Ridley Scott Prometheus: NOT the Alien Prequel Details

[JediG60racer]

Btw, I hate the way the alien has come to be dubbed the xenomorph or xeno, through the influence of the later films. For me, it will always be 'the alien'.

Better than the name it's given in the script: STAR BEAST

All in caps, like that.

 

[hansicle]

That's the name my mom had originally picked for my sister before settling on Kristianne..

 

[Nwerke]

Just tryin to have a little discussion and you had to go and order SMUG AND COKES for the whole table and one was quickly slurrped up.

And it tasted good, too!

C'mon...that's a funny mental picture. Just the sheer hide it'd take for someone to actually ask him something like that. Inherently hilarious to me in, I guess, the same way ******* is inherently hilarious to other people.

That's the name my mom had originally picked for my sister before settling on Kristianne..

And the comedy gold keeps coming. :thumbsup

 

[Mr Webber]

Just on comedy gold, the job of Potsy to my Ralph Mouth is already taken Soupy, sorry.

Who needs Photoshop, i got Photochop.

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Lighten up a little, May not be the Aficionado you are but i know a couple of things, one is to not trust a fart past age 45 or any self proclaimed expert.

 

[Carson Dyle]

a day in the life... prometheus | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Lol, the Space Jockey in the La-Z-boy is genius.

 

[MooCriket]

a day in the life... prometheus | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

:lolThat was great!!!

 

[Mr Webber]

Just saw SRS`s interview on Prometheus-movie.com with him saying there will be TWO movies, WOW. Hey, its news to me. Throw in the BR project and sci fi is in another possible goldern age.

 

[rodneyfaile]

Just saw SRS`s interview on Prometheus-movie.com with him saying there will be TWO movies, WOW. Hey, its news to me. Throw in the BR project and sci fi is in another possible goldern age.

YES!!!!!

 

[Mr Webber]

You bet Rodney, SRS seems to in a giving mood lately, after my run in with the Academy members, have been looking around for his recent interviews about Prometheus. There is one where Scott says he is deep into the new BR project and when asked if Deckard would return he said, " No, not really". Cheeky bugger.

 

[blakeh1]

Isnt ALIEN technically a remake of DARK STAR? Or is ALIEN Sir Ridleys interpretation of DARK STAR?

for whatever its worth, some excerpts from wikipedia... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)

Dan O'Bannon wrote the screenplay from a story by him and Ronald Shusett, drawing influence from previous works of science fiction and horror

He later stated that "I didn't steal Alien from anybody. I stole it from everybody!"[19] The Thing from Another World (1951) inspired the idea of professional men being pursued by a deadly alien creature through a claustrophobic environment.[19] Forbidden Planet (1956) gave O'Bannon the idea of a ship being warned not to land, and then the crew being killed one by one by a mysterious creature when they defy the warning.[19] Planet of the Vampires (1965) contains a scene in which the heroes discover a giant alien skeleton; this influenced the Nostromo crew's discovery of the alien creature in the derelict spacecraft.[19] O'Bannon has also noted the influence of "Junkyard" (1953), a short story by Clifford D. Simak in which a crew lands on an asteroid and discovers a chamber full of eggs.[15] He has also cited as influences Strange Relations by Philip José Farmer (1960), which covers alien reproduction, and various EC Comics horror titles carrying stories in which monsters eat their way out of people.

Dan O'Bannon had made a science fiction comedy film with director John Carpenter and concept artist Ron Cobb entitled Dark Star.[14] The film included an alien which had been created using a spray-painted beach ball, and the experience left O'Bannon "really wanting to do an alien that looked real."[14][15] A few years later he began working on a similar story that would focus more on horror: "I knew I wanted to do a scary movie on a spaceship with a small number of astronauts", he later recalled, "Dark Star as a horror movie instead of a comedy."

 

[Mr Webber]

Thanks for posting blakeh1, i think at the very least it highlights that it was a reasonable question to put forward.

 

[ghostryder]

 

[Kit Rae]

Just saw SRS`s interview on Prometheus-movie.com with him saying there will be TWO movies, WOW. Hey, its news to me. Throw in the BR project and sci fi is in another possible goldern age.

Or he could have meant they are squeezing two movies into one, which is sort of how I read it. It was originally announced as two films, then changed to one.

 

[Mr Webber]

You read it right KR, i read it through the eyes of someone who wants more of a direct tie in with the first universe than just at the end of the movie i guess, if it gets SRS to the new BR project quicker i can live with it but two movies would have been heaven.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Unless the film bombs, there will be at least one sequel to Prometheus. No guarantee Scott will direct of course, but if all goes well at the box office Prometheus will simply be the first chapter of a larger story.

 

[Mr Webber]

Fingers and toes are crossed.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Appears we may have to wait a while before seeing a Scott-directed sequel to either Prometheus or Blade Runner...

Ridley Scott In Talks For Cormac McCarthy's 'The Counselor' - Deadline.com

At least it's for a seemingly worthy project.

 

[ghostryder]

Prometheus Art-book Revealed - AvPGalaxy

 

[ghostryder]

Alien Prequel News: Ridley Scott mulling Prometheus sequel

 

[Mr Webber]

This thread is an emotional rollercoaster:facepalm