Von Däniken's Concepts in Prometheus

leading from: Prometheus - The Return of the Space Jockey
 

Erich Von Däniken

In 2010, Swiss newspaper Blick interviewed Ridley Scott about his Robin Hood film and managed to interview him a question about his forthcoming Alien production, Ridley gives a nod to Erich Von Daniken's writings saying that he guessed right and again for the Hollywood Reporter he mentioned that they were looking at some of his ideas about how the humans came about. Ridley in an interview published Empire magazine in 2012 talked briefly about Von Däniken's concept of previsitation which Ridley remembers everyone poohpoohed, but now he understood that science accepted that we're not alone in the universe, a concept that has been reinforced as well by Stephen Hawking, but not in terms of previsitation, but in view of possible the possible dangers of alien visitors .

1. In German the article stated "Sehr lange bevor. Scott orientiert sich an Erich von Däniken: «Der hat richtig geraten. Vor Millionen von Jahren hat es hier und woanders höherstehende Geschöpfe gegeben». Es ist eine Zeit, in der HR Gigers All-Monster noch nicht existiert. «Ich muss etwas Neues erschaffen.»"(12,05.2010 Blick (Swiss newspaper))
   Google translates this as "Very long before. Scott is based on Erich von Daniken: "He has guessed correctly. Millions of years ago, there have been standing here and elsewhere higher creatures ". It is a time when the HR Giger's monster does not exist all. "I must create something new."""
2. It only makes passing reference to its 1979 inspiration and pays heavy tribute to author Erich von Daniken's ideas in his 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? -- which argued that we are not alone and another sentient entity might have spawned us.(The Hollywood Reporter, (9:00 AM PDT 5/16/2012 by THR staff) Secrets of Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus': An Earthquake, Never-Seen Photos and Nightmarish Monster)
3. Ridley Scott"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." (The Hollywood Reporter : Scott Roxborough (9:26 PM 6/28/2011) Ridley Scott, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace Tease 'Prometheus' at CineEurope.)
4. Ridley Scott:“In the ‘60s there was a guy called Erich Von Daniken who did a very popular book called Chariots of the Gods?, and he proposed previsitation, which we all pooh-poohed. But the more we get into it, the more science accepts the fact that we’re not alone in this universe, and there’s every feasible chance that there’s more of us, not exactly as we are, but creatures that are organically living in other parts of this particular galaxy. (Stephen) Hawking said he thinks that there are and that he hopes they don’t visit. Because if they do, they’re way ahead of us.”  (Empire, May 2012, p76)