ITunes has released a new Prometheus featurette showing new clips, interviews with the cast and behind-the-scenes footage from the movie. Make sure to watch it below. Alternately you can download it here in HD.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsYej64A3tA
Thanks to MrSpaceJockey for the news.
Update 26/04/2012: Channel 4 is airing the world premiere of the trailer of Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ in the first break of ‘Homeland’ on Sunday April 29th. Click here for more info.
No.
The planet they're sitting on probably did though.
And probably not on the equatorial plane just to make for more interesting backgrounds.
Our guess is as good as yours, but I really hope that was not from the soundtrack. Sounded terrible!
They 'were' Engineers before they become "Space Jockeys" and the Juggernaut is still a 'Derelict' since it crashed and is just a pile of scrap metal.
yes that´s very Ash/Bishop reaction, but David steal the show
Perhaps, but keep in mind that this is in 2085, and Alien is in 2122. It was a ten month trip in 2122. In Aliens, set in 2179, it was a three week trip. Their FTL technology seems to improve its speed rather rapidly.
"They're leaving." - David
"To go where?" - Shaw
"Earth." - David.
Personally I think there is a very good chance that is not an engineer but the mutated crew member in the running hologram. I saw this because of the appearence of dome or globe around the head and what appears to be a box-like protrusion on the back. I think it's a human all suited up. Could certainly be wrong though.
I like the engineer part fleeing too. You mean the derelict dude being a rogue and then getting his punishment?
Well, I guess that would make a third possibility. However, when the film is finished (in the can, so to speak), then possibility #1 holds, and the planet should stay in the same position in the sky, relative to the observer. In other words, if we see the planet "behind" the front of the Prometheus at one point in the film (and assuming the Prometheus doesn't move), then we shouldn't see it on the opposite side, in some other shot. For example, when we are viewing the crew convoy either approaching or moving away from the front of the Prometheus, then the planet should never appear "behind" the convoy, as that is the opposite part of the sky.
Also, the large angle/inclination of the planet's rings, as observed from the moon, makes for an aesthetically pleasing image...but not one that would be typical. Even "artistic" paintings of Saturn, as hypothetically viewed from the surface of one of it's moons, typically show the rings at a significant angle. However, this is not the case in reality. In reality, on Saturn's natural moons, the rings would be almost invisible, since the moons orbit almost exactly along the same plane as Saturn's rings...and the rings are so incredibly "thin" when viewed edge-on. The exception would be small, captured moons, which were not an original part of the Saturn-moon system. Captured moons (typically very small in relation to the natural moons) can orbit at extreme angles in relation to the planet's rotational plane (and rings).
For example when Shaw jumps the gap.
And other things have been changed over time as we all know.
Good catch. Two things are possible.*1)
The FX team didn't do their homework (didn't hire me as a consultant), and they F@&Ked up.As Prometheus appears to have landed on a moon which is in orbit around a massive, gas giant, it is almost certain that the moon would be tidally locked to the parent gas giant. A tidally locked moon makes one revolution about it's axis in the same period as it makes one orbital revolution around it's partner planet. That means, it always shows the same face to the gas giant. This also means that the main "planet" will appear fixed at the same point in the sky, for any given observer's location on the moon (presuming they are on the hemisphere which faces the planet, of course). As an example, the Apollo astronauts would always see the Earth in a fixed, unchanging position in the sky.
This situation occurs with the Earth-Moon system, as well as the moons around Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto and Charon are approx. the same size, and they are mutually tidally locked. Therefore, unless the Prometheus ship moved, and changed orientation, this could be an oversight/mistake on the part of the production team.
2) Per my last point...it is possible that the Prometheus has moved position and orientation between these film sequences/clips. I suppose it is even possible that they have left one moon, and moved on to another moon in the system.
*EDIT: I may have been too hasty in my analysis. Looking closer at the two pics, it does appear that the ringed planet remains "behind" the front of the Prometheus (with the Prometheus bow/cockpit facing the camera)...at least in these two pics. The small change in the planet's relative position is simply a change in the perspective/view of the two shots of the Prometheus.
really don't see an interesting story arc with Holloway.
To me his death will trigger Shaw's rage or something.
Thats all i see him doing.
He's no major actor, pure cannon fodder in my mind.
But i could be wrong.
But Weyland has an interesting story arc.
The wannabe god.The secrecy about his presence on board.
Same with David, how Ridley and co seems to be saying that he's not a regular David 8 but has become something more during the 2 years trip, also to me he's a potential Prometheus a higher being.
But i know some don't agree and see artificical human as lower.
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very disapointed by the survivor thing really wanted to see several of them in action and not only Holograms.
Well it does give weight to my theory that they have been wiped outby xenos.
Whats exiting tho is that this planet is not their homeworld but some colony.
A sequel taking place in the home of the gods on Paradise, is possible ^^
ALL of this is speculation.
Before getting allantsy to point fingers please learn to read.
NOBODY and i mean NO BO DY said that there were no giant Engineers.
That includes me.
Actual Engineer are GIANT.
It's a fact everyone has agreed upon.
Now what i've been saying is that there is also a character wich is human sized that is wearing an Engineer suit.
Who is that character is still open for discution (my take is David or Weyland).
3 images show that human sized Engineer suited character.
The one rising from the console is human sized, you just need to compare him to the shot where DAVID is kneeing near the console, check the console design and size you will see that the rising character is human sized...
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg21.imageshack.us%2Fimg21%2F2318%2Fprometheusofficialfullh.jpg&hash=6b7422e97e44375069a9204067c5d21e3c9a5124
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg580.imageshack.us%2Fimg580%2F2318%2Fprometheusofficialfullh.jpg&hash=8cada078a64a96bcb5fda3a924042e7ed5116678
https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg825.imageshack.us%2Fimg825%2F6152%2Fprometheustlrgh1080pmov.jpg&hash=532149d6aacc52531f1d3c1cda55d52202ead5f2
BTW I've had confirmation of the human sized Engineer from the same person who told me about ARTHUR MAX vs GIGER...
Now you can go blow anything or anyone you like mate
it was ugly, indeed, but it scared me. it was a 3-meter baby, that want to "cuddle" your head till it explodes.
i am a bit doubtful if the "creatures" in this movie will be scaring, or have an original design as the xenomorph.
not that at it should copy it, but aliens (in every sci-fi movie) in general, deserve an extraordinary design.
The biggest indication that this isn't the same planetary system from ALIEN is the time it takes to get to LV-223. I think in ALIEN they stated that they were 10 months out from Earth. The crew of the Prometheus were in Cryo Sleep for 2.5 years.
oh bitch plz, it's called juggernaught (?) now...
looks as if the hologram will depict the engineers being attacked and infected with something that later bursts out of their chest when they go into the cryosleep. I guess only one Engineer escapes.
From what we've seen so far we're either going to get a mutated human who becomes a bit like a SJ or that plus some genuine SJ too. Just having mutated humans and nothing but hologram SJ would seem a little timid so I'm guessing we're going to see some large, genuine SJ too.
On another topic I'm curious about the running time vs the number of implied scenes we've seen so far (Earth based sequence, on-board briefing sequence, landing sequence, visit to temple sequence, Shaw removing the embryo sequence, fighting mutated crew members sequence, ramming the ship sequence, etc. etc).
Either the pace of this is going to be a lot closer to Aliens than Alien or these scenes merge very tightly together, otherwise I'm struggling to see this all fittng into the reported 119 minutes. I suppose it is possible that, like Alien, Scott has gone for a much slower pace initially then cranks it up to a non-stop fury of scenes for the bulk of the film.
Can't wait either way. Everything I've seen looks interesting and even though I don't buy the aliens visited Earth theory implied in the film for a moment I'll happily suspend belief if the film delivers the goods.
Where can I find the gif that shows the engineer running away?
I agree the Engineers are big. I never doubted it anyway. However, the one in Alien was a lot bigger. Its no big deal anyway. Most people (apart from fanboys) wont give a shit anyway - they will just think, "wow those guys are massive"
Also, so you think these guys are holograms? Someone also said that the 4th engineer is sitting on the chair. Can this person explain how they know this since I see nothing.
The sarcophagus looks damaged at the top.
There was some drama about the size of the jockeys based on a few images. Most prominently the shot of him crouching in the orrery and standing up and the one with Shaw on the ground confronting something in the Prometheus. All I said was that, from the perspective of the shots, it would be hard to assert that the jockey was 'definitely humans sized'. We'd need a more straight forward image.
Who said that they wern't big.
Love that face on the "pyramid" structure though. Freaking incredibly nightmarish.
WANT! MORE!
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Compare them to David8.
Basically, NGR (I think his name was) who gave me shit in another thread for doubting his assertions based on the perspective of the camera angles (regarding jockey size). In particular, I remember using the shot of the SJ standing on top of the orrery console as an example that we had little to compare him to. Well, now we do and it's quite clear that they are massive compared to regular humans.
Keep in mind that while the univerze/planetary systems 'zoom in' the size of the engineers does not fluctuate. To me, this is quite indicative of their actual size.
this .gif also might explain why we have that hologram of the engineer running away. I think what we're going to see here is a recording of something bad about to happen and one of the engineers (The survivor) fleeing the scene.
+1