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Thanks to an anonymous source, I’ve got two new pictures from the set of Prometheus for you all:

The smallest image is a close up of the jars/urns mentioned by the SDCC reports and briefly seen in the recently leaked footage images. Up close they look nothing like the Alien eggs. The large image is of a Gigeresque tunnel which connects to the urn chamber which contains the huge head. We have done colour correction on both these images to reduce the noise.

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So exciting :).

fantastic. can't wait.

Beautiful, an up-close of the jars!

It's these urns that have me interesting. Why that particular look? What exactly is in there? Why arranged like the alien eggs?

That hallways look like its filled with horizontal vaginas...still very gigeresque.

Cool.
Could those urns be some kind of...DNA containers?

Quote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Aug 02, 2011, 10:40:30 PM
That hallways look like its filled with horizontal vaginas...still very gigeresque.

I suppose that might have to do with... well... Giger designing it.

Ahh these leaks provide more questions than awnsers!

Bets on how long until we get C&Ded?

5 hours

Quote from: Xerxész on Aug 02, 2011, 10:41:58 PM
Cool.
Could those urns be some kind of...DNA containers?

DNA in the form of...?

Jizz rags.

What's all this hang up with DNA? I think Ridley Scott was talking figuratively rather then literally when he used that term.

Yeah I love all the misunderstanding regarding that statement.

That term is literally written in every other post....I don't get it.

Yeah I feel like bringing it up, but it's useless, everyone is in a frenzy.

awesome

Quote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Aug 02, 2011, 10:48:15 PM
What's all this hang up with DNA? I think Ridley Scott was talking figuratively rather then literally when he used that term.

Agreed, I think folk are going a bit off track with the whole DNA thing.

Could it be that the eggs are some sort of mechanical device that make use of the green goo?

I'm brainstorming for the Biomechanical angle..

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 02, 2011, 10:35:27 PM
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Thanks for sharing, Hicks. I wonder what's in dem crazeh jars...

Inside the urns.

My money is on Irretrievable vital life juice.

Hopefully they aren't a MacGuffin.

I cannot wait! These pics have me screaming with excitement.

I'm gonna be disappointed if this ISN'T the best movie of all time.

but it is what is inside the funky Urns? thats all that matters.

Maybe they are like Space Jockey Kinder Eggs.
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Quote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Aug 02, 2011, 10:40:30 PM
That hallways look like its filled with horizontal vaginas...still very gigeresque.

Oh snap!  There goes the PG-13 rating!

Quote from: Ash 937 on Aug 02, 2011, 11:38:48 PM

Quote from: ThisBethesdaSea on Aug 02, 2011, 10:40:30 PM
That hallways look like its filled with horizontal vaginas...still very gigeresque.

Oh snap!  There goes the PG-13 rating!

maybe the are like, light holes?

Nice!

About the DNA.
SJ visiting earth at the dawn of life.
SJ being an bioegineer that creates Xenos.
Human infected by something.

To me it's clear that the DNA references was not just a joke.
DNA mixing and bioegineering will play a huge part in PROMETHEUS.

Quote from: KFS on Aug 02, 2011, 11:57:30 PM
Nice!

About the DNA.
SJ visiting earth at the dawn of life.
SJ being an bioegineer that creates Xenos.
Human infected by something.

To me it's clear that the DNA references was not just a joke.
DNA mixing and bioegineering will play a huge part in PROMETHEUS.

Is any of that actually confirmed though? I don't think it is?

SJ visiting earth at the dawn of life.
SJ being an bioegineer

Observation:

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Interesting that they have gravel on top of them. . . as if they aren't being maintained, and possibly underground rather than inside a ship in space... 

unless this is a messy ship...

and here we have a passageway that the floor is clean. 
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Are we going to have 2 alien locations... an underground storage house and an active ship in space?

I reckon those urns are what the space jockeys use to terraform a planet, and that it has nothing to do with the facehugger egg. It has already been confirmed that the Space Jockeys release their bio-weapon when one of the crew members steals a piece of their techonology which is used to terraform a planet. I dunno something like that!

It appears that none of the events of Prometheus takes place in actual space. Rather, per Foxs press release, the crew is stranded on an as of yet unnamed planet and the plot unfolds from there.

This may not be in the Alien franchise after all.  Ugh.  I wish Ridley Scott would just come out in the open and end this once and for all.

How are you guys not noticing the OBVIOUS Giger influences in every one of these interiors?  And Bethesda, that's quite a far-fetched conclusion.

Quote from: predxeno on Aug 03, 2011, 01:12:05 AM
This may not be in the Alien franchise after all.  Ugh.  I wish Ridley Scott would just come out in the open and end this once and for all.

"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."  -Douglas Adams 

I think we already have plenty of evidence that this takes place in the same ALIEN universe, just centers around a different story.

Quote from: JaaayDee on Aug 03, 2011, 01:14:59 AM
How are you guys not noticing the OBVIOUS Giger influences in every one of these interiors?  And Bethesda, that's quite a far-fetched conclusion.

I realize them.  But, you do realize that these can just be homages, right?

Homages, from the director of Alien himself.

Um..

I believe that nobody is going to know whether this film is tied to the Alien franchise or not.  When the film is released, there will be homages and references, but the fans will have to decide.  And then there will be this epic war between whether or not this film belongs in the Alien franchise just like there is that war of canon/noncanon.

Quote from: JaaayDee on Aug 03, 2011, 01:14:59 AM
How are you guys not noticing the OBVIOUS Giger influences in every one of these interiors?  And Bethesda, that's quite a far-fetched conclusion.

That hallway pic is so like Giger's museum in Switzerland, it's painful.

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Quote from: predxeno on Aug 03, 2011, 01:18:58 AM
I believe that nobody is going to know whether this film is tied to the Alien franchise or not.  When the film is released, there will be homages and references, but the fans will have to decide.  And then there will be this epic war between whether or not this film belongs in the Alien franchise just like there is that war of canon/noncanon.

SPACE JOCKEY

Predex....seriously? Not in the alien franchise at all? Now we have proof, images, recreations of various alien specific scenes. Youre either willingly blind or you're just trying to stir shit up. Either way it's annoying.

Not trying to stir shit up, I'm just a skeptic.

There's nothing to be skeptic about. There's insurmountable proof that this film is a prequel to the franchise. Just because it doesn't have "ALIEN" slapped on the title doesn't mean shit.

Well, having Alien slapped back on the title would have been more reassuring.

are there really going to be space jockeys in this film?

The answer to that is as unknown as whether or not this film is part of the Alien franchise.

I get skepticism, truly. I'm a skeptic myself. I'd share your skepticism if ALIEN wasn't written all over every image, every plot leak we've seen. The official info we've received backs up the fact that this film takes place in the ALIEN universe. There doesn't seem like there's much room for doubt.

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 02, 2011, 10:40:06 PM
It's these urns that have me interesting. Why that particular look? What exactly is in there? Why arranged like the alien eggs?

What if it is like a giant seed bank of all the life in the universe?

to quote Damon Lindelof:

QuoteSo a true prequel should essentially proceed the events of the original film, but be about something entirely different, feature different characters , have an entirely different theme, although it takes place in that same world. That was my fundamental feeling about what this movie wanted to be.

QuoteBut I also do feel that this movie is the movie I would want to see as a fanboy, take place in that Alien universe, which precedes the events of the original Alien, but is not necessarily burdened by all the tropes of that franchise

-Damon Lindelof

http://www.movieline.com/2011/06/epic-damon-lindelof-interview-chronicles-his-prometheus-journey-with-ridley-scott.php (http://www.movieline.com/2011/06/epic-damon-lindelof-interview-chronicles-his-prometheus-journey-with-ridley-scott.php)

Same universe. Now that we got that out of the way...

PredX that last remark is blatant denialism. It's beyond being a skeptic. ignore.

Quote from: Josh.A on Aug 03, 2011, 01:35:07 AM

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 02, 2011, 10:40:06 PM
It's these urns that have me interesting. Why that particular look? What exactly is in there? Why arranged like the alien eggs?

What if it is like a giant seed bank of all the life in the universe?

wait...okay this is a crazy idea but.....what if those urns are essentially the human seeding portion of the ship. They're in the same kind of room, arranged like the eggs were but they are not eggs....what's more they're surrounding a giant effegy of a human.


What if the chamber explored in Alien is simply the "alien" room. There could be a giant 3 headed elephant room too...the point is Ridley obviously loves the idea of the space jockey seeding planets. He even refers to the spacejockey as a bomber in one of the audio commentaries (I believe on the quadiliogy)

Just sayin

...this would also be the only way a human head would even make a little bit of sense in what looks like a space jockey ship.

Quote from: biosynth on Aug 03, 2011, 01:40:55 AM
to quote Damon Lindelof:

QuoteSo a true prequel should essentially proceed the events of the original film, but be about something entirely different, feature different characters , have an entirely different theme, although it takes place in that same world. That was my fundamental feeling about what this movie wanted to be.

That's like suggesting Prometheus IS a prequel, since the new film does all of the above. Kind of makes me wonder, does Lindelof even know what he's talking about!

QuoteBut I also do feel that this movie is the movie I would want to see as a fanboy, take place in that Alien universe, which precedes the events of the original Alien, but is not necessarily burdened by all the tropes of that franchise

When anyone in this field mentions the word "fanboy" it gives me terrible memories of the Strauss Bros, thank goodness Sir Ridles is in charge here.

http://www.movieline.com/2011/06/epic-damon-lindelof-interview-chronicles-his-prometheus-journey-with-ridley-scott.php (http://www.movieline.com/2011/06/epic-damon-lindelof-interview-chronicles-his-prometheus-journey-with-ridley-scott.php)

Roary.....that's exactly what Lindelof was saying....Prometheus is a true prequel in his eyes, taking place in the same universe but following a different narrative the previously established. I don't understand why this isn't clear to you?

There are two kinds of fanboy.

1. The Unaware Fanboy : it doesn't matter what it is, if it's related to his favorite film he's there. It could be the dumbest story ever written, but he or she doesn't care, anything they can do to add another dimension to their favorite film/book/comic/tv show, they'll lap it up. This kind of fanboy has very little discernment, any shlock thrown their way they're there, front row every time.

2. The Discerning Fanboy : committed to the integrity of the story presented, hopes that any furthering of the original keeps the same scope and integrity. The discerning fanboy defends to the last the original tale, the way it's told and how it can be developed to keep the essence true to it's core.

I believe based on his I interviews, Damon Lindelof is The Discerning Fanboy.

In that interview, Lindelof says the Alien Prequel script he read was really impressive and that his being hired wasn't a band-aid (thank god), but instead Ridley not wanting to rehash old territory, and that a lot of scenes from the earlier 'Alien prequel' script were left intact. 

What I find is interesting is Lindelof's emphasis on this movie having a 'disturbing' element to it with horror like that found in Stephen King's book "The Shining".  So where 'Alien' was 'Jaws... in space', Prometheus will be 'The Shining... in space'.  OK, I might be going overboard there.

Quote from: Jenga on Aug 03, 2011, 02:11:48 AM

Quote from: Josh.A on Aug 03, 2011, 01:35:07 AM

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 02, 2011, 10:40:06 PM
It's these urns that have me interesting. Why that particular look? What exactly is in there? Why arranged like the alien eggs?

What if it is like a giant seed bank of all the life in the universe?

wait...okay this is a crazy idea but.....what if those urns are essentially the human seeding portion of the ship. They're in the same kind of room, arranged like the eggs were but they are not eggs....what's more they're surrounding a giant effegy of a human.


What if the chamber explored in Alien is simply the "alien" room. There could be a giant 3 headed elephant room too...the point is Ridley obviously loves the idea of the space jockey seeding planets. He even refers to the spacejockey as a bomber in one of the audio commentaries (I believe on the quadiliogy)

Just sayin

That is a DAMN good point and it makes the most sense of anything I've seen so far.

Good call dude.

yeah, the way I see a part of the story based on tidbits and confirmations from producers, directors, actors, and from the leaked images is that whatever is in the urn (good chance being that green stuff) is what helps create life. The Space Jockeys terraformed Earth and planted the seeds (green goo) for starting human life.

Fast forward millions or billions of years. The human crew steal an urn (possibly related to the first official promo shot), the Space Jockey(s) gets pissed off, they unleash xenomorphs on the human crew (the xenomorphs are from an unknown host, definitely not human... hence all this broohaha about "Alien DNA").

I don't like the theory of David somehow playing a part in creating the xenomorphs by some DNA transfusion with the green goo. It's too deliberate, kind of like the Star Wars prequels. 

Great contrast of the urn and the egg. Urn = giver of life, Egg = destoyer of life, both of which belonging to the Space Jockeys (god)

I agree. Works for me, Jenga.

Ahh.... I like that.

So apparently those urns are from a space jockey funeral pyramid, temple or ship I take it.

Quote from: Pn2501 on Aug 03, 2011, 01:31:21 AM
are there really going to be space jockeys in this film?

Welll... ;D

And comeon, this set in the same franchise as Alien. It's been confirmed by the writer and you know, what with it revolving around Space Jockey technology and etc...Predxeno it is an Alien film.

I suppose the urn containers are the precursor to the biomechanical eggs/Alien as we know it. Perhaps by the end of the film we'll truly see an egg, but for now the urns contain spore that are unable to track down their own hosts [ala facehugger]. We'll see, I suppose. In a year's time  :o

Quote from: prometheUSA on Aug 03, 2011, 04:05:41 AM
yeah, the way I see a part of the story based on tidbits and confirmations from producers, directors, actors, and from the leaked images is that whatever is in the urn (good chance being that green stuff) is what helps create life. The Space Jockeys terraformed Earth and planted the seeds (green goo) for starting human life.

Fast forward millions or billions of years. The human crew steal an urn (possibly related to the first official promo shot), the Space Jockey(s) gets pissed off, they unleash xenomorphs on the human crew (the xenomorphs are from an unknown host, definitely not human... hence all this broohaha about "Alien DNA").

I don't like the theory of David somehow playing a part in creating the xenomorphs by some DNA transfusion with the green goo. It's too deliberate, kind of like the Star Wars prequels. 

Great contrast of the urn and the egg. Urn = giver of life, Egg = destoyer of life, both of which belonging to the Space Jockeys (god)

sounds good to me!

Are these "urns" confirmed movie props ? First thought that got into my head when i saw that pic, these could just be some placeholders for later included CGI-eggs

Quote from: Jenga on Aug 03, 2011, 02:11:48 AM

Quote from: Josh.A on Aug 03, 2011, 01:35:07 AM

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 02, 2011, 10:40:06 PM
It's these urns that have me interesting. Why that particular look? What exactly is in there? Why arranged like the alien eggs?

What if it is like a giant seed bank of all the life in the universe?

wait...okay this is a crazy idea but.....what if those urns are essentially the human seeding portion of the ship. They're in the same kind of room, arranged like the eggs were but they are not eggs....what's more they're surrounding a giant effegy of a human.


What if the chamber explored in Alien is simply the "alien" room. There could be a giant 3 headed elephant room too...the point is Ridley obviously loves the idea of the space jockey seeding planets. He even refers to the spacejockey as a bomber in one of the audio commentaries (I believe on the quadiliogy)

Just sayin

I really like that as an idea! Here's hoping!

I`d say that this have to be related to prometheus myth. There must be motive of stealing god`s tool and punishment for doing so. I`d say urns are the fire and aliens are the punishment.

Those Urns are very curious. I'm extremely excited for this film!

The surface of these urns looks strange. Is dirt lying on top of them or something different?

Quote from: Master on Aug 03, 2011, 09:23:05 AM
I`d say that this have to be related to prometheus myth. There must be motive of stealing god`s tool and punishment for doing so. I`d say urns are the fire and aliens are the punishment.

This...this x 100.
It's not random that the first OFFICIAL pic from this film is the heist in progress... ;D

Good work on finding the images.

I am kinda disappointed they're not actual eggs. At least not organic in nature. I reckon it's some kind of experiment and the Alien eggs evolved from them originally.

These Urns ask more questions. Maybe the space jockeys use the urns to store DNA of extinct animals and uses there technology to bring them back. (Sort of a jar containing DNA as a sack that protects the creature till it breaks free) Or maybe they contain ashes of other space jockeys? Just saying :-\.

probably contain predator young,

Those walls are interesting.

Why does everyone on these boards seem to take Ridley talking about DNA literally as opposed to figuratively?

Quote from: Master on Aug 03, 2011, 09:23:05 AM
I`d say that this have to be related to prometheus myth. There must be motive of stealing god`s tool and punishment for doing so. I`d say urns are the fire and aliens are the punishment.

What if Aliens are both? Humans steal the fire, but it is the fire itself that is their punishment. That'd be a nice twist to the Prometheus myth.

Quote from: Glaive on Aug 03, 2011, 01:45:41 PM
Why does everyone on these boards seem to take Ridley talking about DNA literally as opposed to figuratively?

Because both versions could be possible and since the true plot isn't revelaed yet you can prostitute ya mind :D

Quote from: Glaive on Aug 03, 2011, 01:45:41 PM
Why does everyone on these boards seem to take Ridley talking about DNA literally as opposed to figuratively?

that's what i keep asking. It seems members of forums take every little snippet of information and stretch it and look into something that isn't there. Prime example is Cloverfield. "omg i saw it, its a live, its huge" was misquoted as "omg i saw it, its a lion, its huge" which then went on for months people thinking it was a Voltron film or a giant lion.

Quote from: Glaive on Aug 03, 2011, 12:21:45 PM
It's not random that the first OFFICIAL pic from this film is the heist in progress... ;D

Pure speculation that the official picture is a heist in progress. we have no idea whats going on in that picture other than its stormy and someone is carrying something. It could be a bag of cats for all we know

Theres no proof to say its an urn

Quote from: Glaive on Aug 03, 2011, 01:45:41 PM
Why does everyone on these boards seem to take Ridley talking about DNA literally as opposed to figuratively?

Hye, I'm taking it figuratively.  Note that I'm still skeptical as to whether or not this is an Alien film.  The Jockey-like images could just be the "Alien DNA" Ridley was mentioning, nothing more.

Nice new pics. Interesting to see our suspicions confirmed that they are indeed not eggs but rather urns. I haven't the slightest clue what they might be for, but i'm okay with that. Sure, if they were eggs we'd all get excited, knowing what they hold in store for our human explores. Still, i find it more interesting that we don't know what they are, or how they'll tie into the story. It's new, yet the backdrop provides familiarity. All good so so far, says I...

Strange that theyre seen in the room with the Giant Head, which supposedly acts as the Pilot to a ship.

Also strange these eggs have dirt ontop of them, as if unmaintained (seems to me because of this, they are NOT CG placeholders for eggs).

Either the urns shown here are ones found in the archeological dig and are through age, unusable (see below) and the crew are sent on a mission to co-ordinates to gain fresh urns to take, or the whole Giant Head room is from a Jockey Derelict found on Earth, and humans retrotech their own Giant Head to use in the Prometheus (as its supposed to be a ship pilot maybe even the ship's computer, but I agree this scenario looks unlikely).

Why would Weylan Corp want these urns, and fresh ones at that? The urns contain a goo, that if used to seed life on a planet are quite plainly some form of primordial ooze, something all life sprung from.
If Weylan Corp gets hold of this primordial ooze, they can bio-engineer anything they want from it.

The Derelict on LV-426 is an ancient ship, so probably crashed before the events of Prometheus. Whatever caused the xenos to be created then, made a Jockey-Xeno which left the eggs. When Kane bought it, he created a Jockey/Human-Xeno.

Through Prometheus we can gain an insight into what happened to the LV-426 Jockey and Derelict, so lets not say this will show the creation of the xenos, thats inaccurate. We will see the creation of some xenos, but not the first ones to exist.

What´s inside  the urns?
More urns... ;)
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How do we figure the giant head is a pilot exactly? A few people have made mention of this but where they're getting it from is beyond me. All we know, is at least visually, it's a statue. There are plenty of statues in the world that don't act as pilots to spaceships. Also, we haven't even concluded whether or not this is on a ship or simply a foreign planet, right? There's also speculation that inside this giant head is a hidden chamber of sorts. Now, perhaps this is a master computer that is auto piloting this alleged spaceship. I won't deny these claims, i just wonder what they're based on...

Quote from: predxeno on Aug 03, 2011, 03:01:27 PM

Quote from: Glaive on Aug 03, 2011, 01:45:41 PM
Why does everyone on these boards seem to take Ridley talking about DNA literally as opposed to figuratively?

Hye, I'm taking it figuratively.  Note that I'm still skeptical as to whether or not this is an Alien film.  The Jockey-like images could just be the "Alien DNA" Ridley was mentioning, nothing more.

Pred, I'm sorry and don't be too offended, but take your head out of your ass for five minutes.
You cannot be serious with some of your posts, either that or you like the wind up my friend.
Get real fella. ???

[from /film]
What can we believe about Ridley Scott's Prometheus? The film stars Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender, and is scheduled for June 2012. The film began life as an Alien prequel scripted by Jon Spaihts, but mutated into Prometheus when Damon Lindelof rewrote the script. After that mutation Fox announced the film as taking place in an all-new universe, seeming to definitively seperate it from all things Alien.

But rumors cropped up that the classic Alien xenomorph would be in the film along with a live version of the space jockey seen in the first act of Alien. The history of the latter character is part of what sent Ridley Scott on the Alien prequel path in the first place. And Michael Fassbender has said that Prometheus is "absolutely" connected to Alien. Now there is further word about the presence of one of Alien's most visually striking elements.
The report comes from Sky Movies (via Badass Digest), which isn't a source that comes out of the gate with a lot of scoops. But they were one of the early voices saying that Prometheus is actually far more tethered to Alien than anyone at Fox was letting on, and that seems to be very much the case.

Sky says that not only will the space jockey be in Prometheus, but that it is being built as an eight-foot animatronic effect, and that HR Giger is consulting — only consulting — on the character. (The source is "an insider.") We'd heard that Mr. Giger might be part of the crew, but the notion of a giant animatronic effect is pleasantly surprising. Animatronics are expensive and not always reliable, and have largely been supplanted by other effects technology. But they give something very real and present for actors to play against, and that can be a great thing. I'd be quite happy if this report is true.

Sky also says that their insider confirms the presence of a giant head that captains a ship in the film, printing "By the way, people are going to be in for a shock when they sit down to watch Prometheus and there's an enormous semi-human head piloting a spaceship."

While I celebrated the notion that Fox might have let Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof go off the map with Prometheus by agreeing to finance an original sci-fi picture rather than something related to Alien, I can't say that I'm not intrigued by all these hints that Prometheus is still, in some way, an Alien prequel. If nothing else, putting some distance between this film and the classic but shopworn series suggests that the creators have something very different in mind. What say you — were you more excited about the film when it looked like a unique story, or do the rumored ties to Alien make it more appealing?

This sounds perfectley reasonable to me.
Nice one

Quote from: Glaive on Aug 03, 2011, 04:01:13 PM
[from /film]
What can we believe about Ridley Scott's Prometheus? The film stars Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender, and is scheduled for June 2012. The film began life as an Alien prequel scripted by Jon Spaihts, but mutated into Prometheus when Damon Lindelof rewrote the script. After that mutation Fox announced the film as taking place in an all-new universe, seeming to definitively seperate it from all things Alien.

But rumors cropped up that the classic Alien xenomorph would be in the film along with a live version of the space jockey seen in the first act of Alien. The history of the latter character is part of what sent Ridley Scott on the Alien prequel path in the first place. And Michael Fassbender has said that Prometheus is "absolutely" connected to Alien. Now there is further word about the presence of one of Alien's most visually striking elements.
The report comes from Sky Movies (via Badass Digest), which isn't a source that comes out of the gate with a lot of scoops. But they were one of the early voices saying that Prometheus is actually far more tethered to Alien than anyone at Fox was letting on, and that seems to be very much the case.

Sky says that not only will the space jockey be in Prometheus, but that it is being built as an eight-foot animatronic effect, and that HR Giger is consulting — only consulting — on the character. (The source is "an insider.") We'd heard that Mr. Giger might be part of the crew, but the notion of a giant animatronic effect is pleasantly surprising. Animatronics are expensive and not always reliable, and have largely been supplanted by other effects technology. But they give something very real and present for actors to play against, and that can be a great thing. I'd be quite happy if this report is true.

Sky also says that their insider confirms the presence of a giant head that captains a ship in the film, printing "By the way, people are going to be in for a shock when they sit down to watch Prometheus and there's an enormous semi-human head piloting a spaceship."

While I celebrated the notion that Fox might have let Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof go off the map with Prometheus by agreeing to finance an original sci-fi picture rather than something related to Alien, I can't say that I'm not intrigued by all these hints that Prometheus is still, in some way, an Alien prequel. If nothing else, putting some distance between this film and the classic but shopworn series suggests that the creators have something very different in mind. What say you — were you more excited about the film when it looked like a unique story, or do the rumored ties to Alien make it more appealing?

All this is true except that at Comic Con Ridley said that it was in the same universe as Alien and in an article in icelandic paper he said Giger was working on a big scene.

...are you saying the Space Jockey reveal WOULDN'T be a BIG SCENE??

The article did say about the giant head i grant you that BUT tbh the inside source seems to be a crew member rather than cast/ producer director. Someone who would actualy know the full story

Crew members are not given the full script to read through. It would maybe be briefly described the scene they are working on

It might be possible that, although what the inside source said has turn out for the most to be true, the large head is nothing more than a statue. It could be that the crew member has seen the giant head and instantly gone "oooh that must be what pilots this ship"

So even though i did believe the report that was released by sky i still don't believe this head is piloting the ship and it for a different purpose entirly

What if these urns are there to shoot out some goo and the egg effect would be put on later with cgi.

Quote from: nendo on Aug 03, 2011, 06:57:25 PM
The article did say about the giant head i grant you that BUT tbh the inside source seems to be a crew member rather than cast/ producer director. Someone who would actualy know the full story

There is a giant head. It was in the SDCC images. These urns are in the same room as it.

i think that was the interior of a cave,not a ship.so it's just a statue or something,not the actual head that is piloting a ship.
in those leaked stills the crew explore a cave with rocks on the bottom,then we see them in that big room with jars

I am just stoked at how bizzare and twisted the sets are looking. Ridley Scott back in sci fi too is something to really look forward to. I think if you like movies and espicially sci fi, this is going to be an epic.  Hopefully Ridley did his homework and watched Alien a few times fo connect prometheus to the alien universe. Alien is quality work and it will be great if Ridley,

By the way does anyone know if dark horse comics is involved in doing a comic for prometheus. If prometheus rules I hope the make the action figures from the movie. I can remember when Alien was supposed to have action figures that were the same scale as star wars but they got scrapped due to the assumption that they would be to scary for kids.  I mean we live in a day and age where grand theft auto eminem and 50 cent are a household name and ufc is now ob mtv.  By the way when is Aliens fast tract heaven supposed to be released anybody?

They might be doing one, but I guess later this year. If I'm not mistaking, they released a prequel book to Predators, so I believe that the same thing will happen in this case.

Looking great. They look extraordinarily like Xeno eggs.

For the record.....saying Ridley Scott is paying homage to ALIEN is like saying Picasso makes homages to each of his previous efforts. It's ludicrous. This film looks like ALIEN because the artist behind it is the same. Prometheus looks like ALIEN because it occupies the same universe. Period. End of discussion. End of debate. This is crystal clear. Those saying otherwise do so for sport.

I can´t wait to watch Prometheus with Ridley´s Audio Comentary. ;D

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The article did say about the giant head i grant you that BUT tbh the inside source seems to be a crew member rather than cast/ producer director. Someone who would actualy know the full story

There is a giant head. It was in the SDCC images. These urns are in the same room as it.

What did the giant head look like??

It's all in the screenshot thread:

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ABOUT THE HEAD AND SJ.
This was published in may 2 month before the head was seen at SDCC.


   

QuoteI was speaking with a guy who is working on the set of prometheus and he showed me some pictures and told me a bout the storyline. The space jockey that you see in alien who has had his chest busted open is the guy who engineers the aliens. He sends the aliens to planet that he wants to take over. The aliens kill the locals and he flys in and pillages the land of its resources. It seems as though he is responsible for the aliens creation, i'm guessing that he is some kind of super scientist.

    The engineer is played by some huge guy who is 8ft tall. He appears even bigger in the space jockey scene from Alien as he is wearing a space suit. He appears to have died in a seat that looks like it is some sort of weapon control, this is in fact the navigation system that the space ship uses to open worm holes and plot its course.

    He showed me some pictures from the set. There is a huge silver bust of the engineers head, it is approximately 15m high. It appears that the engineer is sort of leader of a civilisation and there is a cult around his personality and his alien creations, this is probably due to the fact that he has mastered the technology that continues to provide the resource requirements of his home world. I also saw a picture of the actor who plays the engineer in what appeared to be some sort of cryo-chamber.

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Maybe the actor who plays the engineer is also a crew member?  The engineer is most likely played with a suit or animatronic controller.

Without his suit he's played bye an 8ft tall actor, maybe wearing biomechanical makeup or/and portrayed by an actor we know Pierce or foster i would say.
Then with his armor or suit it's an animatronic probably enchanced by cgi in the end.

Again from the image of the head, it's clear that the Engineer is very human looking.
Wich would definitly not suprise me for two reasons.
First is that it would fit the "God created man in his own image" wich definitly works with the Prometheus myth too.
And I'm sure that Scott will want to be able to have real emotional interaction between his human characters and the Engineer.

Definitly hope that the Engineer will be one naughty SOB.

The big heads remind me of Easter Island Giant Head statues that are all along the island, perhaps these are the gods they worship and these urns are a part of the worship or use....

Quote from: predxeno on Aug 03, 2011, 03:01:27 PM
Hye, I'm taking it figuratively.  Note that I'm still skeptical as to whether or not this is an Alien film.  The Jockey-like images could just be the "Alien DNA" Ridley was mentioning, nothing more.

I find it amusing that you're reluctant to give this a place in the universe, even with all the stylistic and thematic resemblance, simple because it doesn't have the word Alien in the title, but you're perfectly happy to exhaustively incorporate every piece of EU material no matter how far it strays from the core ideas and elements of the films. Do you enjoy having people you've never met tell you what to think all the time? If the suits at Fox decided to re-brand Star Wars with the Alien title would you seriously go along with that? Your rationale seems completely backward.

Well said Necronoir

I just hope there is no fully cg characters, I'm over that shit

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Someone repost them

Does anyone check my timeline thread anymore?

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 04, 2011, 06:51:14 AM
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Just out of curiosity when they request items removed are they polite...or a little more aggresive? just wondered.

They send you a mail with a 20 second counter, when it reaches 0 and the link is not deleted yet they will sue 'em.
Or they act like the company in Alien...

So there are 2 entity's were calling engineers is that correct?

The Jockey and the Head.

I take it the Head is some sort of Biomechanical machine?

No one knows atm, what the head is...

Could be some kind of cryo chamber, a control room, an AI, just a statue, toilet or a next generation gaming console.

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Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 04, 2011, 06:51:14 AM
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Just out of curiosity when they request items removed are they polite...or a little more aggresive? just wondered.

wondered that myself

Pretty please with sugar on top to remove the copyrighted images.


Or else...

Quote from: Never say no to Panda! on Aug 04, 2011, 09:07:17 AM
No one knows atm, what the head is...

Could be some kind of cryo chamber, a control room, an AI, just a statue, toilet or a next generation gaming console.

I thought the Head was the Pilot of Prometheus?

I just imagine the giant head to be a sculpture and nothing more

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Mwahahahahahahhahaa.....we must of been getting too close. :p
I am going with the seedbank, Noah's Ark, idea.

Nah, stay low! They'll come for you at night...they mostly come at night...mostly.

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Quote from: Never say no to Panda! on Aug 04, 2011, 09:07:17 AM
No one knows atm, what the head is...

Could be some kind of cryo chamber, a control room, an AI, just a statue, toilet or a next generation gaming console.

I thought the Head was the Pilot of Prometheus?

isnt the human ship prometheus though

Quote from: nendo on Aug 04, 2011, 12:52:35 PM

Quote from: Highland on Aug 04, 2011, 09:40:30 AM

Quote from: Never say no to Panda! on Aug 04, 2011, 09:07:17 AM
No one knows atm, what the head is...

Could be some kind of cryo chamber, a control room, an AI, just a statue, toilet or a next generation gaming console.

I thought the Head was the Pilot of Prometheus?

isnt the human ship prometheus though

I thought that too, but early reports suggested the ship was piloted by a giant head. It now seems this head is part of the discovery if the pictures are anything to go by. Unless of course the Humans steal the ship.

In the shadow 19 script humans are sent to repair prometheus., might not be the only human ship.

has anyone considered that this Head is actually just
a statue  of the Space Jockey's head, or a relevant specie of its race?
i really doubt that is a human head. i also doubt ridley scott is gonna relate Humans-to-Jockey's. 
what can the head being human imply or contribute to the story that would make sense?

i think its a human head and perhaps the jockey is inside it, perhaps atop of the head is where the jockey comes out?

i think what Prometheus will loosely explain, is what the Technology and purpose of the aliens DNA is, the bigger picture.

the question im not sure about, is, are chest burster aliens pre-alien before host? or do they actually take on the hosts features? i read that originally the ALIEN doesnt take on the hosts features despite the dog alien in 3, and that the alien is premade and is just "birthed" from the human?

if this is so, then the alien design is native, and is irrelevent that oen came out the space jockey's chest in the LV-426 ship. if not then i guess its implied we will learn what the original alien creature is like and that the aliens we're accustomed to are only jockey-designed/inherited.

Quote from: Esoteric_Voyage on Aug 04, 2011, 03:33:37 PM
has anyone considered that this Head is actually just
a statue  of the Space Jockey's head, or a relevant specie of its race?
i really doubt that is a human head. i also doubt ridley scott is gonna relate Humans-to-Jockey's. 
what can the head being human imply or contribute to the story that would make sense?

That earth was populated by the space jockies.

where are the pics???

Quote from: worriors on Aug 04, 2011, 07:20:46 PM
where are the pics???

Gone

Quote from: Highland on Aug 04, 2011, 02:21:28 PM

Quote from: nendo on Aug 04, 2011, 12:52:35 PM

Quote from: Highland on Aug 04, 2011, 09:40:30 AM

Quote from: Never say no to Panda! on Aug 04, 2011, 09:07:17 AM
No one knows atm, what the head is...

Could be some kind of cryo chamber, a control room, an AI, just a statue, toilet or a next generation gaming console.

I thought the Head was the Pilot of Prometheus?

isnt the human ship prometheus though

I thought that too, but early reports suggested the ship was piloted by a giant head. It now seems this head is part of the discovery if the pictures are anything to go by. Unless of course the Humans steal the ship.

remeber the leaked photos with the entrance to the cave and the room with the jars.then the screens from comic con.the giant room with the heads is the same.the big head is in it.it's not a ship.it's a cave.so that head doesn't pilot anything.

if indeed there is a head that is flying a space ship we haven't see it yet.and that one it's probably all cgi.and the cgi work hasn't even begun yet

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Quote from: Highland on Aug 04, 2011, 02:21:28 PM

Quote from: nendo on Aug 04, 2011, 12:52:35 PM

Quote from: Highland on Aug 04, 2011, 09:40:30 AM

Quote from: Never say no to Panda! on Aug 04, 2011, 09:07:17 AM
No one knows atm, what the head is...

Could be some kind of cryo chamber, a control room, an AI, just a statue, toilet or a next generation gaming console.

I thought the Head was the Pilot of Prometheus?

isnt the human ship prometheus though

I thought that too, but early reports suggested the ship was piloted by a giant head. It now seems this head is part of the discovery if the pictures are anything to go by. Unless of course the Humans steal the ship.

remeber the leaked photos with the entrance to the cave and the room with the jars.then the screens from comic con.the giant room with the heads is the same.the big head is in it.it's not a ship.it's a cave.so that head doesn't pilot anything.

if indeed there is a head that is flying a space ship we haven't see it yet.and that one it's probably all cgi.and the cgi work hasn't even begun yet

the head is practical. its was built as part of the set

Quote from: worriors on Aug 04, 2011, 07:20:46 PM
where are the pics???

Page 2.

Quote from: zuzuki on Aug 04, 2011, 07:40:21 PM
remeber the leaked photos with the entrance to the cave and the room with the jars.then the screens from comic con.the giant room with the heads is the same.the big head is in it.it's not a ship.it's a cave.so that head doesn't pilot anything.

if indeed there is a head that is flying a space ship we haven't see it yet.and that one it's probably all cgi.and the cgi work hasn't even begun yet

It's a ship.
There is first a stone entrance then there is a biomechnoid door.
If you look closely around the second door you will structures like the derelict ship.

The engineer is very humanoid, not human per se.
The Massive head is a clue, nose, ears.
I think the report which says the ship is piloted by a giant head is misinterpreted.
Inside the head is the Engineer's navigation system, the famous chair.
It might also be his cryo chamber.

Quote from: KFS on Aug 04, 2011, 11:39:29 PM

Quote from: zuzuki on Aug 04, 2011, 07:40:21 PM
remeber the leaked photos with the entrance to the cave and the room with the jars.then the screens from comic con.the giant room with the heads is the same.the big head is in it.it's not a ship.it's a cave.so that head doesn't pilot anything.

if indeed there is a head that is flying a space ship we haven't see it yet.and that one it's probably all cgi.and the cgi work hasn't even begun yet

It's a ship.
There is first a stone entrance then there is a biomechnoid door.
If you look closely around the second door you will structures like the derelict ship.

The engineer is very humanoid, not human per se.
The Massive head is a clue, nose, ears.
I think the report which says the ship is piloted by a giant head is misinterpreted.
Inside the head is the Engineer's navigation system, the famous chair.
It might also be his cryo chamber.

I like this theory.

Quote from: KFS on Aug 04, 2011, 11:39:29 PM

Quote from: zuzuki on Aug 04, 2011, 07:40:21 PM
remeber the leaked photos with the entrance to the cave and the room with the jars.then the screens from comic con.the giant room with the heads is the same.the big head is in it.it's not a ship.it's a cave.so that head doesn't pilot anything.

if indeed there is a head that is flying a space ship we haven't see it yet.and that one it's probably all cgi.and the cgi work hasn't even begun yet

It's a ship.
There is first a stone entrance then there is a biomechnoid door.
If you look closely around the second door you will structures like the derelict ship.

The engineer is very humanoid, not human per se.
The Massive head is a clue, nose, ears.
I think the report which says the ship is piloted by a giant head is misinterpreted.
Inside the head is the Engineer's navigation system, the famous chair.
It might also be his cryo chamber.

Shades of 'The Wizard of Oz'.

"...Pay no attention to that Space Jockey behind the curtain!..."

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Thanks for sharing, Hicks. I wonder what's in dem crazeh jars...

Call me a fool, but is it only me or does the hallway way more like a Predator design, style then Giger???

I mean it is not bonestructured or has organic shapes. It is just mechanical. And the pattern carving on the floor look anything then Derelict ship design (or the same origin)  ??? ??? ???

They may pimp 'em up with CGI  ;)

I tought the same thing. It feels less bones like.
It has the same design but more mechanical than organic.
All of this has probably to do with the fact that Giger is "just" a consultant but probably because Ridley wants to make some subtle changes.

The hallway looks like horizontal vaginas as previously stated. Very Gigeresque.

It's because of the horizontal wood flooring...so the camera-dollies can move about effectively.
Wood in soundstages is used and re-used till it's too small to be a logical horizontal plane to hold a comera.
Remove the flat surface and I'm sure you'll see something MUCH more organic (ala the first film).

Yes it's very gigeresque but like i said if you look at the "vaginas" there are liss round than geometric in their shapes.

As for the flloor i don't really get what you mean Glaive.
It's obvious that it's the actual set design, the floor has markings, like the ones that can be seen on the stone entrance.

Overall the gigeresque design is there but less bones and sexual than the derelict ship.
I doubt we will see an entrance that looks like a big vagina or other obvious sex organs designs.
The ideas will be there but it wll be less in your face than it was in Alien.
No way Fox will let Scott do huge vagina entrance.

Quote from: KFS on Aug 05, 2011, 12:18:04 PM
No way Fox will let Scott do huge vagina entrance.

Why not? They entered through a big vagina in the first film

Plus Fox said no to a lot of things in the first film but scott ignored them and did it anyway

Well do you realise that ALIEN was released in 1979 before studios were so obssesed with PG13, marchandising, box office and such? Have you not seen or heard about the way Fox deals with directors nowdays? How this studio ditch artistic choices in favor of safe family friendly choices.

Yes Scott did made a lot of stuff on his own but it was a different time when execs had less or none control.
Now all is checked, verified before.

No way in hell you will see those overtly sex organs inspired designs from the derelict ship.
It will be subtle and convey the same feeling but it will be toned down and different.

Nooo, pls no vagina...that would've worked for the first movie in 1979 but imagine today's cinema audience, PG13, sitting there with all those kids and then suddenly a big vagina appears. They would not calm down till the credits  :o

It's certainly a different biomechanical design although the floors seemed to be not biomechanical. I have to say I don't know what the idea behind it is or what Giger was possibly asked to design in this case.

It might all be part of a land based building complex somewhere

Well you can already see with the ship/cave entrance that we saw that the Vagina entrance is already gone.
But well since it's still feel biorganic and is a different class ship i don't mind.
Or do i?

I don't remember the floor of the derelict corridors being very biomechanical.
BTW way i doubt the vaginas were the real entrance of the derelict ship, the corridor they lead to is too small for an SJ. Some exhaust ducts or anything like this?

Quote from: KFS on Aug 05, 2011, 12:38:29 PM

I don't remember the floor of the derelict corridors being very biomechanical.
BTW way i doubt the vaginas were the real entrance of the derelict ship, the corridor they lead to is too small for an SJ. Some exhaust ducts or anything like this?

Maybe the SJs are (how can I put this delicately?)...more...urm, FLEXIBLE?

The ship is actually the Alien and the SJ is just it''s vibrator...interesting theory.

well, I suppose the derelict, you could argue it was a spaceship but at the end of the day, it was a biomechanic structure of some sort fulfilling a purpose to be guessed at. Ideally it was a spaceship, but....

i don't think stone is a good fit with biomechanics at all, and certainly not in the way the floors appear in those leaked set photos. kane and that looked like they were walking through some massive digestive system, here it looks like the wheelchair friendly entrance to giger's bar

Quote from: YOU DO MUTILATE? on Aug 05, 2011, 06:03:02 PM
here it looks like the wheelchair friendly entrance to giger's bar

Well, gosh,  we'll have to wait now to see if one of the characters is in a wheelchair

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Has anyone noticed that the big giant head appears to have huge "bulbs" over where the eye sockets ought to be? And that it doesnt have any lips over the teeth? Reminiscent of givers original alien design, with a nose.

Quote from: Ktulhut on Aug 05, 2011, 08:54:36 PM
Reminiscent of givers original alien design, with a nose.

I thought you were about to make a reference to Guyver: Dark Hero for a moment

If the Giant Head is going to be what the Engineer looks like inside its Jockey-suit, that'll be it.

Point = It was before said there were people on-set who were in Xeno suits, but bronze and plain with none of the features. Could these be Jockeys without the Suits?

Ridley Scott used children to work with the Jockey plinth, why not with people dressed as Jockeys??

i wonder if they will look freaky and how will they communicate with the humans during the film, they may not use telepathy, maybe another way.

Dark Horses is slated to come out with the adaption come sometime at the end of May, close to the June release.  No set date as of yet. As for the Novel, hopefully they get Alan Dean Foster to write it, he did a great job with Alien and Aliens, so hopefully he gets the task of bringing "Prometheus" into novelization.

Where'd you see the thing about DH doing a comic? I spoke to Alan Dean Foster last week actually. He hasn't been asked to do it.

Love the look of the architecture.

They haven't done novelizations for any film in the AVP franchise for a long time.  Don't know why Prometheus would be the exception.

Quote from: predxeno on Aug 06, 2011, 04:25:11 PM
They haven't done novelizations for any film in the AVP franchise for a long time.  Don't know why Prometheus would be the exception.

They did AVP, didn't they? AVPR was so bad I can see why even FOX didn't novelise it. Prommy looks promising [hoho!]

They didn't do Predators, either.

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Thanks for this new pic.
Well i'm definitly sure now that the SJ Engineer is almost human sized.
His biomechanoid suit is the result of his ego and probably to scare/impress the natives when he arrives on a planet.
Somebody talked about OZ's magician i think it's the same concept here.
When suited he is played by an 7ft tall actor, wearing a suit with animatronic parts that will be enhanced with CGI (like the creature frome Where the wild things are).
My bet is that Guy Pierce is the SJ Engineer.

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There was a person in that picture who I have crudely removed because I don't want him to get into any fuss if anyone recognizes him.

well, I hope you'll give us the unaltered photo later on

The guys is probably "just" a technician at work.

Hey folks I could just be blind or might have eaten my fair share of paint chips.  where is the giant head in that picture where the urn chamber is and hpw can you tell that its a giant head? Sorry I know that I sound like I was born yesterday. Thanks

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There was a person in that picture who I have crudely removed because I don't want him to get into any fuss if anyone recognizes him.

well, I hope you'll give us the unaltered photo later on

Does anyone have that photo? Post deleted and image down.

yeah, I decided to remove it for the moment. Bare with. Don't post it again in here please guys. Not yet.

Quote from: predxeno on Aug 06, 2011, 05:04:57 PM
They didn't do Predators, either.

They did a comic. Didn´t they?

Yeah. And a prequel and a sequel. I'll give Chris Warner an email to ask about Prommy.

I sure hope that the space jockey is as far away from looking humanoid as possible. I will be disappointed by a humanoid looking space jockey.

The basic head looks humanoid to me, but a little biomechanical in looks (going from the Giant Head statue). Due to the chair the Space Jockey was in, the Engineer(s) may or may not have a snake-like tail for movement, or be severely atrophied waist-down (if theyre this great Bio-Visier, they dont really need "that part" anymore anyways, I would think).

Some have said the face of the Giant Head (which is bald and has ears, fact), looks like Giger's Harkonnen baby-face statue design. Some have also said it has the dome eyes like the original design of the xeno. It also clearly has wire-like veins across its surface from screencaps.

This is important if its true the Giant Head is a statue of the Engineer(s). They would look the same, which would be a pretty creepy 8ft animatronic  ;D

it's pretty weird cause those passages we see and even the ones i the first movie when they enter the ship aren't that big.instead the space jockey was massive.to big to move through there.

but on another note i don't think it's a suit either.i think that was the real deal.for god sake it was one with the chair.not melted or fused.it was like one piece.i don't think that guy ever left that seat.and it bassically a skeleton with ribs and all.so i don't think it's a suit.that is how he really looks.maybe there are more of them.the one we saw only function was the pilot the ship or whatever.and the others walk around

now can someone tell me what was the picture that got deleted to keep it of fox's radar?can anyone send it to me?plsss

I would also like this picture as well.

Quote from: Lartones on Aug 09, 2011, 02:55:46 AM
I would also like this picture as well.

Are you talking about the one that was the hall with the person blacked out form the pic?
Or... a different one I'm completely unaware of?  :-X

Where is the picture with the blacked out person standing in a hallway?!  I keep hearing people talking about it and yet it's nowhere to be seen!  For goodness sakes people; share.

Hicks took it down.

Quote from: Valaquen on Aug 09, 2011, 04:03:36 PM
Hicks took it down.

Why?!  I can't see it as being a legal issue considering all of the other photos found in this forum.



EDIT: I found the photo in the news timeline.  I can't see what all the fuss was about considering it's the same hallway as the previous set photo.  Ho hum.

people started talking about the size of the space jockey in the pics and how he is definetely human size so i thought we got a picture with it and it got deleted

Quote from: zuzuki on Aug 10, 2011, 01:06:12 PM
people started talking about the size of the space jockey in the pics and how he is definetely human size so i thought we got a picture with it and it got deleted

Well I sure would like to see it if somebody could email it to me? Lartones@hotmail.com

If someone happened to save all the pics taken down so far and would be willing to share, PM me please. thanks

I made a thread somewhere...

Quote from: JaaayDee on Aug 11, 2011, 12:52:13 AM
I made a thread somewhere...

Thankfully  8)
Which we all appreciate!

Any idea when the pics will be up again? I saw them the first day they were posted and then it was gone the next day. If not, can they be emailed?

They're probably in the timeline thread.

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Aug 15, 2011, 08:20:08 AM
They're probably in the timeline thread.

As I already stated in the previous page of this thread; they are.

Just in case anyone is wondering, ALL the pics from my online link have had to be removed. Nothing I can do about it unfortunately as it wasn't by request.  They were saved (of course) but I'd advise anyone who still has links to what is really FOX property to be careful ok.

If the footage reappears on youtube can someone grab it and share please?

Just use http://keepvid.com/ (http://keepvid.com/) to download it as an MP4 file and then we can all see it.

or this add on for firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-downl-10137/ (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/easy-youtube-video-downl-10137/)

The coverup title really was 'Paradise':
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-5EJTjeEUNac%2FTky8H8RiseI%2FAAAAAAAAAJk%2F3XHFU-k5rJI%2Fs1600%2Fparadise_prometheus_pinewood.jpg&hash=7e57c8cac0db56e2d691a85febfb708c3c1b3557)
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-PsPBwV84h-I%2FTky9RlveziI%2FAAAAAAAAAJo%2FzHVZ6ZIav5U%2Fs1600%2Fparadise_prometheus_pinewood2.jpg&hash=d778049b697191645e462ef3ee59ae970c85a083)

http://www.alienprequelnews.com/2011/08/exclusive-prometheus-codenamed-paradise.html (http://www.alienprequelnews.com/2011/08/exclusive-prometheus-codenamed-paradise.html)

OFF Topic but is there a good Blade Runner forum some one can point me to? With the news of Ridley Scott returning to that film as well, there's much I want to discuss and after doing a few searches, can't find anything online.

Royal Jelly, or perhaps a catlyist.
Pace yourselves friends, we have a while.

ive herd so far in this film you find out about the creature from the first alien film called the space jokey cant wait to understand why he was in the massive chair in the film always wondered what he was and why he was there in the first place hopefully my questions will be answered in this upcoming film cant wait.