There’s a fairly interesting interview with Blu-Ray/DVD Producer Charles de Lauzirika on Blu-Ray.com who talks about what went on making the Prometheus Blu-Ray set and particularly the Furious Gods documentary. He mentions that they were in serious discussions to get an interview with HR Giger.
Was there anything you wish you could’ve included but couldn’t for various reasons?
I would’ve loved to have interviewed H.R. Giger. We were certainly into serious discussions on that.
He does show up briefly.
Yeah, I’m glad we got him in the documentary; at least he’s a presence there. I shot that footage of him and Ridley working together. There was a last minute scramble to get Giger’s approval to include it, and I’m glad we did. It would’ve been nice to sit him down and do a proper interview, but at least he’s in there in some form. But beyond that, I’ve gotta be honest, I think we got pretty much everything. There are always little things, and down the road, if there’s a 10th or 20th anniversary release, and there’s ever a need to go in and add more stuff, there’s plenty. But by the same token, we didn’t hold anything back. What you have is what we intended to include.
He also mentions that the deleted scenes were initially selected by editor Pietro Scalia and eventually approved by Ridley Scott. Thanks to Valaquen for the news.
i think the difference in the ships was brought on by having aliens living inside the derelict. The walls of the derelict look very similar to the hive in Aliens.
Arthur Max said exactly this. The derelict was in a state of decay and the juggernaut/s were in top condition. But this is not satisfactory for me - you don't go from flat angular plates to giant bones with 'decay'.
Well, if you'd like to know my opinion, aerials on the formerly known as the Derelict and now introduced as Juggernaut craft were redundant, to point out the least.
Valaquen, Thanks for the link!
By the way, how do you guys feel about this: http://io9.com/5949685/blu+ray-extra-ties-prometheus-to-blade-runner?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
And there was another article where de Lauzirika confessed it was exactly his idea to play with a hint of Alien and Blade Runner united universes on BluRay commentaries (Can't find the link right now, but I would look through the history of my visited sites, if anybody is interested)!
Plus that he had to abandon everything silo-pyramid/hieroglyphic
and thus had to putt the silo beneath the derelict.
lol, I didn't make myself very clear I was actually thinking more about the goo creatures more than anything.
I'm not sure as to why it's less organic, but I'd assumed it was to make the ALIEN sets look like a denuded, ancient version of the ships in their pristine weapons facility state.
Interesting. If anyone can dig that up it'd be a good contribution to the debate methinks.
The problem was that they took the 'bio' out of 'biomechanical'. I remember remarking upon that at the time and, eventually, there was an interview with somebody involved in the production (forget who), where it was openly stated that this was a deliberate decision.
So, yes, we got Giger-esque mechanical-looking stuff, but not with the same nightmarish, organic quality. I think if they'd gone down that route, it would have given things a much more satisfying psychological link.
Giger's influence can be seen everywhere
He wasn't production designer on Alien - why should he be on this?