"The film seems to draw its ideas from classic pieces of Science fiction writing like H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness or even Stanislav Lem’s Solaris, which also features a space station named Prometheus. In tone, the film resembles the fiction of Erich von Däniken that promotes the idea that mankind on Earth was created by an alien race which, in his theory, is documented in human archaeological artefacts, wall paintings and mythological and religious writings. A big Sci-fi fan as a young teenager, I went to a Erich von Däniken reading once, and while his ideas were fascinating for a 13-year-old geek, his ideas now seem rather naïve and esoteric, and rather un-scientific to me. Ridley Scott and screenwriters John Spaihts and Damon Lindeloff do something similar in Prometheus, transforming the Science fiction universe Scott has created over 30 years ago into what’s basically a fantasy story."