I’d like to preface this one by saying take this with a grain of salt as it is only 3rd hand information. Richard Daborn pointed me towards this post:
“I’m not sure if any of this is known, but my Brother works in TV and one of the crews he works with came back from Morocco about 10 days ago (I waited until I knew it would be okay to mention). He was told that the area of desert they were shooting (where Scott shot Kingdom of Heaven) on had just been recced by Scott and he’s given the go ahead for them to start work on a pyramid!
The person who told my Brother thought it was going to be a part of Earth, but the pyramid sounds suspiciously like the original pyramid idea for Alien, so might actually be Acheron, or another planet.”
This was posted over at the Aliens Legacy forum.
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Hm, dubious.
whats with the freaken pyramids!!!
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :-[
In the original concept art for the original Alien, there was already a Pyramid. Maybe they are going back to that idea. Sounds cool if you ask me. You can also see a pyramid like shape in this pic:
http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5o9w6pWoh1qa1o5zo1_500.jpg
Hurm. Well, as long as the Space Jockeys didn't build Earth-Pyramids...
I think we all know that the Predators help build the Earth pyramids ;)
Pyramid... There are plenty of giger's work design that exclude the use of pyramid and that could fit to the Space Jockey civilisation. Why not using thus instead of incorporating the pyramid thing in which AVP has completely destroyed the myth. :-\
No AVP pyramid :/
The picture looks like a space jockey putting a face hugger on another space jockey for some reason. I wonder if it will be in the pyramid.
That means Sebastian will be in the movie!
:D
Ah, the good old 'my brother works in the film industry and...' story. As the first response said; 'dubious'. Very, very dubious indeed.
Also, did I mention that my Father's friend's Sister's dog claims to have an updated scoop on the pyramid. I'll keep you posted (once I've checked with the pooch first to see if it's okay to let you guys know of course).
If this turns out to be true, then boy, will I have egg on my face (eggs thrown by flying pigs no doubt)!
the pyramids really explains the space jockeys and the Preds helping building them and the Alien(s) alongside. And the Alien ship coming from that home planet, stacking the eggs in the dark cargo ship, crashing on LV-426 and signaling the warning/distress call. Alien 1 starts. Thanks to AVP 1 and I understand this got nothing to do with the Preds themselves.
Pyramid, you say?
http://dc-mrg.english.ucsb.edu/WarnerTeach/E192/Images/BR.Tyrell.corp.building.jpg
Roy's gonna have a field day.
I don't know why you are all complaining. None of us have a say in this matter, just a thought, opinion, or a complaint. Nothing more. That being said, You do whatever you want to do with this film Ridley, This is your project. Not ours.
Just reading that I immeadeatly thought the predators were going to get reffrenced in this movie.
For the uninitiated, here's Giger's original pyramid design for ALIEN, circa 1978:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oLPxM7_4Cf0/TIIfm65p9iI/AAAAAAAAAsY/1UkDSEL6pn4/s320/picture036+(3).bmp
Nothing to do with Predators whatsoever.
god damnit FOX
Mr Clemens, Giger enver sdesigned a pyramid, that is the egg silo, an alternative to the pyramid concept, which was designed by Chriss Foss and Ron Cobb, I believe. It was cut from Dan O'Bannon's screenplay. If Ridley wants to bring it back, then it was Alien's idea and part of the original mythology, not AVP's. We've had nifty pyramids in Blade Runner and Terminator 2: 3D.
Crikey, "enver sdesigned"? I just woke up >:D
I liked the pyramid idea in avp and I think avp is salvagable so a pyramid in an alien prequel could be possible. And would be cool. Even better in the prequel show a skeleton of a pred or a small glimps of a pred scouting.
Hey, Valaquen. Yes, that's technically the 'egg silo', but again, technically, so is the area in the hold of the derelict, where Kane finds the eggs. The egg silo pictured above was designed to function as the 'pyramid' in O'Bannon's script, however, so I thought it was worth showing here.
At any rate, it's no less accurate than the information in the original post! ;)
SpaceMarines, It's interesting that you posted that picture of the Tyrell building from Blade Runner because when I first read this article I thought 'Bullcrap', then I thought 'if this is for real, it could mean Ridley is holding up to his (and my) belief that Blade Runner takes place in the same universe as Alien'.
How cool would it be to see the same version of Earth depicted in Blade Runner, in the Alien prequel. I'd say cooler then a penguin wearing shades, sucking an ice-lolly, frozen in an iceblock.
It would be so awesome if there will be a pred in this movie and marines and aliens and jockeys,and the pred and marines get f**king horrified mutilated and raped and left for dead by a far more superior race of jockeys and aliens.
Sounds pretty cool.
There will NOT be a predator in sight in the prequel. I can promise you that. Ridley Scott has more sense than that, as does Damon Lindelof. Seriously, why are people so keen on this idea?! It's a horrible concept but I guess it explains the relative box office success of the AVP films. *SIGH*
First off i dont like the AVP franchise as it is at the moment. BUT in other good hands its a gold franchise with lots of potential.
I think the pyramid idea has a lot of potential.
Mr Clemens, I do suppose you're right. And no Predators in this, please.
Hear, hear. I'm with you, mate! :)
great scoop thanks
;D
Other great news is that most/all of us aren't moviemakers! ::)
Well, so long as it isn't set on earth, im ok with it.
@ St_Eddie
Yeah, I've always thought that Blade Runner and Alien could be in the same universe. There are several problems with that though, mostly to do with the androids and replicants.
@SpaceMarines
Well, that's easy. Androids are from HyperDyne/WaylandYutani while Replicants are from Tyrell Corp. Like PCs and Macs today.
@SpaceMarines
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@TheTrekman
Plus I'd always imagined that after the Nexus-6 fiasco, a law was passed enforcing replicant manufacturers to use white blood, in order to make the distinction between human and replicant clearer (a simple blood test is all that would be needed to clarify, as opposed to the whole Voight-Kampff test).
If memory serves, originally the eggs (In Alien) were all contained in the egg silo (pyramid) and the derelict crashed landed either on top or near by it. Budget cut that idea and the eggs were relocated in the derelict. Giger's egg silo was a mammary shape, all the more creepy. I truly hope that Giger is involved in the overall look of the prequel. His visions alone are enough to creep me out, landscapes etc...
@ St_Eddie
Well, you've done it. They can be the same universe now. ;D
What's with Aliens and Predators and pyramids?
@ viruz777.. Yea i agree it seems like a stupid idea putting aliens with pyramids ::)