AlienPrequelNews have posted some interesting details on Prometheus. First, there was a call sheet which listed the following actors and their characters: Charlize Theron (Vickers), Idris Elba (Janek), Emun Elliot (Chance) and Benedict Wong (Ravel). Their source also saw three aliens and gave details about the costumes.
“Though security on the set is very tight with the good weather, dock doors have been open and cast and crew have been enjoying lunch outdoors. I can confirm seeing 3 aliens having lunch. Not the whole costume but blueish costumes and the unmistakable heads hanging around their shoulders”
“The alien heads were the same shape but no markings, only a plane bronze colour. As for the suits black boots and shoulder pads the rest was a Chelsea blue body suit could be for SFX, all the sets around the back of the bond stage have huge green chromokey maybe that’s a clue. I have witnessed foam cut outs of unmistakable aliens all cut in half lengh ways so they could be in the floor walls etc and very much from the original film.”
“I managed to enter the bond stage one weekend when no filming was sheduled all I can say is there is a very very long tunnel that leads to an enormous structure at the back of the stage which is the same height as the stage and probably extends out another 200 ft. All of these sets are surrounded by wood foam and scaffold so sid not see inside, I think this is were the Space Jockey set is.”
Thanks to Darkoo for the news.
Agrees...I didn't see any connection except for the dislike of robots/replicants
I want it now.
Reading back over his statuses he's done a lot of work on the consoles in the movies. Yay for practical.
Thematically and designwise they have connections but he never really had the idea at the time that they were in the same reality
HE HE HE, TRUE!
I love Ridley Scott's Blade runner too..but not with ALIEN!
Unless they're going after renegade Ash's....
(just my opinion
3rd hand rumour srry but my grandads cats friend percy saw sidney weaver having coffee at the barbers in oldham
proof that rumour get mis interpreted/// dandans post
"the Space Jockey's space craft has been built"
nice! i wonder if its the same one from A L I E N??
nowere do i see the ship has been built
All of these sets are surrounded by wood foam and scaffold so id not see inside, I think this is were the Space Jockey set is."
if you cant see inside. you dont know what it is .if i take the label off a tin of beans and tell u its rice pudding then you have an idea otherwise none,,and when u do open it you then cry as you have a rice alergie
I agree with you. I think EVEN that this film may leave things open for them to REMAKE a version of ALIEN with the new expanded mythology. While also, setting up the original films. That way if it is unsuccessful it serves as an ALIEN, or the studio can have the option of making a second reboot of ALIEN, or even just say to a screenwriter, "Make us a soup! Write the next ALIEN film."
This would explain the whole "pushing the boundaries of what TENT POLE Sci-Fi can be..."
I would love it also, if Ridley did more to connect BLADE RUNNER to ALIEN.
I've gone from telling her, "It's an Alien prequel, with redesigned Aliens!" to, "It's just a film set in the Alien universe, with probably no actual Aliens in it, maybe the space Jockeys". Then I say, "Well, apparently not only does it have aliens in it, but they seem to be very close to the original alien... and there is alot of them". Now when she asks, I just say "I have no idea what they are doing with the movie, the info I get seems to do a 180 every month."
I'm trying to get hyped and excited, I just need to know what it is I'm getting hyped and excited for...
I hope not, I'd rather wait to see them when watching the actual film. I don't mind if we get some sneaky pics of the actors though.
I get what your saying. I agree though it is stupid. If it has a connection to the franchise they should be proud, not try and hide the fact that it is a Alien prequel.
That's not the same thing. Showing a trailer of a new sci-fi epic without showing that it's actually a part of an existing franchise is like having a predator uncloak at the end of Avatar.
Even if it is, I ask again - what's the point?
5 o clock Bitch raping time!
Bahaha, Prometheus is a too complicated name hopeful the tittle gets changed to "Rape" the movie
That was Ridley's pitch to the studio, yes.
it just confirms what we already knew.
A lot of movies are advertised as something there not. Black Swan was advertised as a Horror. A lot of movie plots are advertised as being different too.
I Can't see it myself. I Can't remember a movie that's ever been advertised as something it's not. Intrigue only works if it's fresh - Super 8 or Cloverfield.
Don't get me wrong I like the whole idea, I just think putting the original Alien in this is not a smart move.
But if the movie's awesome? and said friend say yeah its another alien flick but it's amazing.
Only for the first wave of cinema goers. Who then tell their mates it's just another Alien flick.
The only way they get away with it is by making it an Alien movie without anything familiar, Alien in a different form.
Harvest script for example.
Still mutton dressed as lamb. The only way they'll get away with that is by not showing the Alien in anything, posters, trailers etc etc.
They can't be trying to fool the Alien fans, because realistically, there are not enough of us to give a shit about. Which can only mean they are trying to keep it under wraps to the general audience - who ironically probably don't give a shit if it's an Alien movie or another Sci-Fi piece?
It's either a Alien "piece" or it's not. I fully expect to see Scott in a Alien (blue) Harvest T-shirt.
Thats so they look black in the dark.
* * * * * Darkoo!
Great scoop!
A long tunnel sounds like the claustrophobic feel of ALIEN aside from the cutouts of the ALIEN itself.
SOooo exciting! Loving this!
I kept thinking of the scriptwriter of Soldier when he said that film intended to be a "side-quel" to Blade Runner
Indeed it is.
The way I see it, its just what Ridley said it was. It started off as a prequel, but morphed into something new. Its a standalone piece in the same universe that, despite taking place before the first film, isn't really a prequel.
Misleading the public by telling them it isn't an Alien prequel makes sense (particularly as Damon Lindelof of LOST fame is involved), building up a sense of disappointment only to make everyone mega-hyped when it turns out to be an Alien film.
Misleading the public by making them believe that it is an Alien prequel, when it is in fact not one, is not the kind of mis-leading campaign that any sane and officially connected PR person would perform.
i.e. Either this report is true or is made up by someone not involved with the actual production. I can almost guarantee that no one official is leading people to falsely believe that Aliens are involved if they are not.
i guess there's been far too much confusion already and we'll only know for sure what this movie is about when it's released. well played, mr scott