Amazon.com has revealed an upcoming art-book for Prometheus. The book, named Prometheus: The Art of the Film, will be available from June 5th, 2012 and comes in both standard (hardback in slipcase, $34.95) & limited (hardback with dust jacket, $75) editions. You can also pre-order the standard edition at Barnes&Noble or Forbidden Planet at a price of $19.75 and £19.99 (RRP £24.99) respectively.
“Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. Produced with the full co-operation of the filmmakers, this lavish book, showcasing stunning production design art and behind the scenes photos, will be the only tie-in publishing to this eagerly awaited film.”
Thanks to APN and Glaive for the news.
Thanks for posting the link, very cool.
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I completely agree, but it is still fun to speculate.
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That is my take on it
The connection might just be an avoidence of contradictions.
Interested if this turns out to be true. The problem is how can they link a narrative set on LV-426 to a movie that does not go anywhere near said planet and occurs around 100 years in the past? If there are links, nobody will be able to recognize them before the release of Prometheus anyway, unless they specifically refer to known characters in the new film, as in:
Marine A: "Yo, you remember what happened to the crew of the Prometheus right?".
Marine B: "Yeah man, that shit was nasty. Hooah!".
-Chris.
Well, if part of the game takes place inside of the derelict they might have checked the facts, so not to contradict anything from Prometheus.
Haven't seen a mention on this awesome forum yet.
DVD/blu-ray/soundtrack. I love these 'The Art Of...' books, already having the 'Bond' and Avatar'
ones, but they don't really go in depth. Yes, I know the extras on the DVD/blu-ray will have all that,
but I like to have a large book to hold and not a remote, y'know? I want to read a novelisation as well
as numerous other books and yes, as somebody mentioned, a 'Metal Hurlant' or 'Heavy Metal' version
of this and a Giger art contribution special would be a dream for me. The expected scope of this film
demands a lot of peripheral reading merchandise.
I know, tell me about it! That mysterious croissant shaped craft, that seated "telescope" object and a company called Weyland Corp; all completely original ideas, which have absolutely no connections to Alien whatsoever!
Why would Dark Horse do anything? It's obviously not an Alien movie.
Hmmm. Chris Warner hinted at Dark Horse maybe doing something for the movie. It has been a few months since I spoke to him though.
A solid idea, Alien prequel or not.
Pfft. I don't like you!
To be fair, that is only up-to-and-including the film's release...if it's as GOOD as I believe it will be, there WILL be more.
Much like the original film.
(...and a lot of those will be cash-in crap...like the original...)
Don't know how big the merch market is for Prometheus.
I personally would like happy-meal spacejockeys, just for the fun of it.
But I doubt that. Depends on the pg rating?
Tron:Legacy for example had an awfull art-of book and the making-of book has been cancelled.
The extras on the home media releases where ..ehm... let's say scarce.
And I recently found out that all the cool behind the scenes stuff has been released in the shape of an iPad-app!
This thing is über cool: storyboards, model-turnarounds and hundreds of concept-art pieces.
Short: This app should have been a book or a disc-bonus.
And we all know what happens to all the stuff when disney decides to take it offline.
And Tron got an "the-full-story-app" instead of a novelisation.
As cool as the stuff in the app is I hope the marketing for Prometheus will be a little less blindly futuristic in it's aproach.
Maybe a definitive 'Making Of Prometheus' as opposed to The Art Of?
This is awesome
Still, I'll be buying this!
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I don't recall anyone saying that WON'T happen...Maybe we'll get a comic book 'Metal Hurlante-style', a 'Giger's: Prometheus', 'The Prometheus Photonovel', and 'Blood and Acid: The Making of Ridley Scott's Prometheus'...
...one can but hope!
And I too wonder if a slipcover justifies a $40 price difference, or is there more to it?
Cause if there is no difference in content there is no way I'll pay 40 more for just a cardboardbox.
Probably.