Ridley Scott Prometheus: NOT the Alien Prequel Details

I always saw the Space Jockey race as hostile terraformers ( Well, ____formers, anyway. )

The eggs on the Derelict were NOT laid there by a free Alien - They were placed there by the builders of the ship. The mist/blue laser barrier was technological, and reacted when broken - An alarm of sorts? Possibly serving the dual purpose of warning anyone breaking it that doing so isa BAD idea... And warning the ship's crew that something was moving down there ( Failure of some sort of general tranquiliser stopping the eggs from hatching and huggers from roaming? Maybe the mist was the tranquiliser, and the laser the barrier, and Kane was wrong about the mist itself reacting and making the noise? )

It always annoyed me that Scott asked Giger to help design the landscape as well - Until I saw Aliens and was introduced to the idea of planetforming.
Of course, LV-426 was just a rock. No planet would have boney ridges and biomechanical dunes that looked like that naturaly - And it would be a MASSIVE coincidence for a ship that had those features to crash on a planetoid that shared them... The planetoid being changed to look like the ship makes most sense.

I know that originally the idea was to have a temple and the derelict be seperate locations, and the two were merged... I think that was a happy accident, as the "crashed ship automatically starts terraforming the planet it landed on" idea fits perfectly.
I like my production/budget-mandated changes to have an in-universe reason... Especially if it's a change made between films.

The more bug-like appearance of the Aliens in the second film, for example.
Perhaps the eggs in the Derelict had been individually weaponised... And the eggs laid by the queen in Aliens were lacking whatever process caused the Aliens to be as biomechanical as the original creature was.
And added an extra finger...
And removed the stinger...

etc :)
 
If this is true, it does sound like it could really make for an interesting film:
Earth. Year 2058.

Archaeological digs in Africa reveal alien artifacts that humans were genetically engineered by a advanced alien race (space jockeys). These "Alien Gods" also terraformed Earth in order to make it habitable for their human creations. Amongst finds are coordinates to the Alien God's home-world, to Paradise. Months later the Weyland Corp launch the spaceship PROMETHEUS and his crew, into deep space to make first contact. Thanks to faster than light travel a few years later the PROMETHEUS enters the Zeta Riticuli star system. Humans are greeted by their makers, then transported further into space to a scary yet fascinating world. The Alien Gods are proud of their "children", their first creation to reach such levels of intelligence.

As a reward they share bits of their astonishing bio-based technologies with the humans. But for one crew member of the Prometheus it's not enough. In a treacherous act he steals the "bio-source code" to Terraforming, a technology at the origin of all Gods' power, that could make humans equal to the gods. The Alien Gods may be scientists but are also ruthless conquerors, destroyers of worlds who will not accept humans as equals. They unleash on the escaping human crew their favorite bio-weapon, a creature used to "clean up" worlds before colonization. But something goes wrong in the process and humans manage to turn the bio-weapon against their makers. Giving birth to a smarter, nastier, bigger breed of gut eating creatures. Creatures that will be the demise of Paradise. What's left of the Prometheus crew manages to escape the doomed planet. On their trail a survivor Alien God in very familiar ship with one ultimate mission.

Bring the wrath of the Gods to Earth.

I doubt it really is the complete plot. I would'nt be surprised though if some of the elements will be in the final film. Can't wait to see what Ridley does.
 
That's actually a pretty good story idea.. I'd want to see that.

It fits in with what Damon was saying in that interview.. an early story setting up the world that we saw before, but not directly related.
 
Sounds like the original Prometheus myth, seems a bit much to name the ship Prometheus and have the story be effectively Prometheus as well.
 
Not taken with that script. Sounds like something Eric Von Daneken wrote back in the seventies after seeing the first film. Alien Gods? Terraformed Earth? Artifacts in Africa? Nothing original here at all.It feels very like a fan written piece and a very poorly thought out one at that. Statements contradict themselves, for example:

"Humans are greeted by their makers, then transported further into space to a scary yet fascinating world. The Alien Gods are proud of their "children", their first creation to reach such levels of intelligence."

Which implies we are what ? Them? Us ? One planetary experiment amoungst many? Daddies gonna build you a new planet? Terra forming means making "Earthlike". Very 2001 without a clue about what made that story work.

Then this:

"In a treacherous act he steals the "bio-source code" to Terraforming, a technology at the origin of all Gods' power, that could make humans equal to the gods.

So why would they care? Once you've terraformed one planet you can do hundreds. And they have (apparently).But why Earth like? See Startrek II -Genesis device.

Then this:

"The Alien Gods may be scientists but are also ruthless conquerors, destroyers of worlds who will not accept humans as equals"

If we are the first and there are others, why are they ruthless conquerors, destroyers of worlds that will not accept humans as equal. Equal to what? I thought we were the first intelligent species They made? And They can make as many worlds as they want. If we've only just been discovered why do they want to wipe out other worlds with intelligent lifeforms that don't like us but have not made it into space yet??. And then destroy the Earth because some little **** on the Prometheus has made off with the God code. Oh for Alien Gods sake ,I thought they were proud of us, not upset that we'd run off with the carkeys.

And then we are back to that "Aliens" getting to the Earth threat theme, which has been pretty much the constant of all three Alien films and is just as old and pretty boring.



I have to say it sounds all wrong. We already know the Space Jockey signal was a warning. If Weyland already knew about Alien Artifacts and sent the Prometheus why the Nostromo?


I cannot believe Ridley Scott would direct a story as badly consturcted as this. Sorry,but I just don't.
Parts of it sound right. I remember reading a very detailed piece about what the Alien represented years ago, which was a biological weapon specifically designed to reduce an ecosystem down to its basic level by removing its higher species, then dying out itself, presumably leaving the planet open to recolonisation. Which was why people got turned into Alien eggs on the Nostromo. It was quite clever as it also suggested that the Alien eggs themselves could easily be destroyed by another biologically designed parasite and that an Alien had a limited lifespan,rather like the replicants out of Bladerunner. So ineffect they burned themselves out like a virus.
Yep, the Space Jockeys were supposed to be biotechnologists, but they had **** all to do with humanity.

I hope Promethesus does share "some" of the DNA of the Alien Universe but not like this.But then no one said the Futures Perfect did they?
 
CutThumb is right. Sounds like a load of Erik Von Daniken bullcrap from the 70s, with a bit of 5th Element thrown in and perhaps some 70s Dr. Who as well. It all reeks of the desperately familiar and known. Sounds worse than even I was fearing. It destroys the universe of the original movie at[ every conceivable level. Looks like we're all set for the most embarrassing trivialisation yet of this truly great film.
 
Forget judging a movie on its own. Forget judging a movie on its critical response. Forget judging a movie from its trailer. Forget judging a movie based on its script. Forget judging a movie based on its synopsis.

We have entered the age of judging a movie based on a description from a questionable source.

Out of context, anything can be made to sound like it sucks.

"An washed up, ex-gun-runner opens a bar in Africa and his old fling just so happens to be attached to a current political activist that visits his gin joint with hopes of escape?"

Anything can be reduced.
 
FWIW, the previously posted synopsis appears to be based on an early, pre-Lindlehof draft of the screenplay; thematically it's in the right ballpark, but narratively it bears only a passing resemblance to the shooting script.

As for charges that the story smacks of the "familiar and known" it's perhaps worth remembering that, back in the day, A L I E N was taken to task for bearing too close a resemblance to "It: The Terror From Beyond Space."

:rolleyes

At the end of the day no one will give a **** if Lindlehof and Scott riff on Von Daniken so long as they deliver a good thriller in the process.
 
For those of you at Comic-Con, there's going to be a Prometheus event at 3:15 in Hall H today.

First production still has been released:

promstill-300x127.jpg


http://www.avpgalaxy.net/2011/07/21/first-official-prometheus-still/
 
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Wow, I didn't look in here because I believed the tread title. :lol

Well rather than start a new thread... here's a pic somebody snapped at Hall H from the SDCC preview footage. I enhanced it. :)

(pic deleted because it was a hoax, darnit)

Karl
 
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