was that alien's host jay leno
― the late great, Monday, 19 March 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
Next drawing shows him eating that new Doritos taco...
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 March 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
i am tempted to go home and sketch some life-drawing type figures lounging on Victorian sofas with alien heads.
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 19 March 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link
noomi lookin excellent
― goole, Monday, 19 March 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
The first viral puzzle was solved and revealed a big ass screenshot: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Prometheus-Viral-Reveals-Stunning-Image-29828.html
The second viral puzzle has revealed a login page but no password yet: http://www.projectprometheus.com/245409/245409 was a signal sent in July 2003 to star Gliese 208 (one of Orion's stars - signal is expected to reach the star in 2040): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Call
<3 this useless geek stuff
― StanM, Monday, 19 March 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
hate it
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 19 March 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
:-)
there's also this: http://www.projectprometheus.com/eridu/
(Eridu was one of the first cities in humanity's history)
― StanM, Monday, 19 March 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
Rightly or wrongly I'm starting to think about the film as very much its own thing -- I really don't care if it does or doesn't sync up with Alien in all details, and I actually like the idea of it being a self-sufficient variation. (Of course having said that it'll turn out that it DOES fully sync up etc. etc.)
I'd also like to think that the comment upthread about the 'real' twists not even being hinted at at all in the trailers has relevance, if only because Scott and Lindelof by now are well aware of a hyperexpectant/detail-oriented fan culture now decades established and even more precise in the frame-by-frame years.
Anyway, we'll see. And I have no problem with weird viral scheming.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 March 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
I'll cry a lot if it turns out to be a George Lucas thing where there is a lot of plot not hinted at in the trailer, and all of it is unwatchable boring garbage.
― mh, Monday, 19 March 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
it turns out the space jockeys are interstellar tariff collectors
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
Fucking space economics how do they work
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
I should check but is the Walter Hill listed as a coproducer THE Walter Hill? Kinda random if so.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
speaking of continuity, ownership, all that: does anyone know what scott thinks of cameron/aliens? or any of the stuff after? i wonder. if it's even knowable. or the writers?
(checks imdb) walter hill has been behind all of them, i see. and lindelof is a "lost" guy? and the other writer has a thin resume? this stuff is interesting, idk. about as interesting as "<3 this useless geek stuff"
xp heh
― goole, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
sorta surprised by how much people care about this...? Ridley Scott hasn't made a decent movie in eons, the odds that milking an already bled-dry franchise even further will somehow result in a decent film are really low
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
Here's Cameron
Ridley Scott is talking about doing an Alien prequelThat’s a strange move for him. I mean, Ridley and I talked over lunch maybe 10 years ago and I said, “Look, I’ll write it and produce it, you direct it, it’ll ****ing kick ass!” And he was like, “Yeah, let’s do it!” And nothing happened. And then they did Alien vs. Predator, and that kind of pissed in the soup. I think Ridley really should do science fiction. He made the two most iconic science-fiction films of the 20th century. When he came to visit me [on the set of Avatar] I said to him, “Quit ****ing around with these wine movies in the south of France, make another science fiction film.” And he saw the technique we were using and got all fired up about it. He turned to his producer and said, “Why am I doing this Robin Hood? I should be doing science fiction!”
― Number None, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:12 (twelve years ago) link
Hey look, two of them space jockey/elephant/suits in the corridor behind her:
http://cdn.chud.com/9/99/9936eaaa_prometheus1.jpeg
― StanM, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, all credit to Cameron, obv.
I'm probably one of the few people who liked his Robin Hood? It wasn't mind-blowing or anything, but IMO it was an interesting attempt to do a more "realistic" take on the RH mythos. Certainly better than Gladiator.
― Tuomas, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
Most anything is better than Gladiator.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
My god, these monsters are hideous when they're out of their suits: http://i43.tinypic.com/2m5f993.jpg
― StanM, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
I dug Robin Hood for the same reasons, Tuomas
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link
I liked Russell Crowe's Irish accent
― Number None, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I0FEMKrTFjs/Tzu_dbTQocI/AAAAAAAARIY/Oo9EqKqnJxM/s1600/NorthFaceWillyWonka.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
the battle scene on the beach was pretty cool
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
Some of the preview designs look interesting, but at this point, I expect every genre film to be shit or massively disappointing, so I ain't got my hopes up.
That said, I'm trying to think of other iconic 20th C films that reach that level. 2001, maybe? Star Wars and the Matrix were both tarnished by later connected flicks.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
Matrix tarnished by its makers imho
― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
How so
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
Star Wars wasn't?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
We should probably have a thread for the Wachowski's Cloud Atlas at some point. Gonna be hilarious
― Number None, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
matrix is great. sequels are poop. wachowski's are just some people, iirc.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
Come to think of it, I still have never seen Alien IV a second time. Kinda wanna watch Alien 3 to see how many UK character actors I recognize.
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
Hey look, two of them space jockey/elephant/suits in the corridor behind her
seriously look like some space cthulhus
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
When he came to visit me [on the set of Avatar] I said to him, “Quit ****ing around with these wine movies in the south of France, make another science fiction film.” And he saw the technique we were using and got all fired up about it. He turned to his producer and said, “Why am I doing this Robin Hood? I should be doing science fiction!”
Hahah. OTM. But I saw said wine flick on a flight (rather, I noted it was playing but didn't bother actually dealing with the audio) and it certainly looked appropriately gorgeous so hey.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
Marion Cotillard looked appropriately gorgeous. Dunno about the movie
― Number None, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
what the fuck does charlie chaplin have to do with north face, that's the dumbest meme i've ever seen
also ridley scott has made at least a few decent movies in the last eon: black hawk down, gladiator, american gangster, body of lies
― the late great, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think any of those are epochal like alien or aliens but definitely around the sweet spot between popcorn thriller and more serious fare
― the late great, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
lol charlie chaplin
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
cotillard? chaplin? what happened, i am confused
― goole, Monday, 19 March 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
could def see cotillard playing paulette godard in a new biopic
― JIM THOMETHEUS (zachlyon), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
wait, this is a BIOPIC?
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
xenobiopic
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
haha willie wonka my bad
― the late great, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
Also, Alien IV was one of those times that so crystallized the prevailing design trend at the time for me. That particular trend being "Looking like a Quake level"
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
haha yes
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
yeah and also, i think i said this already somewhere on this thread, but it was soooo 90s to be like "what the gritty, industrial, magnificently-realized alien universe needs is... a dose of gallic whimsy!"
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
and four years before quake (a year before doom, even)
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
the only good part of that movie was the chick that drowned
― the late great, Monday, 19 March 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
it was soooo 90s to be like "what the gritty, industrial, magnificently-realized alien universe needs is... a dose of gallic whimsy!"
tbh, i think the heavy presence of the gritty and industrial in the 90s pop visual imagination owes a lot to david fincher
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
Most interesting thing about Alien Resurrection now is it basically being a very early version of Whedon's "Firefly," pretty much.
That and Brad Dourif getting his head eaten.
― butvi wouls (Phil D.), Monday, 19 March 2012 19:19 (twelve years ago) link