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

wow that soundtrack is intense

music and effects have to be loud enough to keep audience awake

yah especially old folks

I was a teenager when I saw Alien and it just barely worked

http://i766.photobucket.com/albums/xx304/thebitchlizard/Funny%20pics/Cool-Dog-Hey-Cool-story-bro41.jpg

Apparently, somewhere in this long interview the length of the movie is revealed: 119 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr0rb_9fqB4 (french introduction, the rest is in english, about 3 minutes in)

For those inclined:

http://io9.com/5906286/shot+for+shot-break-down-of-all-the-new-alien-monsters-in-ridley-scotts-prometheus/gallery/1

I was just coming to post that.

http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/8/2012/04/tumblr_m3ab8epirb1r94e9jo1_500.gif

Goddamn I love a good face melt

HOT HOT HOT

Closed my eyes when this was on before Avengers.

maybe im a particularly suspicious soul, but this level of marketing generally bespeaks a less than awes movie.

Eh

im perhaps being solipsistic but ive been assailed with marketing for this thing in a way that seems quite excessive, which leads me to surmise that reviews and word of mouth for this will be poor, but they've decided to throw a great amount of money at marketing in order to achieve respectable numbers regardless. this pet theory may of course be bunkum. i tend to be often wrong.

as least they have flamethrowers

assailed with marketing for this thing in a way that seems quite excessive

I feel kind of the opposite of this, I've barely heard about this movie outside of this thread! Haven't been to a theater in a while, though.

The quality of the movie has nothing to do with the size of the marketing campaign. That's generally determined by the budget. The only way, I think, to determine the quality of a film solely from its marketing campaign is to look at the TV spots the week before and after it is released.

Yeah, the only adverts for this I've seen are internet stuff; mainly bits popping up here or on FB or io9 or something.

Oh, and the trailer before Sherlock Holmes. That was it.

SPOILERS OMG

It got an R rating, good on Fox for not shooting for PG-13.

Clip of landing spaceship!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b0KdRc7jBgY

Short commercial with 'in a world...' type voiceover guy but also some more gross bits!

http://io9.com/5910562/new-prometheus-tv-spot-shows-the-many-ways-this-crew-is-doomed

i think the only question left at this point for any sci fi fan who's been watching the trailers is whether the planet is lv426 or not

Glad they're keeping it nice and yucky.

man, i get the googlies just thinking about this shit

anyway, opening shot in that trailer looks a bit too "digital" for my tastes, esp the "prometheus" and weyland logo branding. suppose they'll refine that for release?

Yeah that clip's been severely edited down. The Prometheus logo's superimposed (I guess they think anybody watching the clip is too dumb to realize that the ship is called Prometehus).

i think the only question left at this point for any sci fi fan who's been watching the trailers is whether the planet is lv426 or not

― the late great, Tuesday, May 15, 2012 8:49 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, it's hard to tell. It looks like a different planet, but the big ringed gas giant in the background of some of the shots seems to give away that it's at least in the same system. The alien spaceship crashing in the trailers is clearly of the same type as the derelict from the first movie, but whether it's the exact same one is hard to tell. I kinda hope it isn't. I'd rather this story be more self-contained.

there's clip somewhere were ridley scott says the system is zeta (2) reticuli which is the one mentioned in alien, so...

i didn't realize lv426 was in zeta reticuli, that would seem to nail it down then

http://i1132.photobucket.com/albums/m574/User897/Screen%20Caps/_Prometheus_SpotTV-StarMap15_Portugal1080p_H264-AACmp4_snapshot_0008_20120510_014105.jpg

LV-223?

looks like it

starts on lv-223, ends on lv-426, with a hazily-remembered detour on lv-420 along the way

heh

i must say this bald dude looks like a pretty lame substitute for an alien

i know. this is such an elaborate way to reboot the Kojak franchise.

re: bald villians i feel like bane looks pretty damn lame too, can't believe they didn't go with the riddler

Maybe it's just zombie Picard.

locutus of borg

difficult listening hour suggested "locutus of cat" as a pet name on this thread, and now i can no longer conceive of it as the name of an awful space villain. i only hear the "cute" part. locutus! i want to hug you and squeeze you and smush you little cutus face!

wasn't it lolcuetest?

I AM LOLCUETEST OF BORG!

got imax tickets for june 5. stoked while at the same time thinking the amazing collision of scott, o'bannon, giger, cobb, giler, hill, weaver, and the hundred other personnel and just random factors that made alien the phenomenon it is can't possibly be repeated.

Yeah definitely.

that's like wondering if the new coppola film will be as good as the godfather. I'm psyched for this too but do ppl really think this is going to be anywhere near the same level as alien?

no

this might not be the level of alien3

Meantime, an 'origins featurette,' with Ridley talking about things etc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LXHC_HOg7FA

amazing collision of scott, o'bannon, giger, cobb, giler, hill, weaver, and

Goldsmith!

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

Noomi Rapace takes Weyland Corp's empathy test ("We call it Voight-Kampf for short").

Have to hand it to the Alien: Episode 1 marketing dept for their world-building advertising campaign.

Meantime, new interview with Ridley about things:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/17/ridley-scott-opens-up-about-prometheus-kick-ass-women-and-blade-runner-2.html

For Prometheus, I came back to a very simple question that haunted me that appears in the first Alien, and no one answered in subsequent Alien films: who was the ”Space Jockey”—the big guy in the seat? If you really go into that, it becomes the basis for a pretty interesting story. When I went to the studio, we didn’t know if it was going to be a sequel or a prequel.

this whole approach makes me think that somewhere someone feels compelled to make a film explaining the presence of the watermelon in the lab in Buckaroo Banzai