Posted by Xenomrph
- Jul 30, 2013, 04:33:46 AMTo be fair that was at a time where "expanded universe" stuff wasn't exactly taken seriously by license-holders. Even 'Star Wars' EU stuff didn't really ramp up into the sorta-mainstream until Timothy Zahn's trilogy in 1991, despite West End Games doing sourcebooks and shit for years prior.
Posted by SM
- Jul 30, 2013, 12:23:09 AMNo different to them liasing with Fox on the Aliens comics I'd imagine. Fox let them do comics featuring Hicks, Newt and Ripley, when they were developing scripts that paid no attention to the comic storylines.
Posted by predxeno
- Jul 29, 2013, 01:26:40 PMQuote from: SM on Jul 29, 2013, 05:29:08 AMQuoteAlso it could be contradicted with future film sequel releases.
Obviously they'd try to avoid this, but every other Aliens comic got contradicted by sequels, so who knows...
I think they said that Dark Horse would be conferring with the people behind Prometheus regarding consistencies in that vid vikingspawn posted last page.
Posted by SM
- Jul 29, 2013, 05:34:23 AMProbably lots of things to take into consideration - like if they even wanted the license to do comics, depending on the reaction to the film. And if they had a story they thought they could tell based on the film. Film's only been out for about a year.
Posted by SIMULANT
- Jul 29, 2013, 05:31:18 AMQuote from: SM on Jul 29, 2013, 05:29:08 AMQuoteThe fact its taken this long to even get into the pre-production stage of a Prometheus comic is worrying. Surely this should have begun during the production of the film.
The first Aliens comics came out 2 years after the film.
Yeah I know but would have thought that they may have thought ahead now but obviously not.
Posted by SM
- Jul 29, 2013, 05:29:08 AMQuoteThe fact its taken this long to even get into the pre-production stage of a Prometheus comic is worrying. Surely this should have begun during the production of the film.
The first Aliens comics came out 2 years after the film.
QuoteAlso it could be contradicted with future film sequel releases.
Obviously they'd try to avoid this, but every other Aliens comic got contradicted by sequels, so who knows...
Posted by SIMULANT
- Jul 29, 2013, 04:38:24 AMThe fact its taken this long to even get into the pre-production stage of a Prometheus comic is worrying. Surely this should have begun during the production of the film. Also it could be contradicted with future film sequel releases.
Posted by SM
- Jul 27, 2013, 06:52:51 AMA lot of people think the original film was cheap and mundane, so no big deal
Posted by Kronnang_Dunn
- Jul 27, 2013, 06:11:06 AMWhile I loved Prometheus and love the art pieces shown... I don't think a comic about Prometheus would be a good idea. A comic adaptation of the film would be good, because it would be a comic retelling of stuff already created.... but expanded universe comics are risky.... they could cheapen and make mundane things that were profound and gave a great aura of mystery to the original film.
Posted by Xenomrph
- Jul 27, 2013, 04:26:43 AMShit, I'd go so far as to say that he personally didn't care about anything outside of 'Alien' (and perhaps not even that, given how Prometheus retcons it - and Ridley Scott would be the first to admit that, too).
Any references we got to 'Aliens' were likely things put there by the writer and whatnot that slipped under his radar or otherwise didn't bother him, not conscious decisions on Scott's part.
Any references we got to 'Aliens' were likely things put there by the writer and whatnot that slipped under his radar or otherwise didn't bother him, not conscious decisions on Scott's part.
Posted by SM
- Jul 26, 2013, 10:31:32 PMThey've always preferred consistency. Particularly the comic publisher, because it legitimises their product.
However, there's no way Riddles will be beholden to a comic book if there's some inconsistency that pops up. He wasn't even beholden to the AvP films.
However, there's no way Riddles will be beholden to a comic book if there's some inconsistency that pops up. He wasn't even beholden to the AvP films.
Posted by predxeno
- Jul 26, 2013, 07:48:25 PMI guess this confirms that NOW comic producers and moviemakers prefer some consistency between comics.
Posted by Kimarhi
- Jul 26, 2013, 08:38:42 AMI just don't have the same vibe from Prometheus as I do the original Alien movies.
I will venture to say though that they will probably go more horror route with their runs than Scott since he seems to want to go all gods and engineers on us.
I will venture to say though that they will probably go more horror route with their runs than Scott since he seems to want to go all gods and engineers on us.
Posted by Origin
- Jul 26, 2013, 08:05:31 AMI hope this means we'll see all-new running Aliens/Predator/Prometheus books coming from Dark Horse. The 4-6 issue single-series runs they did a few years ago back were mostly great (Prey to the Heavens was the weakest IMHO), but amounted to basically table scraps trying to feed my immense hunger for more books after YEARS of waiting. Would love to see them go back to the 90's heydays with new issues out every month.
So tired of Buffy & BPRD rehashes...
So tired of Buffy & BPRD rehashes...
Posted by vikingspawn
- Jul 26, 2013, 04:28:37 AMCheck out this interview with Dark Horse Editor in chief about Prometheus comics at the 4:20 min mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdX_R8q0yoI#ws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdX_R8q0yoI#ws
