendage to acid.
The arm amputation scene, performed under nothing more than local anesthesia in a dingy tent. Bone-scrapping sounds included.
