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A new international poster for Prometheus has been revealed over on Latino-Review. It doesn’t contain any new images unfortunately. Their version is from the Netherlands, I believe. The one below is from India.

In related news, there’s also a French poster that we’ve not seen before. Thanks to Seeasea for the news.

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Very nice

:-\

Original teaser is a hundred times better. :P

Quote from: Cvalda on May 10, 2012, 06:15:31 PM
:-\

Original teaser is a hundred times better. :P

I agree, the head just looks cheesy in this one.

im starting to think that the urns are playing an important role in the movie xD

Christ is that poster AWFUL...

don't like it
looks like they added 2 blurred black spots to the eyes, but the other poster was really good!!1

dafuq does the head do on the road?!
why do these french people always have to mess up everything!?!?!1

That's a pretty ugly poster haha :P

and the black at the top of the pic, at the corners i mean, looks just like they had no more actual picture and added smooth black brush on it :D

Quote from: DendaReloaded on May 10, 2012, 06:58:36 PM
dafuq does the head do on the road?!
why do these french people always have to mess up everything!?!?!1

They like their gigantic humanoid statues displayed outside.

Stupid Poster is Stupid...

The scale on the head has been altered to make it appear much larger than it actually is... which I hate.  If the head was supposed to be that large and menacing than it should have been that large... when all the other shots shows a much smaller room and much smaller head, it makes this poster pointless.

looks fashionable...

That poster is terrible!  I like how the original poster was mysterious and had the right amount of dark and the right amount of the head illuminated by Shaw's torch.  It looks beautiful.

Hell, I've seen far better fan posters than the international poster.

same

I think the Indian poster is terrible. It's not a bad idea – I can go with that – but the execution is very poor.

Didn't we see a very similar image with the original Entertainment Weekly story? At that time I thought it was something that the magazine's designers had photoshopped which would account for its poor quality; the perspective is out and the proportions between the figures and urns are clearly wrong.

That said, foreign move posters are often left to the discretion of the marketing teams in those territories and may well appeal to people in those countries – remember the famous Alien posters from Poland?
http://www.polishposter.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=0212 (http://www.polishposter.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=0212)

The Indian Prometheus poster evokes Hindu idols and imagery so I can see why they might have gone with that.

Unlike the 70s or 80s, anyone can do a lash-up in Photoshop and I think that's one of the reasons you see so much dodgy artwork these days. Personally, my fave poster so far is still the teaser. And that, let's face it, is nowhere near as mysterious, memorable or engaging as the poster for Alien. Hard act to follow...

I'd like to see a new poster for Prometheus. Avatar had a minimalist teaser and then a few variants for the movie's release. I'd like to see the same treatment for Prometheus.

The worst thing about it is it doesn't detail how many the musical numbers there will be.

This new poster is good but not as cool as the US poster.

That tag-line is still too frigging cheesy.

That looks fan made

Quote from: whiterabbit on May 10, 2012, 11:40:39 PM
That tag-line is still too frigging cheesy.

Not to mention moot.

Quote from: SM on May 11, 2012, 01:56:35 AM

Quote from: whiterabbit on May 10, 2012, 11:40:39 PM
That tag-line is still too frigging cheesy.

Not to mention moot.

Maybe they're being satirical and talking about the studios end? I'm pretty certain more than 100 million went into making this film.  :laugh:

New tagline:

"Christ I hope this pays off!"

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fweknowmemes.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2Fwtf-is-this-shit.jpg&hash=da654d44e26de3103da996dcce3dc490640b64d5)

...an over-reaction?

Quote from: SM on May 11, 2012, 06:21:41 AM
...an over-reaction?

... from 1994.

Yes - a lot of over-reaction here. I prefer the teaser poster, but I'd say this one is as good as any of the originals...

No over-reaction... the head is not 100 ft. tall... so why would it be in the poster?

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 01:01:46 PM
No over-reaction... the head is not 100 ft. tall... so why would it be in the poster?

In the french posters it's much bigger then the temple itself!

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdistilleryimage9.instagram.com%2Ffb9a00149aeb11e180c9123138016265_7.jpg&hash=ed883ad3cb1165beb1b99bf4a40d9dfd7f698212)

But not as big as Shaw's.  ;)

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 01:01:46 PM
No over-reaction... the head is not 100 ft. tall... so why would it be in the poster?

I never remember the egg floating in space with green mist in the first movie... it'called artistic licence.

Quote from: Darth Vile on May 11, 2012, 02:15:44 PM

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 01:01:46 PM
No over-reaction... the head is not 100 ft. tall... so why would it be in the poster?

I never remember the egg floating in space with green mist in the first movie... it'called artistic licence.

It's called stupid...  It gives people the idea the head has scale that it doesn't... FWIW I am not fond of the original cover either, the egg doesn't look the same, the light implies opening at the bottom, and I don't remember the net...

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.shocktillyoudrop.com%2Fimages%2Fstories%2F2012%2FMay%2Fprometheus-intl2.jpg&hash=d830893ca753df12e5381dbe31d8bae814f6bbe6)

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 02:24:35 PM

Quote from: Darth Vile on May 11, 2012, 02:15:44 PM

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 01:01:46 PM
No over-reaction... the head is not 100 ft. tall... so why would it be in the poster?

I never remember the egg floating in space with green mist in the first movie... it'called artistic licence.

It's called stupid...  It gives people the idea the head has scale that it doesn't... FWIW I am not fond of the original cover either, the egg doesn't look the same, the light implies opening at the bottom, and I don't remember the net...

Oh, come on now  ;D You're surely arguing for the sake of it here.

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.impawards.com%2F1979%2Fposters%2Falien.jpg&hash=05899da3d96758cb8be7e3c94291da5f5e145685)

It's a f@cking classic!

I'm also going to go against the grain here and confess that I love the image Imax are using for their international poster. Not half as much as the first poster mind, but the urns carry this beautiful, ominous presence. Very 'Ridley' with all that smoke  ;)

What a lame poster... Meh...

Quote from: SpreadEagleBeagle on May 11, 2012, 07:38:59 PM
What a lame poster... Meh...

How about this bad boy?

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-63KqiJ8OJKo%2FTq3QFWBCBpI%2FAAAAAAAAChQ%2FwMmPHIDv1iQ%2Fs1600%2Falien-polish-movie-poster1.jpg&hash=a4499511c3e3ff5c566d23145730eb255d8e01ab)

When I first saw the Alien VHS box at my local grocery store video section... (yes they used to exist) the image disturbed me, but once I had seen the movie and looked at it more, it didn't translate to anything I had seen and it didn't make sense, not even in a cool abstract way.

I think the head could have had more presence if it had been done to larger scale, but since it wasn't it bothers me that these posters give it all this scale... it looks 50 ft. tall in the poster...

Nevermind the head. What about the ampules? They're Ginormous!

Quote from: Virgil_uk on May 11, 2012, 08:02:17 PM

Quote from: SpreadEagleBeagle on May 11, 2012, 07:38:59 PM
What a lame poster... Meh...

How about this bad boy?

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-63KqiJ8OJKo%2FTq3QFWBCBpI%2FAAAAAAAAChQ%2FwMmPHIDv1iQ%2Fs1600%2Falien-polish-movie-poster1.jpg&hash=a4499511c3e3ff5c566d23145730eb255d8e01ab)

It`s fine example of old Polish school of posters. All of posters in that era were strange and abstract but they were also art. Nowadays all posters are done in photoshop...

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 02:24:35 PM

Quote from: Darth Vile on May 11, 2012, 02:15:44 PM

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 01:01:46 PM
No over-reaction... the head is not 100 ft. tall... so why would it be in the poster?

I never remember the egg floating in space with green mist in the first movie... it'called artistic licence.

It's called stupid...  It gives people the idea the head has scale that it doesn't... FWIW I am not fond of the original cover either, the egg doesn't look the same, the light implies opening at the bottom, and I don't remember the net...

Don't worry, giant French Noomi head will protect you!

And we'll call in wrong scale Kong and Fay Wray just in case too.
(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ft3.gstatic.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dtbn%3AANd9GcRCDSMWOZr8k6jl1HLFHt70yJcmOJEDhDhKs2nv8VFyjfJPWdBKUA&hash=8649cba0f66cbafec65d27bda4b61276c4632d5b)

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 02:24:35 PM

Quote from: Darth Vile on May 11, 2012, 02:15:44 PM

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 01:01:46 PM
No over-reaction... the head is not 100 ft. tall... so why would it be in the poster?

I never remember the egg floating in space with green mist in the first movie... it'called artistic licence.

It's called stupid...  It gives people the idea the head has scale that it doesn't...

Same could be levelled at the original Jaws poster... or the original Star Wars ones (that bear little resemblance to what actually goes on in the movie). Accentuating the shape/size of the thing to look more imposing than it actually is, may be the idea. You don't have to like it, but it doesn't make it bad.

Quote from: Master on May 11, 2012, 09:59:02 PM

Quote from: Virgil_uk on May 11, 2012, 08:02:17 PM

Quote from: SpreadEagleBeagle on May 11, 2012, 07:38:59 PM
What a lame poster... Meh...

How about this bad boy?

(https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-63KqiJ8OJKo%2FTq3QFWBCBpI%2FAAAAAAAAChQ%2FwMmPHIDv1iQ%2Fs1600%2Falien-polish-movie-poster1.jpg&hash=a4499511c3e3ff5c566d23145730eb255d8e01ab)

It`s fine example of old Polish school of posters. All of posters in that era were strange and abstract but they were also art. Nowadays all posters are done in photoshop...

I wasn't complaining  :) and I agree with you that there's a severe lack of this type of poster today.

Quite like it, and the alt version a little further up. Nice to see a poster going for iconography rather than just a cast line-up composite.

It's strange how the big-giant-head seems to look different in nearly every pic (or poster) I've seen of it.
Perhaps it's just due to the differing angles of reference.

Quote from: Darth Vile on May 11, 2012, 11:15:15 PM

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 02:24:35 PM

Quote from: Darth Vile on May 11, 2012, 02:15:44 PM

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 01:01:46 PM
No over-reaction... the head is not 100 ft. tall... so why would it be in the poster?

I never remember the egg floating in space with green mist in the first movie... it'called artistic licence.

It's called stupid...  It gives people the idea the head has scale that it doesn't...

Same could be levelled at the original Jaws poster... or the original Star Wars ones (that bear little resemblance to what actually goes on in the movie). Accentuating the shape/size of the thing to look more imposing than it actually is, may be the idea. You don't have to like it, but it doesn't make it bad.

I would argue that the original Jaws poster was much closer in scale, and its a painting so it gets a pass from me there...  The Star Wars poster was a painting and was the characters large over a background.  The Prometheus Poster is not a painting, and the designer just increased the scale of the head in the same scene making it much larger than it actually is...

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 12, 2012, 01:15:43 AM

Quote from: Darth Vile on May 11, 2012, 11:15:15 PM

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 02:24:35 PM

Quote from: Darth Vile on May 11, 2012, 02:15:44 PM

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 01:01:46 PM
No over-reaction... the head is not 100 ft. tall... so why would it be in the poster?

I never remember the egg floating in space with green mist in the first movie... it'called artistic licence.

It's called stupid...  It gives people the idea the head has scale that it doesn't...

Same could be levelled at the original Jaws poster... or the original Star Wars ones (that bear little resemblance to what actually goes on in the movie). Accentuating the shape/size of the thing to look more imposing than it actually is, may be the idea. You don't have to like it, but it doesn't make it bad.

I would argue that the original Jaws poster was much closer in scale, and its a painting so it gets a pass from me there...  The Star Wars poster was a painting and was the characters large over a background.  The Prometheus Poster is not a painting, and the designer just increased the scale of the head in the same scene making it much larger than it actually is...

Not really - if you look at the radius of the mouth of the shark in the poster, it makes it about circa 50 ft. Compare it to the production still of Spielberg lying in the mouth of the Shark. As for The Star Wars posters - yes indeed things were over scaled. Vader's head is usually a giant head in the background and Han & Leia in the 'Empire' poster dwarf everything else, in a pose that was never in the movie.

Those posters being 'painted' is largely irrelevant as one either excepts the creator can use artistic licence or not. The poster for Prometheus isn't an onset production still, it's a stylised rendition of a scene/moment (we expect), and as such the artist in question is scaling up the size of the head for dramatic effect. I don't think anyone will come out of the movie thinking "well I feel cheated by the size of the head". ;-)

Quote from: Darth Vile on May 12, 2012, 08:24:42 AM

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 12, 2012, 01:15:43 AM

Quote from: Darth Vile on May 11, 2012, 11:15:15 PM

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 02:24:35 PM

Quote from: Darth Vile on May 11, 2012, 02:15:44 PM

Quote from: ryanjayhawk on May 11, 2012, 01:01:46 PM
No over-reaction... the head is not 100 ft. tall... so why would it be in the poster?

I never remember the egg floating in space with green mist in the first movie... it'called artistic licence.

It's called stupid...  It gives people the idea the head has scale that it doesn't...

Same could be levelled at the original Jaws poster... or the original Star Wars ones (that bear little resemblance to what actually goes on in the movie). Accentuating the shape/size of the thing to look more imposing than it actually is, may be the idea. You don't have to like it, but it doesn't make it bad.

I would argue that the original Jaws poster was much closer in scale, and its a painting so it gets a pass from me there...  The Star Wars poster was a painting and was the characters large over a background.  The Prometheus Poster is not a painting, and the designer just increased the scale of the head in the same scene making it much larger than it actually is...

Not really - if you look at the radius of the mouth of the shark in the poster, it makes it about circa 50 ft. Compare it to the production still of Spielberg lying in the mouth of the Shark. As for The Star Wars posters - yes indeed things were over scaled. Vader's head is usually a giant head in the background and Han & Leia in the 'Empire' poster dwarf everything else, in a pose that was never in the movie.

Those posters being 'painted' is largely irrelevant as one either excepts the creator can use artistic licence or not. The poster for Prometheus isn't an onset production still, it's a stylised rendition of a scene/moment (we expect), and as such the artist in question is scaling up the size of the head for dramatic effect. I don't think anyone will come out of the movie thinking "well I feel cheated by the size of the head". ;-)

It't ok to agree to disagree... I know the head has been the watershed scene from whats been shown... but I simply think this poster is lazy and misrepresenting.  Your Jaws example makes sense, Jaws 2 would probably be better... I think it seems lazy.

Lazy???? Baby Jesus why?

It's called atmosphere. They've used the archetypal imagery from the film to create a mood and give off a vibe to viewers. I think it works and looks fantastic.

OK...this thread has officially gone moronic.

After 2 pages of unoffical moronity - it's good that it's at last been made official.

 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Quote from: SM on May 13, 2012, 11:43:39 PM
After 2 pages of unoffical moronity - it's good that it's at last been made official.

SM, always the voice of reason haha :).

I prefer many fan posters over this. It's just a discolored production still. (As are most fan posters too- but some are quite good.)