Prometheus

[Jarac]

Originally Posted by Guirec

Holy SHIT.

I had the same reaction.

[Shadow Raptor]

DAAAAMN this movie is going to be good. Could be cause I saw "Alien" all over it :P

[M41Aconner]

I just hope The Xenomorph is included in it, last I heard they are supposed to.

[Mustafuck]

Originally Posted by M41Aconner

I just hope The Xenomorph is included in it, last I heard they are supposed to.

There will be no aliens, for now

[M41Aconner]

Originally Posted by Mustafuck

It is about the space jockeys, apparently, so It should be 100% related to the first alien film at least, as It should be

If you see all those leaked pics you can also see Giger's work everywhere, and same material used for the Nostromo now on the Prometheus ship; same old-style space suits (like the one used by Ripley in alien), cryotubes, etc.

Oh thank God! and yeah, I saw the space jockey. I still wonder were that big Alien Ship Came from though, in the Trailer it was standing upright which is interesting...

[Mustafuck]

Originally Posted by M41Aconner

Oh thank God! and yeah, I saw the space jockey. I still wonder were that big Alien Ship Came from though, in the Trailer it was standing upright which is interesting...

yeah It looks like the ship is docked or something. Really cool

[Van Leuwen]

Honestly, though. if I found myself in the path of a rolling, crashing jockey ship, I'd run PERPENDICULAR to the damn thing!

Side note: Some of the old, discarded artwork pre-production designs of Alien made it into this one. Check out this unused helmet design from the Making of Alien book.

[Van Leuwen]

Another interesting helmet trivia: A terrible 1962 Russian movie called Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, used a helmet and suit design that we all might recognize!



Get a load of that! Right down to the quilted suit cloth and hose around the neck. Coincidence? Hard to imagine a coincidence like that. What do you guys think?

[Maphisto86]

Originally Posted by Van Leuwen

Another interesting helmet trivia: A terrible 1962 Russian movie called Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, used a helmet and suit design that we all might recognize!



Get a load of that! Right down to the quilted suit cloth and hose around the neck. Coincidence? Hard to imagine a coincidence like that. What do you guys think?

I think this proves Ridley Scott was a mole in Hollywood for the Communists! Call the A-Team!

On a more serious note I am a little nervous about the whole "humans were created by the Jockey aliens" idea hinted at in the trailers (such as the big human face on board the derelict). Makes the xeno's origins less . . . I dunno, "alien" too me. Then again the only thing that will likely suffer is my needless fanon (and not to mention the Anchorpoint Essays needing a major revamp). As long as it delivers a rock solid blockbuster, I will likely go to the theaters more than once.

[Mustafuck]

The anchorpoint essay is another point of view more of the many existing around, not a reference for anything but for those who may like It a lot. Btw, It is heavily influenced by "Aliens". Basically, It tries to scientifically explain something that belongs to the realm of fantasy, which is at the very least quite a fail, not just that the obvious influence of the "Aliens" film in that reading could be interpreted as a big con for the old cavemans like me.

I have read true interesting points of view about the alien in the past that avoided being scientifically correct. Sadly, that was a looong long time ago and there wasn't internet here yet. All I can remember about It is that, many of these points of view I'm talking about had Its similarities with what Scott is definitely going for in Prometheus (more based on "Alien", not in "Aliens" like the anchorpoint essay). Some people may find these old similarities I'm talking about just as matter of chance, but in fact they were all based on a better understanding (always from the very necessary fantasy point of view, just what the AE lacks) of the things seen in Scott's masterpiece, specially about all Giger-ish stuff plaguing the first act of the film. Cameron's influence on the very conceptual idea of the monster has been devastating over the years, reaching with the release of that essay Its maximum exponent of simplicity even when the autor explains Its thoughts on the monster in a very deeply, comprehensive, and of course (where he excels at) professional way.