Yesterday, we reported on the existence of a brand new trailer for Prometheus. As mentioned before, this new trailer lasts for around one minute and features a handful of scenes from the footage that was shown at Comic-con this year, scenes from the recently leaked 18 seconds teaser trailer and much more. You can watch it below now. The quality isn’t ideal but the video is definitely worth a look.
Special thanks to James Smith for sending us the recording.
[Video removed by request of Fox]
According to the source, the trailer is being shown to the public via an entertainment survey at an online surveys website.
There is no way I get near to any cinema where they are showing this Alvin crap.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chip-Wrecked
Repeat for the next week or so until it's officially released online.
Hmmmm...
Maybe Rothman is the world's first synthetic! It's all starting to make some kind of sick sense now.
... We're through the looking glass, people.
Oh, I do :-) I know myself from following this and other movies, that much mis-information - intentional or otherwise - surfaces with annoying frequency. That's par for the course. I'll put my tetchiness earlier down to a late night and an early morning :-) for what it's worth, the information came from within the Fox UK marketing dept.
Actually mate, there was a second part to my post (via an edit) that got wiped because my piece of s**t PS3 just crashed on me. So I'll retype it...
I agree with the possibility of the news being fake. To the fellow who posted the news...
You really can't come forth with such news, not cite your sources and then become aggravated when people doubt you. ThisBethesdaSea is correct; that's journalism 101. I'm not necessarily doubting the authenticity of the news but I am wary of such things due to the sheer volume of braggers and fakers who've emerged from the woodwork, claiming to possess "insider knowledge". I'd say that approximately 5% of those people are on the level.
If you're unable to cite your sources, then you should expect a healthy amount of skepticism. Don't blame the doubters amongst us; blame the fraudulent idiots who've led us to become so wary.
Roger roger.
-Chris
I just can't shake the image in my head; of Rothman crying like a fat baby, throwing all of his toys out of the pram. "WAH WAHHHH... the trailer got leaked mommy! WAHHHHHHHH... me no like. Me delay official trailer and make the fanboys cry... WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
What a dick move.
Cite your sources, confirm your information. Because anyone can write anything on the internet and say it's true, accuracy and legitimacy is a must. If not, you'll start reading news items based off hearsay "I was told" "I heard" "my good friend."
I'm not trying to bust anyone's balls here, truly, I'm just sick of reading posts and entries from people who say they have pseudo-official knowledge but are unwilling and unable to produce any kind of corroborating evidence or contact info. Obviously, part of this comes down to deep throat contact who wish not to be named (which strangely is always the case lol).
When I was about 23, I had a dumb little online newsgroup called The Viper Pit, which I started as the build up for Alien Resurrection began. I was contacted by Kerry Shea, a visual effects coordinator on the show. She gave me some awesome information that I was able to share with everyone involved with the zine.
I've read several postings in relation to Prometheus so far, posted by earnest and excited individuals citing a secret unknown source and to be taken as gospel, all of it based on their word. You'll have to forgive the gratuitous amount of skepticism on my part. I don't think it's particularly ethical or fair to excite or disappoint a rather rabid fan base with knowledge that cannot be confirmed except on the word of the unknown, faceless poster.
But maybe that's just me.
Not you, obviously...
What I actually wrote was 'I have been told'. Which I was, first hand, by someone with direct knowledge of the situation. Obviously I'm not going to name the person who told me, just as sources of news on AvPG, Alien Prequel News and other sites remain un-named.
If I had any doubts about what I'd been told I wouldn't have reported it, and I stand by it, as I have always and will always do if I see or directly receive information that I am happy is genuine. Of course, you can feel free to believe or dis-believe it. I really don't care.
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I dunno, it might actually be phoney balogne...
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Sounds like complete hyperbole at the highest level.
They have nothing to gain and nothing to loose by showing the trailer as planned. Shit happens. They seriously could not expect to show an online screener and not have it get it out.
Put it this way, what do they loose in any aspect? Nothing, if anything it's building hype.
http://www.prometheusmovienews.com/2011/12/confirmed-fox-postpone-official-prometheus-trailer-release-following-recent-leak/
can be useful depending how it's done. Alot of prometheus is practical sets but having cg used for the creatures and the ship effects dosen't bother me too much. 3D i'm unsure of at present, but it's gonna take a few more films to convince me, clash of the titans 3D was terrible and rushed during post production just to satisfy a quick box office cash grab. However the 3d in Avatar shows what can be achieved when done correctly by using the right equipment.
yeah it was out there briefly
i remember seeing it
it bore only a vague resemblance to the 2 most recent 'leaks'
Is this the only trailer to have been leaked this far? I'm just wondering if the trailer from ComiCon was ever leaked.
Remove Star Wars 1,2,3 from that list and I'd agree with you as I'd be quite happy if those movies were never made
Anyway I'm just glad that it seems as though Prometheus wont feature CGI Space Jockeys and theyve built huge sets, so I'm happy on those fronts at least, and thank God there wont be any CGI androids either
Do you think the same when watching the 1933 version of King Kong or Jason and the Argonauts? I don't believe CGI has "ruined directors". It's a tool/mechanism that's easier to employ and we're spoilt in that most movies (specifically Hollywood event movies) contain effects employed to get bums on seats (most of the effects are good even if the movie isn't). However, when assessing the validity of CGI in modern movies, one should look at the best examples and not the worst. I don't particularly like Avatar, but it would have been impossible to make a few years ago. I happen to think it's a worthy experiment at pushing the boundaries of virtual environments in cinema.
CGI presents filmmakers with further opportunity to realise their ideas/concepts. Of course not all of them are good or worthy of exploration, but I'd sooner have a Jurassic Park, The Lord of the Rings , Star Wars, Star Trek movies made possible by CGI than not have them at all. But that's just me...
nah, there is plenty of movies to enjoy that don't use bad CGI.
Anyway I insist we should continue this topic somewhere else, or stop it already.
maybe you should go bury or head in the sand and wait for this cgi thing to blow over.
on drugs.... you are on drugs ..... bad ones ......... like meth ......... maybe crack.
from an very recent interview with Mr Gilliam
That said digital effects are only a tool.
Ok I got it. Let me say it diferently: Doesn´t need to look REAL, like from our world, but needs to look INTEGRATED in the world is descriving.
Gollum is not integrated in the world of the LOTR movie, because its not a world of 3D talking cartoons.
Avatar planet and chreatures are not integrated because its not Cartoon Planet.
Landscapes and hordes of people are integrated on 300.
The comic style is integrated on sin city because its a COMIC style movie.
Hugo I don´t know because I havn´t seen it. and Im really afraid to do so: Scorsese+3d CGI sounds bad, really bad.
CGI has ruined a lot of directors: Tim Burton, James Cameron (even he started mastering it), George Lucas, Spielberg has used it quite well but he is slipping to the dark side, or one of the saddest examples : Terry Gilliam.
By the way, maybe we should create a forum topic for discussing CGI as we are stealling the thread here...
For me watching at gollum is like watching Roger Rabit. Is a cartoon in a human´s world.
That´s the problem, if people can believe gollum, if this sets the level of acceptancy for people, why are you going to try to make it more credible? "make it like gollum its enough". And gollums sums it all up: Non beliable movements, no sense of being phisically real, and the worst part: A COMIC DESIGN and COMICAL body and facial expresion.
Horrible.
Hate avatar. The history is just horrible but the CGI is (even perfectly done) hateable. The concept of it: LETS MIX real human with cartoons. That´s what it is to me. real human interacting with cartoons. So, they are in Cartoon planet. A planet with 3D cartoon creatures, drawed by some cartoon god or something. That is what I see, and what is worse, that is what James Cameron want´s us to see. A cartoon world! And people just watches at it, and they believe it.
Also, Avatar is the start for that 3D madness that is destroying sci fi and action movies.Now everything is done in the sake of 3D. Well...at least 3d somewhere because the characters are uni dimensional in all those 3d movies.
JC is dead to me.
If you can not make it look real, then I dont understand where is the point of it...
Just because is there Im not going to believe it. But it seems that people do as far as in on the screen...lucky them...
It not going to happen. You are goint to hate CGI in that movie as much as me.
If it gets down again just search youtube for "Prometheus Trailer" and sort by date, it's reuploaded all the time.
Many thanks.
I knew that was the shot because as has been said it's iconic.
I suspected it was augmented CGI for the overhead shot but I do maintain that it's the only shot in Gladiator that looks fake. I think it might have to do with the lighting and the CG birds.