IGN.com has released a brand new cinematic trailer for Aliens Colonial Marines. The video is 1:14 minutes long and shows a slow motion scene featuring a group of Colonial Marines fighting an horde of Aliens. It’s definitely worth a look! We can also exclusively reveal that the trailer was crafted by Axis Animation in a team effort with Gearbox and Sega. You may remember them from this highly acclaimed cinematic trailer for Dead Island.
You can watch the trailer in Youtube below. Alternatively you can download it in glorious HD by clicking here.
As announced yesterday, Aliens Colonial Marines will be in stores on the Fall of 2012. Thanks to Sega for the news and details.
There’s a new Prometheus image over on PrometheusNews.net which was featured in the recent issue of Total Film magazine. The shot is of the characters exploring the Ampule Chamber with the humanoid head in the background. I think this angle was seen in the leaked comic-con footage too.
The article also contains a few quotes from Rafe Spall, Charlize Theron and Damon Lindelof. There’s no major spoilers. Lindelof insists Charlize Theron’s character won’t be as treacherous as Burke in Aliens. Thanks to Pn2501 for the news.
According to the official website, Aliens Colonial Marines, originally scheduled for Spring 2012 has now been moved to Fall/Autumn 2012. We are currently awaiting official comment from Gearbox and Sega on the subject.
We will be having a Q&A session with Gearbox Software about the game very soon. If you haven’t submitted your questions yet, this is your chance.
Update: The date has been changed back to Spring 2012 on the official website. You can see the original ‘Autumn’ update from Sega in this screen capture. No official comment has arrived yet.
Update 2: Gearbox has just announced the existence of an upcoming trailer. It will be released tomorrow at IGN.com. You can find a screenshot from the trailer below:
Update 3: Gearbox and Sega have finally confirmed the delay in an official statement. You can read it here.
We are happy to announce that we will be doing a Q&A with Gearbox Software about Sega’s Aliens Colonial Marines very soon. Not only that, but we are also giving our readers the chance to get involved and submit their own questions. You are free to ask whatever you want about this upcoming title. Just bear in mind, Gearbox Software and Sega are still working on the game and hence some aspects can’t be answered yet.
You have until Sunday, January 29th to send us your questions via this thread on the forum. A selection of the best and most commonly asked questions will be submitted to be answered shortly after that date.
There’s a new article in a local Scottish newspaper called The West Highland Free Press who claim Ridley Scott was on the Isle of Skye in Scotland last weekend filming some pickup shots for Prometheus. Specifically around the The Old Man of Storr which is like a rocky hill formation. Here’s the scan which includes a picture of the crew as well Ridley Scott hard at work.
It seems Prometheus will be getting a test screening a lot sooner than anyone thought. According to gofobo.com, the screening will take place on February 29th, 2012 in Santa Rosa, California. I’m not exactly sure how you get chosen for it. I think you need to be a member of the site and be especially invited to it.
Today, thousands of websites (the largest being Wikipedia) were blacked out in protest of the controversial SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (PROTECT IP Act) bills going through congress in the United States. Their aim is to stop copyright infringement but instead, they will destroy the very freedom of the internet. This doesn’t just affect people in the United States but everybody in the world. Fansites like this one simply wouldn’t be able to exist if these bills were passed. You can read more about the situation on the Stop American Censorship website and by watching the video below:
The major players supporting the bills obviously include the MPAA and the RIAA. The opponents include Facebook, Twitter, Google, eBay, Yahoo and many other high profile companies.
MTV caught up with Guy Pearce who was at the Golden Globes. He doesn’t say a whole lot about his involvement, only saying he’s only in the movie for a minute.
“I’m only [in the film] for a minute, but it was a real honor to work with Ridley [Scott], to see what was going on,” he said. “I think Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace and Charlize Theron and everybody will do a really spectacular job.”
Before Pearce was whisked away from us to get settled into his seat, we asked him about the feel of the film, whether it has the old school “Alien” sheen from the late 70s or now.
“A little bit,” he admitted. “A little bit.”
There’s also another interview on InStyle.co.uk who spoke to Michael Fassbender. He doesn’t say anything new though. Thanks to AvPSpectrum for the news.
Los Angeles Times has revealed a new production still from Prometheus featuring Noomi’s character, Elizabeth Shaw. It may not be obvious at first, but there are some familiar shapes in the background of the photo as well. You can see the somewhat ‘spoilery’ image by clicking the read more button below.
Along with the new image, writer Damon Lindelof has shared a few words with the publication. You can read the full interview here:
“The movie is definitely epic in its scope. One of the filmmakers that we ended up talking about to a fair degree of redundancy was David Lean, who directed ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. We wanted to make the movie feel big by having the characters be small in big spaces. That connected to the larger themes we were talking about — that we’re all just these little gnats crawling around on our little planet.”
There’s a new article in Scotland’s Daily Star newspaper who spoke to Scottish actress Kate Dickie. For a small article, it actually reveals quite a lot of stuff about her character and the film’s story. Here’s the main points and you can find the scan of the newspaper below.
