Premise: Prometheus (2012 film) . Scott and director James Cameron developed ideas for a film that would serve as a prequel to Scott 's 1979 science-fiction horror film Alien . Spaihts wrote a script for a prequel to the events of the Alien films , but Scott opted for a different direction to avoid repeating cues from those films . A sequel , Alien : Covenant , was released in the U.S. on May 19 , 2017 .
Hypothesis: Prometheus is not a 2012 film that serves as a prequel.
Label: CONTRADICTION