‘I’m running around in underwear’ – Naomi on Prometheus

I typed THIS into google just now.. "Ridley Scott on Upliftng Endings" What I discovered is that on just about every film he put out that had one, it was ONLY after the Studios forced him to. They did it for Blade Runner and did it for Legend and he even said he wanted things to end differently for Thelma and Louise, who although triumph, they do it by Killing themselves and that's still pretty Bleak if you ask me. My point is he never wants to end things that way, but it is rather the studios that do and force their directors to. He is a brilliant and wise director though, one of the best out there all time, and if it makes sense I would welcome such an ending with open arms...and there's one last thing... I feel you hit on something very important here, and it might help him to have a message of Hope for Humanity at the end of this thing, heck it might even help it's box office...if it can be done in a away that makes sense fits the films flow, and more importantly just plain works.

Ok just two things ( of course can go the way you say ...its just my opinion ) 1) Ridley scott give always some sort of "payback" in his stories ..in gladiator the hero die yes but he win and there is the afterlife shoot and all the rest ..so there is a big payback ...the same with blade runner ...a total bleak movie with a surprisingly happy ending ...do you immagine "the duellists " with a bleak ending ? or Alien with a bleak ending ? that would have been really a rape for the viewer !! the big payback in prometheus can be ( and i pretty sure will be ) the destruction of the bad guys even at the cost of all the crew . We know that space jockeys and the "aliens" are in pretty bad shape for the rest of the series ( in fact they are more the "survivors" than the humans ) 2) Ridley scott is 74 ..is an age when you need "hope" ... you cant be depressed and bleak at that age ...you can act as a hard , sadic , cool guy when you are young but when you are older you have to go a bit deeper into things and at the end of things there is always one thing that remain ..hope in a good ending .There is hope in all his movies so i will be surprised that if wont happen now .

Given the story or what many think the story to be..Engineers/gods/creators...maybe that gives a chance to have some uplifting ending? If prometheus is its own animal and its link to Alien is a subplot then yeah it may work to end on a happy note. But with some doubts..Im sure there is and maybe always was plans to continue the story in the Prometheus universe? So a happy ending with a way to continue it...

you guys raised some fantastic points, it could go either way for sure, or who knows, but I am inclined to think although he may leave it open to interpretation and so that he can make more of these, the end result of some of the Prometheus Crew Stealing even just 1 of them "Ampules", if that's what really happens, is going to resonate right through to the ending of this thing, and it will not be pretty or nice, it will be some sort of Wicked Nasty Thang !!!

this green goo, or what the green goo results in is probably the new direction they have been talking about.

I think its safe to say the Urns hold something important alright.... so many possibilities with this one...never mind where it could go!

Ok, so wanted to pick up a few things from what Frantz said earlier and his views on bleak endings.. I see what your saying, but i think it's a very simplistic way of viewing it. yes a lot of films put a bleak ending in to gain critical credibility, but what Ridley scott has always done IMO is put himself in the position of "this is real, and if it's real, how is it inevitably going to end or what is the most realistic ending" obviously for a given value of real dealing with a film set in space. As i've said before one of the scariest film's i've ever seen had no sex, no swearing, no gore, and it was rated a 15 in the uk because the psychological horror was enough to warrant 15 rating. But it all depends on context, I don't want to see Sadism, torture and gore that is pointless either. IMO hostel was a poor excuse for a "horror" film. The first saw was excellent because it was mostly to guys in a room, but after that, saw 2 onwards, they just became about more and more sadistic traps for the viewers titillation (yes i do have that little faith in the general movie going public). But when guys here say we have would like everyone wiped out at the end, it's because that's most likely what would happen in the circumstances. Alien was one of the greatest films of any genre, but the end, the very very end was a cop out. Now ridley did his best and made it terriying, but at the end of the day the hero won out in circumstances which were nearly impossible to win out against. granted we wouldn't be sitting here now discussing prequels and sequels. What I'm saying is, it's all about context, and in the context of this film we are looking at body shock style horror, where the horror comes from the origins of life as a whole. The inferences there, are that what kind of creatures would the creators of life be, just how much value would we hold to them, and if he were beginning to look like rivals what would they do to maintain supremacy? would they have any qualms ripping us to pieces anymore than we would feel bad putting insecticide into an ants nest or putting salt on a slug when it's damaging your plants? We don't rail for a bad ending because "it'll be cool that everyone dies" or "it'll mean lots of torture or sadism" we want a bleak ending because in the case of the alien series, it's entirely appropriate. Your payback idea is actually a good spot, but it's what we're talking about in an ending that's bleak. Look at the Thing, yes they won, but we can only assume Childs and Macready froze to death. I don't think there was anything happy about the bladerunner ending, at leastin the case of the directors cut. The original version had a badly tacked on expository voice over by Ford and a studio approved sunshiney ending which i personally think was a dream anyway (the earth is polluted and devastated, everyone left for the colonies because it was so bad, so where the hell did the sunshine, tree's, and glistening lake come from). On Ridleys Scotts age being a factor.. Ridley Scott is true to his art. If the context of the film requires "hope" then you get it, if it doesn't, then you don't. Gladiator as a specific case, well he'd spent so much time developing max as a character, and having you empathise with and had done such crappy things to him throughout the film, that he couldn't not give him his family back at the end. I don't think we every saw ripley in the same way, or thelma and louise etc. Black Hawk down was a real event, fathers and sons and brothers died, to potray that any other way would have lessened their memories. Context