Ridley S. FINALLY Confirms People on Paradise ARE NOT Engineers

Today, we'll finally answer the question of whether the humanoid beings on planet 4 are engineers or not.

The inhabitants of Planet 4 have been the subject of debate for years, and even Ridley Scott has provided conflicting descriptions of who they are.

[GlasPthalocyanine]

I think David found the creation that the Engineers were most proud of, and destroyed them out of spite.

[NolanGemini]

The Engineers keep me coming back to this franchise. They are one of the most interesting fictional characters out there, but we know so little about them. Exploring their origin, their home world, their creations and plans, etc would be immensely exciting. They leave so much room for creative imaginations, and the potential to take this franchise to the next level. As cool as the xenomorphs are, it gets redundant at some point. Imo they are secondary characters. They aren't enough to move the plot and keep the franchise going. We need a return to Prometheus and to the Engineer's world.

[kingdomcoomies]

Ridley Scott himself is watching this video rn hoping to figure out the plot of his own movie

[mak]

Honestly I don't think film makers put as much thought into these things as we do as evidenced by so many blunders and errors and inconsistencies in story lines, actual scenes and canon. I think often time they make this shit up as they go (Luke and Leia being siblings. After a french kiss too? Cmon Lucas, sure that was ALWAYS your plan, and if it was, you have issues). I think we give them too much credit and in the case of Ridley, he purposefully leaves it up to interpretation, as often he doesn't know either (how many times has he gone back and forth if Deckart is a replicant or not?). Anyway, enjoy the movies for what they are but I wouldn't waste too much time trying to parse eye colors and heights and robes to come to a definitive conclusion.

[streakydrip]

I think the inhabitants were the Engineers proudest creation. The creation that didn’t disappoint their creators like the Humans did.

[matthew]

I'm more interested in the engineers than the xenomorphs. If Dennis Villeneuve made a movie about the engineers homeworld and backstory it would be spectacular. Maybe Alex Garland too.

[wildside]

If only Ridley hadnt chickened out and made paradise lost

[OH.A.M.]

How amazing would be if the next Prometheus movie were 3 hours long.

[pRaX]

I always imagined that the people on the planet are the original and natural Engineers and the guys on the ships are soldiers, priests and scientists, modified to be better suited for harshness of space(travel). Them being on travel for extened amounts of time. Surveying, terraforming and colonizing perhaps. So I figured one of these ships returning home is always a big deal to this civilization and reason for celebration, hence why they gathered and seemed very excited. But that's just me.

[NorthLVLowRoller]

I want part 3 soooo bad. This was fantastic.

[yasglas]

There's so much more potential in this story and universe I think a limited series may be a good format to tell the story

[Mr_Stickerbomb]

I think the beings on the planet are a red herring - you could easily mistake them for engineers but to those who look closer you can tell that they aren't. I also think David's Xenomorph is another red herring - it looks and acts like the one we know but it's a recreation. It would be really interesting to know if David thinks the beings he killed were the real engineers and if he thinks that his Xeno is the original. The twist in the third film could be that David is mistaken about both and that would give the trilogy a really nice subtext related to David and AI: it looks and acts real, seems like an original but is actually neither.

[saidakhu]

The basis of this article is a Ridley Scott interview from 2017! How on earth do you spin that into Ridley FINALLY confirming anything? It was seven years ago!

[jayboykay]

I was so fking happy with the direction Prometheus was going in. For the first time since Aliens, a different perspective and story was being told, I’ll never understand the hate Prometheus got. Yes, it wasn’t perfect and needed a lot more fleshing out, but look what happened when the backlash hit, we got fking Covenant, which is by far the WORST of the whole franchise, and I mean worse than *Resurrection* … now we will never ever know what the true plan was, because RS has obviously changed his mind on whatever people complained about most, so even he is unreliable now. All we have is fan theories. God damn shame man. All the idiots who complained too quickly that is wasn't “Alien” enough should be ashamed.

[Preus-byru]

I didn’t think those people were Engineers due to the fact that their skin doesn’t look smooth like marble like the Engineer’s skin.

[ROCKSTAR]

well it doesn't matter now because they've killed off this fascinating Engineers storyline... I hope they will create a spinoff series for the Engineers, or a TV show.

[salemclemens]

Kroft needs to line up an interview with Ridley

[ziggygunz]

I wish ridley Scott would either work with a novelist or write down how his whole promethius story was supposed to go so we could at least experience what he was really going for without any studio interference

[The-Man-On-The-Mountain]

To be honest, I actually think that those beings were supposed to be engineers but they were poorly made due to budget, and the production thought that fans would be ok with it. Now they are trying to fix it with nonsensical lore, which is making things worse and worse.

[Philtoid]

I Appreciate that you are still making videos on prometheus after all these years.