georgec said:

I'm not sure if I care to know where/how the aliens originated.

Wait, is that what it is about? I thought Scott said it has nothing to do with the xenomorphs and will not feature them. From what I understood, the only connection it was suppose to have to Alien was exploring the origins of the space jockey, which to me sounds kind of cool, a lot more interesting than Cameron's crappy sequel to the original or any of the shitty spin-offs (I do love Alien 3 though).

In an ocean of crappy movies hitting cinemas, I'm looking forward to Scott going back and doing something alien related, to me that is worth the price of admission.