Ridley Scott Prometheus: NOT the Alien Prequel Details

[ghostryder]

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[Riceball]

I just wanted to chime in and say that I got to see the trailer at WonderCon in 3D and I'm seriously thinking of seeing this one in 3D, the first movie since Avatar that I've actually wanted to see in 3D. The 3D for Prometheus looks incredible, lots of depth to it and better than Avatar I'd say and if the trailer is any indicator it'll definitely be worth paying the extra money for.

On the subject of the Weyland Corp card that was posted way back when, that was a piece of swag that was handed out to everybody who attended the Prometheus panel at WonderCon. I have no idea if it's a replica of a prop actually used in the movie but it's sure one cool piece of swag and is a piece of viral marketing since it has the url to the Weyland site one it. If anyone wants one there was a few being sold on eBay last I checked, they seem to go for around $10 on average.

 

[Nwerke]

Oh yes, an opportunity to strike the Martyn with a bolt of near-pointless pedantry! (It's been a while).'Horrorshow' means 'very good', according to its inventor Anthony 'A Clockwork Orange' Burgess.

The anality that is the Droidmilk strikes again!!! :lol

 

[Lord Boron]

Slightly OT:

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Thanks so much for this. If been trying to find a copy forever. (unfortunately part 2 seems to be blocked by Fox)

 

[Guy Cowen]

New images are at the usual places, very interesting stuff but not too spoiler esq

 

[Lord Boron]

Nice detail image of the USCSS Prometheus

IGN: Prometheus Image 3626072

Some nice design cues from the Nostromo

 

[Jeyl]

Some nice design cues from the Nostromo

The Plasma Engines?

Ridley: I said water. They said "what do you mean water?". I said if you use water, it will make the engine look like plasma. Plasma Engine. They said "What's plasma engine?". I said I don't know, but it sounds good.

 

[ghostryder]

'Discover Prometheus' with these New Exclusive Images

 

[Lord Boron]

That "worm" wiggling in the eye really creeps me out.

 

[phase pistol]

Some nice design cues from the Nostromo

Well let's see...

- Quadrupedal, with the four large thruster modules at the four corners

- bundles of rods, sticking out from various points on the ship (mostly downward from the underside)

- Landing claws

- bay window (underside looking forward this time, instead of on the side of the nose of the ship)

for starters.

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[phase pistol]

Looks like some kind of partially cocooned, chest-busted dude on the ceiling there. :eek

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

OK, now... If there's really a weathered face on top of that structure, could it be that they'd want it to evoke this ???

Hey why not? Then they can link the film up to the Battlestar Galactica universe too. :rolleyes

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

Here is the full quote I read, so if this is where the Hollywood reporter got what he said, they got it wrong by combining quotes the way they did. Make of it what you will.

"Also, I ring off of… there’s a writer, Erich von Däniken. One of his most famous books was called Chariots of the Gods. Everyone thinks he was out of his mind, you know, for number one, “we are the creation of gods”, if you go back to the 19th century anthropologists, Darwin, and say if you go look at Darwin for the moment and look at the Darwinian idea, the Darwinian thesis, which is seemingly very logical. You know, you’re going from something that gradually comes to two legs and gradually here we are. Then you can go beyond that and you look more mathematically at the feasibility of how we’re able to be sitting here, right now, in this place. I’m talking to you, and I’ve got this thing (he picks up his cellphone) which looks like Star Trek. This is “Beam me up, Scotty”-stuff. You wouldn’t have believed this thing could exist thirty years ago.

Things have changed so dramatically that you can start looking at the idea that all our history can be completely wrong and misguided. Because at some point someone has to put a statement down and have their own thesis, have their own theories. That was then later accepted or later is gradually dissolved and re-drawn or reworked. So now you’ve got the whole changed attitude with NASA, the church and I think even Hawking. Over the last thirty years have gone from “It’s highly unlikely that there’s anyone else in our galaxy, any other force, being in our galaxy,” to now, where they’re conceding that there are probably thousands of different lifeforms in this galaxy. And I think Hawking actually said, “Let’s hope they don’t visit.” And I think the church has conceded as well that it would not be against the word of God if we conceded that there are other lifeforms in this galaxy.

So, if you take that out, then the door is open. To me, it’s entirely logical. It’s entirely ridiculous to believe that we are the only ones here. That’s why my first thought is that for us to be sitting here right now is actually mathematically impossible without a lot of assistance. Who assisted? Who made the right decisions? Who was pushing and pulling to adjust us? That’s a fair question."

Is Scott out of his mind? He really believes that 30 years ago the consensus was that there was no other life in our galaxy?? What's he on about? And just because there is such life it must necessarily have been involved in our development? And all because we have mobile phones?? What the ..?

 

[Colin Droidmilk]

I miss the original Space Jockey already. :cry

Tell it, brother... and the sight of them standing up is painful for me, very painful... a travesty...

Standing up, and with the grown-out-of-the-chair concept now trashed, and de-gigered in other ways besides, they now just look like tall versions of the selenites from First Men in the Moon...well done, Rid! How could he do this? One explanation is that perhaps he never fully appreciated or understood what Giger gave him in 1978....

 

[Vykk Draygo]

Re: Ridley Scott: Alien Prequel Details

Why do filmmakers have the desire to go back and explain the mysterious to audiences? Didn't you like Boba Fett better when you knew less about his past? I don't understand this compulsion to connect the dots storywise.

You mean before he was a 'clone' and had the name Jaster Mereel ?

Unfortunatly Lucas had to rape my childhood over and over with the prequels.

 

[Kit Rae]

Looks like some kind of partially cocooned, chest-busted dude on the ceiling there. :eek

In the trailer it looked like the ceiling was moving, but it is pretty clear here that this is a projection ON the ceiling from below. The humanoid pose is kind of Da Vince-ish looking. The Giger looking thing to the left is interesting.

Guessing this this is a visual message for the beings they entice to come here, or perhaps a life-cycle kind of film reminiscent of the alien-life-cycle-on-the-wall idea from the early draft of Alien.

http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/images/2012/04/Prometheus-2.jpg

 

[Bryancd]

Guessing this this is a visual message for the beings they entice to come here, or perhaps a life-cycle kind of film reminiscent of the alien-life-cycle-on-the-wall idea from the early draft of Alien.

http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/images/2012/04/Prometheus-2.jpg

Curious, where in the original O'Bannon script was that? I never heard of that.

 

[Noeland]

That "worm" wiggling in the eye really creeps me out.

YES. :sick

 

[Kit Rae]

Curious, where in the original O'Bannon script was that? I never heard of that.

It's not in the shooting script. Ridley nixed the idea when he came on board to save on cost, but it is in the early story drafts. It was to be on the wall in the pyramid temple. Both Giger and Ron Cobb did paintings showing the alien life cycle on the wall. This is the painting Giger did.

And Cobbs...

There are a lot of small elements from the early drafts being used for Prmetheus by the look of it. The sandstorm, ancient temple/dome, astronauts exploring the temple with flashlights, hieroglyphics on the walls, getting infected by the dormant alien, et cetera. Ridley like the alien origin-pyramid temple storyline, so it was probably a thrill for him to finally do some of the things in the early story that they did not have money or time for in the original film. Nice homage to Obannon too, Giger, and Cobb too.

 

[ghostryder]