They're Remaking 'Alien' -- the 'Prometheus' thread

Coming in late, but would have gone to see a 1979 Ridley Scott version of this...

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2468/4045426675_5dc35b74c6.jpg

lolol "John Thomas"

http://www.angelfire.com/tv2/ping0/coward.jpg

lolol "John Thomas had a most unusual pet..."

oo er

i totally want that multisaurus taxi thing tho

http://www.patchesnpins.com/images/ALIEN%20001.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/1YOUc.jpg

More SJ action, or rather a loop of the few frames we see in the trailer:

http://i.imgur.com/7ycQu.gif

that's what I mistook for chestbursting until I noticed the shoulder harness retracting

I do what I can to feed wild speculation and spread disinformation

Good interviews with Fassbender and Lindelof: http://spinoff.comicbookresources.com/2012/03/20/wondercon-scott-lindelof-and-fassbender-discuss-prometheus/

When they were asked if that film would veer further into Alien territory or explore new ground, Lindelof replied, “If we’re fortunate enough to be able to do a sequel to Prometheus, it will actually, I think, tangentialize even further away from the original Alien.”

That being said, the filmmakers demonstrated they understand what fans are clamoring to see. “When you go to the concert that is this movie, you want the Stones to play ’Satisfaction,’” Lindelof said. “So there is this sense of us [the audience] saying, ‘We want you to do something new, Ridley, but just give us a little bit of ‘Space Jockey.’ C’mon, just play it — even in the encore!’”

You mean til i disabused you of the notion Edward ;)

crazy that satisfaction is gonna play over the opening titles

(my take-away from that)

Ridley Scott stealing ideas from John Carpenter's "Starman" smdh

number none w/ the eagle eye

xps

Cross posting this from The Thing thread:

This is one of my main apprehensions about Prometheus: that they'll succumb to idiot studio or fanboy pressure or something and do the medichlorian thing. Where they feel the need to over explain some thing irrelevant to the actual story and in doing so fuck up and ruin some of the core mystique or vibe that helped made the franchise interesting in the first place.

They're already treading on dangerous ground by having an entire flick dealing with the Derelict and the Space Jockey, two things that still have some coolness because of the awesome design mixed with us knowing fuckall about it.

So how do you thread that needle where you show a little to scratch the itch of necessary backstory or exposition to make the flick compelling without going overboard and over-explanatory? Hell, John Carpenter couldnt do this nowadays, can Ridley Scott? Hell, can any major 21st-C American summer blockbuster do this?

im a bit skeptical.

you're more than likely correct. Much like The Phantom Menace, the trailers will prove to be the best thing about the movie

Right. I'm a massive Aliens fan and I'm just to the point of having a repeated internal chanted mantra of "please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck"

they shoulda Christoper Nolan amirite guys

shoulda got

they'll succumb to idiot studio or fanboy pressure or something and do the medichlorian thing

Studio my ass, that was 100% the director

I pity any of you anticipating this movie. continually amazed at the capacity for people not to learn from things like the Star Wars prequels, Aliens vs. Predator, Watchmen, the vast majority of superhero movies, etc. studios don't know how to do these things well.

yeah, it's not like we were lined up outside skywalker ranch chanting for midichlorians

Yeah, but it's fun to anticipate things and then trash them when they inevitably disappoint

i am anticipating because the previews look cool. i'm not worried about them fucking up whatever, cuz i'll always have alien and aliens no matter what. if this is anywhere near as good as those, i'll be happy. if not, well then all you naysayers get to say "told you so".

I pity any of you anticipating this movie. continually amazed at the capacity for people not to learn from things like the Star Wars prequels, Aliens vs. Predator, Watchmen, the vast majority of superhero movies, etc. studios don't know how to do these things well.

― the sir edmund hillary of sitting through pauly shore films (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7:42 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jesus do you ever even READ the shit you post sometimes

I can't remember the last time a summer sci-fi blockbuster really met expectations. Star Trek reboot was pretty okay I guess... but the landscape is pretty barren.

haha xp

i am anticipating because the previews look cool. i'm not worried about them fucking up whatever, cuz i'll always have /alien/ and /aliens/ no matter what. if this is anywhere near as good as those, i'll be happy. if not, well then all you naysayers get to say "told you so".

this p much.

star trek reboot was a lot better than 'ok'

nah, it's really overrated

ShakeyMorbs

by whom xp

I just don't get the fanboy salivation/disappointment cycle, it's so "please sir may I have another!"

xp

Star Trek reboot was cool

xpost IT'S ALL WE HAVE, SHAKEY

life is boring xp

it's more fun to get excited about stuff that looks cool than to be all *eyeroll* *replays Berlin Alexanderplatz*

I can't remember the last time a summer sci-fi blockbuster really met expectations.

avatar?

expectation for avatar- blue ppl, shitty plot. expectations met.

I've never seen Avatar. It looked terrible

independence day?

I'm sort of excited about this movie, despite thinking the idea of it is stupid. It doesn't really make sense to me that the xenomorphs are part of some crazy advanced civilization, directly or indirectly. They seemed an anti-civilizing force, like a powerful animal that is looking primarily to reproduce. It would almost make more sense if this was a prequel to Predator, which at least is about a very advanced civilization from the get-go. The xenomorphs are supposed to be scary space monsters.

i always wanted to see the Predators civilisation. Dudes just working in offices and whatnot

Dark Knight.

controversial

jesus christ was avatar horrible

I think Star Trek, Cloverfield, District 9, Rise of the Planet of the Apes... were any of those summer? Probably not, the big summer sci-fi ones that are science fiction by definition are the superhero ones.

I mean, the ones that met expectations were ones without a lot of existing property baggage or a lot of hype