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

it'll be a biomechanical suit or whatever

and the comics ain't canon

I know I just wanted everybody to see how funny the jockey looks

yeah, that would be way better obviously

omg are those 3D goggles he's holding? mind boggles @ goggles

It's a suit for sure, probably a biomechanical interface to the ship. /nerd

guys

http://f.cl.ly/items/2w2q0f2r1q2s3K0a0e1n/prometheus_glowy_dude.jpg

This Peter Weyland timeline is pretty ridiculous, but explains the fake TED talk megalomania. He fixes global warming, creates terraforming, does stem cell research, and cures almost all cancers by age 25! Gets a Nobel prize at 26! Gives ridiculous TED talk and then creates super-amazing androids!

I kind of hope this is in line with the Alien films, because lol even though dude was a genius his company still merges with Yutani corp and in a few hundred years is bought by Wal-Mart.

Can't tell what that's supposed to be? They put in a green goblin for st. patrick's day? Xpost

It's the really tall dude activating something that has a green energy ball popping up. Really quick cut toward the end of the trailer.

Oh, missed this on the timeline:

After years of litigation, Weyland wins the David patent lawsuit against the Japanese start-up Yutani Corporation, effectively protecting the investments of both Weyland Industries and its shareholders.

Presumably the world of Prometheus is one where scientific progress makes a leap due to a shitload of funding and effort that reality lacks. Guessing Weyland is the front-runner, with some competitors?

i don't think that guy is necessarily really tall, we don't see where his feet are touching the ground or whether the floor slopes up near the walls

like his head seems to be about half the size of the space jockey's which proportionally matches this picture

Man, it's going to be a long two and a half months until this gets released. (and in about ten years I'll laugh about this post when the tread gets revived because the 4D UV-disc remaster is released)

i hope there will be a cloverfield-esque shitstorm of endless fake spoilers and arguments about clues in viral ads that are then completely irrelevant to the movie

we can only hope

that corporate timeline mentions a weyland "memorial library" but I think it's a red herring. if peter weyland is born in 1990, he could be mid-80s by the time of the movie. crepey pale-looking dude could be peter weyland

or more accurately, the stuff about "looking for a practical use for stasis" makes me think that dude is gonna go into stasis to skip ahead -- you know, the old "thaw me out when we can travel to other worlds" trick

can't believe weyland was born in the 90s i feel old

What worries me more is that the world of 2085 doesn't remember what happened in the 1979 Alien movie.

It doesn't segue into Alien but it leaves some of its own questions unanswered, leaving open the option of a sequel: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prometheus_(film)&mobileaction=view_normal_site#Sequel

Yay. Look, go to wikipedia, it's on the Prometheus page, section called sequel.

"if we’re fortunate enough to do a sequel to Prometheus, it will tangentialize even further away from the original Alien."

tangetialize, yall

Mmm. In Germany, the movie will be called "Prometheus - Dunkle Zeichen"
(that's "Dark Signs" or dark symbols)

What I want to know is if the space jockey ship in this is the derelict from Alien, or just another ship of the same type.

also looks like the aliens came from humans infected with a virus, which is an interesting wrinkle if that's where they went with it.

While I don't doubt there will be lots of retconned silliness in this flick, I'm pretty sure that the "aliens came from humans infected with a virus" scenario won't be part of that. For starters, this mural http://i.imgur.com/UL3mC.jpg seen at 1:37 in the trailer, pretty much makes it clear that the aliens have been around for a while before the events of the movie.

My guess is that the "space jockeys" are a race of bioengineers of some sort and the aliens are one of many bioweapons or creations of theirs (those little worm things in the trailer are probably another).

They made humans!!!

Or did they? Wait for Prometheus 2: The Reckoning in 2016!

what are we looking at in that photo latebloomer?

Prometheus 2: The Retconning

an alien, brah!

http://i.imgur.com/UL3mC.jpg

yuk. multiple trailers. showing way too much.

=failure

Failien

exactly

that photo makes me v excited

I realllllly hope I don't regret this anticipation

it's alien hunter in a christ pose?

or the underside of a facehugger?

the former

You changed you display name for a film? Pathetic.

losers

all your farts eat cock

HEY GUYS THIS IS JI

What worries me more is that the world of 2085 doesn't remember what happened in the 1979 Alien movie.

― StanM, Sunday, 18 March 2012 23:11 (Yesterday)

this is called the prequel paradox

While I don't doubt there will be lots of retconned silliness in this flick, I'm pretty sure that the "aliens came from humans infected with a virus" scenario won't be part of that. For starters, this mural http://i.imgur.com/UL3mC.jpg seen at 1:37 in the trailer, pretty much makes it clear that the aliens have been around for a while before the events of the movie.

My guess is that the "space jockeys" are a race of bioengineers of some sort and the aliens are one of many bioweapons or creations of theirs (those little worm things in the trailer are probably another).

― Conmetheus (latebloomer), Sunday, March 18, 2012 7:50 PM (2 hours ago)

maybe that mural was a failed experiment and it took the ruthless spirit of humans for the space jockey bioengineers to finally perfect their killing machine!

space jockey just makes me think abt underpants

as you were, sorry

s1ocki hates scifi and everything good, maybe has acid 4 blood

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Sunday, March 18, 2012 1:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

??

i love sci-fi and i PARTICULARLY love everything good

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, March 18, 2012 2:35 PM (8 hours ago)

I notice you conveniently avoid any disavowal of acid blood

every time I read the title of this movie I keep thinking of that student film Jay Sherman made on The Critic

I notice you conveniently avoid any disavowal of acid blood

― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Sunday, March 18, 2012 10:41 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dont like to get into my personal life on ilx

Space S1ocki just makes me think about underpants

He's got the acid sperm too, probably. But he doesn't wanna talk about it.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X5tzVA8y7yM/T2dO0BEMi8I/AAAAAAAAALM/sdD8xof6ZVk/s1600/ilovealien.jpg

(be nice, mine)

Wish I could go to your life classes! Nice one.

was that alien's host jay leno

Next drawing shows him eating that new Doritos taco...