A crew of scientists follows a set of ancient star maps to the far edge of the galaxy in Prometheus, Ridley Scott's return to the universe he first opened with Alien.
What is Prometheus about?
Two archaeologists uncover matching symbols in cave paintings scattered across cultures with no contact between them, and read the pattern as an invitation from whoever seeded life on Earth. Backed by a vast corporation, they assemble a crew and a ship named Prometheus and travel to a distant moon that the star maps point to. What they find is a structure, not a welcome: towering stone chambers, a colossal humanoid head, and canisters holding a substance no one on board fully understands. The android David explores the site with his own private agenda, quietly running experiments the rest of the crew know nothing about, while the mission's true purpose starts to surface as something closer to corporate acquisition than scientific discovery. As isolated crew members begin investigating side passages alone, the canisters' contents make their way into the ship and the bodies of those who touched them, and the team realizes their search for the origin of humanity has put them face to face with something built to end it. Ridley Scott returns to the visual and atmospheric language he established decades earlier, scaling the dread up to the size of a planet.
About the cast
Noomi Rapace leads as Elizabeth Shaw, the archaeologist whose faith and scientific curiosity both drive the expedition forward even as the evidence turns hostile. Michael Fassbender plays David, the ship's android, with a performance built on careful, unreadable calm that becomes the film's most quietly unsettling element. Charlize Theron plays the corporate representative overseeing the mission's real agenda, and Idris Elba plays the ship's captain, grounding the crew with practical skepticism. Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris, and Rafe Spall round out the Prometheus crew.
Context & significance
Prometheus arrived in 2012 as Ridley Scott's first return to the Alien universe since he originated it in 1979, and the film was positioned as both a prequel and a standalone story about humanity's origins. Scott brought the same scale of practical sets and production design that defined his earlier science-fiction work, paired with then-current visual effects for the alien structures and creatures. The film sits at the intersection of adventure, mystery, and science fiction, using the crew's expedition as a framework to ask larger questions about who created humanity and why.
Watching Prometheus on Ktime
Prometheus is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking viewers a choice in how they watch. A free K-Time account is all that is needed to start streaming; the film's page can be browsed without logging in first. K-Time's Farsi-first design serves the Iranian diaspora audience that wants big science-fiction titles like this one presented in their own language.