prometheus (2012, ridley scott)

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finally, the trailer that has been teased all week...


at first, i was very skeptical of this; the idea of a team of people discovering the derelict before alien seemed quite distracting and might ruin the eerieness of the first film, but after watching this i'm putting that doubt out of my mind - i am stupidly excited now. the title typograpy, the music, the familiar-yet-now-quite-different design of the environments... it's all recognizably the same creation we have known to love and herald as one of sci-fi and horrors finest films, but there is still something very strange and (excuse me) alien about the tone of this that looks to be setting it apart from the classic. all i know is this: i am literally giddy just watching this trailer and the idea of something set in the same universe at ridley scott's hands and direction has me feeling quite comfortable. he's stressed that the xenomorph isn't going to feature at all, and for that i'm thankful, but whatever it is that seems to be causing this familiar feeling of terror and dread throughout the trailer, either way... it's now one of most anticipated movies of the next year.

plus, idris elba and michael fassbender? yes please. those two are going doing very well for themselves lately and i really hope this puts them in a very secure place for the future.
 
Man I reallllllyyyy can't wait for this. But I'm a bit confused, I thought they scrapped the idea of setting this in the same universe as Alien and instead made a movie similarities? Or did I completely miss the point.
 
Looks neat, is this going to be a summer blockbuster or early 2012?
 
Intriguing. Looking forward to it. Although I find the decision to not have any aliens/xenomorphs in this, a bit odd. However the atmosphere and the Giger art direction seems to be present.
 
i find that decision to be the best thing this film has going for it.

however, that said, the xenomorph exists in the original film as a creation through man as a host, and it's been known to change depending on it's host. there is a good chance the xenomorph will be present, though not in a form we are familiar with. there's something in this film, anyway - trailer shows large urn like vessels/eggs, multiple autopsy/organic beings in states and people in distress at some... thing.
 
knut said:
i find that decision to be the best thing this film has going for it.
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The xenomorph has become way too overused, in movies/games etc. So I agree.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the "menace" in this movie is a live "space jokey" or something along those lines.
 
Holy shit.
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Hm, this looks familiar. :D
 
This is top of my 'must see' list now! It looks incredible, has that same friggin creepy feel as Alien, and ties in with Alien more than we were led to believe... Can't wait! This along with The Avengers... summer can't come quick enough!
 
stemot said:
Really psyched for this. This won't be the same Derelict featured in Alien though. The writer has already confirmed that.
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source? i've not heard anything like this of the kind, and all signs point to that this is the same derelict as in the first alien film, albeit things are slightly different i.e. it's in a different position, but the trailer shows that it eventually falls over into the position we find it in the first alien. i mean, i'm all for being proved wrong but if they are really trying to mark it off as being different, they're going the wrong way about it - showing the space jockey alone is going to resonate with thousands of people as being a part of the same ship that dallas, kane and lambert explore.
 
ZT said:
That will be quite surprising if it is not the same one, considering it clearly crashes, and then falls over. Just really curious if the eggs came with the ship or after. I would assume they came WITH the ship, remembering how in the first alien it looked like they were meant to grow there almost like a greenhouse or something; then again, this film isn't supposed to feature the Xenos. I wonder if maybe it will feature the eggs at least or something, so many questions. Not to mention the acid we see one explorer being burned with.
I think the weirdest part of all of this, of course, is how the urns line the floor exactly as the eggs do from Alien.

Sliver pointed out that the thing they are looking at in a glass box in their own ship looks like some sort of Space Jockey Helmet.
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well what i'm presuming is that the original exploration team from the nostromo only explored one ''wing'' of the ship, and it's a big damn ship - i think what we have here is another part being discovered.

also yeah, upon one of my multiple times of watching the trailer i froze-frame that science-y looking table scene and it indeed does look like a skull/helmet of a space jockey/engineer.
 
Wow, the sound alone makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up!

Got this from a post on the Prometheus Facebook page. A possible brief synopsis.

Leaked synopsis of the movie:

Earth. Year 2058.

Archaeological digs in Africa reveal alien artifacts that humans were genetically engineered by a advanced alien race (space jockeys). These ”Alien Gods” also terraformed Earth in order to make it habitable for their human creations. Amongst finds are coordinates to the Alien God’s home-world, to Paradise. Months later the Weyland Corp launch the spaceship PROMETHEUS and his crew, into deep space to make first contact. Thanks to faster than light travel a few years later the PROMETHEUS enters the Zeta Riticuli star system. Humans are greeted by their makers, then transported further into space to a scary yet fascinating world. The Alien Gods are proud of their ”children”, their first creation to reach such levels of intelligence.

As a reward they share bits of their astonishing bio-based technologies with the humans. But for one crew member of the Prometheus it’s not enough. In a treacherous act he steals the ”bio-source code” to Terraforming, a technology at the origin of all Gods’ power, that could make humans equal to the gods. The Alien Gods may be scientists but are also ruthless conquerors, destroyers of worlds who will not accept humans as equals. They unleash on the escaping human crew their favorite bio-weapon, a creature used to ”clean up” worlds before colonization. But something goes wrong in the process and humans manage to turn the bio-weapon against their makers. Giving birth to a smarter, nastier, bigger breed of gut eating creatures. Creatures that will be the demise of Paradise. What’s left of the Prometheus crew manages to escape the doomed planet.

On their trail a survivor Alien God in very familiar ship with one ultimate mission.
Bring the wrath of the Gods to Earth.
 
very creepy stills.

really tempted to go into ultimate media blackout mode on this one, just like the dark knight rises. everytime i watch alien i feel a little sad that i am watching the film so many years on from it's original release date, where the audience were subjected to a film like no other they had seen before. i want that feeling, that sense of mystery and wonder that i so rarely get from films these days - is it because i am consciously aware of a ''bar'', or of a time of cinema before i was born? who knows, but i want that feeling of seeing something so monumentally groundbreaking like the chest burster scene so much that i really don't want to spoil anything for myself. imagine if the original film had came out only a year ago; something like that scene would of been known or leaked long ago. i need to seperate myself from that happening here. i have the utmost faith in scott delivering something akin to that, and i want to be absolutely shit-scared-terrified and screaming in my seat, in a cinema, on release day, when it happens.
 
Media blackout sounds like a good idea - I'm sooo excited to see a movie in the theater that doesn't suck.

...see ya on the other side.
 
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I really dont know how to feel,first since its a supposed prequel it doesnt interest me that much,but it doesnt look that bad,so I am kinda torn

the fact they reused the same trailer style as alien 1 was a nice touch or maybe means they are kinda desperate to make it feel like the first alien

I rmenber I watched the original alien trailer before some years ago,which imo is not a bad trailer,but still this one doesnt pump me that much yet
 
knut said:
interesting read: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/12/23/closer-look-at-trailer-for-prometheus/

article points out a few things i hadn't noticed before, including the old man and again the same man in the wheelchair. it's amazing what you miss when you're focusing so much on other compositional elements.
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Interesting. That just makes me nervous about execution even more though. I am really quite worried about the mysteriousness of the xenomorph and the general Alien Universe being lost because of this film (I consider only Alien and Aliens canon of course).

I get the feeling that humans will have part in accidentally or purposefully creating the xenomorph species from an existing bioweapon. I really don't like the thought of that. Like, I get the feeling that maybe one of the crew members crafts the xenomorph specifically to kill the Engineer Species? If so, the xenomorph will really lose that "ancient space parasite" feel to it :( Not to mention I hate "Humans did it" plotlines when it comes to sci-fi.
One thing it might explain though is how Weyland-Yutani and Ash knew about the xenos in the first place. I don't think they every explain how they knew they were there in the first place. Then again, it just raises more questions of why Weyland wouldn't be more interested in just retrieving the Jockey tech.
 
The "humans did it" explanation doesn't bother me that much, we are crazy/awesome enough to make something like the xenomorph.

One thing I'm worried about is that they don't make the technology look more advanced than in the first Alien movie. You know, like what happened with the Star Wars prequels...
 
yeah, it does sort of sound like it has a TURNS OUT IT WAS MAN vibe going for it, but i dunno - i really trust scott with this, his baby afterall, and he's not the sort of guy who will fold over for producers or other writers trying to change his own story. i know he'll do the right thing and if it does turn out to be ''human based'', i figure he'll have a pretty way of putting an interesting spin on things.
 
Wait, are they saying the space jockey as we saw it in Alien is just a suit? and the Jokey's are more humanoid? because that would be really dumb for me.

Also I'm with ZT on the humans being responsible for xeno's. I hope the 'humans becoming xeno's really doesn't happen.
 
Weird, I always knew there was a deleted scene where Dallas is cocooned, but I didn't know his organic matter was being used like fertilizer to gestate an egg :O
 
ZT said:
Weird, I always knew there was a deleted scene where Dallas is cocooned, but I didn't know his organic matter was being used like fertilizer to gestate an egg :O
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With the egg being created out of Brett. Ridley always was pissed with Cameron for coming along and turning them into Ants with the Queen reproduction.
 
That's a bit silly, don't see why it couldn't go both ways. Also wouldn't make sense in terms of mass reproduction. I wonder if Ridley considers Aliens canon? Does anyone know?
 
i think the general consensus is simply that the xenomorph uses different life cycles based upon it's surroundings, and at the time it was using whatever it could get it's hands on. who knows what it's goop does?

ZT said:
Weird, I always knew there was a deleted scene where Dallas is cocooned, but I didn't know his organic matter was being used like fertilizer to gestate an egg :O
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it's in the deleted scenes on newer versions of the dvd, which i think is the most definitive version of the film. scott was worried it might upset the pacing of the escape sequence and in a way it sort of does, but it's also a really eerie and terrifying scene so i approve of it's inclusion.
 
Dan said:
It's not amazing what you miss when a scene is flashed on the screen for a fraction of a second.
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thanks, but no - i've watched the trailer at least ten times in full screen hd now, and it was only upon reading that article did i notice the things going on in the background. that's an injustice to small details in trailers everywhere!

i think i just presumed it was a guy sitting down.
 
There is no scenery on that stage because he chewed it all.
 
New trailer with lots of footage. Quite excited, but the trailer is terribly pieced together in terms of "DRAMATIC DIALOGUE".

"SOMETHING BAD IS HAPPENING" {CUT} "I WANT TO GO HOME" {CUT} "WE MIGHT NOT HAVE A HOME TO GO TO" {CUT} "WE SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THIS" {CUT} "IT'S TOO LATE NOW"

Also, I expect there to be a whole unnecessary shitload of exposition. I was really hoping that any exposition on earth (them finding artifacts) would be explained in a few short textual messages at the beginning of the film.

 
Well maybe they'll just start the movie with the first two thirds of this trailer, because this trailer pretty much gives everything you need to know about the first half of the movie away.
 
Yeah, kinda wish I didnt watch it. Still, I haven't been excited for a movie release in years, and this is making me nostalgia back to the times when I used to get excited all the time.
 
I'm on a media blackout after the first teaser, so I'll have to refrain from watching that!
 
honestly that ful trailer wasnt that interesting,it just didnt felt especial
 
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