There’s a new Prometheus article in the latest issue of SFX magazine. The feature includes several interviews with the director, writer and cast of the film. Click the image below for more:
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military is a company.
On big ships in the ocean that are attacked by Somali pirates here in Holland they can rent or get marines protection,
or against a cheaper price private guys.
So when there is a big interest i think its possible to rent them,no doubt about it.
You don't "rent out" Marines, no.
The closest you get to that, in today's world, would be private security contractors, like Blackwater. If a government ever allowed private companies to briefly own their own defence forces, it would be insanity.
And like I said, doing so would contradict Ripley's conversation with Burke in the APC about company jurisdiction versus military jurisdiction, which was more realistic and also served to make the stakes more interesting by introducing the concept of competing interests.
Yeah, me too - anymore will be too much for me.
I think Ridley's vision of "The Company" was definitely more of a Big Brother style mega corp that owns practically everything. Employees are paid in company shares as opposed to money. Everyone seems to live in the shadow of The Company.
Cameron seemed to depower The Company. He made them answerable to other authorities such as the ICC and Colonial Administration. They did not appear as all powerful in the sequel. Even the motives for the corporate agenda were driven by a single man's greed, Burke. There was no sense of an omniscient and coldly calculating mega corporation here.
couldn't Weyland Corp have rented out the marines or something. And picture it like a super mega comanay that owns and runs almost everything.
Agreed. They are making the universe smaller by trying to incorporate everything for the sake of fan service. Lucas did this way too much in the SW prequels. We don't need it here.
And, really, I'd regard it as a cliché too far if they ever did try to portray that. It's already a bit dodgy that they're apparently showing power loaders and proto-pulse rifles as being invented by Weyland. The whole point of capitalism is that there's corporate diversity and competition. Right now, it's starting to look like they're the only company in existence on the planet.
First post ...
Ridley , Damon and co. are saying that Prometheus is in the same Universe as Alien but will not lead straight into that film , or therefore any of the other movies.
They have spoken of potential sequels that will lead further away from Alien itself - but like Prometheus any followup films will need to be cut from the same cloth as the original movie because of the presence of Weyland Corp etc.
So when the question of canon raises it's head , and there is a clear link , I can only come to the conclusion that Prometheus is in fact a Reboot of the original franchise.
Also continue to be confused by the whole it's-not-canon-but-it-also-is quote frustration.
Seems to me like a guy to whom you say "Hello!" and he will make you piss blood.
IMO he looks badass though. haters gonna hate.