 A prequel is by definition a march towards the inevitable. So while we know that the guy's going to get the girl or there's going to be a happy ending, there's certain story beats that you hit. The idea of saying, I'm now just going to watch this young boy turn into Darth Vader, you're leading me into the story that I already know. There's certain things that I know can't happen, like nothing's going to happen to Obi-Wan, because it's a prequel. And I felt it was really important that Prometheus was not positioned as a prologue to Alien, that in fact, if Prometheus were successful and there was a sequel to it, the sequel to Prometheus would not be Alien. I also felt like Alien is as close to a perfect movie as it gets. I was very reluctant to engage in a conversation that would somehow diminish Alien. Like that if you saw, if for some reason Prometheus didn't succeed creatively, that when you went and watched Alien again, you'd be like, this movie is now diminished. You'd be used to the taste would be soured in some way. Yeah, why bet that? So all that by way of saying that if you, my hope is that if you see Prometheus and you watch Alien again, there will be certain things that were mysteries before about Alien that you have more clarity on, but the mysteries that made Alien great are still mysteries.
 A prequel is by definition a march towards the inevitable.
 So while we know that the guy's going to get the girl or there's going to be a happy ending,
 there's certain story beats that you hit.
 The idea of saying, I'm now just going to watch this young boy turn into Darth Vader,
 you're leading me into the story that I already know.
 There's certain things that I know can't happen, like nothing's going to happen to Obi-Wan,
 because it's a prequel.
 And I felt it was really important that Prometheus was not positioned as a prologue to Alien,
 that in fact, if Prometheus were successful and there was a sequel to it, the sequel to
 Prometheus would not be Alien.
 I also felt like Alien is as close to a perfect movie as it gets.
 I was very reluctant to engage in a conversation that would somehow diminish Alien.
 Like that if you saw, if for some reason Prometheus didn't succeed creatively, that when you
 went and watched Alien again, you'd be like, this movie is now diminished.
 You'd be used to the taste would be soured in some way.
 Yeah, why bet that?
 So all that by way of saying that if you, my hope is that if you see Prometheus and
 you watch Alien again, there will be certain things that were mysteries before about Alien
 that you have more clarity on, but the mysteries that made Alien great are still mysteries.