Prometheus/Trivia


 * Fake Nationality: Swede Noomi Rapace playing a British woman. Irishman Michael Fassbender playing an "English" android. Brit Idris Elba playing an American Southerner. And so on.
 * Subtly lampshaded in story - David bases his accent and mannerisms on Peter O'Toole's performance of Lawrence of Arabia - another Irish actor playing a Fake Brit.
 * Flip-Flop of God / Shrug of God: Whether or not it's an Alien prequel. Upon actual viewing it most certainly is.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Overlapping with All Star Cast, the crew of the Prometheus is comprised of:
 * Magneto
 * Rita
 * Nite Owl
 * Lisbeth
 * Mavis
 * Heimdall aka Stringer Bell
 * Micheletto
 * Trey
 * Lying Creator: Ridley Scott seemingly made some real effort to misdirect people about the film, likely to create some degree of surprise when it was actually released.
 * He constantly moved back and forth over whether the film was a prequel to Alien to the point it was finally "confirmed" as being loosely set in the same universe. The actual film is definitively a prequel and firmly part of the Alien canon with several notable nods to the film. Then again looking at all the promotional features and trailers all but confirms it anyway.
 * He also claimed that
 * Name's the Same: Charlie Holloway has almost exactly the same name as Charles Halloway, one of the main characters in Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury. This one is served with a bit of cruel irony, though: the movie was released in the United States just three days after Bradbury's death.