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

embarrassingly, I'm horribly excited about all this. I know it's going to let me down so hard.

i think it's ok to be cautiously excited. it's ridley scott returning to sci-fi! but then again...it's ridley scott returning to sci-fi.

Having just rewatched Blade Runner for the first time in a while (and this time via my new BluRay/plasma TV setup) I hear you there.

i watched alien for the first time yesterday. i'd seen pretty much all of it, but never just sat down through it. the space jockey is probably the best part of the film, apart from ripley's tiny panties, and i really don't want its backstory to be explained :/

slanty knickers ftw!

Alien on blu-ray is transformed; so much more detail and colour. It might be the one blu-ray that has really wowed me. Blade Runner looks great too.

Prometheus plot spoilers, if true (and it doesn't sound that bad):
http://io9.com/5816884/if-this-is-actually-the-real-plot-for-ridley-scotts-prometheus-just-shoot-us-now

Reminds me of how the spaceship in Danny Boyle's Sunshine was called Icarus II (cos the first Icarus had already flown too close to the sun). It's like they want these missions to fail!

i think it's ok to be cautiously excited. it's ridley scott returning to sci-fi! but then again...it's ridley scott returning to sci-fi.

― this guy is straight solondz (latebloomer), Wednesday, June 29, 2011 3:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

el riddo hasn't made a decent movie in about three decades iirc, but t'll be good to have the pred ships controversy nailed once and for all

Matchstick Men was pretty decent, IMO.

story outline is promising, but there's no way to tell how it'll play out. have some (small) faith in ridley scott due to alien and blade runner, no matter how much he's done to tarnish that legacy since. at the very least this sounds like it will be a prestige picture with the budget to accomplish its ambitions, and for an original, galaxy-spanning sci-fi story, that's something to cheer about.

"it'll be good to have the pred ships controversy nailed once and for all"

I would think that this is the main, perhaps the only, reason that this film is being made

What does that sentence about pred ships mean?

you don't want to know, James

it's even worse than sleep vikings

well at least with the pred ship there really was only 'right' answer and the people on the other side were intentionally trolling the IGN board

Morrison: the Most hilarious fanboy message board debate of all time

the thin line between intentional trolling and shameless challoping

blimey--thanks!

"^ For your sake and the sake of the people you are exposed to every day, I hope that post was a joke, because if it wasn't, the astonishing ignorance of that post says something really scary about you.

And if it was a joke, it wasn't funny, not even accidentally. "

leaked set photos!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KqwUzzwhewE/ThNBGjt4g2I/AAAAAAAACD0/ImoLI-Lda6c/s1600/prometheus_set_1.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9Bd3Ji_VSfE/ThNBFycNzJI/AAAAAAAACDw/jBCtDZeXzAM/s1600/prometheus_set_2.jpg

if you squint hard enough you can see the pred ship

man i bet they wish they hadn't torn all those sets down now

I wish I didn't see a Stargate in that first picture, but I kinda do

stargate & guillotine vagina combo standard

goatsegate

So wait, I'm confused. Is this movie about aliens?

Yes - but also about Predators, Things, The Lepus, and The Hair Bear Bunch

Some stuff, still pretty vague:

“I realized that there was something in the original ‘Alien’ that no one has asked a question about,” Scott said, explaining what sparked his interest in returning to the franchise. “And I thought, well that could be the centerpiece.”

But he didn’t say exactly what that question was (though he has in the past). Scott on Thursday said that “Prometheus” preserves the “original DNA” of “Alien” … “but we’ve gone in a completely different direction.” Based on a kind of sizzle reel the studio showed, “Prometheus” looks wholly of the “Alien” world, with its gooey, biomechanoid extraterrestrials, flame-thrower-wielding humans and a sinewy Rapace channeling series stalwart Sigourney Weaver.

Theron shared a bit of detail about her character in the film, Meredith Vickers. “She’s a suit, essentially,” Theron said. “She’s the machine that runs the machine that takes this mission into space. At first she comes across very cold and frigid. She’s not a scientist. She’s not a believer. She runs a tight ship. But you can tell that she’s gonna be a problem.”

Some more details:

We see Ridley on a new set, then images of a spaceship control room full of lit panels. A giant room that looks like the Giger-designed spaceship in the first ALIEN where they find the eggs, though it's filled with things that look more like Egyptian coptic jars – though they may still be eggs. It does seem like something bio-mechanical is inside.

We see Michael Fassbender examining them. Green-glass sleep pods. Bubble-helmets – the aesthetic is an odd mix of the original ALIEN H. R. Giger designs and pulp comic-book Buck Rogers-type stuff. Charlize Theron is doing push-ups naked. There's a large, ringed planet.

Scott is back on, says the cast of characters “find an establishment that is not what they expected it to be.” Somebody collapses, looks like internal injuries. People in space suits freak out. More of the Giant egg cargo hold. Scott says “It is all about everything...it has the DNA of the original ALIEN...what I wanna do is scare the living shit out of you.” It's being shot in digital 3-D.

Charlize Theron is doing push-ups naked

ok maybe i will watch this.

It's being shot in digital 3-D.

Fuck this noise.

scott says he's never shooting in 2d again

Yeah, I believe that. When are we going to start getting 3-D rom-coms from these absolutists?

I've now seen three or four films "shot in digital 3-D" in 2-D, and not once have I felt I missed anything. In fact, nor would have I ever known they were even shot in 3-D from the 2-D versions.

digital 3-D naked charlize theron pushups

we didn't start the fire

I approve Ridley Scott trying to scare me instead of put me to sleep as he has seemed so intent on doing of late.

Matchstick Men...in 3-D

hadn't this thread title been edited to point out that this is the 'Prometheus' thread earlier?

It had, but then it hiccuped or something. Let me try again.

http://collider.com/prometheus-interview-charlize-theron-damon-lindelof-comic-con/104250

Charlize, earlier you joked about doing nudity in the film.

THERON: I wasn’t joking, gosh! I’m an Academy Award winner. I’m serious.

LINDELOF: Why would we ever joke about something like that?

the comments section y'all the comments section!

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/07/21/prometheus-comiccon-alien-ridley-scot/

lol

“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.”

So it's now a remake of 2001?

yeah it's a crossover. original it was called HALiens

seriously though it sounds like Mission to Mars with Giger monsters more than anything

i hope it's better than Hannibal.

Hannibal was one of the least bad of his recent films

Still can't re-watch it due to a couple scenes making me want to vomit and have nightmares, though.

The Predators didnt create the aliens. The space jockey’s created the Aliens as a weapon or they were mearly collectors of them to use as a weapon. It’s conflicting in the literature. They would drop them onto a planet to wipe out indigenous life and would then come back to kill off all of the aliens using sonic weapons. That space jockey ship in Alien was one of their offensive drop ships. The Predators simply use the Aliens as a means to have something to hunt. They would drop a few eggs down, wait, then go hunt. An alien queen kill is I believe the greatest trophy in their culture.

http://www.toyarchive.com/STAForSale/NEW2001+/Predator/MMPredatorShipMISB1a.jpg

lol