10 Movies That Unbelievably Cut What We Wanted To See

7. LV-426 - Prometheus

The marketing for Ridley Scott's Prometheus hyped the film up as a direct prequel to Scott's Alien, teasing that it would reveal the origins of both the Space Jockey and the xenomorph, while detailing the exact lead-in to what happened on LV-426 in Scott's 1979 original.

But Fox and Scott pulled something of a bait-and-switch, as it actually turned out that the events of Prometheus took place on LV-223, a moon in close proximity to LV-426, where some suspiciously similar events unfolded.

Prometheus of course features countless iconic elements synonymous with Alien - such as an identical derelict ship - while revealing the Space Jockey to be a humanoid extraterrestrial known as an Engineer, and demonstrating the convoluted means through which the proto-xenomorph came into existence.

But for some reason, either Fox or Scott didn't want to make Prometheus a direct lead-in to Alien, shifting the action instead to a nearby, near-identical place where near-identical events could play out with the "safety" of not labelling it a straight-up prequel.

However, Jon Spaihts' original script for the film - entitled Alien: Engineers - did indeed take place on LV-426, and it wasn't until Damon Lindelof came aboard for a re-write that it was decided to distance the film's story somewhat from Alien.

Given that Scott and co. clearly had a firm outline from which to create a meaningful explanation of what happened on the planet, having Prometheus' story take place on a copy-paste moon with hilariously similar events was stupefyingly lazy, if not straight-up cowardly.