Speaking with Awards Campaign, director Ridley Scott has teased a few further details on what the future holds for Shaw and David’s journey in Alien: Paradise Lost. We know that they go to the Engineer’s homeworld, aka Paradise, in search of answers but Ridley Scott has now confirmed they won’t be alone. A new group of characters will be with them for the journey. “It’s going to be it’s own separate thing because they are going to the planet of the Engineers and they are going to see what happened there. It was a disaster,” Ridley Scott says. “And they will be in that alien craft that takes them there, but with a new group that’s incoming, a new group of travelers in the beginning of the first act.”
This is pretty much a given since the whole movie can’t revolve around Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender. So just who are the mystery characters? Perhaps a second unit sent by Weyland Industries or a commercial vessel like the Nostromo just happened to be passing by? I suspect this is where the ‘Ripley connection’ will feature and somebody aboard will know of Ellen Ripley. Scott also implies that the Engineer homeworld has been destroyed, probably by their own creation – the xenomorphs.
Thanks to tmjhur for the news.
Yes its true it does set itself as a sequel to prometheus.
Still, 'Prometheus' ending almost sets itself up as an alternative pilot for 'Lexx'. lol.
Man, that show was totally off it's tits and full of WTF? moments. Well, both of them, really.
-Windebieste.
Sorry I forgot about the fly eyes. Definitely an insect then.
Why didn't I think of this lol. Classic. But yeah Eva Haberman is better
Now I'm hoping that the new cast will include an incompetent security guard and 2000 year old revenant warrior zombie living dead person thingy. Then it could be just like that weird German/Canadian/British co-production... Think about it: A hot chick in space with decapitated robot head and their crew aboard an organic alien spacecraft capable of destroying worlds.
I'd go for a 'Lexx' reboot right about now. ...and THIS IS IT!
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.openconnection.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F06%2FLexx-Cast-e1409619258199.jpg&hash=77f5c6ab1c244864f4704a645b700789cd31fd1a
THIS... This is exactly where 'ALIEN: Paradise Lexx' needs to go!
-Windebieste.
I presume you know this, but in case you don't, HR Giger passed away.
I'm sure he's pissed that his artwork got sidelined once again. It didn't even look biomechanical.
culture they can create life on molecular level the concept was really fascinating, also it interesting to find out what
happens with " Deacon " ( I found i beautiful ) , I would like to know what " HR. Geiger thought of it.
Maybe they realised what a bad hand they dealt poor Noomi Rapace!
12 years before the mission.
It will probably be a ship full of Aussies though. Riddles will need to employ lots of Australian actors in order to get that tax discount.
Thanks for pointing that out. That makes far more sense! I could buy into them having a backdoor too.
My thought was that it was initially doing a facial recognition scan, and then identifying if she is telling the truth or lying. Possibly and upgraded Voight-Kampff test
Actually.. I just watched the video carefully. You can see the text "Yutani Photo-Polygraph Technologies" on the right side. The left side starts out as unconfirmed, but then sequences through a number of names similar to Elizabeth Shaw until it gets a lock. As the left side attempts to get a positive identification, the right side has meters showing honesty, anxiety, and determination.
At the end of the video you can see that the software was licensed to Weyland Corp.
I have no idea if they would use it, but it would IMO be the perfect way to start the sequel. It's not hard to believe that Yutani would be monitoring or have a back door built into a piece of software licensed to Weyland Corp. It would make perfect sense, and give the writers the ability to introduce characters to LV223 close to the events in Prometheus.
Otherwise your looking at many years for a follow up mission to get there. The gap would make it difficult for humans to follow the Juggernaut as a story option. And the Deacon might starve to death by that point. After the tasty hammerpedes there wont be much left to eat!
Well if you consider the viral video from Prometheus, the one which was supposed to have been sent out to LV-223 in advance of Prometheus' arrival on the planet, you can see that at least one video was a part of the film. That viral video was literally discussed in the film, making it de facto canon. One could suppose that the 3 other viral videos are also canon. I think therefore that it is fair to say that the Shaw viral video was intended to be canon and not just a marketing ploy. It would be interesting to find out if Fox treats the viral videos as canon. I can't see why they wouldn't.
Like JASON X
Yeeeeeeaaaaah, don't think something from a viral video will make it into the sequel.
It would certainly imply some sort of corporate espionage. It's almost like the video is trying to map Elizabeth's facial features to find someone who could pass as her.
That could work pretty well.
Movie starts with in a room that is completely dark with the exception of dim lighting from a computer console.
A display lights up, and text appears on the screen. "Quiet Eye surveillance has detected priority message" "Decrypting...."
The screen displays Elizabeth Shaw's video message to Weyland. As the message end's the camera pulls back to show a secure facility with the Y logo with the words Yatani Corporation. A little exposition and the audience could understand how a rival company might be just a few days behind the Prometheus.
Not much of a stretch considering how phone traffic is recorded and run through voice recognition in todays world.
You could have the Yutani ship enter the system just as Shaw and David leave in Juggernaut #2. Hell, have Yutani send two ships. One ship follows Shaw and David while the second lands on LV223 to check things out.
It could also be, like in ALIEN where these other travellers are on some other mission and are offered some kind of bonus to investigate, since it would save the Company money and time, if there are some missions already close by.
That would actually be pretty sweet!
It's all just entertainment man. Should never be taken 100% serious.
Who wouldn't be happy if it was Predators?
That's over a 100 at least.
Are you an Arcturian?
This reminds me of a bit of lore I remember reading about the "Predators" game, where Predators seeded other human like creatures on other worlds and apparently some on Earth. I can't fully remember how it was explained, but I think it did mention other human "races" or something.
Look, I'm not saying it was Predators, but it was Predators! *outstretches hands dramatically*
I do like the idea of seeing other Engineer creations, and it wouldn't be surprising to see some of them turn out very human looking. Didn't Ridley mention some new type of alien could show up in the sequel?
Man if Ridley reads this board he's probably laughing his ass off.
What a disaster
The fall of Adam & Eve?
Hmmm better not rip off my old script...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/214719933/Paradise-Prometheus-II-first-50-Pages
It's speculation because Scott said Paradise Lost will feature a connection to Ripley.
What a cock up that would be for Shaw hahaha!
Bottom line, the so called travelers are simply all going to die to become host for more of those things.