Not really the point anyway; Pixar is owned by Disney who also owns Marvel so this was always a purely hypothetical exercise by a fan artist.

I see we're going to just go ahead and ignore the art I posted which clearly shows the trunk as part of some kind of breathing apparatus.

"Scott have any formal art training?"

1984 is actually pretty different. It doesn't have the post-apocalyptic "world is dead" milieu though. And sure, there's a backdrop of eternal war but there's also the implication that the war is fictitious.

"The old days of watching a light meter and trying not to cough too loudly appear to be gone."

That actually sounds like an interesting concept for a sci-fi dystopia.

Well, to be fair, they may be trying to create a unified Philip K. Dick aesthetic.

No, no. The derelict crashed on LV-426 before Alien and Prometheus. But Prometheus still takes place before Alien.

This is concept art for the original Alien. The beings depicted here are more alien-looking than the Engineers in Prometheus to be sure, but it's also clear that the "trunk" is intended to be part of a suit of some kind, given the way that it seems to wrap around to some kind of air supply in the back. It's also been…

I was surprised that this (also this and this) didn't make the list. Apparently James Cameron was involved with the original Alien prequel concept Ridley Scott approached Fox with back in 2002 and wrote the initial script before it got scrapped by Fox who wanted to make Alien vs. Predator instead.

Given that Mass Effect was deliberately modeled after 1980s sci-fi this should hardly come as surprising. It's a result of the two having art based on the same source material.

I didn't realize that Bryan Cranston was in this until I saw the trailer a few weeks ago. At that point it jumped up to my "must-see" list despite having no significant impressions of the film before that. Because Bryan Cranston is walking awesome.

Except that the derelict on LV-426 is older that the events of Prometheus (as confirmed by Ridley Scott) so the xenomorphs logically do already exist.

It's nowhere near as similar to the soundtrack for TWoK as Aliens. Although, to be fair, that was composed by the same person.

Is nuclear power really on the way out?

You can tell that we're at io9 because the moderators don't troll the community.

Quite the opposite actually. There's only a handful of star system within that distance and it's exceedingly likely that humans would stumble across it eventually so long as they were even remotely serious about space exploration.

Well, except you probably would if you had FTL travel. It's relatively close by interstellar standards (35 lightyears in a galaxy that's 110,000 lighyears in diameter).

Who knows? Why do Angels from Evangelion and humans share 100% DNA despite the former looking like various kind of giant kaiju?

It seems that what Lindelof mostly did, according to interviews with both Spaihts and Lindelof, is up the amount of screen time David got and de-xenomorph-ize the script. Those are hardly bad things in my mind.