PROMETHEUS Thread - PROMETHEUS 2 "Moving Ahead"

[AndyDursin]

Here's the Comic Con press conference...


http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=80093

[Coriolanus Quince]

I beg you Ridley, hire Vangelis.

[Monterey Jack]

I would not have a problem with a PG-13 here, as aside from the infamous "chestburster" sequence, the original Alien has fairly tame levels of violence compared to the endless parade of crass imitators over the last 30 years (kind of like the original Halloween).

[Eric W.]

I beg you Ridley, hire Vangelis.

I like Vangelis but I'm not feeling that at all for the likes of this.




I think all things considered if Ridley doesn't pull out Streinfeld and throw it away or a Media Ventures person, the best choice and the composer that could probably evoke Jerry the best and has similar sensibilities and such would be Chris Young. He'd be my first choice for this.

[AndyDursin]

Leaked photos have surfaced from Comic Con....someone tell me this ISN'T an ALIEN prequel

[AndyDursin]

Even more photos here:

http://www.use.com/162b028d8fbacc707c6a

[Eric W.]

In your first post, that second picture looks a lot like the area that the space jockey was in back in Alien.

No question this is an Alien property.

[Monterey Jack]

I think Scott is being coy about the "Alien prequel" thing only because Ripley isn't in this (God, imagine a ten-year-old Ripley running around squealing "Yippee...!" ).

[AndyDursin]

Aren't those alien eggs in the first photo cap?

Noomi Rapace is basically the female lead, Ripley-type -- from what I gather -- and I get the sense that Charlize is a robot/semi-villainness. Just my intuition from what I've read and seen

[Eric W.]

Definitely looks like eggs to me in that first shot.


Jack: That 10 year old Ripley idea is beyond hideous.

[Monterey Jack]

Jack: That 10 year old Ripley idea is beyond hideous.

You just KNOW at least one draft of the Prometheus script was titled Aliens Rising (or Rise Of The Aliens) and had Ripley shoehorned in there somewhere.

[Eric W.]

Ridley Scott and others said there would be a disinformation campaign put out there to deliberately try and cover things up but this might have some teeth to it.

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.

^^ That sounds great if that's even close to the truth.




Love this Star Wars dig:

“I've always felt really good prequels should be original movies. And the sequel to those prequels should not be the movie that already exists. Because, all due respect to anybody who makes a prequel, why would you ruin the greatest twist in the history of movie cinema?”

[Paul MacLean]

I beg you Ridley, hire Vangelis.

I have to echo that sentiment...but they haven't worked together for nearly 19 years.

Then again this could be enough of an "event" movie to bring them back together. Here's hoping...

[Eric W.]

I beg you Ridley, hire Vangelis.

I have to echo that sentiment...but they haven't worked together for nearly 19 years.

Then again this could be enough of an "event" movie to bring them back together. Here's hoping...

Maybe it'd be interesting after all but I really don't think of him when I think about some Alien film.

[Paul MacLean]

Maybe it'd be interesting after all but I really don't think of him when I think about some Alien film.

I wouldn't have thought so 20 years ago, but Vangelis' style so perfectly gels with Scott's, and he's also at this point one of the few really talented film composers left.