A new international poster for Prometheus has been revealed over on Latino-Review. It doesn’t contain any new images unfortunately. Their version is from the Netherlands, I believe. The one below is from India.
In related news, there’s also a French poster that we’ve not seen before. Thanks to Seeasea for the news.
SM, always the voice of reason haha
It's called atmosphere. They've used the archetypal imagery from the film to create a mood and give off a vibe to viewers. I think it works and looks fantastic.
It't ok to agree to disagree... I know the head has been the watershed scene from whats been shown... but I simply think this poster is lazy and misrepresenting. Your Jaws example makes sense, Jaws 2 would probably be better... I think it seems lazy.
Those posters being 'painted' is largely irrelevant as one either excepts the creator can use artistic licence or not. The poster for Prometheus isn't an onset production still, it's a stylised rendition of a scene/moment (we expect), and as such the artist in question is scaling up the size of the head for dramatic effect. I don't think anyone will come out of the movie thinking "well I feel cheated by the size of the head". ;-)
I would argue that the original Jaws poster was much closer in scale, and its a painting so it gets a pass from me there... The Star Wars poster was a painting and was the characters large over a background. The Prometheus Poster is not a painting, and the designer just increased the scale of the head in the same scene making it much larger than it actually is...
Perhaps it's just due to the differing angles of reference.
I wasn't complaining
Same could be levelled at the original Jaws poster... or the original Star Wars ones (that bear little resemblance to what actually goes on in the movie). Accentuating the shape/size of the thing to look more imposing than it actually is, may be the idea. You don't have to like it, but it doesn't make it bad.
Don't worry, giant French Noomi head will protect you!
And we'll call in wrong scale Kong and Fay Wray just in case too.
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It`s fine example of old Polish school of posters. All of posters in that era were strange and abstract but they were also art. Nowadays all posters are done in photoshop...
I think the head could have had more presence if it had been done to larger scale, but since it wasn't it bothers me that these posters give it all this scale... it looks 50 ft. tall in the poster...
How about this bad boy?
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Oh, come on now
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It's a f@cking classic!
I'm also going to go against the grain here and confess that I love the image Imax are using for their international poster. Not half as much as the first poster mind, but the urns carry this beautiful, ominous presence. Very 'Ridley' with all that smoke
It's called stupid... It gives people the idea the head has scale that it doesn't... FWIW I am not fond of the original cover either, the egg doesn't look the same, the light implies opening at the bottom, and I don't remember the net...
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But not as big as Shaw's.
"Christ I hope this pays off!"
Not to mention moot.
Didn't we see a very similar image with the original Entertainment Weekly story? At that time I thought it was something that the magazine's designers had photoshopped which would account for its poor quality; the perspective is out and the proportions between the figures and urns are clearly wrong.
That said, foreign move posters are often left to the discretion of the marketing teams in those territories and may well appeal to people in those countries – remember the famous Alien posters from Poland?
http://www.polishposter.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=0212
The Indian Prometheus poster evokes Hindu idols and imagery so I can see why they might have gone with that.
Unlike the 70s or 80s, anyone can do a lash-up in Photoshop and I think that's one of the reasons you see so much dodgy artwork these days. Personally, my fave poster so far is still the teaser. And that, let's face it, is nowhere near as mysterious, memorable or engaging as the poster for Alien. Hard act to follow...
I'd like to see a new poster for Prometheus. Avatar had a minimalist teaser and then a few variants for the movie's release. I'd like to see the same treatment for Prometheus.
Hell, I've seen far better fan posters than the international poster.
The scale on the head has been altered to make it appear much larger than it actually is... which I hate. If the head was supposed to be that large and menacing than it should have been that large... when all the other shots shows a much smaller room and much smaller head, it makes this poster pointless.
They like their gigantic humanoid statues displayed outside.
why do these french people always have to mess up everything!?!?!1
looks like they added 2 blurred black spots to the eyes, but the other poster was really good!!1
I agree, the head just looks cheesy in this one.
Original teaser is a hundred times better.