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FanFiltration said:
Sounds like this film is to the "Alien" franchise what "The Heretic" was to "The Exorcist" franchise. *frown*
The Exorcist isn't really a franchise though someone should tell Morgan Creek.
It's three loosely connected books adapted into films (The Exorcist, The Ninth Configuration and Exorcist III)and three films about Father Merrin which make no sense at all and actively contradict each other, the original novel and film (Exorcist the Beginning, Dominion, The Heretic).
If Prometheus resembles any Exorcist film it will have to be Exorcist III.
That started off as a lose tangental sequel to The Exorcist. It was assembled into a film which the few who saw it loved and then it was sent back to the workshop because it was deemed by Morgan Creek to be too tangental. They insisted on an exorcism scene and gore which meant filming a new character and parachuting him into the existing footage.
But even in it's current form Exorcist III is still a better movie than Prometheus.
Prometheus is much more visually interesting and coherent than any of the two and a half contradictory Exorcist prequels though.
RE: The traditional Jockey being a suit I need to root around in my magazine chest (full of Starlog, Starburst, Fangoria etc not ammunition... your honour) I pretty sure Scott has been speculating along those lines for a very long time.
Remember the dog/ox alien in Alien 3, Scott was talking about the alien taking on the shape of it's host back in 1978.