Ridley Scott Prometheus: NOT the Alien Prequel Details

[Jedi2016]

That's the "stranded on a desert island" question. She'd probably killed them and worn their skin as a coat before sleeping with them.

The same woman that slept with Janek just to prove a point? lol

 

[Too Much Garlic]

The same woman that slept with Janek just to prove a point? lol

Well, she wanted it then. With him. Doesn't mean she'll lay with others, now would it.

But you are probably right... not very well thought through of me when I made the comment. .)

Was just probably thinking she didn't wanna share air, food and stuff.

 

[jockdeboer]

We saw it last night. I thought it was pretty good as a prequel to the prequel to alien. Maybe she and David made it to their home planet, let lose the bio weapon, one alien got away infected to the original alien plant we now and love. Does anyone know if the is to be another movie?


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[Flagg]

DELETE Several people beat me to the punch on my reply.

 

[Ray22]

Interesting article about the original sapce jockey design which was 27 feet long. I knew this when seeing the new space jockey compared to the humans in Prometheus I said they were way out of scale compared to the original.
Everything we know about Ridley Scott's Space Jockeys

 

[Nwerke]

Possibly, but one thing which isn't out of scale is the Juggernaut herself. That scale drawing - Prometheus, the compound, pyra-mound, Juggernaut and silo - tickles me no end; shows it is bang on the same size range as the original Derelict, namely 1000' long.

(Original was 1/96 or close to it and ten feet according to various sources. Can anyone verify?) Anyway, nice job, production!

 

[Stormy320]

I really didn't care for the look of the two Aliens at the end!

 

[JD]

I know Prometheus is already in release. But, there is already a spoiler thread in this forum... can we keep the spoilers there or in tags for a little while longer?

 

[Nwerke]

Normally yes, but then again this has been a spoiler thread for over two years now, since the very first post, in fact.

 

[JD]

Normally yes, but then again this has been a spoiler thread for over two years now, since the very first post, in fact.

I don't recall any hardcore spoiler out in the open until the last few days. With there being TWO THREADS one that seems a pretty OBVIOUS spot for spoilers - I thought this thread would be safe until I can see the movie (hopefully tomorrow).

Most of the thread has been good about hiding the more obvious spoilers with tags or keeping them in the other thread.

 

[Lutso]

I haven't followed the entire thread, but is Prometheus connected to Alien at all? They have some aliens in chairs that look a lot like the space jockey from Alien.

seeing it next week, saw aliens and alien a long time ago. is prometheus related to this film at all?

What is with these people?

 

[Jedi2016]

Yeah, there's only 2000 posts.. can't be that hard to read through in a week.

Seriously, though, you'd think after all this time, something would have leaked through.. hehe.

 

[rodneyfaile]

Re: Ridley Scott: Alien Prequel Details

Good luck to him, but I don't know... for me, the space jockey and the derelict are so perfectly mysterious, so perfectly beyond experience, it seems a shame to just explain that all away, to bring the jockey and the derelict into the ho-hum realm of the known and the explained. It would deflate the powerful dream-sense of the original scene in 'Alien'. Seriously,for that reason, I might stay away...I know I'd miss some good stuff, but I'm sure nothing in the film can have the impact that derelict scene had in 1979. The memory of that impact is more important to me.

Grabbed this post from page 1 of this thread, lol.

Well, there are still a lot of mysteries involving the space jockeys!

 

[Soulinertia]

like how they can shrink from 27' tall to only 9' tall

 

[Qui-Gonzalez]

I don't get the complaints about this. I enjoyed it. The planet with the ships was NOT the same one that was discovered by the Nostromo or the colony in Aliens. That was LV-426 and this was LV-223. I was expecting it to bookend into Alien, but now, I'm kinda glad it didn't.

 

[SpyderDan]

like how they can shrink from 27' tall to only 9' tall

Where does this 27' figure comes from, anyway?

I think maybe the entire original space jockey prop, including the chair and telescope, might have been 27' long. A 27' tall humanoid would have a head that is 4-5' tall, and that is CLEARLY not what we saw in Alien.

In Prometheus, David stood up to just over the waist/tummy region of the engineer. Fassbender is 6' tall, so that puts the engineer somewhere in the neighborhood of 10' tall.

 

[Bryancd]

Where does this 27' figure comes from, anyway?

I think maybe the entire original space jockey prop, including the chair and telescope, might have been 27' long. A 27' tall humanoid would have a head that is 4-5' tall, and that is CLEARLY not what we saw in Alien.

In Prometheus, David stood up to just over the waist/tummy region of the engineer. Fassbender is 6' tall, so that puts the engineer somewhere in the neighborhood of 10' tall.

X2, no way the jockey in ALIEN was 27' tall. That is total BS.

 

[Noeland]

Scott used his kids in some of the shots in the egg room next to the space jockey, to make it look bigger, so in some of the shots he is pretty massive compared to people.

 

[Nwerke]

Even then, I think the figure would have to include the telescope. Thank you guys for tackling that one, works for me.

I have no problem with 10 or 12 foot jockeys. I'd still far rather they were bioengineered elephanty things but eh. Now we get a nice biohelmet prop to replicate.

 

[Leigh]

According to the "Giger's Alien" book the space jockey set, in his chair with the scope thing was 26 foot high in total & that was mounted on a turntable set that was 5 foot high.

HTH

Edit: I worded that badly, I'm suggesting that the entire thing with the turntable was in total 26 foot high