Los Angeles Times has revealed a new production still from Prometheus featuring Noomi’s character, Elizabeth Shaw. It may not be obvious at first, but there are some familiar shapes in the background of the photo as well. You can see the somewhat ‘spoilery’ image by clicking the read more button below.
Along with the new image, writer Damon Lindelof has shared a few words with the publication. You can read the full interview here:
“The movie is definitely epic in its scope. One of the filmmakers that we ended up talking about to a fair degree of redundancy was David Lean, who directed ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. We wanted to make the movie feel big by having the characters be small in big spaces. That connected to the larger themes we were talking about — that we’re all just these little gnats crawling around on our little planet.”
Thanks to Laufey for the news
Elizabeth Shaw
maybe they use life sacrifices, bodies to build one of this suits?
but nevertheless: a spacesuit is a spacesuit.
i think real aliens are also gonna make fun of the NASA-spacesuits.
The aliens in id4 use creatures from their planet to create thier ships and space/ battle suits
Maybe aliens do that because they.......like me......understand that its not only cheaper to grow your own......but your costume also looks waaaay cooler than anything those pesky humans have
Just some thoughts pmsl
" im keeping all the best stuff locked up"
Love how we all assume in our way that we have seen everything and know the ins n outs of the story and subplots lmao
......AND ALL FROM A MIN OF f**kING FOOTAGE
Im sure we havnt even got a clue about any of the epic stuff yet
Just some thoughts.....
I don't know about set piece style "set", but I reckon plenty of the shots in the trailer have demonstrated both big set pieces and awesome epic shots - Prometheus itself, the wide shot of the ship arriving through the clouds, the vehicles driving down the road, the modernised version of the Space Jockey seat, not to mention the clearly amazing set piece of the "derelict" ship blowing up in the air then rolling across the surface.
Given they're probably holding back plenty of awesome moments from the teaser I think that's a pretty good haul
Lol i actually think there is a chance he was just photoshopped in to get us thinking and talking about the movie untill its release, the trailer is a sequence of bulletpoints that appear to tell a certain story lol
Notice 01: the trailer starts with the shot of a spaceship
02: it ends with the deralict crashing
03: inbetween those 2 shots are a sequence of events that mimick alien
Pretty much has us all thinking it all happens in that order lol
04: 80% of aliens trailer is footage not even in the movie........
Just some thoughts.......
He may be a low-down workman, but he is a giant alien low-down workman, so he is far from being unimportant from an audience perspective. But you could also be right that he has risen above his station, being the rebel figure of the Prometheus myth.
-Chris
That all makes sense, and I would be VEry surprised if this figure climbs into the seat and ends up being an SJ like the one in Alien (still less THE one from Alien). Frankly, it would be idiotic given the proportions we can see from this (albeit brief) clip - but that is of course just my opinion.
Where I'm not so sure about your analysis is that the clip, even though it took many people a while to spot the "blue man", nevertheless, in the context of the final film, suggests he is an imposing and powerful figure. I can't honestly see that shot, in a storytelling sense, making much sense without implying that, at the least, that character is quite an important figure at this point in the story (unless they're making a really weird trailer where they're deliberately wrong-footing us about even the emotional impact of a shot, which of course isn't impossible given the level of secrecy and hype that surrounds this film).
Actually I guess that doesn't necessarily preclude your points being wrong either. But if he is a low down workman character then I think, at the least, in this point of the film he's rising above his station.
I think that there's a pretty good chance that he will be the one donning the smaller SJ-like suit, but I completely agree that he is too small for the chair. My take is that he is named the Engineer because that is quite literally what he is, the ship's maintenance man, created by the SJs as a sort of slave to look after operations. The SJ suit is his spacesuit.
-Chris
First post, hi guys, been a lurker round here for a while. Just something I can't see has been pointed out before: the point above about the right arm being straight, as if it has an attachment, and the left being more naturally hand-like, with a wrist. You can see the exact same thing on the mysterious blue man in the brief shot of the space jockey chamber, particularly clear in the shots that people have lightened up.
Now there are several possibilities from this, but at the least I think we can assume that the "blue man" is wearing the body part of the suits in the newly-released still, just not the helmet. As the helmets are space-jockey-like (with the trunks), this may or may not add credence to the idea that he is indeed a space jockey.
Personally I still don't think so though because of the size problem (he just won't fit into that chair IMO) - but I know there's debate about that. But why is he wearing a suit (without helmet) for which the helmet has a space-jockey like appearance?!
Apologies if this has been brought up before. If not I'd love to hear people's thoughts...
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and here's the pic in larger resolution:
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Still though there is a possibility that the space jockey could only be 15 inches high. I mean we've only seen the suits so far. The face hugger could be the pilot of the jockey suit too.
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I think between the both of us we have pretty much cracked it.
P.s dude did you notice the rick james reference in the frame skip at the end of the teaser.......
" f**k your couch darkness" i think its a big clue about the origins of the sj chair
Plus i am 93.4% certain that i can hear a lightsabre igniting just before noomi screams at the end........... im thinking major plot twists that even we arnt gonna be able to see coming
Laterz on the Space-Jackson gets inside the jumping guy's head and causes it to mutate, forcing him to attack the crew
I have actually heard a rumour that the 3 sjs in the movie are micheal jacksons sister sharon , gary coleman ( the different strokes version and not the older much shorter version )and of course rodney dangerfield ( who im told is reprising his role from natural born killers ) and the baby thats born in miss noomi is gonna be half cgi and half rob snyders face , im superstoked man........SUPER STOKED!!!
Oh and as a sidenote im pretty sure that from all the clues i have deciphered from the teaser the classic xeno design has been replaced by a tennis ball on a string ........ But it "does" connect onto a stick later on in the movie
And as a double sidenote , news just in from my buddy's sisters second uncles gay lovers lovechilds foster parents ( who work on the movie) have assured me that giger did infact design the tennisball and stick and we "will" be able to see strands of the original aliens dna on it
An official quote from ridley on set
" i had to do something new as the old shape had been done to death "
Im thinking we may even see a queen tennis ball later on in the movie.
I really dont want the Space Jockey to look anything like Jabba the Hutt.
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Jabba the Hutt^^
Honestly I've lived with the idea that the Jockey race is a more creature-like organism but I've just learned to let it go...and as I ponder the notion that they're more human, Im actually more unnerved. What's interesting about the promotional strategy is that the studio seems to be getting us all used to the idea and if we're being honest, the only people who seem to really care or notice are the die hard geeks like me who look for statues in darkened photos. Right now I'm a believer. I have faith that Ridley Scott will deliver 3 for 3 and redefine yet again what Science Fiction is.
Like everyone else I'll reserve judgement until I see it for real, but I've seen better fan made designs for the Space Jockey, indeed I can think of at least one image that had many of us fooled for a short while. I've never had any problem with the Jockey inside a suit, I just find it hard to believe after all this time it could be a MAN in there, when a humanoid/serpent design could have been just as believable and work just as well. Another lost opportunity perhaps, we'll have to wait and see!
Okay. Why?
Kinda like an observation deck that moves throughout the entire ship, thats an awesome theory buddy, do you think it could rise up into the giant stone head , oooooooo even the idea that every room houses a different suit i wonder , those statues could just represent the mobile suit that these creatures use?
Haha sorry I wasn't being clear. I don't consider them canon in any way, so no offense taken. I just meant that Ridley will explore those original concepts in A L I E N in a much better way than the piss-poor AVP did; and will literally eject AVP out of even possibly being conceived of fitting into the canon. I want them to be metaphorically shot out of a literal cannon. I was trying to be humorous but it didn't come across
01:Lol well to be honest mate if your going down that direction why not take it to the extreme and accept that any serious "alien79" fan knows that what cameron did was change the creature from being truely alien to being an ant/wasp that was to big to step on .......... In my oppinion if you accept camerons "twist" on the original then your being nothing but a stuck up little twat ........
02: avp is no more out of touch with the original than the idea of a bunch of fully armed marines invading a nest of antlike aliens and pretty much all getting wiped out......oh except for the forklift driver who by herself invaded the nest , wiped out the nesting grounds and the queen and all the xeno's ,without any prior military training and oh yeah she did the whole thing carrying a little girl on her back.........
03: your argument really shows know logical thinking......and actually comes across as simply over inflated ego fanboy nonsense that stems from watching way to much cameron jizz.......and please dont try and start some other bullshit argument i actually like aliens......its just no more further from "cannon" than avp and i think that claiming your any more serious a "fan" when you claim that you dont agree with the bigger picture is foolhardy and childish aswell as ignorant.
We are all here for the same reason......well except for you and a few others on here, your obviously only here because you love a few 1 or 2 movies that feature monsters ive loved since childhood that ive followed through movies , comicbooks, toys, novels etc etc ............ Just sayin
I won't try to define "fun" in this case
Remember there was a rumor that they built a pyramid set in Morocco and were transporting it somewhere else for Prometheus? I think it will all be connected to the idea of a lost global mother culture that, in this movie, also went interstellar with the help of another race tens of thousands of years ago. This makes the bald guys a subordinate race of humanoid-giants, but their mixture of genetics is close to the gods and elder gods(Titans) who may be even larger. I think we have non-humanoid intelligent creatures and even possibly more humanoids yet to be revealed. The bald guys could actually play the role of the demi-gods (mixture of god and man) in the mythology.
01: pretty certain that............ Watching event horizon on blueray its painfully obvious that anderson was a diehard fan of alien and in event horizon probaby found a dream project i.e spacecrew respond to distress signal of deralict spacecraft, investigate, discover new lifeform that wants to kill them all . set design ,camera shots,crew member attitudes etc etc even the crews spacehelmets ffs which im sure were just dug out from the alien props.
02: from what i have come to learn about some of the original alien concepts, im sure avp and alot of the ideas for it came from scott and obannons early ideas just set on earth and swap out the sjs for the preds and boom.
03: event horizon had a budget of 50million and the director was allowed alot of creative controle.
04: avp had a budget of 60million and pretty much got made by execs who have no f**king clue
The ideas, sets or even director were not the problem with avp, apart from it being on earth and the pair up at the end i thought it was pretty cool
Oooooo so like............is the idea that the ancient race that built the pyramid idea that the 79 deralict craft crashed into was actually the preds :/ and in fact was an old deralict training ground that got blowed up by a pred nuke activated by a predyouth that failed the trials , the large blast knocking out the electrical systems of a passing sj craft in the process?
And if it is in fact a mix of various ancient culture symbols...well, it really is sounding a little AVPish.
Nicely put buddy
Exactly the point i made about our own ancient history allowing for the idea of a " alien/god/angel/demon/scientist" overlord character to appear to be humanesque in appearance in a sci-fi movie.............why it needs to be justified is seriously beyond me at this point and actually shows a commitment i cannot f**king relate to
Thanks for taking the time to explain it in detail
From what i can tell most of the comments ppl are making in regards to the anti humanoid sjbs, pretty much every problem they have exists in the xeno alien design lol ........ I just dont get the issue
Can anybody read cuniform text lol, somebody should try and translate the cuniform located on the sleepchamber thingys surrounding the center platform
Well given that Guy Pierce is a 'name' actor, and a good one at that, I think he probably will have a key part to play. Maybe not huge in terms of screen time but important. Add in his absence from the trailer and anything else that's emerged so far and, for me, the 'probably' turns into a definitely.
Sorry, to clarify, I mean that the fact that there has been no details of his role says to me that it is "spoilary"
Exactly what I thought at first glimpse. Exactly.
Personally I think so , I mentioned in the other thread but nobody seemed to take notice. The Blue guy is played by Ian White who is nothing more than a creature actor. He will not have any lines, and if he does, it will probably be Darth Maul style one liners with a different voice over.
I'm thinking the SJ will also be humanoid, the lack of Guy Pierce anywhere seems to indicate to me that he's probably our SJ. The only other explination could be that he's Weyland.