April 27, 2009-September 22, 2011September 28-29, 2011Set photos of a space jockey chair are leaked. Damon Lindelof discusses his collaboration with Ridley and the various roles of the characters:
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On Collaborating with Ridley:
Having done 'Lost' for six years, I felt this tremendous responsibility because I'm one of the visionaries behind the show, so there's no safety net below you. When I got the call [from Ridley] I had this tremendous amount of relief and comfort that Ridley Scott is going to be the safety net. What ensued was a series of conversations where I was kind of interviewing Ridley to get a sense of the movie he wanted to make. Once I got a sense of that, then it was really about channeling that idea so that I was realizing his vision, as opposed to imposing my vision on it. That was my perspective. His perspective was more kind and generous in terms of ideas that I brought to the movie. But really everything I was coming up with was just a different spin on what he was saying to me.
On Michael Fassbender's Role:
He plays a robot. One of the things that evokes the idea of 'Blade Runner' is, 'What does the movie look like from the robot's point of view?' If you were to ask him, 'What do you think about all of this? What's going on? What do you think about these humans who are around you?,' wouldn't it be cool if we found a way for that robot to answer those questions. When you cast a guy like Fassbender, who's going to bring a lot more to it than [makes clichéd robot movements] — that was me doing the robot, I don't know if you could tell — it's not Anthony Daniels. All due respect. He's phenomenal. But C-P3O...
On Charlize Theron's Role:
Her character's name is Meredith Vickers and she's sort of a corporate entity. That's another one of the familiar things from the 'Alien' movies — that there are corporate interests in play. I feel like Charlize brought a new spin on that old variation. It's a remix .... I don't think she's slimy [like Paul Reiser's character in 'Aliens']. She's not the fast-talking, snake-oil face of the company. By the way, "What company is she a face of?," I think is a big part of the fun. As we were developing the script, she had some really cool ideas that made it not the suit you're used to.
On The Ensemble:
I think one of the really cool things about the first 'Alien,' if you watch it cold, Ripley is kind in the background like one of the crew members, and you're like, 'Skerrit's [who played Captain Dallas] the hero of the movie,' and he's one of the first to go. And then you're like, 'It's [the engineer played by] Harry Dean Stanton.' And, no, he's gone... and suddenly Sigourney Weaver, in the last 40 minutes of the movie, is the only one left alive. I think the idea of building a really cool ensemble and again presenting the audience with like, 'Who's going to be left standing at the end of this movie? Maybe all of them. Probably not,' [that's] part of the fun of what we set out to do.
http://on.mtv.com/qWTHTcOctober 6, 2011Filming in Spain has been delayed until November. In a Norwegian interview Noomi Rapace gives more insight on her character's backstory and development arc in the film:
http://bit.ly/ozVRTdQuoteI play Elizabeth Shaw, researcher and archaeologist. She's English but was raised in Africa because her father was a missionary. From him she learned to believe in God, and she has a strong inner self.
She is the most complete person I have ever played. She has an inner light. She's very stubborn and determined.
She lost her parents when she was a child, so she's been alone from a young age. But she's very intelligent. I know that when one has to survive alone from an early age, one becomes strong.
But also fragile, because the hurt child within her hasn't been able to evolve in a natural way. You get easily hurt emotionally. She's full of hope, a dreamer, a little naive.
Halfway through the movie a lot of things happen and she turns into a fighter. Another part of her comes to life
On her character's resemblance to Ripley:
QuoteYes, absolutely! There is a relationship there. I saw 'Alien' as a teenager and was blown away. Can it really be like that? She was the first female star. With 'Alien' and 'Thelma and Loise', Ridley has created a lot of hope and dreams.
http://bit.ly/pkoYvdOctober 8, 2011More set photos from Pinewood are leaked along with location photos from Iceland:
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A detailed version of a previous rumored plot outline is leaked:
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The movie opens with a montage of Earth's creation.
Its surface's a magma ocean until it slowly cool down enough for the crust to solidify.
The atmosphere and the oceans form, microscopic life appears.
Evolution follows its path leading to the first Australopithecus.
An alien spaceship lands on the planet, nearby an ape community is watching.
The apes approach the spaceship, a female Australopithecus dares to get closer to one of the ship's
entrance/vent. She shrieks as "something" grabs and pulls her inside.
Her scream fades as we jump centuries later.
Our future.
Alien artifacts are discovered in Africa.
The found not only leads to the conclusions that human evolution was genetically enhanced by an
advanced alien race, but that Earth itself might have been their creation too.
The artifacts give coordinates to a planet outside our solar system that could be the alien's home
world.
The Weylan Company, the leading force in space exploration and bio engineering, sets to launch an
expedition toward the planet hoping to gather alien technology.
The interstellar spaceship PROMETHEUS will carry scientists, security personnel, theological advisors,
company execs and one of the first artificial human/android.
Years later, the Prometheus enters the alien planet system.
While the Prometheus stays in orbit, the crew uses the Magellan space shuttle to land on the planet.
Upon exploration they discover remains of a pyramid leading to a temple entombed in cave galleries.
The temple's enter is all stone but once inside it's all biomechanical architecture.
The humans venture deeper inside, discovering hundreds of strange urns around a giant sculpture of
a human head with biomechanical features. While searching it they trigger a mechanism that
"opens" the head to reveals a gigantic chair, a creature seated in.
It starts waking up, the humans are scared shitless but mesmerized.
The huge creature moves out of his chair.
It's standing over the humans, towering 7 fts tall over their head.
Suddenly its chest "opens" revealing inside a humanoid being.
He was actually wearing a biomechanical spacesuit/armor.
Exhausted by his wake up from years (centuries?) of cryo sleep, he falls out of his biomechanical suit.
He's brought back to the Magellan and an urn with him.
The humanoid aka the Engineer still unconscious is under medical observation
The crew's amazed by how close he is to the human anatomy.
Meanwhile the urn is analyzed but its content accidently contaminates a science officer plunging him
into coma, something starts to grow in his abdominal area.
The Engineer awakens and tells his story.
He's the last of his race, a civilization of explorers, scientists, creators, gods to the humans.
He was one of their leaders, a scientist with incredible knowledge.
The humans are one of the many experiments throughout the universe that he conceived, their
initial purpose being slave labor.
The Engineer's impressed by the level of intelligence his creation reached.
He has lengthy interaction with the Prometheus' crew learning more about the world the humans
have made for themselves. David, the artificial human's his favorite interlocutor.
He admires his precise mind and emotionless decisions.
Their relation is closely monitored by Meredith Vickers, the company's suit.
The Engineer shares some of his seemingly magical technology with the crew.
He reveals that his temple is actually some sort of Noah's ark, the urns containing the DNA of his
people. The Engineer's quite charismatic, charming even but as it will be revealed he's also a
mischievous and very perverse creator.
He promises a new Paradise to the ones who will obey and accept him as their God.
Some do, the others question his identity and agenda.
Tension rises...
The Engineer tricks his followers into being impregnated by the contents of the urns, promising them
that they will become his equal once their DNA is modified.
But what the followers don't know is that the urns are actually past experiments that the Engineer's
tested on his own race, leading to their extinction.
He became so obsessed with his experiences, whose ultimate goal is to create the perfect organism,
that he only envisioned his people as source material, as lab rats.
Those experiments are highly compatibles with human DNA since it's close to the Engineer's.
Meanwhile in the medical bay, the contaminated science officer starts to convulse.
Something eviscerates his guts and takes control of him.
Bones cracks, skin shreds, his body morphs into a terrifying creature that immediately attacks the
crew member present in the room.
The Engineer orders his followers to kill all the non-believers and leaves the Magellan.
Vickers follows him to his temple, which is actually housing his spaceship (seen in the opening of the
movie). There he initiates the transformation of the alien planet into the promised Paradise.
The battle rages on aboard and outside the Magellan, where the weather is reaching apocalyptic
proportions as the planet started its transformation.
The followers have already killed some non-believers and they have the upper hand when the
Creature appears and attacks with incredible savagery.
The surviving followers start to convulse and morph too.
On their way to the temple to settle the score with the Engineer, the non believers manage to kill a
few creatures but the cost is high and only two survivors are left, Elizabeth Shaw and David the
artificial human.
They make it to the temple just in time as the alien spaceship's starts its ascent.
Creatures also made it, ready to attack the survivors but they settle down and behave as the
Engineer, their master, enters the room.
He's impressed by Shaw's skills to survive.
He's willing to forgive her if she accepts him as her true God then turns to David offering him a place
at his side. A place that David's "sister" already accepted he says as Vickers enters the room.
Like David, Vickers is an artificial human.
Her mission was to make sure that the exploration team would bring back any alien technology that
would be discovered to the Weylan Company at any cost.
But not anymore, she has now other plans for her makers.
The alien spaceship is now in space.
Below, the planet's almost finished its transformation.
Sky's blue, green's everywhere, oceans rise.
On the ground the Magellan has been destroyed.
Only debris remains.
The Engineer adds that he will make of David and Vickers more than just artificial creatures thanks to
his technology and offers this new Paradise as a gift.
The alien spaceship descends toward the planet.
David's conflicted by this God who's treating him like an equal and his allegiance to his human
creators. But when the Engineer reveals his plan to set course toward Earth and reap what he sawed
to continue his experience, David takes a stand against him.
He throws the contents of an urn at the Engineer's face.
Whose laughs turns into a shriek as his chest is punctured by a creature never seen before.
The Engineer has a devilish smile as he watches the creature.
The perfect organism...
It jumps at the Engineer's face finishing him off viciously.
Vickers runs into hiding as the followers/creatures resume their attack.
The newborn Creature grows at an exponential rate, just a few minutes later it's bigger than a man.
The followers/creatures stop their attack as they seem afraid by the now huge Creature.
It attacks them with incredible savagery ripping them to bloody bits and pieces.
The 2 Prometheus survivors flee deeper into the alien spaceship, playing a dangerous game of cat
and mouse with the Creature.
Shaw is discovered but David lures the creature to another direction.
He orders Shaw to run for cover as he provokes the Creature.
She refuses and fights back with a flamethrower, but the weapon runs dry.
Thanks to David's super-human strength and speed they manage to resists the creature's attacks.
David gets close enough to badly wound the Creature with his bare hands.
But when he's about to give the fatal blow the unmanned spaceship crashes on Paradise.
Minutes after the crash.
The alien spaceship is in bad shape.
Smoke's everywhere.
A large part of the hull is ripped open, letting the sunlight in.
The Creature's lying in a pool of blood, motionless.
Nearby David, who seems to be dead.
A sun beam awakens Shaw, she looks like hell but she made it ok.
She walks toward the hull opening, feeling the heat of the sun on her skin as she covers her eyes.
The sunlight is blinding after so many years in the darkness of space.
For a moment she forgets about everything, she gazes at the view of the virginal planet.
Reminding her images of what Earth looked like just a century ago.
Shaw comes to her senses, sees David's body and runs toward him but Vickers stops her with one
violent blow that sends her flying all across the room.
Vickers's raving about the new worlds she'll create and what she's going to do to humanity with the
technology that God himself's left her.
She will not let an unworthy human soil Paradise
Shaw escapes to the primal planet.
She runs as far, as fast as she can, exhausted she hides near a huge waterfall.
But Vickers's fast, she's quickly on her. They fight but Shaw doesn't stand a chance.
Vickers grabs her by the throat and is about to drop her into the waterfall when her chest explodes.
A casting call reveals two actors playing an "Engineer" and an "Elder Engineer". It is also shown that the running time for a possible rough cut of the film is over 3 hours long:
http://bit.ly/syWnwMNovember 21, 2011A brief snippet of the Prometheus trailer is leaked online:
http://bit.ly/ubC48wNovember 26, 2011A bootlegged, full-length teaser trailer of Prometheus is leaked online:
http://bit.ly/rW1orSNovember 30, 2011The first production stills are officially released online:
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Fox CEO Tom Rothman expresses his discontent with the trailer leak:
QuoteI heard some of it leaked, which wasn't so good. [It's] not fair. It's heartbreakingly unfair, because ... the quality of the visuals is as spectacularly beautiful, shot in 3-D compositionally the way only a master could do it. For some early, early, early, early half-baked, half-assed test to leak, it's so unfair.
I will promise you this: When that material is ready and it comes out, you should go see it in 3-D on a screen. It will deliver.
http://on.mtv.com/rXnerFDecember 7-9, 2011It has been reported that the original Alien (as seen in the previous installements) was seen on set. It was described as "dark, possibly brown as the original Giger suit was," with its skull appearing to be domed-shaped:
http://bit.ly/tq5D5UThe teaser trailer is rated 14A by the Government of Alberta:
http://bit.ly/v6OUIjMore set photos of the alleged Space Jockey chair are leaked:
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The first official poster is released:
http://bit.ly/vnT21SDecember 16-17, 2011Ridley Scott sheds more light on Prometheus in an extensive interview with Empire. It is revealed that the last eight minutes of the film will bridge the connection with Alien. He states that the pervasive aesthetic of HR Giger's art will return in the film, albeit slightly altered. Scott also reaffirms that the story of Prometheus is on a much larger scale than Alien, saying that "Alien felt epic, but this one
is epic," and he also reveals that Noomi's character, Elizabeth Shaw, is conflicted with Logan Marshall-Green's Holloway, stating that "one comes from a position of faith, and the other is [a] pure scientist. On being asked on what could be concluded from the recently released images of the giant humanoid head, Ridley affirms that there is a greater value to that head and that the revealing aspects of it are being kept under wraps until the film is released:
http://bit.ly/rvBhAaIn another interview, Ridley Scott also reveals HR Giger's contribution to the film to be murals (which will be seen in the Space Jockey chambers) and that the original Alien will
not be seen in the film:
http://bit.ly/rYk0M3December 21, 2011Another still of Michael Fassbender's David is released:
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The official teaser trailer is released online:
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