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:
- 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 Vickers was the Final Girl from the outset and during the film there are some hints the character could be this after all. However it turns out to be a Red Herring as only Shaw and David survive.
- 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.