A Blu-ray bonus feature directly calls out Tyrell, the unfortunate industrialist from the original film, while the buildings behind a hologram of Weyland are of a similar architectural style to those of the film's pyramids. Not only do the ideas of creators and creations at war chime with what Ridley Scott did with Blade Runner, there is evidence the prequels take place in the same world.
In fact, Prometheus actually ties the Alien franchise into a totally different sci-fi series. While that's more inferred and open to debate, what isn't is that AvP did not happen: we get a different Weyland (Guy Pearce's Peter instead of Henriksen's Charles Bishop) and a new first brush with aliens. Unsurprisingly given how he and Cameron didn't want to continue with Alien 5 when pairing the series with Predator was the order of the day, Scott willfully ignores what happened. To achieve this, he basically ignored everything that had happened in the franchise since his 1979 original, with the biology on show directly contradicing the queen reproduction and hive mind shown in Aliens onwards (and a popular David-Space Jockey theory would have even seen him retcon Alien itself). However, whereas Anderson was using it as plot establishment and a quick nod to the Pyramid construction debate, Scott was wanting to explore heady themes of meeting and challenging one's creator. In making the Alien prequels about an ancient species that came to Earth and has an intrinsic link to early man, Ridley Scott actually did flirt with ideas similar to that of Alien vs. Related: Alien: Covenant - The Xenomorph's Origins Explained This was tempered in 2017's Alien: Covenant, which mixed Alien and Prometheus' DNA but still struggled at the box office, making only $100 million more than Predators despite costing double. Scott no longer found the titular creature interesting, so went in a completely different direction. Seeing the return of Ridley Scott to sci-fi after thirty years and promising answers that had been there since Alien in 1979, it was one of 2012's most anticipated releases - and regarded as one of its biggest disappointments.
Alien 5, retrofitted to be a prequel Alien: Engineers and eventually just Prometheus, had no such hype issues.
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