9 Deleted Movie Sub-Plots That Changed Everything

Now in a very sharp change of tone I introduce to you Alien Jesus: a genuine real idea that almost was an important sub-plot in a genuine real movie. And not just any old movie, in 2012’s already controversial Prometheus.

If in doubt, just add Alien Jesus - that’s what I always say! There’s probably a reason I’m not a screenwriter, because apparently that would never work, hence why the explicit stating of ‘Jesus was an alien sent to save you and you killed him, thus bringing about your doom’ being removed from Prometheus’ plot.

Ridley Scott, in an interview with the since closed down Movies.com, did not shy away from stating the film’s biblical links. There are a number of scenes that mirror biblical and mythical events, but after deliberation the filmmakers stopped short of actually making an official plot-point of us finding out that Jesus was an Engineer.

The biblical stuff is super hinted at, but it’s never actually explored as it was once intended. Scott even deliberated having us meet ‘God’ (another engineer, of course) in a potential sequel, but thankfully backed down.