We recently received another set of exclusive images from the set of Prometheus that look to be like the Space Jockey chair images we posted some months ago:
You can find a further four images from our anonymous source in our forums.
We recently received another set of exclusive images from the set of Prometheus that look to be like the Space Jockey chair images we posted some months ago:
You can find a further four images from our anonymous source in our forums.
Sounds like he's channeling ideas from Nigel Kneale's 'Quatermass and the Pit'. Fine with me, it's a great idea.
The head looks Angle-European. If the Engineers were responsible for creating humans, then they must of guided own evolution to some degree. The suggestion is that they are the 'missing-link' somehow, and not for early humans, for modern humans.
I was recently reading through wmmvrrvrrmm's (most excellent) blog and came across this quote from Ridley:
Maybe someone with more context on this comment can clarify (the Laserdisc edition of Alien, released in 1992?), but it sure is an intriguing statement. Unless he was totally drunk at the time.
-Chris
Here be dragons...
Sounds and look perfectly right!
Further to the awakening idea, I have long thought that (based on the leaked SDCC images and the trailer) that the Jockey chair is actually activated by one of the crew.
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Just a guess of course, but I like the idea of a dormant ancient race being awoken, but rather than being benevolent they turn out to be down-right 'nasty'.
-Chris
You've made some good points in your post.
As for the time scale problem, maybe here is when the time travel issue enters on the movie scene...maybe
Though is not in my taste (I'd prefer nothing about time travel in Prometheus)...
So I got to thinking what if the Engineer was this "higher being and servant of the gods" and as such the gods, wanting Earth as a future domain, watch over the planet and engineer humanity, a race in the image of the gods, so they can terraform a world they know will be suitable to them, rather than creating an inhospitable world, wasting millenia of their time.
The Engineer would be imprisoned for trying to give humanity something forbidden. Just like the Prometheus allegory Ridley alluded to in a recent interview.
Now why a race of ancient god-like aliens would have so much interest in terraforming a planet then engineering a race in their image (one you would guess would be planned to be subservient to them and less technologically adept), watching over them and manufacturing their evolution over billions of years? The time-scale is the main thing that bothers me.
I find it hard to believe they did this over so long purely to have a place to live on... why take so many billions of years to do this? Why not settle in once the ecosystem levelled out billions of years ago? Was Earth just a research petri dish of biological engineering (Perhaps why the Engineer is called as he is) to them?
Did the Engineer rebelled against them, trying to save early humanity from being a slave-race to these alien gods with the gift of some advancement in technology and they got imprisoned for their efforts and so we are left to evolve and gain technology alone?
Perhaps the gods left of their own will like in 2001 and left clues to find them when we were sufficiently advanced? Then we are to be judged of being worthy to continue to exist? Recent plot-points revealed allude to it, what with an archeological dig revealing a star-map.
...Maybe perhaps the gift to humanity from the Engineer was his own genes to some humans?? Then evolution helped along the way to differentiate us? That would suitably get the gods goats up enough, I'd think, putting someone elses booger into the petri dish.
So many possibilities... any opinions?
We ll see
But why unlikely?
They show clear traces of damages
As for the story same as Prometheus, nobody knows just guesses...
PROMETHEUS has been shot mostly in closed sound stages or at isolated locations.
A lot of movies get the same treatment and are hush hush (the next Neil Blombkamp for exemple ELYSIUM).
Previous Scott's movies too...
So PROMETHEUS has nothing special going on for that matter.
We are just focused on this movie in particular.
As for the new Batman movies.
It would be a mistake to put them in the same wave of the comic book movie wave
The thing with the Dark Knight movies is that it's more a drama action thriller set in some sort of alternate real world than comic book fantasy. Nolan followed every rules that Scott used for ALIEN or BLADE RUNNER and applied them to the super hero genre.
If Scott did a Batman (or any superhero) movie i have no doubt it would look like Nolan's.
It's both i think.
I have no doubt that the exploding ship is the derelict class Engineer's ship.
Then you have the debris and piece of landing gear from the shoot in Iceland?
Do the math. A human ship crashing into the Engineers ship to prevent him from reaching Earth.
Janek last stand
And debris are flying all around, Shaw and Theron running for their lives.
Dark Knight Rises? Really? Must be a genre thing, most of these comic strip/fantasy films leave me cold. To be honest I can't quite believe there are so many Batman films.
Still I think it's great they are keeping a tight reign on info about Prometheus.
Spoiler
The object in the last frame doesn't seem to fit with the object shown in the proceeding two.
EDIT: There actually are some similarities
Spoiler
-Chris
i think that, too. for me the ship don't looks anyhow like the derelict kind. except for the short cut shown at the end of the trailer.
Consensus of opinion was that it's more likely just random debris raining down from the crashing ship.
Many assumed it was an Engineer ship, but it could just as easily have been a human craft.
I just meant on that one sequence, of the astronaut running away from the big scary thing that is shooting out 'stuff'. In regards to the guns, if you look at how they are behaving it looks like a 'hands up, nobody move' kind of action, not a 'shoot the shit out of the alien monster' type action. I think these guys are the mercenaries that are listed in the cast and there is a human against human conflict as well.
-Chris
Maybe they are not firing at the crew at all, the crew are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. This could be terraforming in action; a giant machine rolling across a planet's surface and firing down urns or 'seeds'.
-Chris
And I have another question, why is there so much firing between crew of the ship and (maybe) Jockeys?
It's possible. If they are in the planet terraforming business then they are used to long lead times.
-Chris
But wouldn't that mean they'd have to somehow end up a billion years in the past for that to work?
I love the way you think. It could also be that the 'clue to the origins of mankind on Earth' is deliberate, a way of leading humans to the Engineers when they are sufficiently advanced enough and therefore 'ready' for whatever horrors they intend. It is a similar plot device to 2001 I know, but it's a good story arc IMO.
I know it's off topic, but this has been bugging me. Current scientific knowledge discounts the idea of the purely extraterrestrial origins of Earth's water and instead now suggests that a large percentage of it was already present in the material that formed the Earth, namely by the existence of hydrogen and oxygen.
-Chris
The waterfall seen from Norway also hints at a more barren Earth with water springing throughout it when we see "the start of time". You could argue this is the point when life started on Earth rather than the upspring of Homo Sapiens.
Then you have to wonder why Jockeys are terraforming a planet. They cant just be doing it for shiz and giggles. Think how Lovecraftian it is to have a Jockey terraform the planet for themselves (then something happens that they get stuck somewhere in space while waiting for the results) only for us to come along and awaken them, a by-product of the initial terraforming.
Thats where I see the desperate battle for humanity's survival coming in, because now the Engineer is free and knows his planet is habitable for himself. A little genetic cleansing and he can move in...
Plus I feel the big theories Ridley mentions can be dealt with from this plotline.
Maybe they decided the Neanderthal species was a dead-end and used some ampule goo to modify them into Homo sapiens back about 200K years ago? The options are endless
or they don't have anything to do with life in general and terraforming on earth.maybe they just created or engineered us. to say they terraformed the planet and created all lfe it means we will see our planet billions of years in the past and i don't think they will do that.plus humans only developed a few million years ago.so i doubt they terraformed the planet,created all kinds of live,then returned billions on hundreds of millions years after to put us on the map.
just a thought.
and water on earth came from asteroids and comets who crashed on earth
terraforming...
PS. I guess, I still have a half of a year to peruse this piece of mythology
My understanding is that water came from the earth as a by product of the atmospheres formation, not from comets from space.
That's a good theory.
-Chris
People tend to not realise for a fair time the Earth was a barren rock without an atmosphere even, it is thanks to its gravity that (put very simply) it managed to pull in enough ice clusters from space and it was at the right heat to get build-ups of water, which led to an atmosphere being created.
Be interesting to see what the Jockey(s) will do. If they filmed at a waterfall, I assume they somehow get our waterworks going, which will of course hold all the genetic material that the plants and animals will evolve from.
I guess you could have a story that has the Space Jockeys as life seeders, not necessarily creators. Like giant alien bees, traveling about the galaxy planting life on suitable planets. This puts the creation furphy aside and leaves evolution and everything that we know about the origins of life on earth intact, for the most part. It seems to fit with some of the rhetoric about the film as well.
-Chris
Or is this movie going to entirely dismiss the concepts of primitive human ape ancestors, cavemen, and dinosaurs?
Just because jockeys are a bunch of lab-geeks creating species doesn't mean they don't use scientific methods.
That's the spine in the heel of all creation myths and why they don't really work. I am hoping that Prometheus leaves this fairly ambiguous.
-Chris
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Prometheus created man from clay in the later versions of the myth, but in older versions man was created by the gods and Prometheus was the Titan tasked with 'shaping' them into civilized beings.
For what that's worth.
-Chris
In the myth of Prometheus, the eponymous semi-god (if memory serves me right) poaches the fire and imparts it to the mankind, but none initiative is let go unpunished, so his liver is eaten out on the daily basis, hence the myth is not creating of man. And as we all have not seen the movie yet, Prometheus' lot (punished by higher beings) can be associated with E. Shaw's scientific crew, as well as with mysterious creatures aka Space Jockeys, subsequently SJ can be just another extraterrestial race, which is created by the same higher beings, who initiated life on Earth.
The point is it's senseless to make any inferrences whithout having watched the movie itself (and distorting ancient Greek mythology to boot)
I'm not too keen on the idea of what the sculpture MIGHT mean either, all I know is in Prometheus (the myth) god created man in his own image, which POSSIBLY points to the Space Jockey being humanoid at least, we'll just have to see how it plays out. It's worth mentioning though, many scientific quarters in the real world believe there's a fair chance we originated from somewhere else, that we're a product of some advanced form of humanity somewhere out there.
As I understood it you were talking about how the effect stood out, and I my point was "who cares!" I guess it did bother Riddles because he went in and scrubbed them out on Blade Runner, yet I hardly noticed anyway. And even though wires are even MORE visible in the Blu-Ray version of Aliens Cameron left them in, because it didn't matter...that's all I'm saying!