I get the feeling the Ridley Scott and company are trying to play down any "Alien" connection so that people that go to see the movie and find that it'a lacking in any sort of "sequel/prequel" rule book will not leave disappointed. When you hear the term "sequel/prequel", you expect a certain amount of closely related tie-ins to the original and I don't think we are going to get that here. That's been my take without having gotten to deep into reading about the production of the movie to avoid spoilers for myself.

I dunno. We could end up getting a movie that out does Aliens for all I know.