American film magazine Production Weekly has recently published this synopsis about Prometheus:
“The story takes place in the distant future. There are two superpowers on Earth fighting each other for what’s left of the remaining natural resources spread out across the solar system. One of these superpowers have created and sent a giant terraforming ship to a distant planet called Erix. Their hope is to take this living world and reshape it so that humans can live there.
This enormous terraforming spacecraft lands on Erix, a harsh and uninhabitable planet where it dispenses six smaller mobile units called Crawlers which spread across 125 kilometers of the planet and sow seeds which then terraform the planet. And the name of this terraforming spaceship is…”Prometheus.” The severity of Erix’s indigenous life is notable which are essentially referred to as bio-mechanoid killers. (Offers out to Angelina Jolie & Charlize Theron for Vickers, Michael Fassbender for David, and Gemma Arterton for the role of Truks. / Release date June 8, 2012.)”
Some of this sounds vaguely like the Jon Spaihts script Shadow-19 but I haven’t read said script yet so I can’t really comment.
As well as this it has been confirmed that Prometheus will be shooting in Morocco in Feburary according to Nourreddine Sail, head of the Moroccan Cinema Centre: “he is expecting Ridley Scott to start shooting his next film, the upcoming Alien prequel, at the country’s southern Ouarzazate film studios next February and March.”
Thanks to Dustin and wmmvrrvrrmm for the news. Also UK film magazine Empire is running a small spread on Prometheus in its next issue. Watch this space.
UPDATE: It looks like Production Weekly did indeed copy the synopsis of Shadow-19 as posted by Script Flags so I would consider this one debunked.
Agreed. It was a tad unnerving, to be honest.
I'll upload it to Youtube later for you.
Any way I can get a url for the video?
Also holy crap how skinny was that guy seriously.
just over half way down that page there is the bolaji test footage. if scott brings back the classic alien i want it to have that silhouette and movement. watching him emerge from round the corner is genuinely eerie.
man if that is true ( it is most likely be true) then they must be really working very hard on it now
yeah thats what i have been thinking aswell
Same universe, but wider scope.
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"In reality, hope is the worst of all evils,
because it prolongs man's torments."
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Maybe we should have a seperate "Twitter says..." thread?
What I really want to see when I go to the cinema is a return to the style of sci-fi Alien best represents -- the mysterious and confronting.
I also really like the idea of Aliens being more amorphous than previously intended, and not necessarily due to host, but due to the fact they're f**kin' alien and make no sense via our narrow perceptions. Something like this is potentially fantastic because it opens the scope of the setting without limiting itself by being overtly imitative.
Yeah, yeah been saying that ever since.
You people are off your rocker!
....and....told ya so!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoPWALM2riQ#
Interesting.
by going on that site i think we already found out the truth don't you!
this film is going to be epic!
From slashfilm.com -
Fassbender (when asked if it is an alien movie and if it follows the continuity with the alien movies) -
"Oh, absolutely. There's a definite connecting vein,. You realize you're part of something else, but it's definitely in keeping with the old ones." ... "When I read it, I was like, 'Well, okay, another Alien. Where do you go with this idea?' And then I sort of read the script, and it's new, yet it's in keeping with the old traditions as well. But there's a whole new revelation within this film." .... "The first 'Alien' [movies], they were thrillers. Something's going on. It's creeping, it's sinister. Things are happening, it's building, [and there are] different sorts of intrigues and politics going on between the different relationships on board. There's action in it," he said, "but the intelligence is what struck me when I read it. It's more sort of like the original ones. There are things happening and building, and the intelligence of the first two-thirds of the film gets you ready for the action."
need we continue the 'is it or isn't it' debate any further?
People have to understand that THIS IS THE INTERNET!!! Everything in it is TRUE!!! There is absolutely no need to be skeptical about internet quotes. I mean all the information in it is 100% correct and reliable. I mean who has ever used the internet to spread lies??? "No one" is the answer.
No one's insulting the fandom, calm down. But, I want it noted that it's these kinds of rumors that put the word out that Chet would die in the first 20 minutes of AVPR. Even though some of us would love it if that were true, it clearly didn't work out that way.
f**king please be true.
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2012 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (animation technical director: Weta) (pre-production)
2012 Prometheus (animation technical director: Weta) (pre-production)
2011 X-Men: First Class (animation technical director: Weta Digital) (filming)
2011 Rise of the Apes (animation technical director) (post-production)
2011 The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (animation technical director) (post-production)
2010 Gulliver's Travels (animation technical director)
2010 Predators (animation technical director)
2010 Knight and Day (animation technical director)
2010 The A-Team (animation technical director)
2009 Avatar (animation technical director)
2009 The Lovely Bones (animation technical director)
The guy,Taylor Carrasco is an animation technical director from Weta Digital
I followed the link, where does it say that?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3576725/
Or it could be a bunch of people blowing this completely out of proportion only for fans to be let down by an epic fail of disappointment.
anyway do you guys thnk that the predators had a relation with the space jockeys like with the jockeys helmet at the begginging of avp2