A 14-year-old Ridley Scott film has become an unlikely global streaming success, with Prometheus resurfacing as a hit years after its cinema release. The 2012 sci-fi epic, which cost $403 million and marked Scott's return to the Alien franchise, is finding a new audience while reigniting long-running debates among existing fans about whether it succeeds as a philosophical origins story or falls short of expectations set by the earlier films.

Prometheus follows the crew of a research vessel investigating ancient star maps found across multiple civilisations, who travel to a distant moon hoping to meet the beings believed to have created humanity, only to uncover a catastrophic experiment gone wrong. The film features a notable ensemble cast including Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Logan Marshall-Green, Sean Harris and Rafe Spall, and continues to prompt discussion online about its clues, theories and unresolved questions.