Prometheus

[superkong 500]

This and the hobbit( then TDKR) are my most anticipated movies next year.

I wonder if we'll get to see the origin of the xenomorphs, maybe they're a weapon created by the space jockeys but it gets out of control? Damn can't wait for the first trailer!

 

[Teelie]

That theory is as old as Alien I think and it would be great if it's finally addressed and we know one way or another.

 

[Visceral]

That theory is as old as Alien I think and it would be great if it's finally addressed and we know one way or another.

minichloreans

 

[Teelie]

Do not let Lucas near this prequel!

 

[superkong 500]

I've been wondering, if the space jockeys created us, then in the film that eliminates god out of the equation (not completely though) I wonder what would be the theological, psychological and thematic implications of this discovery for the crew and what kind of controversy could that bring to the film itself.

 

[Teelie]

Something like that would be explosively controversial. People take their religion very, very personally and even a perceived slight is enough to set off some people. So depending on who their crew is and how this is managed it's probably going to range from denial to suicidal to homicidal.

And the audience I expect will be sharply divided with most religious groups decrying humans as created by some alien race. I can see several boycotts and probable death threats against Ridley Scott and the cast if that happened.

 

[Solidus]

Something like that would be explosively controversial. People take their religion very, very personally and even a perceived slight is enough to set off some people. So depending on who their crew is and how this is managed it's probably going to range from denial to suicidal to homicidal.

And the audience I expect will be sharply divided with most religious groups decrying humans as created by some alien race. I can see several boycotts and probable death threats against Ridley Scott and the cast if that happened.

Mmmm no it would not be a big deal. AvP did somewhat of the same thing, and many other sci-fi's and other films have done things that really question our origins. Planet of the Apes is all about evolution, but most people did not freak out about it.

Good sci-fi asks very hard questions. Blade Runner asks what is it mean to be human? Are the replicants any different than us? Sci-Fi is suppose to ask hard hitting questions that will make you think about yourself, reflect, and look at many different views. If you agree with something or not is entirely a different thing. But it asks questions is the key point.

Sci-Fi always questions our origins or what it means to be human. Doing something like that with the space jockeys is not a big deal. There will be extremism on either sides no matter what, but it won't be some divided thing. Hell Scott has been saying for over a year that it is about "Gods" and "engineers" Prometheus is all about man taking power from the Gods. It has been heavily insinuated that the Jockey's may very well be part of our origins and that of the Alien themselves.

 

[KRIM]

And the audience I expect will be sharply divided with most religious groups decrying humans as created by some alien race. I can see several boycotts and probable death threats against Ridley Scott and the cast if that happened.

It'll only bring press to the film, so bring it on. I really tire of these small minority groups decrying a product of fiction as damaging to their culture and beliefs. As if there aren't literally thousands of interpretations on creationism already.

 

[Soapy]

There aren't going to be any protests, boycotts, or death threats. The whole "god = aliens" angle has been done many times before across various media. Nobody made a fuss about it then, and they're not going to now.

Except maybe those Westboro religious crazies. You can never count them out.

 

[Kane52630]

This was pretty interesting in that June interview with Ain't It Cool News about the Space Jockeys:

“I think beneath that carcass… it’s not a carcass, it’s a suit. Inside the suit is a being.”

 

[Teelie]

People still protest it but it's not as common to see it reported in mainstream media. I still see it often enough when something really angers the religious groups but yeah the people like Westborough and those not quite as nutty will protest it and make death threats. It's only when someone actually goes through with an attempt or succeeds you hear about them anymore.

 

[Bat-Mite]

This movie would have to be huuuuge... on a Da Vinci Code level... for the religious groups to make a big fuss over it. Hell, they made the Da Vinci Code as popular as it was by b****ing about it non-stop in the first place, so if they do that with Prometheus, that can only help it at the box office, IMO.

But yeah, there are shows on the History channel all the time with people theorizing that human life was created by aliens and nobody seems to care all that much.

 

[Teelie]

That is true. I am probably just being cynical.

 

[Carnotaur3]

The Da Vinci code was a different story. It was being told by some people that Da Vinci code was real and not a work of fiction. Therefore, some Christians thought the makers behind it were threatening their faith.

This movie, probably like Mission to Mars, isn't going to offend anyone. I'm a Christian myself. It's just a science-fiction movie. And I for one can't wait to see it.

 

[Doctor Jones]

The problem with the controversy surrounding The Da Vinci Code was pure and simple ignorance.

 

[Teelie]

Probably doesn't help Dan Brown is still insisting it's real even though it's been debunked in every way possible.

 

[The Morningstar]

I really like the idea that the "Space Jockys" are some kinda, intergalactic scientists, creating and breeding all these different species throughout the cosmos.

And controversy be damned, I think it's compelling to have a story that explores mankinds reaction to that revelation.

 

[Teelie]

Is it really controversial if no one cares though?

 

[The Morningstar]

Well to me it's not controversial, because i'm not a religious zealot and this film is a work of fiction. But we all know there are crazies out there.

 

[Teelie]

There are but if they are so minor as to not even be a blip on the media does that count?

 

[redhawk23]

Caught a midnight show of Aliens at a local theater on Friday night. It was great fun to watch it on the big screen for the first time, but it also made me insanely excited about the prospect of Prometheus next summer!

 

[Doctor Jones]

Probably doesn't help Dan Brown is still insisting it's real even though it's been debunked in every way possible.

Umm... he acknowledges it's fictional in the first pages of the book.

 

[Teelie]

And then goes onto interview shows saying how much of it is true when most of it wasn't. He says the story is fictional but most of the "history" is real and it's not. It's like saying that the movie 300 was historically accurate. 300 Spartans were there but so were a lot of other guys, and the Persians didn't look like that and it didn't occur the way it was depicted but the grain of truth is there so we'll just go along with it?

 

[Doctor Jones]

And then goes onto interview shows saying how much of it is true when most of it wasn't. He says the story is fictional but most of the "history" is real and it's not. It's like saying that the movie 300 was historically accurate. 300 Spartans were there but so were a lot of other guys, and the Persians didn't look like that and it didn't occur the way it was depicted but the grain of truth is there so we'll just go along with it?

You have a link?

 

[Teelie]

Martin Savidge: When we talk about da Vinci and your book, how much is true and how much is fabricated in your storyline?

Dan Brown: 99 percent of it is true. All of the architecture, the art, the secret rituals, the history, all of that is true, the Gnostic gospels. All of that is … all that is fiction, of course, is that there's a Harvard symbologist named Robert Langdon, and all of his action is fictionalized. But the background is all true.

CNN Transcripts of an interview with Dan Brown, 2003.