Metroid movie still not dead?

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That's an odd interpretation. According to the pics, that chozo is certainly not a spirit, leading me to interpret the raising this way.

The Chozo build the suit in the current era, when Samus is but a child. They are not yet evolved into spirits. Such a thing wouldn't really require millions of years, it's spiritual, not biological, and those ruins in Zero Mission certainly don't look THAT old, just overgrown. The Chozo are spread across the galaxy, Zebes being but one world. The Chozo elder, as well as many others in that community, raise Samus on Zebes after her colony's destruction. After leaving, she eventually returns only to find it in ruins after the pirates attack. As for exactly when the stuff on Tallon IV occured, I dunno exactly, but it couldn't have been millions of years before, because the stuff written while they are still around still show that other life forms have certainly done the space travel thing by then, and that was pretty recent as far as Metroid 1's story says.