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"We Were Asleep At The Wheel": Ridley Scott Reflects On Divisive Alien Prequel Prometheus (screenrant.com)
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[–] xyzzy@lemm.ee 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Regarding the religious references, Scott's intention was evidently that the architects created mankind, Jesus was an Engineer sent to course correct our development, and then when he was crucified, the Engineers decided mankind was a mistake. The script states that they decided to wipe us out about two thousand years ago. He revealed his intention in an interview in 2012 after some people had connected the dots (as I did while watching it in the theater).

The earlier scripts were much more full of religious references, to the point where the Engineer at the beginning is given the black goo in a consecrated ceremony that started with "this is the blood of our Lord."

Honestly, the movie never really worked in any iteration, and was always a bizarre direction to take a space horror franchise.