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Details have finally emerged about Ridley Scott's Prometheus home video release. 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment is bringing two different releases to consumers, a 2-disc Blu-ray combo pack and a 4-disc collector's edition pack.

Peleased in theaters this past June, Prometheus is set in the same futuristic universe as Alien but 30 years before Ripley and her doomed cohorts encountered the deadly extraterrestrial species. Noomi Rapace (The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), Michael Fassbender (Inglorious Basterds), Charlize Theron (Snow White and the Huntsman), Idris Elba (Luther), Guy Pearce (Memento) and Logan Marshall-Green (Devil) star in the movie.

Here's the list of goodies on the straight goods DVD:

• Theatrical cut of Prometheus
• Commentary by director Ridley Scott
• Commentary by screenwriters Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof
• "The Peter Weyland Files": A featurette about the enigmatic passenger onboard the Prometheus
• Deleted and alternate scenes that include an alternate opening and ending for the movie
• A Weyland Corp Archive "second screen" app
• On the second disc is a digital copy of the movie

Here is the list of goodies on the 4-disc collector's edition of Prometheus:

On disc 1:

• Theatrical cut of movie
• Commentary by director Ridley Scott
• Commentary by screenwriters Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof
• "The Peter Weyland Files": A featurette about the enigmatic passenger onboard the Prometheus
• Deleted and alternate scenes that include an alternate opening and ending for the movie
• A Weyland Corp Archive "second screen" app

On disc 2:

• "The Furious Gods: Making Prometheus"
• "Enhancement Pods"
• Weyland Corp Archive
• Pre-Vis
• Screen tests

On disc 3:

• A 3D theatrical cut of the movie

On disc 4:

• DVD / Digital Copy

Fox is marketing the Prometheus release with this promotional video, relying heavily on the assumption that the movie's many unresolved mysteries will be explained when you watch the bonus features and deleted scenes.