8 Sci-Fi Movies Built On A Lie

Since the early part of pre-production on Prometheus, Sir Ridley Scott insisted, insisted, insisted that Prometheus was definitely not a prequel to Alien.

Sir Ridley went hard across any and all press outlets to make everyone clear that Prometheus wouldn't serve as any sort of lead-in to Scott's iconic 1979 picture. Only, y'know, Prometheus totally was 100% an Alien prequel.

Scott had lauded Prometheus as a completely original story, going on to describe the project to The Guardian as "a new, grand mythology and universe" and how he'd found the "singular tale [he'd] been searching for".

These proclamations from Scott were in stark contrast to his initial plan to do a two-part Alien prequel, and thus he went hard to hammer home the point that those Alien prequel plans had been scrapped in favour of a completely new story and property.

By the time Prometheus hit the silver screen in 2012, though, it soon became perfectly clear that Sir Ridley had either been telling porky pies or had had second thoughts over his plan of attack for Prometheus - for Prometheus was totally an Alien prequel.

Going even further, Sir Ridley Scott followed Prometheus up in 2017 with another Alien prequel, Alien: Covenant, to further tether Prometheus to Alien.