Prometheus - ALL Alternate Endings Explained
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- Today we’ll be covering all alternative endings that Prometheus could have had.
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The first alternate ending is in the Prometheus deleted scene then there are 2 alternate endings in early scripts in addition to a few other versions of the conclusion to the Prometheus story. We’ll start with the ending that’s the closest to the movie and then review each subsequent ending on our list that is progressively more and more deviated from the film.
Blu Ray Alternate Ending
Blu Ray Edition of Prometheus has many deleted scenes including an alternate opening scene with a dialogue between Engineers which I covered in my previous video. It also has an alternate ending scene that we’ll review first before getting to alternate script endings.
After the Engineer fight that is actually way longer in the deleted scene,
Dr shaw lays on the ground and cries realizing that she’s completely alone. After she says I’m sorry Charlie I can’t do it anymore, David contacts her via radio revealing that he’s still alive.
She askes him “that thing that took your head of, what did it say David?”
“A thing, not too long ago you considered them Gods” David replied
“God never tried to kill me. So, what did he say, where did he come from?”
“There is no direct translation, but several of your ancient cultures had a word similar to it - Paradise” David replied as Shaw was getting into a cart car and driving to the crashed juggernaut.
Besides this ending that can be found in the blu ray, there 2 other endings that appear in the early Prometheus scripts. Because production of the movie changed course so many times there exist aa few scripts Prometheus scripts that are 85 % similar to what we saw on the screen however they also have more scenes and dialogues with engineer and other unique differences.
The next 2 alternate endings we’ll look at are John Spains script called Alien Engineers and the early draft script that I covered in a few of my other videos.
John Spaihts Ending
In John Spaihts alternate ending, the engineer already had an alien embryo inside of him while being in cryosleep, however the embryo was dormant just like the engineer . So after awakening the embryos started growing so when the juggernaut was about to take off the ultra morph erupted from the Engineer’s chest and thought the suit, killing the Engineer. Junek had a few second before the ship computer could take over so he crashed Prometheus into the juggernaut just like in the movie. Just for the context, Shaw was named Watt in this script, Prometheus ship had a name Magellan and the crew arrived on lv 426 in this script.
Early Draft Script Ending
Another alternate ending for Prometheus is in the early draft script that also has many Engineer dialogues that I covered in my other videos including, the deleted opening dialogue and the extended conversation between Wayland, Engineer and David that is actually longer that in the deleted scene. This early draft script has a really intirguing ending that I wish was actually implemented in the movie.
In this script, everything happens pretty much in the exact same way as in the movie with the ending following the alternate ending scenario in the deleted scene however the script then describes David and Shaw arriving to the Engineer home world. After telling David that he’s just and an Effing robot and lowering his body from the crashed juggernaut, Shaw puts him on a buggy and they drive to another pyramid.
Alien 1979 Ending
The next alternate ending of Prometheus is purely hypothetical but it ties perfectly to the beginning of Alien 1979, and there are many clues in the Prometheus documentary that the production team was planning to have a version of this ending at a certain stage. After captain Yanek crashes into the Engineer Juggernaut, the ship falls and the Engineer gets stuck in the in the space jockey chair.
Just like in the John Spaiths script the space jockey was infected with an alien queen embryo before we was put in the cryosleep and the queen alien grows inside of him and eventually emerges leaving the same whole that we see in alien of 1979. All the remaining crew is stuck on lv 223 with the alien queen since the Prometheus ship is destroyed, David is dead and nobody from the crew can figure out how to pilot other ships. - Фільми й анімація
I wish there were like 10 movies of this story. IT WAS SO GOOD I NEED MORE.
makes me cry at night…..
I agree
Me too!!!💯💯💯
eng. explains why.. and whem they planted dna did they see dinosaurs
Prometheus is still so interesting
FACTS
I know I’m obsessed
Because it combines real history with fiction, look up annunaki read the ancient Sumerian creation story you will be mind blown how it connects to this and everything else from every culture on earth we have come to know there were star people that came to us thousands of years ago
And Covenant just destroyed everything...
@@60iger29No... Covenant decided to focus on humanity's new God... A.I. And it's more relevant than ever.
I’m so happy there are people like you who are still interested in this amazing and misunderstood movie. Please keep making videos, Kroft!
Kroft, you will always be my favourite narrator for Prometheus’ theories and analysis. Keep up the good stuff man!
Hes voice is perfect for this kind of narrations. I love to watch these from time to time because they just so good
Agreed
Hey Kroft it's been a while, good to hear from you. Big fan of Predator, Aliens, and your videos! Thanks for doing this, have a great day! 👊😎
Thanks, you too !
This video shows that Prometheus had so much potential but no clear vision.
i really like the idea of the engineer and shaw comes to an understanding instead of trying to killing each other
All these alternative endings sound better than the ending we actually got, Shaw's hostility towards David in the deleted scenes make more sense. The whole film is crying out for a DC with the cut scenes reinstated as well as some trims to make it more coherent
We are craving for a movie that could potentially explain engineers and the human race i don't only see Prometheus as a movie but rather a philosophical prospect and an attempt to explain the origin of life.
I feel exactly the same. Let's hope it doesn't get lost to history and something more gets done with it. In terms of a spin off series or indeed a proper sequel.
I couldn’t have said it better.
Agreed an interesting theory
I kinda love the 3rd version of the ending. It redeems the engineers and leads to a more open exploration.
Me too!
I’ve always been more interested in the engineers and wish that they would spend more time on them.
Love your channel, Kroft. So detailed, so mysterious. It feels like Christmas when you drop a new vid!
Glad to hear from you
Thanks 👍
Christmas, already??
Oh wait no, it's another Kroft talks about Prometheus!
Even better!
Thanks !
All of these endings sound better than the one we got.
Great to see you back Kroft, great video as always 💪💪💪
You have such a calming voice, I can never finish your videos before falling asleep. Love your videos thanks
Welcome back, i missed you videos!
Love your videos on Prometheus man! Keep it up
I love watching all your videos about the engineers and their spacecraft. Thank you.
Love your videos Kroft. I wish they put you in charge of the aliens franchise. We would of got everything we wanted and more.
No they should put him in charge of the world we would get real aliens
Love your channel !!
wow Kroft I had a bad day and this is just what I needed.
Love your videos, Kroft. Excellent narrator that is unique. I'd like to see your other channel about space phenomena grow
Yes!! Kroft is here!!
Simply put. Fantastic video !
It's always a good day when Kroft uploads a Prometheus video!!! Thank you!!!
This is one of your most fascinating videos. Well done 🙌
I was literally just thinking of binging some of your videos. What a pleasant coincidence.
Thanks for posting. I've been watching your videos constantly and hoped this story wouldn't die
If you can watch a movie 5+ times and continue to find new subtext and different meaning in it than its a masterpiece and this movie definitely has that and im still finding new theories and connections on a movie ive seen 100 times
Excellent analysis. Thanks so much.
After having watched the chosen ending, any other ending would be preferable to me because it's bound to be an ending I haven't seen yet
I felt the same way. It is like they chose the worst of almost 10 endings to go with. Ridley Scott should have taken everything farther.
@@galekeoma7276unfortunately it is the movie studio that decides the plot and ending… I imagine Ridley was pissed…. Because if he had a free roam in the movie it would have been entirely different and better than what we got. The xenomorph is the cash cow for the studio and they want to insert it as much as possible… is the reason why the engineers are barely covered in the movie.
So nice you're back man.
Thanks for your very good video !!!❤
Wow hes back! Love the content!
Such a great video kroft thanks😊
I really like your calm, and soothing naration. And the pace is just right.
AMAZING. So well explained. Love this.
I really liked these ideas for alternate endings.
I think David drinking the black blood would have been great for movie 3, if they ever do it.
Would have been cool to see more dialogue from the Engineer prior to him going rage mode on the crew. When I saw it in theaters, to me it didn't make any sense and I needed some context to understand why he went rage mode when they created us in the movie lore.
It's so good to hear you again mate ❤ a fan and great admirer of your narration style ... Keep up the work brother
i don't know why i took so long to discover how good your explanation videos are. i obviously had to subscribe. keep it up!
Honestly its a shame what happened to this series. Prometheus was such cool concept that could have become one of the best space sci-fi movie in the recent years.
Brilliant to hear you talk about Prometheus again, even if its hypothetical.
Maan i missed you:-)))). So happy to see your video and hear your voice
Kroft is here!
That was an awesome video!!!!
I love your videos! I hope we will get a 3rd movie with all the answers we need about the engeneers etc
The best Prometheus videos on UA-cam. Kroft you are a legend.
Mannnn. Haven't heard from you in a while. Good to see there is more to this film
good and well made as always
One if the few movies you can watch over and over again and find it interesting still
Thank you for all your hard work.
Nice one man
Hi Kroft ... brill vid.
Prometheous one of my fav films! Loved it even though others slated it.
Was gutted Shaw / story line changed for A.Cov. Really hope RS continues with the franchise. Cheers
Good to see stuff from you man, hope you dont give up
His dick fell off and his bee whole clogged up with dried sea men but he'll never give up for you.
Thank u keep it coming
I am looking always for your videos bro 😙😙😙....
Because u r the best about this concept ever ✌️✌️😁...
And really loves ur explaining theory's ✌️...
Hav a great day 😁
Always enjoying your content Kroft. Please make the video of John Spaihts script. I loved all the alternate and hypothetical endings.
In the original Alien, they said in one of the many behind-the-scenes-docs, that the idea was that the derelict ship was an ancient war-ship, that carried bio-weapons for a long forgotten intergalactic war... or something to that effect. Since predators are also part of this universe, then an alternative story to all of this could be that the aliens was the ultimate bio-weapon of the engineers in their war again the predators, which they lost. But the predators keep on fighting the aliens, to cleanse the universe of the last remaints of their hated enemy. And maybe that humans were created to fight this was as grunts, but that never came to be, since the engineers lost the war, and became extinct.
Its explained in lie covenant deleted scenes
Yeahhh Kroft is back! I hope u doin okay Kroft!
I'm still watching your old videos from 4-5 years ago... some content cannot die...
You are such a good explainer, ❤
And this Prometheus series is my favourite sci fi movies .
The ending that was the 1979 Alien ending would have made the most sense towards a smoother transition to the continuation of a Ridley Scott lineage.
They could have even tacked on the ending that Yanick missed destroying the alien spacecraft and it continues on to complete its mission of destroying all life on Earth which flows more into what is in the comic books series.
I love your videos
Hey Kroft! Love this and all your videos you make. Do you have any other social media outlets ? I would love to follow you on others and get a chance to see more of you. You provide a lot of insight and important groundwork for us fans to understand this universe that Ridley Scott has created!
Welcome back kroft, been a while. Love your content, on Xenomorphs, Predators, and Engineers. You should look into another, alien species mentioned in the predator universe, called the Drukathi. Who ever they are, even the Predators, feared them.
Honestly I loved this movie. I could happily watch this movie 10 times with all 10 alternate endings and be very contently satisfied.
I'm a huge 1980s and 90s Sci Fi fan which was arguably the best era for Sci Fi movies and drama shows ever.
Thank you Kroft, love your videos & your insights ! Can't decide right now on a prefered ending but all the options you've given are absolutely food for thought ! Thanks again. Oh er PS: are you David back from the future playing Devil's advocate with us ? 😜
It is pleasing that all the other endings fit seemlessly into the main movie . To me a mix of the tie-into Alien and where Shaw gets her wish to go to the homeworld . It's mentioned in a comic toe in but the Engineer weapons are very powerful😊
This movie had such potential to be great its a shame that they messed it up The engineers lore was so much more interesting than the alien and I wanted to see more of it, hopefully the new movie repairs some of the damage
100% agree with you
lol the fans wanted more alien and not the engineers. they wanted colonial marines and action. The next movie will not talk about david or the engineers.
Hey Kroft, nice to see you again.
To me personally
Prometheus is the most engaging space horror movie and it deserved a much worthy sequel than covenant.
Music by marc is haunting and puts us right in the premise
Finally!
Kroft, I'm addicted to your narratives. I'm so enthralled with the Alien universe, and your episodes make the series so much more enjoyable and interesting. Thanks, brother.
Edit - I can't decide, they're all excellent! I'm gonna have to watch this a few more times to digest the possibilities, although #7 is intriguing. Shaw going to the Engineers' home world would make a great story. I could see her return to Earth being the 2nd Coming of Christ, and were it me writing, I'd end the story on a positive note Shaw saves humanity, just to keep things simple. Her return as the Messiah obviously would be difficult to reconcile with Catholic doctrine and prophecy.
Amazing work, Kroft. In the past, I veered away from alternative endings since they weren't 'real,' but discovered how fun they can be, and how much they actually add to the canonical storyline.
I think we got the best ending we could have hoped for, by the sound of it. My only regret based on what I'm hearing in this video is that the short scene where Shaw says something about God never trying to kill her, and David explaining about Paradise, was cut: I think that fit in really well with the ending we did get, adding to it, without overdoing it. That said, I do think it was a wise idea to replace Shaw callously throwing David's head into the bag with the gentler apology: it feels like this is more in character with the way Shaw had been portrayed, and with the movie's themes... Shaw ends up a sort of unfulfilled mother figure for David, and it's too late for that to matter by the tragic end of 'Prometheus', but it works for me that Shaw would feel bad that this is how creation turned out for David. I also think it was a wise idea to cut the fight scene down to what we saw in the official ending: the final fight didn't need to be any longer, and a longer fight would have been unnecessary and gratuitous.
On the other hand, I think it might have been possible to expand on the final dialogue between Shaw and David a little, to bring a little more closure to the movies themes about frustrated creation, without burdening the final movie too much with unnecessary exposition and action - it feels like this scene could have used another line or two, another minute to wrap up these themes, but I'm not entirely sure what the best way to do that would have been, what else needed to be done here (there's a reason I'm not a professional writer!) It kinda feels like the equivalent of this moment was handled a little more elegantly in 'Alien' and 'Aliens' (with a motherly Ripley putting Jonesie the Cat and later Bishop and Newt to bed before cryosleep), in any event, and it feels like a little something was missing here in the form of a motherly Shaw doing much the same for David to bring just a little more closure to these story arcs! After all, twisted takes on motherhood are the fuel for themes of all the movies in this series, with Shaw in this film being unable to have children of her own, and David's role as creation to Weyland's cold, distant, selfish father figure providing a rather pitiful, bitter, and petulant child figure, with these themes dovetailing nicely into those of the Engineers as frustrated, distant, neglectful/abusive creators of humanity. Shaw's apology to David - presumably an apology from creator to imperfect creation, mother to a disturbed and dangerous child - almost hits the mark, but still seems incomplete somehow, and only required, I think, another minute of resolution!
Still, I'm glad that a lot of exposition was cut, and that some of the original drafts got the additional work they were given - some of the alterations reinforce the movie's themes better than the original drafts would have, and much of the deleted content sounds like it mostly fell into show-don't-tell territory, better saved for later to serve a more confident and ambitious sequel than we eventually got instead with 'Covenant', which sounds like it was pretty heavily rewritten to be "dumbed down" if you will, because of the negative audience reaction to 'Prometheus'.... A better sequel could have expanded on the "Deacon" mythos, the Engineers' sterility, and so on - 'Covenant' was most of the way there with David's ghastly, deranged medical experiments, but felt a little half-baked in what we were given. (I only saw it once, though, so maybe it will grow on me on a subsequent viewing - still, I feel like 'Covenant' might have been a better place to explore the whole "Deacon" thing, drawing parallels between David and the seemingly all-male population of Engineers as sterile, reclusive, wizard-types who could not properly father natural children of their own, and were thus left to create imperfect mockeries of children in the form of biomechanical weaponry!)
So much lost potential of the engineer story was lost because of stupid studio decisions from higher ups pushing for the dumb alien stuff.
I love how stuff about this movie is still coming out
Dude I miss your videos 😔
Those alternate ending you just wrote, fantastic, they should really get you on the team.
Hey Kroft, I always enjoy your Prometheus videos. they are great. I am still hoping for an actual Prometheus follow up, where Ridley doesn't just kill off all the Engineers because they didn't want to write a script to include them in an Alien movie...that idea, I thought was chicken shit...
Kroft, what is the music you use in the background of your videos? I actually like it! Thanks!
I would combine a few ideas from each ending: while Shaw is dealing with the embryo in her stomach, David and crew awaken the engineer who kills the crew before dying due to infection from the previous outbreak, David escapes back to Prometheus where he ingests some black goo undergoing the bizarre change telling Shaw he has overcome his programming and is going to see the engineers prompting her to go with him. The trilobite now fully grown managed to sneak on board the derelict with them attacking and impregnating David causing the ship to crash on lv426, when Shaw wakes up David informs her, he can feel it inside him, David then tells her to keep it contained he sealed himself inside the chair armor and in order to save herself to activate the ships beacon then to go into hyper sleep before the ultra-morph erupts from his chest cutting to black.
Except David is an android
@@showbread9366 prometheus fire & stone
Would've been nice to link the end with the start of the Alien film but at the same time it would be good to see another film that links up
great to see you back :) Do you have any news about the franchise ? Is there a project on the way ?
Hey Croft 🤘🏽 Love alien content and discussion.
Have you tried to connect Raised by Wolves series with Alien/Prometheus storyline yet?
Thank you for these great and profound videos! To me, the best alternative ending is the one I'm which Shaw kills the megamorph and goes with the help of David to find answers at engineers' homework.
Prometheus/Aliens lore is far more interesting than any others.
Any update on the Awakening?
It came out last night.
3:27 so apparently Jon Spaihts is married to an actress named Johanna Watts. Very cool!
I can hardly wait for AI to begin making entire motion pictures, and then we can see all of these versions of prometheus and any other we think of.
Unlike all the critique the movie got, I still liked the movie a lot. And seeign your brilliant videos makes the movie even better. Your videos are a highligh here. Please let them continue :)
Still can’t get this movie out of my head and I wish we got a sequel instead of convenient 😢 but thank you for your videos, they are great and informative and interesting ❤ appreciate you!
Love them all mate, the ending with Shaw becoming the new messiah would, in my opinion be the most interesting, finally we reach the level of Gene Roddenberry`s Star Trek envisioned Utopia.. Great work M8.
Hello, kroft, where have u been, keep cover more, on movies related to it.
More Prometheus videos please
"hey guys kroft is here" + the chill background music
I satill can't believe thet killed Shaw. I'm glad you're back.
its 7, 8 and 2 i prefered. Great content! love your videos. cant wait for another one
Thanks kroft!!
Prometheus is good and creates a lot of lore