Prometheus

Posted by Darkness on January 3, 2010 (Updated: 13-May-2012)

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Information

Date Released: US: June 8, 2012, UK: June 1, 2012
Directed By: Ridley Scott
Certificate: US: R, UK: 15
Tagline: The Search For Our Beginning Could Lead To Our End
Length: 123m 36s
Budget: Unknown… (Rumoured to be about $150M)

History

The project originally started out as an Alien Prequel but at the beginning of January 2011, it was confirmed that the project had transformed into a standalone film. It revolves around the Space Jockeys and supposedly leads to how the xenomorphs in the Alien series were created.

Release Date

Ridley Scott originally said the movie would be released in late 2011, possibly 2012. In December 2010, it was rumoured that the prequels had been pushed back to 2013 and 2014. This was untrue and was apparently a failed attempt to cast Leonardo DiCaprio in the film who would have been busy filming another movie. The film is to be released June 8, 2012 in the US. It’s released a week or so earlier in various other countries.

The Director

It was originally announced that Carl Rinsch would be directing the prequel with Ridley Scott producing it. Things stalled for a while and Fox weren’t keen on doing the movie unless Ridley Scott was the director. In July 2009, it was confirmed that Ridley Scott would be directing the prequel.

Cast

Sigourney Weaver has said she won’t be returning in the prequel. There has been quite a few rumours for the female lead. Noomi Rapace, Gemma Arterton, Carey Mulligan, Abbie Cornish, Natalie Portman and Olivia Wilde. Anne Hathaway and James Franco are also rumoured for parts. Apparently, Fox wanted Leonardo DiCaprio for the male lead but he would have been busy filming another movie. The current confirmed cast are:

Michael Fassbender     …     David
Charlize Theron     …     Vickers
Noomi Rapace     …     Elizabeth Shaw
Logan Marshall-Green     …     Holloway
Idris Elba     …     Janek
Emun Elliot     …     Chance
Benedict Wong     …     Ravel
Guy Pearce     …     Peter Weyland
Kate Dickie     …    Ford
Sean Harris     …     Fifield
Rafe Spall     …    Milburn
Emun Elliot     …     Chance

Storyline

Jon Spaihts was hired to write the prequel. In July 2010, it was reported that LOST’s Damon Lindelof had been hired to do rewrites on Spaihts’ script.

There’s been mixed reports on whether Prometheus is part of the Alien Universe or not. After all it started out as a direct prequel to Alien and transformed into a standalone film. According to Ridley Scott, the last 8 minutes of Prometheus will lead off to the events in Alien. Not specifically with how the Derelict came to crash on LV-426.
The film will focus on the Space Jockey race we saw in Alien. They’re referred to as Engineers in the film.
The story doesn’t take place on Earth but Earth maybe featured in the characters’ flashbacks.
Prometheus is the name of the characters’ spacecraft.
The film will reportedly feature early versions of the creatures seen in the Alien series. How the xenomorph creature came to be created in the first place.
Ridley Scott originally said that the Space Jockey isn’t a creature in itself… it’s a suit with another creature inside.
Michael Fassbender’s character is an android. There maybe another android in the film.
In the recently released production stills, we can see the characters exploring the Ampule room which has a large humanoid face in the room.

Rating & Budget

It was revealed in September 2010 that Ridley Scott wanted an 18-certificate movie (Hard R Rating) and a $250M budget but Fox refused. In another report a few weeks later, Damon Lindelof had apparently finished the rewrites on Spaihts’ script cutting large set pieces out and making the script PG13 friendly. In that report, it was stated that Ridley wanted a $150M budget. In July 2011 at Comic-Con, Ridley Scott revealed that the movie is being shot as PG13. This is not final. 20th Century Fox will look at the movie and then decide what it will be. In May 2012, it was confirmed Prometheus will be rated R in the US and a 15 in the UK.

Production

The movie was shot in 3D with very little CGI.
H.R. Giger had a little involvement in production. Ridley Scott said he worked on the movie for 11 months just creating some murals for the first chamber the character’s come across.

Media

The first official production still was released in July 2011. However, there has been plenty of leaked set pictures throughout 2011. You can find all of them in our Gallery section. The first footage was shown at Comic-Con in July 2011. The screenshots for this video were leaked too which you can find following the above link. In November 2011, some new pictures were published in Entertainment Weekly. At the end of November, a cam-recorded version of the Prometheus trailer was leaked online by us. The first of three promo videos was released December 19th 2011, the second came out soon after followed by the third one. The first official teaser trailer was released in December 2011. In 2012, it was revealed that we were going to get viral marketing for Prometheus. The first viral video was of Guy Pearce’s character Peter Weyland talking on TED and another viral video entitled ‘Our family is growing‘ was released in March 2012. There are also various viral websites set up based around Weyland-Yutani. A full length trailer for Prometheus was released in March 2012. An extended version of the David Viral video was released in April. A new featurette was released at the end of April. The International Launch Trailer was released in April 2012. Another featurette entitled Origin was also released in May 2012.

Latest Headlines

11/05/12 17:32 GMT - Six New Prometheus Production Stills
11/05/12 14:58 GMT - Prometheus OST Track Listing
10/05/12 22:15 GMT - Io9 Interviews Jon Spaihts
10/05/12 21:47 GMT - EW Prometheus Images in Digital Quality
10/05/12 19:07 GMT - Prometheus International Poster

Please view the Prometheus news category to view all the news posts we’ve made about the movie. To view all the rumours and news leading up to the prequel, view the Alien 5 news category.