JOSHUA
Hard to believe huh?
RAY
Forty light years in five years. Damn that gotta be some kind of record. What the hell makes this thing go so fast anyway?
JOSHUA
FTI
RAY
What’s FTI?
JOSHUA
Faster than Light. After those big boys at CERN created antimatter WEYLAND took it over and they developed antimatter into a fuel source. That’s what’s powering this ship and that’s what’s giving us gravity. Think of it like this. The Earth and other planet’s with gravity have cores which creates gravity. Well the antimatter is the ships core
RAY
You know a lot for a mechanical engineer
JOSHUA
Knowing the simple details in life make the bigger picture more clear
RAY
I don’t know man. But what I do know is I’d like to give that Archaeologist chick a piece of my core
JOSHUA
I wouldn’t count on it apparently she’s Roman Catholic
RAY
Really? Shit, I didn’t know they still existed
JOSHUA
Yeah I know right? Science today pretty much debunks everything the bible says
INT. HOLLOWAY’S ROOM
HOLLOWAY stands in the room smirking. It’s clean and polished. There is a small square window but it is closed with a protective shutter. Suddenly his metallic door opens vertically and SHAW enters.
SHAW
How are you liking you’re room?
HOLLOWAY
It’s cool huh? I love how this ship has rooms for each of the crew. Pretty classy huh. Just like a cruise
SHAW
It’s roomy
HOLLOWAY
Needs a room-mate though. You up for the job?
SHAW smiles, then bows her head in shyness.
SHAW
You haven’t even taken a shower
HOLLOWAY
Yeah you’re right. It has been five years
SHAW
It sure has
HOLLOWAY approaches SHAW.
HOLLOWAY
Elizabeth I wanted to tell you something back on Earth but I don’t know how to say it
SHAW
Spit it out?
HOLLOWAY
I’ve always…
MUDOW appears at the doorway.
MUDOW
Okay guys it’s time. Follow me
INT. CONTROL ROOM
CHANCE, RAVEL and JANEK are in their positions and VICKERS standing behind them. Everyone is now wearing tight blue suits with the WEYLAND logo embedded on them except JANEK whom is wearing civilian clothes.
JANEK
Okay guys moment of truth. Ravel open the shutters
RAVEL activates the shutters. Everyone faces forward as the large gold metallic shutters vertically raises revealing a window. As the shutters raise we can see the shape and form of the planet Zeus and it’s massive planet that Zeus orbits.
(See Scott’s Sketches for more detail)
JANEK
Ladies and gentlemen I give you the planet Zeus
FIFIELD
Man look at those cloud formations.
RAVEL
Sir the computer has analysed the planet’s status
JANEK
And?
RAVEL
It has gravity identical to Earth’s and has oxygen but it’s too dense to breathe in. There seems to be a small Ocean and looks like it’s still expanding. The cloud formations are full of Sulphuric acid and the terrain seems almost primordial. Looks like the god damn Himalayas down there.
JANEK
Okay take us down. Miss Vickers, if you wouldn’t mind making you’re way to the passenger room
INT. PASSENGER ROOM
(See Scott’s Sketch for more details)
There is fifteen chairs. SHAW, HOLLOWAY, RAY, JOSHUA, DAVID, MUDOW, MILBURN and FIFIELD are strapped to the chairs. VICKERS walks in and takes a seat. She straps herself in.
EXT. PROMETHEUS. SPACE
(See Scott’s sketches for more details)
The PROMETHEUS turns slightly as it approaches the PLANET ZEUS’S swirling cloudy Lightening atmosphere. The four large towering engines on the PROMETHEUS unleash a strong powerful engine vapour as it speeds into the PLANET.
INT. CONTROL ROOM
VICKERS, JANEK, CHANCE, RAVEL, MILBURN and FIFIELD are strapped to their chairs. RAVEL activates a switch which then closes the window’s protective shutters. Both RAVEL and CHANCE then navigate the flight by staring into a large flat screen monitor which shows thermal imaging of the flight into the PLANET.
EXT. PROMETHEUS. SPACE
The ship then enters the planet’s atmosphere and is quickly surrounded by burning heat. The ship now descends into the PLANET like a fireball.
INT. CONTROL ROOM
Everyone and everything is now shaking due to turbulence. The protective shutters are now bright red.
INT. PASSENGER ROOM
as everyone closes their eyes as the strong turbulence shakes them, ELIZABETH begins whimpering. HOLLOWAY reaches out and grabs her hand.
