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

X-post to Ned

I'm betting the black goo from Prometheus has something to do with it.

Yeah, it's the most obvious connection. It's an interesting out they gave themselves in that film -- we knew what was in the one main ship but of course it crashed. No exact idea what's in the other one they flew away.

the original Giger design

I read this as 'original Geir design' for a second and went, "There's a thought."

But per James's observation, doesn't explain the wheat directly. Anyway, guess we'll find out -- I admit I was double-checking the screenwriter credits to confirm Lindelof wasn't involved.

An easy implication is that the crashed horseshoe ship in this film is the one that was flown off at the end of Prometheus but if that's the case trying to figure out where the eggs come from is the trick.

it's not a trick, the movie is going to suck.

It very well might but what does it add to the thread by saying so? You're not doing anyone a favor, you're just adding more reflexive scoffing to the pile. There's plenty of that in every movie thread already.

It's pretty easy to adopt a knowingly cynical attitude instead of being vulnerable and allowing yourself to be excited about something and hope that it will be good.

Skepticism and ambivalence are fine, just really get tired of that glib, reflexive "It's gonna suck" attitude. It sucks the air out of everything.

And disappointment is healthy and fine too! I'd rather be massively disappointed by something than go in knowing exactly what my reaction will be.

I haven't seen a trailer for Prometheus 1, let alone 2, but I bet this will suck too :)

This isn't really about Alien this is just stuff I've been thinkin' about lately.

At this point they're continuing a story that I could give two shits about and barely remember anyway. Like I wasn't exactly on the edge of my seat after Prometheus (more like stretched across three taking a nap)

i like black sand space movies & i love me some ridley but we're a couple of stops past where i should have got off the Alien train

those white dudes have got to stop crashing their ships

I mean their insurance premiums must be through the roof

they make up for it by employing super low budget incompetent crews

In a post-Trump world it's certainly plausible

Wonder if the hooded figure glimpsed in this is Noomi Rapace's Dr Shaw

It appears to be going both ways - I can see the more bio-mechanoid look in the alien at the end, but the one at 1:45 seems to have human-like skin?

i really want danny mcbride to be the surprise sole survivor of this movie

movie ends with him calling his daughter, Ellen Ripley, back on Earth

woah

appreciate latebloomer's enthusiasm

skeptical about this being a ship meant to set up a colony with partnered couples, seems like a recipe for undercooked relationship drama and easy emotional beats

Fassbender's still a robot, right? imo the best plot would be this one finding the memory chip from the Prometheus one and getting up to some evil hijinks

Fassbender IS using a different accent in this one, yes? Do different models have different accents? There's some custom designing.

well, the one in Prometheus was obsessed with Laurence Olivier, so it could have been something he decided to affect

this one's secretly obsessed with gg allin

the one in Prometheus was obsessed with Laurence Olivier

Peter O'Toole, surely.

Laurence of Arabia tbf

brain fart, sorry guys

I guess everyone knows the movie and actor I get confused now and I don't need to post to that thread.

For the next movie, Fassbender will be asked to be obsessed with Jason Statham.

Steve Jobs

boo to Jobs, yay to Statham

we get scenes of him shadowboxing along to Statham classics

in the climax of the film, he punches an alien in the head

alien: covanent 2: turtles in time will feature danny mcbride teaming up with fassbender's robot, who is obsessed with pink flamingos star divine, to beat the alien menace forever by proving they've been committing tax fraud for hundreds of years

alien: covanent 2: turtles in time will feature danny mcbride teaming up with fassbender's robot, who is obsessed with pink flamingos star divine, to beat the alien menace forever by proving they've been committing tax fraud for hundreds of years

hmm

Alien Covenant 3, Alien V Predator 3: Alien 7

io9 with a trailer breakdown:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/everything-the-covenant-trailer-reveals-about-the-lates-1792841865

I admit I didn't catch this shot clearly enough on first viewing:

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--XKD5Ls3y--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/kljzptg2kegwccg19q87.png

Per io9:

Remember how Prometheus started with a flashback to the Engineers/Pilots (the big, bald, white aliens—they’re called both, with “Engineers” being prominent in Prometheus)? This, with the monumental figures we’ve seen them make before, seems to be another one of those.

God bless any of yis who saw Prometheus and can still manage to pretend convince yourselves that this is going to either convincingly link to alien or be worth catching on its own standalone merit.

Chiding the rest of us seems a bit strong tho.

xp oh man if that's half as good as the rave scene in the second Matrix movie . . .

Alien dancers are truly the most supple.

God bless any of yis who saw Prometheus and can still manage to pretend convince yourselves that this is going to either convincingly link to alien or be worth catching on its own standalone merit.

I am simple in this regard: I mostly just want to see James Franco's character die bloodily.

You always say that tho

I fail to see the problem in James Franco's character dying bloodily in every film ever made.

am i the only one who thought the CGI alien looked really bad?

I think so too, but I can't separate that completely with my vague sense of emptiness and disappointment that seeing one of these aliens onscreen no longer produces any kind of thrill or scare in me. I don't want it to be that way but it is. These used to be genuine nightmare-producing horrors for me, from around the time I first saw Aliens, and unfortunately that's been worn away. Having them flipping and flailing around, CG-style, in broad daylight, does not help, of course. And the tail creeping in on the shower scene still offers a little of the old excitement. But I do increasingly feel like, as much as I enjoy Resurrection as a fun, disposable (tho stylish) 90s popcorn movie, it would have been way better in every way if the series had taken its final curtain with the third movie.

er, separate that completely from, etc.

Part of me has to wonder, especially given Scott's vociferousness a couple of years back about how he didn't want to deal with 'dragons' anymore, if there's some sort of bait/switch going on here in terms of the actual focus. Because I agree with Doctor Casino heavily here on the sheer overfamiliarity and its resultant impact or lack thereof. I'm curious about this film but not excited about it.

[Prometheus 2 is] fresh” and “getting away from gods and dragons and shit. If I see one more dragon I’m going to shoot myself. Stop the dragons.”

Rather than a dragon, Scott describes his original Alien as “the definitive dragon and he’s a motherfucker. The alien’s real which is why it’s probably one of the scariest monsters in film history,” Scott says. “So with Prometheus 2 what I’m trying to do is reintroduce a fresher form of alien in the third act.”

what if...the alien is us

he's talking total shite though