Rumor Patrol: Has Guy Pearce Been Cast in ‘Prometheus’? [Updated]

[UPDATE: Pearce's involvement in Prometheus has been confirmed.]
Ridley Scott has been notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to the details of his new film Prometheus, but we’ve still been able to get some sense of which direction the film is headed and what sort of connection it will share to Scott’s 1979 classic Alien.
Originally designed as a straightforward two-part prequel to the original film, Scott later insisted that Prometheus would be a separate story capable of standing on its own.
Despite the fact that several cast members have already confirmed the project’s connection to the Alien franchise, Scott’s still playing coy on the matter. Initially, many fans believed that Prometheus would simply take place in the same universe as the …
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