31st December 2011, 7:56 AM
Not really, I misinterpreted this.
It's interesting that he frames van Daniken as just a creative author, but in reality he actually believed that nonsense. He's one of those racists who thinks egyptions could NEVER have built the pyramids on their own, so expect that in this movie.
Quote:"The (space) journey, metaphorically, is about a challenge to the gods," Scott said. But Scott’s ambitions with Prometheus go far beyond simply restarting a hit franchise. The British director said the film’s storyline, and script by David Lindelof, was partially inspired by the writings of legendary Swiss sci-fi writer Eric van Daniken.
Van Daniken, author of 1968 bestseller Chariot of the Gods, is best known as the first proponent of the so-called ancient astronaut theory, which holds that aliens kick-started civilization on earth. "NASA and the Vatican agree that is almost mathematically impossible that we can be where we are today without there being a little help along the way," Scott said. "That’s what we’re looking at (in the film), at some of Eric van Daniken’s ideas of how did we humans come about.
It's interesting that he frames van Daniken as just a creative author, but in reality he actually believed that nonsense. He's one of those racists who thinks egyptions could NEVER have built the pyramids on their own, so expect that in this movie.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)