“Alien Vault reveals the details behind the making of the groundbreaking 1979 science-fiction horror film, one of the cult classics of the genre. This licensed, behind-the-scenes guide examines the creation of the movie via director Ridley Scott’s hand-drawn storyboards, concept sketches, script pages, spaceship blueprints, never-before-seen production photos, and rare collectible memorabilia.“
It’s being written by Ian Nathan, a well known journalist for Empire. It is scheduled for publication on the 2nd of September. However, Ian Nathan was at the London Film & Comic Con early July with some early copies of the book and Andrew Clark was lucky enough to get a copy. Check out some of the pictures he took of the book.
Now that it’s been a day or so since the Prometheus panel at San Diego Comic Con, more complete Q&As from the panel have started appearing online including this video of Ridley & Noomi’s appearance. An audio recording of the entire panel is online to download as well. Thanks Daz85 for the news.
i09 has just posted up an incredibly detailed and juicy description of the Prometheus footage shown at SDCC:
“And then the actual footage from the film starts, and its a huge flood of creeptastic imagery that recalls Alien but also a bit of 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are guys in pressure suits exploring an ancient chamber with weird hieroglyphs, and a guy in a spacesuit walking through a sliding door into a clean white chamber. And a guy (who might be Michael Fassbender) pulling a weird jelly-looking thing out of a canister. And as Ridley Scott’s voiceover notes that things that may look small in the film will turn out to be important, there is a shot of a drop of blood on a finger. There is Charlize Theron on a table with bandages wrapped around her breasts, as though she’s waking from hypersleep.”
Be sure to make sure you read the entire thing. This is easily the most exciting report I’ve seen so far. Thanks to Ikarop for the news.
The Prometheus panel at the San Diego Comic Con has minutes ago wrapped up. Instead of a trailer being shown, some sort of featurette containing behind-the-scenes footage and movie footage was screened instead. After this Damon Lindelof and Charlize Theron presented the panel with Ridley Scott and Noomi Rapace joined in via satellite uplink from Iceland.
The footage and panel revealed this about Prometheus:
Many of the sets, spaceships, space suits and the look in general appeared very reminiscent of Alien. Repeated comments are that the sets are “epic and expansive“.
In the footage the “Prometheus” title card slowly faded onto screen much in the same manner as the original “Alien” title.
Michael Fassbender’s character, David, is shown looking curiously at a drop of blood on his finger.
Charlize Theron’s character, Vickers, was also seen doing naked push-ups and wielding a flame-thrower. Vickers is revealed to “be a suit“. IndieWire is taking this to mean she’s the head of Weyland-Yutani. Theron also comments that: “She[Vickers] runs a tight ship… but she’s somehow ‘going to be a problem“.
Ridley Scott comments on the long wait for his return to science-fiction: “I was busy doing other movies and exploring other genres and, frankly, I never thought about sci-fi until I realized there was something in the first Alien that no one ever asked a question about. In the next one, still no exploration of that big question, so maybe that can be the centerpiece of what we just complete. But we’ve decided to go a complete other direction… In the last few minutes of the movie… you’ll actually understand what I’m talking about . “
The majority of the film is shot practically with very little CG. However, it was all shot entirely in 3D which is a format that Scott is quite taken with. “I’ll never work without 3D again, I loved the whole process… 3D opens up the universe even in a small dialogue scene, so I’ve been very impressed with that.”
According to Ridley there will “maybe be two” androids featuring in Prometheus. We’re already aware that Fassbender’s character, David, is an android so this leaves the second a mystery.
Noomi Rapace comments on how “demanding” working on Prometheus has been. “It’s been the best journey ever. When I read the script, I was thrilled. Then when we started to work on this, I completely forgot about everything, it felt like we were discovering something that I haven’t been in before.”
A bombshell was dropped in that Fox are wanting Prometheus to be rated PG-13. Lindelof asked: “has the PG-13 rating inhibited you?” to which Ridley replied he has a responsibility to Fox but he also wanted to make sure he had both opens. In all likelihood we’ll see a PG-13 theatrical release and an uncut Blu-ray release.
Bleeding Cool state that: “Scott has said that he hasn’t held back and has covered stuff that might not make the PG-13 cut, but that he and Tom Rothman “will watch the footage in that big theatre at Fox” and decide what is the best way to go with the film.”
According to Empire they saw: “a creature getting flamethrowered” during the footage. This could possibly be the footage with Vickers and the flamethrower.
Nintendo Everything has just posted up 13 minutes worth of gameplay footage & an interview with a Sega rep that appears to have been recorded off the Gamespot live feed. It seems to be the first level of the game in which the player is exploring the abandoned (apparently) Sulaco. We see WY androids, Aliens, much of the previously mentioned large multi-platformed levels and the artwork:
The first official production still for Prometheus has been released. It shows someone in a spacesuit on the surface of a planet under what appears to be a ship.
Stay tuned because 20th Century Fox are showing the first Prometheus footage in a couple of hours at the San Diego Comic-Con. Thanks to ikarop for the news.
Sega has just released a press release for their upcoming title Aliens: Infestation for Nintendo DS. Developed by WayForward, the game is a side-scrolling action adventure set in the Aliens universe. According to the press release, players will be able to recruit and play as 19 different marines, each with their own unique dialogue, and explore iconic environments including the Sulaco, the Derelict ship, and LV-426. The game is coming out September 2011.
You can find the cover art, logo, screenshots and full press release for the game at our forums here.
In related news, we are happy to announce that we are the first website to do a Q&A with WayForward about Aliens Infestation. If you have any questions regarding the game, please feel free to let us know.
Our fourth episode of the AvPGalaxy podcast has been released. Episode 4 sees Mikey return for us to discuss the various upcoming Alien games and the upcoming 25 Years of Aliens convention.
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It’s somewhat more light hearted and playful than the others. Mikey and I enjoyed this one. If you haven’t already, listen to our previous episodes and keep tuned for episode #5.
