Prometheus

[Solidus]

Fox needs to release this now, get the buzz going!

 

[Sawyer]

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/07/21/prometheus-comic-con-alien-ridley-scott/

'Prometheus': Comic-Con reveals details of Ridley Scott's sort-of 'Alien' prequel
by Anthony Breznican

Turns out Prometheus actually will be an origin story, though not solely attached to the Alien franchise.

Screenwriter Damon Lindelof and co-star Charlize Theron came to Comic-Con Thursday and described the secretive sci-fi epic — currently being shot by Ridley Scott, director of 1979′s original Alien — as a story about humanity’s efforts to solve the mystery of our own beginnings in the universe. (The 3-D film is debuting next summer on June 8.) “We begin at the beginning,” Lindelof said during a session with reporters before the film’s big Hall H panel presentation. “Ridley has been cryptically obtuse about everything, but there are some big ideas in Prometheus. It covers a vast expanse of time, past, present, and future.”

“God, you’re talking like the guy who created Lost,” Theron teased him.

Lindelof — who, of course, did co-create Lost — conceded the point. “If you’re looking for answers, you’ve come to the wrong place,” he shrugged.

But then, he actually gave a few …

“It doesn’t take place on Earth in any real significant way,” Lindelof said. “The way we’re exploring the future is away from Earth and [asking] what are people like now? What have they gone through and what are they thinking of?”

And those “big ideas” he hinted at: “Space exploration in the future is going to evolve into this idea that it’s not just about going out there and finding planets to build colonies. It also has this inherent idea that the further we go out, the more we learn about ourselves. The characters in this movie are preoccupied by the idea: what are our origins.”

Prometheus is a more philosophically ambitious sci-fi project, not simply a straight-forward horror film. Or, as Lindelof put it, don’t expect: “’Hey, we’re miners, and oh [expletive] we ended up stepping in this huge pile of very frightening s—!”

“We’re fundamentally exploring this idea of creation,” he said.

Prometheus — which also stars Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba and Noomi Rapace — will thread back into the Alien universe, but it is not strictly a prologue to those movies (which was the original plan during its development). But Lindelof would not confirm or deny whether we’ll see the “space jockey,” that giant, dead pilot whose crashed ship contained the monster in the original Alien. “A lot of the fun in going to see [Prometheus] is if and how we’re going to try to connect that,” Lindelof said. “If you’re a fan of the original film, there will be little Easter eggs for you to find.”

Theron shed a little more light on the character she portrays, a corporate executive named Meredith Vickers who is overseeing the deep-space exploration in Prometheus. “She’s kind of the suit who runs the company that has nickel and dimed this whole thing together to fund this mission,” Theron says.

“Obviously, I wanted to work with [Scott], but felt the character was a little one-dimensional” in the original script, she said. After a re-write by Lindelof, Vickers became a role with a major twist. “She starts out one thing and becomes another thing,” Theron said.

“The great thing about Ridley is he shoots everything so layered and makes you wonder,” she added, saying the filmmaker started putting her in the background of scenes, just to make her more suspicious. “I would always be in the corner lurking, not saying anything, just watching. It adds to this character, her enigma, and what her agenda really is,” Theron said.

As for the title, what is Prometheus? A ship? A character? Simply an allusion to the Greek myth? Or will the alien be revealed as a Frankenstein-like human creation? (Remember, the full title of Mary Shelley’s tale was The Modern Prometheus.)

“We’re not going to talk specifically about how it connects into the movie, but yes, [in Greek mythology], Prometheus was a titan who stole fire from the gods because they were keeping it for themselves and worried about what mankind would do if we got our paws on it. That’s a resonant theme. What are humans doing that we shouldn’t be doing?” Lindelof says.

“It also sounds really pretentious, like Inception,” he joked. “Yeah, it makes the movie sound so smart, which is better than my original title – Explosion!”

More info out of Lindelof.

 

[JakeSully]

Prometheus + The Dark Knight Rises = Epic win!!!

 

[akfj]

I really want to see this footage, or at least some kind of trailer.

 

[xmangambit]

Footage info

http://io9.com/5823610/

And some other bit from Bleeding Cool:

Starting with a montage of clips from Ridley Scott’s previous films, including Alien, the video package soon went into a mixture of interview clips with Scott and shots from the film. The interview pieces were telling us that this isn’t really an Alien prequel, that the only connection is this oft-discussed Alien DNA.

On the other hand, the footage confirmed completely that this is an Alien film. The production design was familiar and, not to put too fine a point on it, there were glimpses of bits and pieces of the alien biology we recognise. Something like a full size humanoid alien was seen in the burn of a flamethrower, tail and all, and if you were looking in the right place, you could see something like the alien eggs.

Michael Fassbender’s character does look like the Android characters from the previous alien films but in one shot, we see him cry; in another, he appears to prick his finger and draw blood.

Scott is currently on screen via link-up to Iceland and has confirmed that “there may be two” robots in the cast of Prometheus.

As Lindelof has noted on stage, there is a shot in the clip that appears to show a naked Charlize Theron doing press-ups. There’s also another of Noomi Rapace dropping to the floor in a smilier pose – but she’s allowed the dignity of wearing something a bit like Leeloo’s bandage outfit from The Fifth Element.

There are several shots in the footage which appear to show characters meeting sticky ends, including some of the big name stars, but I wouldn’t want to spoil that.

 

[Kane52630]

@ the trailer description and that leaked photo.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

My god, that footage sounds great. Releasing it now would be a dman good idea!

 

[craigdbfan]

Must see the trailer. The Mass Effect comparison was neat too.

So excited for this.

 

[Sawyer]

Please, Fox, pleeeeeeease!!!

 

[Doctor Jones]

Holy balls, I love the sound of everything. The picture, the footage, Theron doing nude pushups, EVERYTHING.

 

[Doctor Jones]

And where's this picture of Noomi?

 

[Kane52630]

And where's this picture of Noomi?

last page, it's in a link.

 

[Project862006]

Please, Fox, pleeeeeeease!!!

who would of thought his quote would come lol

 

[Doctor Jones]

http://***********/#!/BrianTooFab/status/94127369291448320

last page, it's in a link.

It's been said, but I really thought that was Weaver in that shot. It barely looks like Rapace.

 

[Heisenberg]

And where's this picture of Noomi?

http://a.yfrog.com/img734/1539/vz5jmk.jpg

Cool shot.

 

[superkong 500]

Damn that shot of noomi looks like ripley, not kidding

 

[dark_b]

Unless you're the Coen Brothers...you can't.

No blood. No gore. No nudity unless it's a dude's ass, can't say more then one F word, the film cannot be dark in tone...in any way (Max Payne was rated R as it is because of the look of the film, and tone).

PG-13 sucks ass as a rating. Some films get away with it fine...but cut down ones...ehh.

That being said, if they film this R, and cut it later, i'd be alright with it.

but you will not watch Ridley's cut in the theater. you will pay money to watch a Fox cut and then you will have to whait 6 months for the directors cut.

this again sounds like classic Scott and Fox. i want hes vision in the theater. i dont want to pay an expensive 3D ticket just to see quick cuts and parts missing in the movie.

 

[dark_b]

Prometheus + The Dark Knight Rises = Epic win!!!

i understand that this is Ridlley Scott. trust me i do. but what happened the last time someone compared hes movie to Dark Knight?

i just dont like when writters,directors, and actors compare their movies to good movies that made money. it never works out.

just saying .

 

[lime]

So if someone managed to take a picture from the footage (the Noomi one), can we expect someone to have taken a video?

 

[redhawk23]

i understand that this is Ridlley Scott. trust me i do. but what happened the last time someone compared hes movie to Dark Knight?

i just dont like when writters,directors, and actors compare their movies to good movies that made money. it never works out.

just saying .

I think the post you were responding to was simply expressing their excitement about next year, not comparing two films no one has seen yet...

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Please, Fox, pleeeeeeease!!!

They won't listen.

 

[dark_b]

I think the post you were responding to was simply expressing their excitement about next year, not comparing two films no one has seen yet...

my mistake. but i think someone from the production compared this movie to TDK.

 

[John McGuirk]

Summer 2012 is going to be INSANE.

Well, the whole YEAR will be nuts too.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Lindelof getting all deep there but I want to see this footage ASAP!

 

[RolandDaggett]

What movie will the teaser be attached to?