Ridley Scott's PrometheusAs of yet, we have few details of
Prometheus, but...
*it's due out June 8, 2012
*it
WILL be set in the
Alien universe.
*Ridley Scott is directing and he said during a Q&A that the story will be developed and produced as two separate films
*The first drafts of the screenplays were written by new...
Ridley Scott's PrometheusAs of yet, we have few details of
Prometheus, but...
*it's due out June 8, 2012
*it
WILL be set in the
Alien universe.
*Ridley Scott is directing and he said during a Q&A that the story will be developed and produced as two separate films
*The first drafts of the screenplays were written by newcomer screenwriter Jon Spaihts with Lost co-exec producer Damon Lindelof doing a rewrite on the first film.
*Ridley Scott stated that the story will take place in 2085, approximately three decades prior to the events of the first Alien film, before the birth of Ellen Ripley.
*The story, which originally went through several drafts, features a female lead character and will present a "technologicall
y feasible" view on the early stages of "near faster-than light" travel. It will also focus on terraforming and Weyland Industries before its merger with the Yutani Corporation.
*The films will explore the nature and origin of the unknown extraterrestri
al race, who only had a brief appearance in the first Alien as the derelict spaceship's pilot. Scott stated that the films would be about "gods and […] engineers of space" and hinted at the possibility that the Xenomorph Alien was designed either as a biological weapon or as a means to "clean up" planets. Scott also announced that the original Zeta II Reticuli planetary system will be part of the prequel story.
They will be in 3-D as confirmed by Ridley, with the darkness and shadows being added in post-production, as 3-D movies need high lighting levels.
*Arthur Max is heading a small Pinewood Studios art department, whose task is to deconstruct the first Alien and reverse-design the prequels from the original art and visuals.
*The Alien itself will be reenvisioned as a progenitor of the received form of the Xenomorph, and Scott reported that he had planned to contact H. R. Giger for possible artistic collaboration.
*Noomi Rapace stars
*Scott said that
Prometheus is a 'jumping-off point' for the
Alien films.
*Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Sean Harris and Kate Dickie are reportedly on board
*On February 12, 2011 in an MTV interview Fassbender stated the film was still an Alien prequel, saying, "Prometheus is absolutely connected to Alien... There's a definite connecting vein."
*...an insider told Sky Movies, "I’ve had further confirmation that the Space Jockey creature is definitely in Prometheus and has been built as an eight foot animatronic...
I’ve also had it confirmed that HR Giger is working on the project but only in an advisory capacity. By the way, people are going to be in for a shock when they sit down to watch Prometheus and there’s an enormous semi-human head piloting a spaceship.’ "
I think a lot of people are giving this movie a pass, I wont be paying for the directors cut because the movie was poor quality (assume I cant swear); If you had never seen an aliens movie , you would walk out of that movie and be like WTF was that , its not even a prequel, its in the universe so you should not have needed to have seen the other movies.
I would very much like to take some 20yo into this movie , have no one explain anything to them , and they have never seen an aliens movie and see what they think .
no spoilers above other than i think it is crap
I disagree with you on "having to see Alien" for you to enjoy it. It stands on its own asking more questions than it answers in the same way as 2001 or Blade Runner and perhaps if you wanted Colonial Marines on Ice: the Before Story, yeah you'll be disappointed because it's really not about the action as much as it is about asking questions. Colored by the Alien series, it is hampered by this somewhat and moreso if you're a fan of the AVP universe considering it isn't Canon to it. Also, I always avoid those trailer reviews and I stayed away from anything about Prometheus leading up to it and made my brain go off during the trailer other than to say "Damn that sound is aggravating even after 30 years" so maybe that helped my enjoyment of the film as well. Is it perfect? No. Are there problems? Absolutely. But it's pretty damn enjoyable with some great characters like Shaw, David, and Janek (as well as Janek's pilots) and stellar visuals.
As for the ip-shay alling-fay? People do the same thing with ees-tray.
In reply to Chi_Mangetsu, #33:
well i mean for example the nature of the black goo, at no point does anyone try and ask , question, explain the properties of it, generally in a movie they would at least try and figure it out, forge ting where it is from or what it does, your expected to link the maggot's to the snakes , im not sure people put that together . and that is just the beginning , the navigator that gets his face burnt off by acid , whats going on there? its not common to be killed by acid and turn into some form of super human? and the guy that gets impregnated\killed by the snake , what happens to him ? one would think something?
Milburn was dead and it's suggested that Fifield is what Halloway would have become.
Not that I know of? Perhaps warning, perhaps the Engineers were sloppy or our ancient ancestors were more perceptive than we gave them credit for being? Not sure.
yeah that's about my best guess they left postcards all over the earth showing where they would be returning next, but sure is a stretch, they do say its not a visible planet from earth so, we have to been shown images of the planet.
not only that we have been shown images of their system , all over the earth over millions of years.
so were left with they showed us a picture of a solar system over and over for thousands of years in the hope to teach us not to go there ?
Let's be honest though, the AVP series on the whole was a mangled piece of cobbled together fan fiction, not the least being the sleigh ride of friendship.
Also it's canon not cannon.
I really don't see what you guys don't like about the movies. Well the first one at least. The second one was kind of retarded.
Prometheus Species Origin
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Also: dacalac, you notice the name of the guy who made that chart?
Also: dacalac, you notice the name of the guy who made that chart?
"Shitty ret-con"isn't really what could be called a substantial argument.
Back to the point, this is a thread for Prometheus anyways, not AvP.
So that being said, I really enjoyed the movie. So I gotta go with the ship captain in a belief that LV 223 was a military base and they created the DNA altering substance and lost control of it (man that never happens ha) As far as I'm concerned, the film can stand out on it's own. It's clear to see that there are ties to Alien, with the mural of the Xenomorph in that chamber and the cockpit/design of the ship. and of course the giant squid like facehugger and the alien the Engineer gave 'birth to'
And just to add some talk of 'canon'...there was an original Aliens comic published in 1988 about Hicks and Newt back on earth 10 years after Aliens, and then of course Alien 3 f-d everything up...and we're not even touching Ressurection. (I like to pretend that movie doesn't exist) As for the AvP thing, it's a nifty crossover that lead to a few gun games and if people want to consider this stuff canon, then this movie in no way shape or form screws with that canon. If you doubt that, I refer you to the scene when the humans discover the decapitated Engineer and the chamber. There was the Xeno mural dating back over 2,000 years...and it was clear they were prepping for a war, against who? No one really knows.
I though the dialogue was overall very good, however the line
"If we don't stop them know, there wont be a home to go back to" made me giggle, and i don't think it was supposed to.
It was rushed, but once they found out one of the Engineers was still alive, they only cared about that.
I saw it last night. I've never seen an Alien movie before so I wasn't too excited to see it. In fact, I was asking the person I went with right before why he was dragging me to such a shitty summer movie. When the credits rolled my only reaction was my jaw dropped. Literally. The acting was great, the effects were great, the storyline was okay but not completely terrible. I feel like there's so much good and so little bad. It's one of the most beautiful movies I've ever seen. So I have no complaints about the directing. I just don't see what the problem is.
Personally, I absolutely loved this film. I even thought about going back to see it again on the big screen.
You can chalk up most of the rage to fanboyism to be completely honest.