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

I just don't get how, after this movie, which sucked and makes no sense, they'd be stumped with a follow-up. Here are some other ideas that would be just as good:

Charlize survived and develops a rapport with the alien

-girl survivor turns into a space giraffe, aliens put her in a zoo

-Alien morphs into a human and runs for president

-God intervenes, is impregnated by alien, gives birth to alien god

-Survivor ship lands on Mars, finds the planet is already populated by an army of Davids, who have been terrforming Mars and carving out rivers. And alien falls into the river, turning it into an alien river. Then we find out this was centuries ago, and Mars is an infected alien planet, but contemporary earth was interested in going to Mars, but oh no! don't go to Mars, it is an alien planet ruled by an alien god! Turn back! No! Agggghhhh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsx2vdn7gpY

INT. fox studios boardroom

omg guys this can be like a New Yorker cartoon caption competition

― Gukbe, Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:51 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Prometheus 2: Christ, What an Asshole.

http://www.prometheus2-movie.com/news/669

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au-Z2P3lBpg

'antimetheus'

;_; estela beat u to that one sry

really ? :( I even ctrl-f'd the thread for it

She's v subtle, that one

anyone seen this since

i've not been that depressed

I actually think this movie has the potential to end depression.

http://i.imgur.com/P8bkgVB.jpg

dog with cigar voiced by that other guy, not the president from independence day, you know the guy, would have improved this 100%

i'm halfway through reading this thread but the question that keeps on sticking in my mind is why does the big kahuna gray dude run all the way across the field to the nice jettisoned human ship after his horseshoe ship crashes

thats yr question?

seems to me if my ship just got rammed by another ship and i crashed down to land, first thing i'd be going for is the other side's insurance info

let's go straight to the source:

The Engineer lies motionless. Is he DEAD?
NO. He moves now. Slow at first -- an ACCIDENT VICTIM...
but finally manages to SIT UP. HE PULLS OFF HIS DAMAGED
HELMET, puts his hand to his TEMPLE --
BLOOD. The God is actually HURT.
And this makes him ANGRY

He rises to his FULL HEIGHT NOW, FEET STRIDING PAST DAVID’S
HEAD as The Engineer approaches a CONSOLE -- A combination of
WAVES AND SNAPS ACTIVATES --
AN EXTERIOR VIDEO ARRAY
A 360 DEGREE VIEW of the area OUTSIDE OF THE JUGGERNAUT. We
see the SETTING SUN. The flaming WRECKAGE of the MAGELLAN.
But most IMPORTANTLY?
We see a PERSON. Walking away from the ship. Tiny in the
vastness of the desert -- But now the Engineer ZOOMS IN. And
there’s no mistaking who it is --
SHAW

And as we look into the Engineer’s DARK, DARK EYES as he SEES
HER... Perhaps the only survivor of the ship that has KNOCKED
HIM FROM THE HEAVENS, WE SMASH TO

EXT. PLANET, CRASH SITE, VICKERS’ MODULE - DUSK

LIIIINNNNDEEEELOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFF

also: atmosphere inside ship was normalized to earth's atmosphere, humans could breathe, etc. - but all the space jockeys wore their elephant suits, except fro the gray dude, who didn't need it.

i have no recollection of this movie i realise, shaw is not george bernard i suppose

perhaps this will refresh your memory

INT. TENT - NIGHT
BLACK.
A BURST OF STATIC -- Then... SOMEONE leaning over camera --
Turning it on.
It’s SHAW. She is dirty, but sexily so.

now i'm getting robert

One of the pre-Lindelof drafts of the script by John Speihts leaked right around the time the movie came out on dvd. It was actually pretty good. A bit too prequel-y, but it had a lot of cool scenes and ideas. Plus it actually made sense.

Lindelof really deserves every ounce of shit he's gotten

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/jon-spaihts-confirms-his-leaked-prometheus-script-titled-alien-engineers-is-legit-6-things-that-changed-from-the-original-script-20121112

i'm halfway through reading this thread but the question that keeps on sticking in my mind is why does the big kahuna gray dude run all the way across the field to the nice jettisoned human ship after his horseshoe ship crashes

― 乒乓, Monday, October 7, 2013 7:56 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thats yr question?

― unblog your plug (darraghmac), Monday, October 7, 2013 8:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Good premise for a sequel imo, humanity outfits a space expedition to tackle the ultimate mysteries of life itself the motives of the characters in Prometheus

what about "vengeful creator species returns to Earth to hunt down and crush everybody responsible for Prometheus?"

running the 'experiments' on the head was really stupid too

the equivalent being, like

*find perfectly preserved mammoth head in frozen siberian tundra*

*stick a hot electric needle into it just to see what happens*

id imagine that this is p much how a person of lindelhof's world view feels about scientists tho

The head thing was also one of the dumbest allusions to the original Alien. It'd been cool if they'd tried to recreate the kinda-obvious cut between the mannequin head and Ian Holm covered in milky goo.

http://i.imgur.com/G0FQTqN.jpg

INT. SPACECRAFT - SLEEP WING

A SLEEP POD quietly opens.
Out steps a MAN. But not just any man. It's -
DAMON LINDELOF.

LINDELOFF takes a few tentative stretches, then he TAKES OFF HIS OWN HEAD.
HE IS A ROBOT! AND HE IS YELLING! HE IS YELLING AT US TO ...

Lindeloff: Turn back!

His DISEMBODIED HEAD then VOMITS. Out comes a SCREENPLAY, followed by PILES OF MONEY, like a Satanic ATM.

Would wear

http://i.imgur.com/Ut7pvAw.jpg

Is there talk of a follow up being in production or anything? Or was it considered too much of a disaster? Seemed to be deliberately setting itself up for a sequel.
Have to go and see another to see if its as good/bad as this.

Seemed to be deliberately setting itself up for a sequel.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5VqKDR34LSI/UL__EWqHk2I/AAAAAAAAFqM/Clk4a-xjvsw/s1600/alien_poster.jpg

Well yeah, but I thought she (Noomi Rapace) was off to roam the universe and deliver hurt unto the bastard Alien types with her sidekick David, a reconnected head. For thinking they was like God and shit.

Hundreds of years pass ...

hurt, iirc, gets delivered unto the bastard alien types in the 1979 movie?

heh

Scott is apparently doing a sequel sans Lindelof

a bastard alien type gets delivered through John Hurt in that 1979 film but it's a different species.

Certainly looked at the end of Prometheus as though they intended to continue the story of the character played by Noomi Rapace. IMDB has an entry for a Prometheus 2 but not fully populated, so I am still wondering if that is on the books even if it is backburnered.

Was Prometheus thought to be a success on any level? Box office or critical or other audience-wise? Or was it just a mess that people went to see out of curiosity over the Ripley trilogy or quadrilogy or whatever.
& it probably was a better film than the Alien Vs Predator ones wasn't it, somebody probably already says that earlier in the thread.

it was a total success in being a huge wasteful clusterfuck and generating a great ilx thread

i think the AVP had such low expectations that people (incl. james cameron) were almost pleasantly surprised by it.

Was Prometheus thought to be a success on any level? Box office or critical or other audience-wise?

― Stevolende, Tuesday, December 10, 2013 4:57 PM (44 minutes ago)

Rotten Tomatoes = 74% (269 critical reviews), 69% audience
Metacritic = 65/100
IMDB = 7.1/10

Box Office
Worldwide Gross: $404M
Budget: $180M

lol fanboys will suck up any shit, proven by science again and again

I watched Alien the other day and the scene with the navigator in the boneship is so haunting

This (Prometheus) is so unnecessary – everything that matters is there in that scene in Alien

Kind of more of a dilution of the franchise than AvP because it comes so much closer to being worthwhile

nah there can't be a frame in AvP that's less worthwhile than this idiot joke

and i say this assuming that AvP is shite for manchildren