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Frantz You have just accurately said all of the exact things I read on the Prometheus IMDB board. Thank the Gods this place is safe.

from everything but EGO's !!!

Crackin' me up :-)

Frantz has it spot on, the IMDB page for Prometheus is a joke. Half the threads are just trolls banging on about "Teal pushing" & most of the others don't even have anything to do with Prometheus.

yes imdb is a joke. but i check it a few times a day.. i also check this website and avpgalaxy and alienprequelnews and prometheusnews because i cant get enough of PROMETHEUS :)

Answers a lot of questions that I felt I kind of knew a while back. Especially the Space Jockey Skeleton actually being a suit and the Alien Xeno not being in the film. Like I said when I first started coming here. Scott has maintained since the announcement of this version of the film, that the Aliens we know will not be in this. He consistently speaks of the DNA and I have always felt what he meant was just that. Small pieces to connect it to the first film, not exactly the Xeno. Obviously the derelict and the Space Jockey have something to do with this story. Some of the pieces are starting to officially come together. I just hope a real trailer surfaces soon.

i think that regarding the xeno he play a bit with words ,,the interviewer shouldt have asked " the original alien " but " there will be the same kind of xenomorph ?" ... im not that happy that the original space jockey is only a suit .. :( also giger involvement in the project seems very limited ... :( i like all the other things ...

Yeah I agree I am a little depressed that the SJ is just a suit. It kinda just ruined a bit of the mysteriousness of it. Oh well I hope what ever is in the suit is not a human or some human looking alien, I am so sick of those!

sj being a suit with the possibility of it being a human or human looking alien and the fact that no Xenos what so ever... not even a xeno jockey will make an appearence really dissapoints me... :( oh well im still gonna see it, but i still kinda dissappointed.

Did anyone read the interview with neville page the effects designer for prometheus and numerous other films. He stated that he has never had to work harder on any production he has been involved on so that's a promiseing when you consider his prolific background including avatar , clash of the titans, green lantern, etc and loads of other films i cant be bothered to mention, so have faith and dont belive everything you read theres a lot of disinformation deliberatly put out to keep the project under wraps and protect the film from spoilers and speculation i have every faith this is going to blow your minds and be an instant classic . Naomi rapace has declared that in the adr she has done for the film shes seen a lot of the finnished article and it looks incredible.

Alien arent you a bit exhagerating ??? maybe inside that suit there is something even more horrible ...and maybe he referred to THAT alien ...not the race in general ... i dont think we will see keanu reeves nude emerging from that "suit" ..i think that the problem was that the SJ was fused with the chair and very very big so they had to skip that problems ( a very big SJ would have made something like the cavern troll in LOTR ... ) what we have is some sort of a "trailer" and is AWESOME ...

integral interview Erlingur Grétar Einarsson: What [part of Prometheus] are you shooting in Iceland? What role in the film does it “play”? Ridley Scott: It’s, you know, whenever you’re talking about science-fiction, it always sounds pretentious or corny. It’s actually “The beginning of time”. But I think we’ve got it right. (He laughs) So, it will be a pretty good beginning of time. EGE: [The Prometheus’ cast] is a very impressive line-up. RS: Yeah, you know, we were staying with the notion that there were no stars in the first film [1979's Alien]. I think it was [Weaver‘s] first film. They were not stars. EGE: Skerritt had some name recognition, maybe at the same level Fassbender is now. RS: Yeah. I didn’t make that as a plan, you know. Sometimes it’s better when you have a story, where you’re gonna lose people during the story, that they are lesser known. Of course, Charlize [Theron] is very well known, but she hangs around ‘till the end. (He laughs) EGE: So you are linking this directly with the Alien films? RS: Not at all. EGE: Not at all? RS: No. EGE: No? RS: I mean, you could actually say, and there’s a quote I did, a pretty good quote: By the end of the third act you start to realize there’s a DNA of the very first alien, but none of the subsequent aliens. To tell you what that is is a pity, and I’m not going to tell you, because it’s actually pretty good, pretty organic to the process and to the original. But we go back, we don’t go forward. EGE: The official synopsis from Fox says that this revolves around the “Alien Gods”, the “Space Jockey” from the first film. RS: Yeah, so there you have that. I was always amazed that, I mean, I’ve only done two science-fictions, but I was always amazed that no one asked who the hell the Space Jockey was. He wasn’t even called the Space Jockey. During the film they started to call it the Space Jockey. I don’t know who started that one off. I always thought it was amazing that no one ever asked who he was, and why was he there? What was all that about? I sat thinking about this for a while and thought, well, there’s a story! And the other four [films] missed it! So, here it is. EGE: Will you be using any of Giger’s original design for this film? RS: We’ve had a pretty good relationship with Giger for many years. I was the first one to go see him in Switzerland, and persuade him to get on a plane. He wouldn’t get on a plane, because he was afraid of flying. And he finally came to Shepperton. He was with me for eleven months. Never went into town, stayed over a pub in Shepperton. Very non-Giger, not exotic. You’d think he’d be in a suite in a hotel. He’s in a pub. He was in a room over a pub, and he was very happy there. And yeah, I brought him in, I showed him what we were doing, showed him the story and he liked it a lot. So he’s doing a little bit of work for me. He’s been doing some murals, big murals, which we’ll see in almost one of the first chambers we encounter when we land where we’re gonna go. EGE: The tone of the film, according to the official synopsis, and the tone of the premise, sounds a lot more mythological than the original Alien films. The original Alien films revolved around industrial settings and premises and social situations rather than anything mythological. RS: The original Alien was a pretty savage engine. I’ve always said it was a C-movie done in an A-way. Because it was the Old Dark House, you know. Seven people in the Old Dark House, and they’re all going to die. (He laughs) And they’re gonna die horribly and that in itself is a tricky exercise, because you can do it well, you can do it badly. But somehow that worked. It turned out pretty well. I think one of the reasons why I’ve never gone back to science-fiction, even though I’ve often noodled around, thought about it, looked for story, looked for material, is that there’s a nice purity to the original Alien. It’s fairly pure. And this one does actually raise all kinds of other questions, because if someone could, a being, could be as monstrously clever to create something like we experienced in the very first one – I always figured it’s a weapon, and I always figured that [the ship in the first Alien] was a carrier of weapons. Therefore, who is that, inside that suit? That wasn’t a skeleton, that was a suit. And if you open up the suit, what do you get inside it? And why were they going, where were they going? Also, I ring off of… there’s a writer, Erich von Däniken. One of his most famous books was called Chariots of the Gods. Everyone thinks he was out of his mind, you know, for number one, “we are the creation of gods”, if you go back to the 19th century anthropologists, Darwin, and say if you go look at Darwin for the moment and look at the Darwinian idea, the Darwinian thesis, which is seemingly very logical. You know, you’re going from something that gradually comes to two legs and gradually here we are. Then you can go beyond that and you look more mathematically at the feasibility of how we’re able to be sitting here, right now, in this place. I’m talking to you, and I’ve got this thing (he picks up his cellphone) which looks like Star Trek. This is “Beam me up, Scotty”-stuff. You wouldn’t have believed this thing could exist thirty years ago. [Editor's note: And here is where he really takes off:] Things have changed so dramatically that you can start looking at the idea that all our history can be completely wrong and misguided. Because at some point someone has to put a statement down and have their own thesis, have their own theories. That was then later accepted or later is gradually dissolved and re-drawn or reworked. So now you’ve got the whole changed attitude with NASA, the church and I think even Hawking. Over the last thirty years have gone from “It’s highly unlikely that there’s anyone else in our galaxy, any other force, being in our galaxy,” to now, where they’re conceding that there are probably thousands of different lifeforms in this galaxy. And I think Hawking actually said, “Let’s hope they don’t visit.” And I think the church has conceded as well that it would not be against the word of God if we conceded that there are other lifeforms in this galaxy. So, if you take that out, then the door is open. To me, it’s entirely logical. It’s entirely ridiculous to believe that we are the only ones here. That’s why my first thought is that for us to be sitting here right now is actually mathematically impossible without a lot of assistance. Who assisted? Who made the right decisions? Who was pushing and pulling to adjust us? That’s a fair question. EGE: Prometheus has the Brandywine production tag on it [a Production slate only used for Alien films since 1979] Do you feel any pressure going back to that world? RS: No. Not at all, really. I had a good time making it. They gave me an opportunity to make it. I’d only done The Duellists at that point which was actually a pretty good film. Then someone had bizarrely seen it at Cannes and thought, “I wonder if he wants to do science-fiction,” which couldn’t be more different. I read it and thought, “Wow! This is fantastic,” because at that moment I was engaged in a lot of, I was reading a lot Jean Giraud’s “Moebius” stuff. The great French illustrator, beyond everything. I’d been looking at him just with the view to, you know, one day I wanted to do science-fiction. I’d seen Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 and that for me was certainly a door opening. You go, “Wow, that works,” and what am I gonna do? So, I happened to be looking at Moebius’ stuff, just out of interest, because I’m a really… I can really draw and paint. I was really influenced by what I saw, but didn’t know where to apply it. When I read the Alien script, I just saw Moebius all the way, and I said, “I’ll do it! I know how to do it!” I was in Hollywood, and we sat for 22 hours straight. “Do you want to change it?” – “Nope.” – “What do you want to do?” – “Shoot it.” That was it. Bingo. People were saying, “Let’s rewrite the third act, that is a disaster.” I said, “I’ll do it.” Once you’re doing it, you can adjust it. EGE: Do you see Noomi [Rapace] as something of a successor to Sigourney? RS: Yeah, I mean, they’re quite different women. Sigourney, to start with, is 6’1’’ in stocking feet, and Noomi insists that she is 5’1’’ in stocking feet. (He laughs) I look at a lot of foreign movies, and unfortunately a lot of mainstream movies aren’t terribly good. You know. (He laughs) The most influential for me are the new ones around the corner, and I look at a lot of foreign films and a lot of Scandinavian films. The Scandinavians have a very good touch for making movies, you guys (Icelanders) as well. I saw Dragon Tattoo a year ago, the first one. And, “Wow, who is that?” and from that I said, “This is the girl that’s going to do the film.” She came to L.A. and I met with her, and discovered that she’s in fact extraordinarily posh, as opposed to punk. So there was a real actress. A real actress, very, very good. So, I don’t know, she will just do great. EGE: She has this same fire that Sigourney brought, as well. RS: I would say that Noomi’s even more volatile and passionate. And sure, she looks good. But the combination of that and intelligence is a great combination. EGE: Final question. I have a feeling what the answer will be, but many want to know. Will we see the original xenomorph in Prometheus? RS: No. Absolutely not. They squeezed it dry. He (the xenomorph) did very well. (He laughs) He survived, he’s now in Disneyland in Orlando, and no way am I going back there. How did he end up in Disneyland? I saw him in Disneyland, Jesus Christ!

The SJ suit thing, im going off from a combination of some of the things i seen in some movies, im not stating anything to be a fact, im just saying it raises the posibility. As for the xeno, more likely there might not even be a xeno just from the recent articles. Anyway I still think the movie will be good, im still gonna go see it. As for exagerating? i dont think i was, im just speaking my mind... thats all... the sj suit thing is what mainly got my attention. I just hope like what Agent Mothman posted up there earlier that it aint human/human looking alien.

I get the feeling that when the word 'epic' has been used, and especially in the case of Prometheus, its usage is going to be well justified. I have my own theories as to what the storyline may turn out to be, but I'll just have to wait and see. What I have noticed is the reference to 'The beginning of time' (hmmm Iceland). A good reference point in earth history would be the Ice Age. To then have a story that connects the past to the future whilst taking in some of von Däniken's concepts has got to be epic. If there is anything I have noticed about Ridley's film making is that there is a fantastic sense of historic fact, science fact, and an ability to be ahead of the curve with technology. I think that most references that have been made to Alien are just a mere thin crust to a large pie. The real meat is going to be a lot to digest, even though some ingredients have been hinted at.

I get the feeling that when the word 'epic' has been used, and especially in the case of Prometheus, its usage is going to be well justified. I have my own theories as to what the storyline may turn out to be, but I'll just have to wait and see. What I have noticed is the reference to 'The beginning of time' (hmmm Iceland). A good reference point in earth history would be the Ice Age. To then have a story that connects the past to the future whilst taking in some of von Däniken's concepts has got to be epic. If there is anything I have noticed about Ridley's film making is that there is a fantastic sense of historic fact, science fact, and an ability to be ahead of the curve with technology. I think that most references that have been made to Alien are just a mere thin crust to a large pie. The real meat is going to be a lot to digest, even though some ingredients have been hinted at.

i think is a little insult to the original alien to make the equation BIG BUDGET = GREAT MOVIE ... remember that it was made with 8 millions ( around 30 millions of today dollars ) BTW we can assume that the budget of prometheus is something between 100 and 120 million dollars

Im pretty sure with the ppl making the film will make the Budget a bit less important to making a great movie. Budget is a key factor in producing a film, but the ppl making the film play a big role too

Just visited imdb.com and found this pic. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2283582208/tt1446714 Not sure if this one came with the previous package that came out not to long ago, and if it didn't - well, then just N-JOI it!!

is is the one with the dead jockey ...or better with a dead jockey's suit ....

If the Xeno's have been artificially produced by the Space Jockeys then maybe here's a theory IMO that attaches things together. In ALIEN Ash is a robot, and based on the science of that time probably silicon based. The word Xenomorph is a word usually used in geology, which ties in neatly with silica. The original alien based its cells on protein polysaccharides (used in immune systems) and polarised silicon. In general science there are two main elements that can produce life, Carbon and Silicon. Now here's a big what if. Suppose the Gods or Space Jockeys are a silicon based life form. Who have in turn engineered humans to create silicon based life forms. Therefore the assumption is that we seek our Gods/Creators to discover that it is the robots who are going back to their point of origin, not us. There is definitely continuity in this running through the entire franchise. Look at the role of Bishop and the empathy Ash has to the first Alien. Or to put it simply the xenomorphs clear the workshop while the humans engineer life. A case of having the right tool for the job.

I want that!!! O.o

SWEEEEET! By the way..."Alien" I noticed you were all dissapointed there are "No Xenos" in Prometheus and wasn't going to say anything but I just cannot keep it in anymore. There ARE...and They're Bigger and they're Badder, and you're wrong...end of story !!! Check your source !!! Just FYI, not to upset you. There ARE, and they are going to be BETTER and more VISCIOUS than how you remember them!!! So you can be happy again !!!

@spart. I read the recent ridley scott interview and he said there wasnt and i wasnt stating a fact towards ANYONE. So idk y your taking pride in your comment about something unrelated to this thread. So FYI dont try to sound like a ****... I just going by the recent interview info... not trying to push info down anyones throat or anything. So try to make your postsseem more nice in the future especially these !!! and FYI...

anyway Neurion, that is the coolest thing ever!

The first thing you need to know is that there ARE XENO's in this film. So when you make a statement like "There are No Xeno's in this film" you understand exactly why it is that this is not the case and why I said it was not the case.... I also went as far as to explain to you that it was just FYI not personal and you should be happy since you are wrong! Evidently you did not get that and decided to make this a personal thing so O.K. let's do that!!! You are wrong to go on a message board and claim "There are No Xeno's in Prometheus" when everyone and anyone who has been here longer knows for a fact that there ARE !!! Now, Nowhere in any interview has Ridley Scott ever ONCE said there are "NO Xeno's" in this film, in fact he has gone out of his way to say it's the exact opposite.

there is no need to start an unecessary argument on a thread not relating, and that is a status board mind you... and am i entitled to post w/e i want as long as its appropriate... and FYI loosen up... dont get overdramatic... i found my sources, you found your own... so just wait for the film, i dont expect anyone to take my word nor do i care, and once again its not like im trying to SHOVE it down your throat... so take a chill pill and move on... just wait for the movie... who knos... you might be wrong or i might be wrong... so please be chill...

after all... the lid on the film has been tight and we have recieve false info b4... not trying to offend or piss you off or shove info in your face...

[b]Spartacus[/b], reply to statuses with your own status updates, do not start an argument or a new topic in someone else's thread please. BACK ON TOPIC

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Possiply inspiration from ridley scott commercial for Apple in 1984. Connections to prometheus. Possibly ridley scott inspiration from 1984 Apple ad- inspiration for prometheus? Check this out, man with elephant trunk- like aircleaner?, woman running through corridor coming to a big human head (big brother). Creapy bladerunneresque sound.  Please bear with my poor english skills. [url=http://v8.lscache1.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?id=30e970875720807d&itag=7&begin=0&ratebypass=yes&title=Apple+Macintosh+1984+Superbowl+Commercial&ip=0.0.0.0&ipbits=0&expire=1324105653&sparams=ip,ipbits,expire,id,itag,ratebypass,title&signature=1050B4B7A455ED335AF2344B29453061920187A5.7DB604E7FA4413FDF4F38447708065032AFCDE33&key=ck1] [/link to video]

LOL my head is exploding from all the theories... [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/afropulse.gif[/img]

Interesting parallell Takeshi, nice observation. Are you Hungarian by any chance? your last name gives it away. (i am).

Oh cool thanks, I read the plot sounds very original. Saving our personalities and memories to a file..

@Ruhanya: …burning with fires of Orc. I love it…William Blake…and of course Roy Batty. Whatever Marc Streitenfold is doing with this score…I hope he can capture some of the dark, atmospheric mood that Jerry Goldsmith did in the original ALIEN. He has to make it his own…as Goldsmith did, but personally, I’d like to hear some cues that hearken back to howling and echoing tones that accompanied the loneliness of deep space, and the mysterious nature of the planetoid and derelict vessel. If he can do that…"this" Alien-phile will be quite pleased. Something befitting “Elizabeth Shaw and the Temple of Doom” or “The CREW Who Kicked the Space Jockey’s Nest.” ~N

The movie that left a huge mark on my soul, (after Alien because thats number one) is Contact. I think because of how it takes place in the present (at that time but doesnt matter) and combines that with this ultimate discovery we've been waiting for, in a believable way that we directl relate to. I think the number of times I saw Contact equals with Alien.

I listen to so much score music so understandably I love a lot.......Mine would be; Duck, You Sucker- Morricone Orca- Morricone Once Upon a Time in the West- Morricone Deep Red- Goblin Suspiria- Goblin The Beyond- Fabio Frizzi Let The Right One In-Johan Söderqvist Martyrs- Sepukku Paradigm The Outer Limits (TV Series)- Dominique Frontier A Name For Evil- Dominique Frontier King Kong(1976)- John Barry Dances WIth Wolves-John Barry El Topo- Alejandro Jodorowsky I guess that is it for what I can think off of the top of my head.

Fifth Element!

Yes good work SSgt certanly looks like a corpse or fossil maybe. I wonder will it be clearer in print?

Interesting. Does the David/robot have a receeding hairline?