asterisk8 said:

Johnny Ringo said:

been noticing a lot of promo pics of 'the new Ripley' and in each she appears to be wearing the same outfit but the lines / piping running down it are a different colour in each shot..

Is this a spoiler?

well, it's just what I observed during a single magazine article - and cover [Empire magazine] - but this includes BTS shots, characters goofing off between takes - Maybe there's a lacking CG element? - might take a look through the trailers again.

regarding the R rating - Scott was quoted in the same article saying 'the little bastards will still get in anyway, so what's the difference?'

he also mentions the financial risk of doing it as a PG-13 movie..

Edit - Regarding the shift in technology between this film and the others - it IS possible, however unlikely that the storyline will address this.

IT's been said that the last few minutes of the story tie in pretty strongly to Alien - in what way, I don't know.

In the TED talk 2033 clip Peter Weyland describes the fire that Prometheus gave humanity as TECHNOLOGY and of course he was punished for this.

We just don't know how things will play out yet, maybe humanity is plunged into a sort of technological dark age?