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

Since ilx has been down and shit, why not:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_luIM6xaIck

I should know better, but this undeniably *looks* awesome, FUIUD.

best viewed in HD:

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox/prometheus/

Pretty sure that removing the unheimlich mystery from the space jockey and the derelict can only be a bad thing but yeah I can't help but feel a little bit stoked either.

http://io9.com/5889058/ridley-scotts-amazing-prometheus-short-film-reveals-the-weyland-corps-shining-future

So excited for this.

Yeah, agreed -- I admit the trailer sold me.

Meantime, bring on the viral marketing:

https://www.weylandindustries.com/

guess AvsP isn't canon then

weyland-smithers corporation

kinda lolsy that it's pre-yutani.

lol I made the same goofy AvP canon comment to my friend

oh snap

"weyland-smithers corporation"

lol

if you'll indulge me, i'd like to nerd out just a little bit

WY logo from the first Alien:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BIazSOYb8mc/TloruFryDZI/AAAAAAAACKA/f4hLpTUvlPg/s1600/0008WeylandYutaniDecalsforALIENFX19.jpg

WY logo from the second and third Alienses:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/fi/a/af/Weyland-yutani.JPG

logo from Prometheus

http://comingsoon.net/nextraimages/weylogofinal.jpg

...

maybe it's one of those magic eye things

oh, link's not showing up

http://gamingshogun.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/weyland-industries-700x359.png

but yeah there's a magic eye thing going. it's a sailboat.

a biomechanical nightmare sailboat with vaginapenises

not really feeling this fake ted talk /picky

didn't watch it tbh. Not into that kind of viral marketing stuff

i dunno what guy pearce is doing, ted talks don't sound like the speeches from braveheart

I don't get the Guy Pearce thing, according to it the movie takes place in the 2020s? And we're supposed to have interstellar space travel and cyborgs by then? Is the movie set in some alternate Earth?

gonna be a hell of a next 10 years

Is the movie set in some alternate Earth?

No, it's a future documentary like all science fiction films

the speed of quibbling doubles every 18 months

http://usuarios.multimania.es/pendorio/Covers/Various%20Artists%20-%20Los%20Angeles,%20November%202019%20(2010%20Reissue)_Folder.jpg

Given the context of the fake page hosting it, I think the TED talk video is supposed to be around fifty years before the 'now' of Prometheus, so there you go.

need suggestions for autoreplacing every question mark Tuomas posts.

Yeah the TED talk is Weyland talking about THE FUTURE and in the actual film there's an android

Ah okay, so Pearce will be an android in the movie? Makes sense.

I just read the movie's synopsis on IMDb:

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe.

Since the Aliens are bioweapons engineered by the Space Jockeys, the big reveal in this movie must be that humans were bioengineered by them as well, right? Hence the title "Prometheus" (and its allusion to Frankenstein and various other creating-life stories).

nah, Fassbender is the android, I think

ugh that would kind of suck, i always liked the idea of them just being random lifeforms we (and the space jockeys) were unlucky enough to come across

humanity must have been one of their failed early experiments

of course i'm stoked for this but i really fear it's gonna be the exact same prequel retconning i fucking hate

not really feeling this fake ted talk /picky

― goole, Wednesday, March 14, 2012 1:03 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah it was p lame and overdone

The fake TED talk makes Weyland look like a bombastic asshole. Seems about right.

guys what if the aliens were actually the crew of the prometheus that were mutated?!?

Everyone's an android /spoiler

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WmC just replace "?" with "!!!"

That wouldn't reveal the origin of mankind though. Unless the aliens were sent back in time and became our ancestors.

I think replacing all your question marks with exclamation points would indeed reveal the origin of mankind, though.

we are all ~aliens~ if u think about it, from the right POV

"The fake TED talk makes Weyland look like a bombastic asshole."

in the trailer, on the TED screen there are livestreamed comments from the audience -- one of them is something to the effect of 'christ what an asshole'

from the right POV we are all backwards cowboy aliens

reverse cowgirl aliens

(sorry)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXLzJhZa8PY&

As long as there are aliens of some sort in this, I think we're all good.

Why do future space people name things after tragic figures? Like, why would you name a planet Pandora and expect anything good to come of it? Why would you name a ship Prometheus? That's like naming your ship Icarus, your spelunking party Orpheus, or your son Oedipus. In the future, have the endings of all these Greek myths been forgotten?

they named the ship Icarus in Sunshine. Actually even better, it's called Icarus II cos the first one disappeared on its mission to the Sun.

was that the space jockey?