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

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...

i am tempted to go home and sketch some life-drawing type figures lounging on Victorian sofas with alien heads.

noomi lookin excellent

The first viral puzzle was solved and revealed a big ass screenshot: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Prometheus-Viral-Reveals-Stunning-Image-29828.html

The second viral puzzle has revealed a login page but no password yet: http://www.projectprometheus.com/245409/
245409 was a signal sent in July 2003 to star Gliese 208 (one of Orion's stars - signal is expected to reach the star in 2040): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Call

<3 this useless geek stuff

hate it

:-)

there's also this: http://www.projectprometheus.com/eridu/

(Eridu was one of the first cities in humanity's history)

Rightly or wrongly I'm starting to think about the film as very much its own thing -- I really don't care if it does or doesn't sync up with Alien in all details, and I actually like the idea of it being a self-sufficient variation. (Of course having said that it'll turn out that it DOES fully sync up etc. etc.)

I'd also like to think that the comment upthread about the 'real' twists not even being hinted at at all in the trailers has relevance, if only because Scott and Lindelof by now are well aware of a hyperexpectant/detail-oriented fan culture now decades established and even more precise in the frame-by-frame years.

Anyway, we'll see. And I have no problem with weird viral scheming.

I'll cry a lot if it turns out to be a George Lucas thing where there is a lot of plot not hinted at in the trailer, and all of it is unwatchable boring garbage.

it turns out the space jockeys are interstellar tariff collectors

Fucking space economics how do they work

I should check but is the Walter Hill listed as a coproducer THE Walter Hill? Kinda random if so.

speaking of continuity, ownership, all that: does anyone know what scott thinks of cameron/aliens? or any of the stuff after? i wonder. if it's even knowable. or the writers?

(checks imdb) walter hill has been behind all of them, i see. and lindelof is a "lost" guy? and the other writer has a thin resume? this stuff is interesting, idk. about as interesting as "<3 this useless geek stuff"

xp heh