A Swiss newspaper had a chance to talk to Alien designer HR Giger about his involvement in Prometheus.
http://www.suedostschweiz.ch/kultur/hr-giger-designt-den-blockbuster-prometheus (http://www.suedostschweiz.ch/kultur/hr-giger-designt-den-blockbuster-prometheus)
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English version :P
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Hype is growing like Audrey II now. Kaboom!
Delicious news. He's confirmed at last!
QuoteSwiss newspaper Blick had a chance to talk to Alien designer HR Giger about his involvement in Prometheus.
"Ridley Scott and I met in London to discuss the details of the project" confirms Giger. "It was a warm reunion after such a long time."
According to the newspaper, Giger has been busy working in his studio in Zurich on the latest creatures for Prometheus. Unfortunately he's bound by contract to not give away any details.
"It's going to be huge. I can not tell what I'm doing exactly"
He does however confirm that Prometheus will take part in the same universe as the Alien series.
Giger won an Oscar in 1980 for his work on Alien, and the Swiss newspaper asks him if he's hoping for his second Oscar this time.
"We'll see what the future brings. I did my work but never in terms of awards, otherwise I would have had to adjust."
http://www.alienprequelnews.com/2011/02/hr-giger-its-going-to-be-huge.html (http://www.alienprequelnews.com/2011/02/hr-giger-its-going-to-be-huge.html)
Great stuff! So much for being just an "advisor" eh :)
It says $250 million dollars for the budget in this version of the article by the way... http://www.blick.ch/unterhaltung/kino/h-r-giger-jagt-den-naechsten-oscar-167311 (http://www.blick.ch/unterhaltung/kino/h-r-giger-jagt-den-naechsten-oscar-167311)
Great news! and directly from the horses mouth!
Okay, does anyone feel that this movie has the potential to be better than Aliens now?
No f**king way.
Super glad he's back, but I'm confused...
We hear it's in the Alien universe from one source and that it's seperate from another.
so hes kind of confirmed space jockey then ?
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Quote from: Master on Feb 24, 2011, 01:29:02 PM
No f**king way.
...and so goes the old tradition of disregarding every modern film. Who knows how good this film can be now that pretty much most of the old crew is back on board for this movie.
so i guess with 230 mil budget it will be PG13 afterall
Quote from: one_ugly_mf on Feb 24, 2011, 02:11:42 PM
so i guess with 230 mil budget it will be PG13 afterall
Oh boy, here we go.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkbq18u9sxw# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkbq18u9sxw#)
I think my brain just started to melt as I looked into Giger's eyes in that picture.
Okay, the article says that what transpired is that "Prometheus" is set in the "Alien" universe
The article says it is 230 million swiss francs. That means the budget is approximately 250 million USD. If it is true.
Great news. Looking forword to see what nightmarish and ingenius concepts spring from his mind for this film. :)
Sounds great! Can't wait to see Giger's return!
man this is going to be epic! and what giger is working on is surly the space jockey!
230 Million seems dumb for an Alien movie. Maybe thats why they are downplaying the universe?
Federick your comment seems dumb.....there are plenty of films with big budgets that were well made and films of quality.
great news! XD
so glad Giger is back doing the biomechanoid necromorph stuff
All the fanboys will look up and shout, "Save us!" And Ridley Scott will whisper, "OK, sure, whatever. Let me just get Giger."
Quote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Feb 24, 2011, 06:48:05 PM
there are plenty of films with big budgets that were well made and films of quality.
That's not what he said.
Its what he implied.
What I believe he was implying was that an Alien movie doesn't need 250 million dollars to be good. And that maybe the budget will effect the look of the film and possible make it PG-13.
No, Alien deserves a ridiculous budget after being f**ked over for three and a half movies.
IF it actually has jack to do with the Alien Proper at all.
230 million might be the biggest budget that a Alien movie had. This movie has to be pretty amazing if they want to make back it's budget. I think the IMAX and 3D tickets will help this movie make back it's budget.
Resurrection had the biggest one, 80 million. Alien had 11 million. If this doesn't turn out to be twenty three times better than Alien, I'm going to be pissed off.
Quote from: Xhan on Feb 24, 2011, 11:16:55 PM
being f**ked over for three and a half movies.
I'm confused.
u have to remember that not all of the budget will go on the actual production of the movie.
3D/Imax is quite expensive to do properly. It might only be 50 mil spent on the production of the film. The rest could be split between. 3d/Imax/Cinema time and the rest being spent on a Massive worldwide marketing campeign
@MUS - $11 million back in 1978 was a lot of money. Inflation dude. $250 million now is just about the same value as $11 million back then.
I checked here (http://146.142.4.24/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=10%2C000000&year1=1979&year2=2011), ten million dollars (it wouldn't go higher) came out at a bit above thirty mil in modern dollars. So eleven would be about thirty three today. Fine. If this doesn't turn out to be eight times better than Alien, I'm still going to be pretty angry.
Quote from: Fujimaster on Feb 25, 2011, 04:46:50 PM
@MUS - $11 million back in 1978 was a lot of money. Inflation dude. $250 million now is just about the same value as $11 million back then.
LMAO it realy isn't!!!
I meant same idealistic value. There's just tonnes more money to throw around now then there was 25 years ago. In the 80's a million dollars was something you could retire on @ age 20. Today it might get you that house and car you always wanted. Impressive figures theses days are in the billions.....and I am certainly not saying I would n't mind having a million ;)
I'd be good to retire at one million. I don't need a forty million dollar car.
Or okay, maybe not at one million. Unless I moved to like, Thailand or somewhere.
Quote from: Fujimaster on Feb 26, 2011, 12:01:28 PM
I meant same idealistic value.
No. It isn't.
Alien got made on 11 million because the people knew how to spend the money wisely, not because it was a lot -- plenty of stuff had to be changed or dropped because they just couldn't afford it.
Quote from: SiL on Feb 26, 2011, 09:46:44 PM
Quote from: Fujimaster on Feb 26, 2011, 12:01:28 PM
I meant same idealistic value.
No. It isn't.
Alien got made on 11 million because the people knew how to spend the money wisely, not because it was a lot -- plenty of stuff had to be changed or dropped because they just couldn't afford it.
Yeah I suppose, movie companies just have more money to throw around these days.