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  1. career (career): Ridley Scott → Prometheus. Scott said he fucked up Prometheus, a film Sean has thought about for ten years.
    “I was like, no, I've been thinking about Prometheus for 10 years”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:17:30 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Gladiator II → Prometheus. Macrinus's rise is Scott with the safety off, like Prometheus's birth sequence.
    “This is actually the Ridley Scott with the safety off thing, the Prometheus, um, you know, uh, birth sequence”
    The Big Picture · ‘Gladiator II’ Is Here. Are We Not Entertained? · 0:26:18 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. what-if (what-if): Noomi Rapace → Prometheus. Prometheus would have been 9 percent better with Amy Seimetz or Katherine Waterston in Rapace's role.
    “It's like if Amy Simitz or Catherine Waterston had done Prometheus in the Numi Repos role.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Ferrari’ and Top Five Michael Mann Movies · 0:27:35 · Chris Ryan (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. people (casting origin): Prometheus → The Killer. Fincher said at the Q&A that seeing Prometheus made him note Fassbender as a good sociopath for later.
    “I go to see Prometheus and I go, hmm, sociopath.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:31:01 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
  5. career (career step): Noomi Rapace → Prometheus. Prometheus was her first big Hollywood job after the original Dragon Tattoo.
    “that's her 1st big Hollywood post original Dragon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:50:37 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  6. theme (character echo): Paul McGann → Prometheus. Golic, who worships the alien, is an early version of the David character in the Ridley Scott movies (the speaker says they do better versions later).
    “Like with the David character in the Ridley Scott movies.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:40:06 · Griffin Newman (0.30 sure it was them)
  7. industry (franchise lore): Alien 3 → Prometheus. The company is best as a thing you ladle out; the Ridley Scott prequels show more of it.
    “I'm a huge defender of those movies, but like the more you hear about the company and then the worse.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien³ with Matt Singer (Ad-Free) · 1:47:30 · Matt Singer (0.30 sure it was them)
  8. craft (craft): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. The Fox logo is washed out here where Prometheus's was really blue.
    “Prometheus is really blue and this is a little more just kind of washed out, I feel like.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:23 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie.
    “this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. people (people): Guy Pearce → Prometheus. Pearce returns for the cold open without the heavy makeup he wore in Prometheus; Scott repays the favor.
    “nice of uh, really Scott to repay the favor”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:07:58 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  11. industry (industry): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. Prometheus's marketing left it unclear whether it was an Alien film; Covenant's marketing was the opposite, selling the Alien iconography.
    “how much of this is going to be directly an alien franchise film or not”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:08:07 · Griffin Newman (0.70 sure it was them)
  12. lineage (lineage): Danny McBride → Prometheus. McBride's pilot in Covenant fills the Idris Elba role from Prometheus.
    “McBride is kind of in the Idris Elba role, like kind of the accordion playing pilot type.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:15:54 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  13. lineage (lineage): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. Prometheus had pioneering scientists; Covenant has crunchy colonists.
    “Prometheus, you know, where we're in, where it's full on like pioneering scientist types.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:29:59 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  14. contrast (contrast): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. The lush wet planet is not the ruined dusty Prometheus world.
    “I like that it's not the ruined, dusty Prometheus world”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:39:43 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  15. career (career): Noomi Rapace → Prometheus. Rapace was set up as the Ripley of a new franchise before Covenant killed her off.
    “it was like numerous pace is now going to be the Ripley of a new franchise”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:46:14 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  16. what-if (what-if): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. If Prometheus had doubled its gross, a direct Prometheus 2 with Rapace would have followed.
    “I mean, if Prometheus had made literally double what it made.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:47:44 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  17. theme (theme): Prometheus → Alien: Covenant. Engineers, aliens, humans and androids all create something that destroys them, a cycle.
    “So then it's sort of mirroring what the humans are doing, and then the androids are their creation that are ultimately what destroys them.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:06:04 · Ben Hosley (0.80 sure it was them)
  18. lineage (lineage): David → Prometheus. In Prometheus David seems to follow Weyland's wishes but ends up doing his own thing.
    “by the end, you're like, no, I think he just kind of is, he's kind of trying to do his own thing.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:08:50 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  19. industry (industry): Carl Erik Rinsch → Prometheus. Rinsch was Scott's mentee, floated to direct Alien prequels; his debut was 47 Ronin.
    “he was on the runway as Ridley Scott's mentee for years.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:36:52 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)
  20. contrast (contrast): Alien: Covenant → Prometheus. Unlike Prometheus, Covenant doesn't ignore what others contributed to the franchise.
    “Unlike Prometheus, which just ignores everything else that anyone else contributed to the franchise.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:56:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  21. contrast (contrast): Alien Resurrection → Prometheus. Prometheus has a stacked cast on one level; Resurrection puts a second movie star above the title with Weaver and loses balance.
    “it's putting them above the title, it's kind of implying that it's going to be kind of a two-hander”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 0:47:45 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)
  22. programming (programming): Prometheus → Alien Resurrection. The Patreon run continues with Prometheus then Covenant after this final Ripley film.
    “Tune in for Prometheus, tune in for covenant.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Resurrection · 2:17:13 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)