Ridley Scott Prometheus: NOT the Alien Prequel Details

rodneyfaile said:
Isn't the Blade Runner universe somehow connected to the Alien universe? I seem to remember Ridley mentioning something like this in an interview once, but can't find anything online about it.
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Not that I've ever heard. Also, bear in mind that replicants are actually living organisms. Heavily engineered and modified, but alive. The androids in the Alien franchise are mechanical.
 
Jedi2016 said:
Not that I've ever heard. Also, bear in mind that replicants are actually living organisms. Heavily engineered and modified, but alive. The androids in the Alien franchise are mechanical.
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Yeah, although the universes look compatible from a design standpoint, and perhaps a dystopian view point, there is zero connection between the two as per the creators of the stories.
 
Jedi2016 said:
Not that I've ever heard. Also, bear in mind that replicants are actually living organisms. Heavily engineered and modified, but alive. The androids in the Alien franchise are mechanical.
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Well, mechanical to a point. They are full of milk and pass off as humans pretty well. Plus, they also have a tendency to try and act on urges which their bodies are completely incapable of fulfilling.
 
Jedi2016 said:
Not that I've ever heard. Also, bear in mind that replicants are actually living organisms. Heavily engineered and modified, but alive. The androids in the Alien franchise are mechanical.
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They could still both exist in the same universe. Tyrell's Nexus 6 is just the iPhone 4 of the bunch, while Weyland makes the T-Mobile Sidekick.
 
Yes, who's to say that Weyland didn't patent his android to the point the only other way to produce an android was through genetic engineering.
 
I'm curious about the David model when it comes to self preservation. With all the 'emotions' installed.. I wonder how far that goes before certain programming takes a back seat if it's to be come aware of itself.
 
Re: Ridley Scott: Alien Prequel Details

gonk27 said:
I agree as well Colin.

There's something wonderfully odd and intriguing about the Derelict and the Spacejockey. Filling in that backstory to me would be a little like a magician revealing how the trick was done, but a big part of me really wants to see this film all the same.

If Geiger does indeed get involved in the Alien designs that would be great, but I don't see why the creatures as a species would need to look all that different only 30 years before the first film.
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You're right.. It's like when Marvel decided Wolverine's back story should be told.. or when half way through the movie "Hancock, the entire plot disappeared and they focused all their energy on a big detailed explanation of where he came from, rather than just showing us what he does. Sometimes it's not important to explain everything. If you can explain it quick that's fine, but if you make the explanation for the work into the work itself, it just ruins the whole thing.

Oh, and when you say the creatures as a species, do you mean xenomoprh? The Space Jockey looks different, so any alien whose host was of that species would look a little like that.. Remember the Alien 3 Xenomorph walked on all fours, like it's host.
 
New product info up on the Weyland site talking about some of the tech we see in the trailers. So to answer everyone's question about the hologram looking scene where someone disappears, you can probably bet it's the HES.


(on a completely different note, I had to chuckle about the David 8 VR helmet-just that Fassbender's Magneto character was adamant about staying out of 'his' head.. My how the tables have turned ;) )
 
Don't blame Fincher. Considering the mess he was handed when he took over as director at the last minute, he did an excellent job as director. The film would have been far better had the the studio not hacked it up and messed with it after he finished, as evidenced by the far better assembly cut version. But the story he was handed to work with is where the film had it's big problems.
 
Kit Rae said:
But the story he was handed to work with is where the film had it's big problems.
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What story? They started shooting without a script.. that's about as messed up as it gets.

All the issues aside, I still find A3 to be the most visually interesting of the bunch. The cinematography is awesome.
 
Jedi2016 said:
What story? They started shooting without a script.. that's about as messed up as it gets.

All the issues aside, I still find A3 to be the most visually interesting of the bunch. The cinematography is awesome.
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Walter Hill and David Giler gave him their unfinished script. Fincher hired someone to finish it. Then that guy got fired and Hill and Giler went on to finish it as I recall.

I actually liked liked it more than Cameron's entry. Well the assembly cut anyway, but Cameron did a good job with his chapter. Alien III is the only one that kept the tone of Ridley's film and kept the terror/horror level. I would love to see Fincher return to sci-fi horror one day.
 
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