Some more pics from the upcoming sci-fi movie directed by Ridley Scott.

In pic #2, doesn't the architecture look familiar?

http://www.prometheusnews.net/movie/breaking-new-images/

It looks very familiar. I'm really looking forward to this movie. I'm really curious as to how it'll tie into the Alien franchise. It'll be great (I hope).

Jaz

I'm getting more and more excited about a movie set in that universe and time frame, but not about the usual Alien conflict. Fleshing out the time in general is really going to be fun and good sci if. Maybe good enough to kick off a big budget epic sci fi renaissance?

I am getting excite about this movie as well.

I like the direction he's takin'. A fresh perspective on a familiar universe.

Having just rewatched Alien and Blade Runner in the past couple of months, I'm also eager to see him finally return to SF.
I'm not getting my hopes up for an "Alien" story though. I think he's tried hard enough to debunk that.




The Jedi Master

Well this took me by surprise...

WARNING: MAJOR SPOILER



WAH TEH FRACK!!?!?!

Oh well... let's see an original story for a change.

I have very little doubt that "Prometheus" will be a fantastic sci-fi film and I'm glad that they are taking this in some new directions instead of re-treading old ground. If Scott wasn't involved though I'd be much more apprehensive.

I don't see why that would be a surprise. It's NOT called Alien: Prometheus after all.



The Jedi Master

Silly me...

Yeah, I missed the change in direction:

Trailer

Pods of some sort, face sucker action and the space jockey seat. Definitely an Alien tie in there.
Cool to see Noomi in there. About the only good part of the new Sherlock Holmes flick.

Is it just me, but at the beginning of the trailer (when it looked like two engines), i thought it looked a lot like sereity from firefly.

Trailer looks frigging fantastic. Can't wait for June 2012!

I thought the same. I think that was done on purpose really.

Looking fwd to this in a big way....ditto regarding similarity to the serenity ship

I already lived through most of the third and final coming of Prometheus"...

After World War Z, this is the next title that has my nerd anticipation needle pegged.

it's gonna be loong six months... I really really like the new approach to the Space Jockeys/Xenomorphs theme, glad it won't be the prequel or reboot

only one gripe, is it me, or the Space Jockey ship lost that biomechanical feel to it to be more strictly technic? Of course might be this is the different vessel (and planet)

The viral marketing has started and it's pretty damn cool

http://badassdigest.com/2012/02/28/prome...-the-year-2023/

Guy Pearce rocks. I'm counting the days until "Prometheus" is released.

Wow! This looks good! Thanks for posting.
Pescador

Looking forward to this movie in a big way.

Guy Pearce has a big year this year. Saw the preview for Lockout and it looked pretty darn good too. Barely recognized him.

That was awesome, thanks for posting.

I hadn't heard of this, looks good. A TV series about Weyland would be good too.

Was that Guy or a Synth stand in?
Looks good one to see in the cinema, thanks

To see...a synth?



The Jedi Master

I find it fascinating how much of Blade Runner and Battlestar Galactica I saw in that Prometheus teaser.

Thanks for sharing.
Guy Pearce! 2023? huh, who, what? guess I need to read the text to find out how this all fits in the universe of "Prometheus"!

iirc, Prometheus was not a man as Weyland states, he was a god of the Titan race. At least in the greek play that I read...

Guy Pearce plays Weyland, one of the two founders of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation that you see so much about in Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection. Since "Prometheus" takes place before the timeline of the original Alien film, it makes sense that we will get to see the beginnings of the company that figured so prominently in the Alien universe.

Cool!
I know about this info.

What other info does anyone about this clip in Prometheus? (i've been too lazy/busy to use The Google to search for info ATT.
I was more curious if anyone knows it's place (if any) in the actual film since it is said to be part of the 'viral campaign' to promote the film. Will there be a flashback to this scene? Will the film start with this clip? Will this not be seen at all in the film?

I don't think anyone knows that except for those who were involved in making the film. I've not found any publicly released info that would answer these questions.

Ugh. did anyone else get a good look at those *ahem* space suits on that site? They look more like the fantastic four than the suits in the original alien.

Not to mention if you saw the AvP movies, they managed to work both the names of Weyland (the explorer who led the ill-fated expedition to Antarctica) and Yutani (scene at the end of AvP Requiem, involving getting a hold of one of the plamsa casters). I'll be curious to see if those films are canon or not in the greater scheme of the Aliens universe.

I sure hope not! The first AvsP was passable but Requiem was total trash.

I have the reverse opinion.

The first AvP was horrid. The preds gave Sanah Lathan's character a trophy instead of skinning her and taking her skull? Who wrote that, Walt Disney? And that stupid moving pyramid? Bleh!

I like AvP2. It felt like fan-fic but, it remained true to the brutal legacy these films developed.

Well, in P2, they gave Danny Glover's character a pistol and let him live after he killed one of their own, so I think the precedent was there for them to respect capable humans.

Exactly.

However, I think the way it was portrayed in AvsP was a bit cheesy with the surviving predator showing Sanaa's character how to fashion her own weapon. I remember reading one critic's review saying something like "I almost expected the predator to start painting her nails".

In Predator 2, it just "worked" and didn't seem hokey at all in the scene where the elder predator gave Danny Glover's character the flintlock pistol.

I refuse to acknowledge anything from P2 except the linking of the 2 franchises

But Bill Paxton was great man! He was hilarious.

Bill Paxton was in that too? Please tell my his name was also Hudson!

Hey, being hilarious was his specialty!

A little known fact, there, Normie: Bill Paxton is the only guy to be killed by the Terminator, Alien, and Predator.

Yeah but at least he went down fighting against the Alien and Predator. Against the Terminator though that was just a nasty death.

I was in the cinema last weekend (probably for the last time in this town, the theater is going to be torn down soon and chances are low that there is one investor found to build a new one in such a small town.... ) and saw the trailer for the first time on the big screen. Can`t wait....

We went through that in the 1980s, the local cinema closed and left a 180km drive to the nearest cinema that prompted me to get into home cinema and now finally I have a dedicated cinema room in the house.

Nice! Is that in a basement or did you block out windows?
I wish we had basements in MS, it's like we get half the house for the sq ft compared to the rest of the country.

it is in a garage I converted, which the previous owner of the house had converted into an office and a storage area
you can see the transformation here

Home cinema

Pretty cool. I don't go to the theater anymore either, but I just have a 50" TV and surround sound. My house doesn't have an area dark and large enough to turn into a theater, and I'm not willing to remodel and give up any areas of the house for that. Not yet, anway.

Well it has taken since 1983 to get to where I am today and I only 'finished' the cinema about nine months ago. We have a 50" pio plasma in the lounge but we seldom watch movies on it, my son does use it for his playstation a lot tho. The grand kids come round to watch their movies on the big screen, tuesday night it was the turn of Tintin looked quite good and they enjoyed it. I have a playstation in there too and use it for GT5 mainly, I have had my PC in there and tried to play Steelbeasts on it but it is too much to try and take in the whole image in one glance, so while it looks great playability was not so good.

If any of you use Twitter, they have an account for this.

https://twitter.com/#!/PrometheusMovie

you can tweet your questions. I just noticed it as being promoted and it's a verified account.

I have my twitter account to follow my Redskins stuff.

Yeah but compared to a LOT of places that sq footage is half(or less) the price. AL is about as inexpensive to live in as MS. It's good to live in the south.

Anyone notice the very quick shot of the Space Jockey?

I'm practically drooling for this to be out already.

+1

I think I saw him 3 times in that clip.

Is it just me or does that trailer look like a remake of the first alien? A lot of the same imagery is going on. The cockpit scene(layout of the cockpit and the windows in the front especially), the landing and excursion shots, the skinny white guy looking ill, the small breasted brunette in a tight white top...

I'll be disappointed if anyone blows anything out of an airlock.

Here's a slightly different, longer trailer:

Wanna bet that slick blonde guy is an android, and he will facilitate things for whatever nasty critters are out there? (Ash liked the Alien a bit too much!)
After checking out Weyland's speech trailer, and these 2 last trailers, I wouldn't be surprised.

And if this movie is supposed to be a prequel to the Alien series, nobody from this crew will make it alive.
But curiously enough, the Nostromo will wake its crew after picking up the alien ship's beacon signal.

He admired its purity.

Definitely caught a couple glimpses of the alien drone.

Just saw that newer trailer. I'm getting pretty stoked.

Riiiiiight......

Michael Fassbender (I can't remember his character's name) is the android in this one.

He was outstanding in Inglorious Bastards and Xmen. Also, evidently Charlize Theron is quite impressed with his penis. Good for him

Indeed he was. He was utterly convincing as the young Magneto. Ian McKellen would be proud.

That's not the Alien because it has no tail or pipe-things on its back. However, I think we're supposed to infer a resemblance/lineage between them based on the bio-mechanoid design.

The ship is like the Nostromo, yes, and in fact I think it safe to say this film will feel a lot like Alien without it being Alien because it's meant as a prequel. If you're looking for something TOTALLY different, don't see it.



The Jedi Master

I wonder what that is that's infecting them? I've seen 3 people with something black rushing around their veins?

Does anyone know how far before Alien this is supposed to be set as the pilot was fossilised when they found it there wasn't it?

That's an excellent question and I don't think that has been disclosed yet. We know that Aliens is 57 years after Alien and Alien 3 is pretty much immediately after Aliens and Alien Resurrection is about 200 years after Alien 3 but that's it.

I'm trying to remember if the viral campaign short video with Guy Pearce showed what year it was. I don't think it did.

I think it did, and if I remember right, it was before 2100, which I thought was a little soon. But maybe that speech was set a long time before the majority of the events in Prometheus.

Yeah, I just went back through this thread - 2023.

I'm sure the bulk of the film takes place quite a bit after 2023 because that's only 11 years from now and there's no way we are going to have that kind of deep space exploration tech in 11 years. It wouldn't be scifi anymore but an alternate reality!

Not unless we're just about to stumble upon some presents from an ancient civilization!

Maybe the Vulcans will finally visit us and give us warp drive.

In space no one can hear you scream!

The corporate timeline for Weyland Industries on its 'official' website says Project Prometheus is underway as of January 1, 2073. Gotta love this kind of marketing for a film.

Jaz

yeah, the date of 2023 is what prompted to ask earlier in the thread about how guy Pearce fits )if at all) into the Prometheus film which looks much later in the 21st/22nd century. from what Jaz states above it sounds like Prometheus occurs in 2073? ya think?

Thanks for that info Jaz!

decent dissection of the trailer images here:
http://io9.com/5894612/every-alien-easter-egg-in-the-latest-prometheus-trailers/gallery/1

the plot thickens...

Well, saying i am stoked about this movie is an understatement.

I just can't wait!!

Yup, join the club.

In fact I may even pre-order my tickets for this movie. The last time I did that was for "Revenge of the Sith".

Not sure if this has been linked before.

Guy Pearce is confirmed in the film 4.12
Time line 2080's 2090's

awesome!! GP's participation is a burning question for me. Thanks for sharing the vid; watching now!

Damon Lindelof?

Hmmm...

Really looking forward to this movie.

Yes, at the end of Prometheus you'll find out it's actually 1979 and they're all dead and have been for who knows how long, and it's just a dream.



The Jedi Master

My wife just got me this...

http://shirt.woot.com/shirts/xenophile

Sweet!!

I want to get this sci-fi themed tshirt,


http://media.photobucket.com/image/gaius%20baltar%20tshirt/carlarosapanda/GaiusBaltarIsMyHomeboy.jpg

Co-Op Multi-Player Footage - My favorite game play mode

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/marine-multiplayer-aliens-colonial/728763

Looks pretty sick!

Well, as for the Colonial Marines game, I suppose that confirms no acid blood. Looks awful repetitive.

I just read acid blood is a feature of the latest build. Marines will lose health if they get too close to an actively spraying xeno corpse.

Even big things have small beginnings ...


More images up at:
http://www.prometheusforum.net/discussion/533

And a well written essay on the ALIEN (I) movie. 2, in my book, was more akin to an extraterrestrial bughunt with the Level boss addition, and had little to the effect of the original movie in capturing the desolate despair of the chasm the Nostromo crew found itself in, which was supported by believable acting. Not to take away from Cameron, i liked Avatar, and Aliens is a entertaining movie in it's own right. Just less prone to provoce the sort of emotions and thoughts the original movie did. It´s not horror but more of an action movie.
http://www.prometheus-movie.com/articles/9

“[The] extreme end of science lies in the abyss: the Alien….Ash, the robot science officer, is ‘misrecognized’ as being human, that his ‘desire to know—the desire of science—is responsible for the entry of the Alien into the spacecraft,’ and that the ‘pure quest for knowledge results in evil’” (Schwartz 30). Dismembered for his subterfuge, Ash describes the threat they face as, “a perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility…a survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.” He admires what he sees as its purity. This assessment reflects his own identity and that of his superiors as the perfect organism he envisions. They become in their evolutionary eloquence that pure, unclouded survivor - an aggregate of faceless cogs in a Company that is as much a monster as the alien which stalks the crew of the Nostromo. “[The Alien] is in all respects a superior product of competitive evolution and resembles nothing so much as that other superorganism, itself victor in an evolutionary struggle: the multinational (soon to be interstellar) corporation. In the system of the narrative, the Alien is the double, we might say the biological analogue, of the Company”).

I have a feeling Prometheus will be along these lines, and i guess this is what Ridley ment by "scents of ALIEN DNA", and I like it.

Just to let you guys know, on Saturday night at 10 EST, Cinemax is showing Alien: The Directors Cut.

The strength of going from Alien to Aliens was that, unlike most movie franchises, both movies were very well made, they were completely different approaches and still managed to stay in the same universe perfectly. Most movies just rewrite the original, which doesn't do as much for the franchise as developing it with a different approach. Plus, you can be in different movie "moods" and enjoy one or the other.
I think that's how Prometheus will add to it all--by being different and not just a copy of any of the other movies in the universe.

Agreed. I think that's why the focus changed during production. Initially it was going to be a straight prequel and tie-in to "Alien" but along the way Scott made the creative decision to make Prometheus stand on its own and be more unique while still having the connection to Alien. Anyway, I am eagerly awaiting release day!

I wish I could be back to my 11 year old mindset, and be scared s***less again like that night in '79 when I first watched the original Alien. (Even though I could not understand all that happened until I was "brave" enough to watch it again in '86, before watching Aliens)

All I remember from the first time I watched it is Ripley in those tiny panties

+1

Best line ever in a movie.

Another viral:

I can wait until June. I can wait until June. I can wait until June. I can . . .

Need to see this at Cinebistro with nice bottle of wine and juicy steak!

Is he the son of Reiner Werner Fassbender? I wonder. (could have Googled it, but I didn't :))

EDIT
Googled it, and he is not the son of Reiner Werner Fassbender

NICE!

i am really enjoying the virals!

building me up big time for the movie¬!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd love to see more of that viral style video. The universe in which Weyland-Yutani exists must have lots of details that the writers of the Alien movies and now Prometheus have had laying around just begging to be made into a Silmarillion-like history and background account.

This movie will be epic. Mark my words.

I just hope it doesn't end up pushing expectations TOO high before people see it!

Yeah, that could be a possible problem.

Well, the trailers have been brilliant. I'm confident we'll get a good film. And this is Ridley Scott...

Yeah, the virals with Pearce and now Fassbender have been outstanding.

now how to get the wife to watch a sci fi movie at the cinema instead of sex in the city version xx

Cut a deal with her. Tell her that if she goes and watches Prometheus you'll go and watch whatever chick flick she wants to watch. That usually works for a friend of mine.

What your friend regularly goes to watch films with bogus's wife ??

This has been my standard operating procedure for a long time. I get to see the sci-fi and war movies I want but I had to suffer through nauseating crap like "Valentine's Day" and "The Vow". I guess it was worth it.

Video has been taken down uhhhhhgggggrrrrrrahhhhhhhhhh

There is one thing that I'm very curious about. With the original "Alien", I don't believe it was revealed at all in the media ahead of time that Ash was an android. I wonder why a different approach was taken this time with "Prometheus"?

In Alien, the crew didn't know Ash was an android, and it was a big plot twist when it was revealed. Since they are advertising David as an android, I suppose the crew in Prometheus is aware of this from the beginning. No reason to keep a secret if it will not be a plot twist.

Starnge though, the David android is described as a "8th generation Weyland type android."

Ash was a Hyperdyne Systems 120-A/2, so it seems they are from different manufacturers?


At least we know the origin of the distre... I mean warning signal Nostromo received from LV-426 and the Company's Special Order 937. (wink, wink)

Weyland and Yutani merged to make up Weyland-Yutani in 2030, so the series numbers might be different on new models. Also, it's all pretend.

Anyone else notice the Alien's series androids name series (in film order), i.e.

Ash, Bishop, Call, David, ?

I've got money on a Eugene next..

Even though is not a propper prequel, it is still connected with what comes next. Continuity would be nice.

I gave you continuity, but nice pic

David 8 (so far) looks like he is part of the Weyland Industries, while later films are set further in the future where Weyland does not exist, hence Weyland Yutani in the first Alien movie. Aliens vs Predators and Requiem, if accepted as canon, explained how Yutani came to be, and why Hyperdine were introduced - plus why Bishop looks like he does. I'd post links, but not sure the 'Captain Alien Nerd' picture is that easy to find..

I like Alien Nerds...

Holy snappin duck poo !!!

I would stick my monster between those breasts too !!!

Ok I just saved the Alien picture two posts up. If it were bigger, I would make it my background.

It may have been mentioned before?

An interview I was reading today about Colonial Marines making of. One of the game developers said he believed that their conversations with Ridley Scott inspired him to revisit the universe, and make Prometheus.

If you go to the Weyland site set up for Prometheus, they actually make mention about a lawsuit against the Yutani Corporation:

https://www.weylandindustries.com/site/timeline

Maybe something for future movies?

I wonder if David 8 plays the knife game. Or if he dislikes cornbread.

Trivia question: The knife game in "Aliens" was inspired from a knife game in which film?

At the end, I think the return to Wayland and not having "Hyperdyne" involved at all, is Ridley's way of bringing the hammer down on Jim Cameron for including stuff as an inside joke that should not have been part of the canon.

It would had been awesome however, if Cameron would had been allowed to use Cyberdyne instead. Going from T-800s to Ash would not have been that far fetched.

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Hold on... I think I have a story here.

How about Weyland acquired most of the android technology from the Tyrell Corporation after they went down after the untimely death of it's founder, and then Hyperdyne was a subsidiary (that actually was Cyberdyne in a timeline where Judgement Day never happened, they had to change names...Skynet and all that), and due to it's large investments in what surely would be a failed David model and Prometheus mission, Wayland temporarily moved production to the low cost (probably in another colony - they had to leave earth due to the whole Skynet fiasco) Hyperdyne facilities, that resulted in the production of the low quality 120-A/2 models using some of the Skynet subroutines, and...

(And remember kids... It's all pretend...)

No idea whatsoever...


Wheels

Nóz w wodzie (original title)

I think that is same as previous vid above? or am I missing something?

it is

The other video was taken down, so I reposted a working link.

Okay, I give up. But while searching I looked at Wikipedia's entry and it referred to the knife game under these names:


Heh heh, Bishop. I wonder if it's named after the character from Aliens or vice versa. Or pure coincidence.

You see the same knife game done in the sci-fi satire "Dark Star".

You can play it in the bars in Red Dead Redemption too. It gets hard! LOL
Place a bet and see who can do it best.

Hmm, you may have got your own quiz answer wrong, not sure how to score that?

http://www.sciflicks.com/aliens/facts.html

"Bishop's Knife trick was previously in Roman Polanski's Knife in Water (1962)"

I didn't want to give the title away, so put the films original title up earlier in the thread, i.e. Nóz w wodzie (original title)

Doh! Well, don't blame me, blame Dan O'Bannon!

As mentioned in the link the Prometheus marketing onslaught continues...
Looking good! waiting for June 8 arrival.


http://www.prometheusforum.net/discussion/659

In you haven't seen this already, it's very topical here:

Courtesy of Break.com

PG13 "Not one frame of Prometheus will be cut ... if that means it’s an R rating, so be it."

http://www.mtv.com/videos/movies/763559/...m-rothman.jhtml

There seems to be a longer trailer out... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GQvXuQJVI&feature=player_embedded

Maybe there are some things better left unexplored (Spoiler Warning)

@ Letterboy; I LOL'd

The trailers for Prometheus confirm an R rating.

Oh, you can do the knife thing in the bars in Rage, too.



The Jedi Master

The trailers for this film are among the best made trailers I've ever seen.

Local cinema chain sent me an invite to their 3D premier of Prometheus at the end of May

I'm not going tho as I'm going to the Imax cinema in Eindhoven to see it

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelemaal naar Eindhoven!

(Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the way to Eindhoven!)

aweeeeesome!!!! I want more !!

Fascinating.

I want her to break into a "Noomi Noomi" song. I'll even write it for her.