Quote from: david8 on Sep 25, 2015, 01:43:28 AM
In Paradise Lost, Satan and his fellow fallen angels planned to poison earth and God's favored creation - man. If the engineers on 223 are indeed fallen angels then they weren't responsible for the creation of man. Thus having Paradise Lost in the title already implicitly answers alot lol
Also of note is WHY they tried to poison us - because the creator loved us more than them. So this kinda explains a lot, if you follow the Paradise Lost thread. Ridley said there were two factions. In Paradise Lost, there is the angels and the fallen angels. The fallen angels were cast out of heaven and they try to destroy the human race because god loves them. Satan apears to Adam and Eve as the snake to achieve this...
Quote from: Biggles on Sep 25, 2015, 10:11:25 PM
Perhaps, like a TV series showrunner that's been told his series will be cancelled, Scott is having to.move up his vague plans to re-Alienfy the prequel films.
Honestly though, who knows? Scott is basically an IRL troll at this point.
I think despite all the knots, what we have now makes a lot of sense. Months ago Scott stated explicitly that he was trying to come up with a new version of the monster for the 2nd act of the Prometheus sequel. Now he has explained the tie-in toe Paradise Lost and has stated this film will basically revolve around why the alien was made and what it was made to combat.
This does link the Prometheus canon up to Alien in a way that warrants tacking ALIEN in the title.
Alot of this also has to do with marketing. When it concerned PROMETHEUS, adding ALIEN to the title wasn't a smart move. First, fans would have been pissed off their were NO aliens in the film and second, if it were called ALIEN: PROMETHEUS, it would have unnecessarily turned away viewers who believe they needed to know the ALIEN franchise to see it, or worse they would have expected a film that Prometheus wasn't. Which, even despite multiple press releases from Scott, fans were still disappointed by.
In this case, the film is explicitly about why the Engineers, well, engineered the Alien... and it seems the answer is either 'to poison us' or something else.
But if this is what the film explains, then having ALIEN in the title is wise because it lets people know there is information in this film that ties-into the ALIEN franchise in a way they will find important.
As for the Ripley tie-in, I'd wager this will be something simple, like a message sent to the mining colony explaining why they replaced the science officer at the last minute or something to that effect.