Shooting Locations of Prometheus

[Corporal Hicks]

Thanks to Darkoo and Ikarop for this news. A nice chunk of production information for Prometheus has been unveiled via iMoviei.com.

The website lists the shooting locations which includes the previously unknown, Petra: “Inhabited since prehistoric times, this Nabataean caravan-city, situated between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was an important crossroads between Arabia, Egypt and Syria-Phoenicia. Petra is half-built, half-carved into the rock, and is surrounded by mountains riddled with passages and gorges.”

The business section also mentions the usage of animals and horses. Might not be anything but it is curious.

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[Salt The Fries]

WTF

Oh, for an initial second I thought you're talking about fictional locations in the Prometheus universe...

[ChrisPachi]

The use of Petra is very interesting. Not an incidental location by any means so I am curious how this might tie into the mythology. Ancient Arabs?

-Chris

[Ruzena]

The use of Petra is very interesting. Not an incidental location by any means so I am curious how this might tie into the mythology. Ancient Arabs?

-Chris

Maybe we will see new xeno in this movie! Xenophobe

[ThisBethesdaSea]

Woah, this keeps unfolding and unfolding.....I've always LOVED Petra....there's something haunting and eternal about it. I get the similar feeling when I look at the Anasazi Indian Ruins.....cna't fukking wait!

[windebieste]

Ancient times..?  Far future..?    EPIC revelations about humanity..

Scott is making "2012: An ALIEN Odyssey"  (...with horses and space jockeys.  Sounds vewwwy interwesting!)

-Windebieste.

[Cvalda]

Scott is making "2012: An ALIEN Odyssey"  (...with horses and space jockeys.  Sounds vewwwy interwesting!)

Horses? Dear god, I hope not. If Scott does some montage of the Engineers interacting with humanity in the past (as he hinted in an interview), I may hurl.

[Pete Script]

I found this picture from Prometheus on the website linked below. I haven't seen this photo before, is this new or have I just forgotten it! 

http://www.roughcutreviews.com/news_story.php?id=1379&title=New+Still+from+Ridley+Scott's+'Prometheus'

[Cvalda]

I found this picture from Prometheus on the website linked below. I haven't seen this photo before, is this new or have I just forgotten it! 

http://www.roughcutreviews.com/news_story.php?id=1379&title=New+Still+from+Ridley+Scott's+'Prometheus'

That still is ooooolllldddd.

[Pete Script]

I found this picture from Prometheus on the website linked below. I haven't seen this photo before, is this new or have I just forgotten it! 

http://www.roughcutreviews.com/news_story.php?id=1379&title=New+Still+from+Ridley+Scott's+'Prometheus'

That still is ooooolllldddd.

Ok thanks mate 

[RoaryUK]

I noticed the site lists Glenn Coe in its related locations, when did the production go there?

[Ash 937]

The business section also mentions the usage of animals and horses. Might not be anything but it is curious.

That's just like Ridley.  First he has to one-up Cameron and do Prometheus in 3D so it's better than Avatar and now he has to use horses instead of oxen to be better than Fincher in Alien3.

I wonder what he's going to do to one up Jeunet in Alien: Resurrection.  Oh wait, I know, we are going to find out that the human race itself is already a "miniature" clone of the space jockey race!

[Xenomorphine]

Nothing really of value here, unless someone can figure out what sort of things those firearms and visual effects companies specialise in.

Locations don't really mean much. As most of us are aware, all sorts of locations are used to replace the real ones. Tunisia represented a desert on a different planet in a certain seventies science-fiction film.

As for horses, I don't mind them. Either they're still used in the future for riding around on or they're being used to represent old times. Or, like the use of a small dog in 'Alien 3', they're trying to outfit them in some sort of costumes for some quick shots of quadruped creatures.

In either case, it doesn't inform us very much about the story.

[Highland]

Thing with Petra is, there's nothing actually inside the tombs or treasury's? (went there a few years back)

So the use of Petra I can only assume it's either for the stunning canyons as a visual or its to represent some sort of city in the past.

Looking at the pieces of the puzzle here, I'm starting to think the biblical references in this movie are going to be quite prominent. He might even flip out the Ark of the Covenant story line???

[bunnyavpg]

Glen Coe is a strange one, there are lots more spectacular 'mountainous' ranges throughout Europe, let alone the rest of the world, but it is very barren and cheap to get to if you are based in the UK anyway.