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I love that even back then, that far back, there were already little tiny "DNA fragments" of Prometheus already bubbling! Amazing Post Man, Than You Very Much For That...Simply Amazing !!!

That has reminded me of something else. In the Alien 3 novel, the very last words are, "This is Ripley, last surviving member of the Nostromo, signing off" If i remember correctly, it was a transmission picked up by the shuttle console thingy where Ripley got Aaron to scan her and they found the Queen embryo. Now how could the shuttle have picked up a transmission that was something like 60-100 years old? (i'm not sure of the exact timeframe between the end of Alien when the transmission was sent out and the end of Alien 3 when it was picked up) I could be totally falling down the rabbit hole here but an interesting thought none the less.

we do not know how long she was in space for and adrift again, so maybe the transmission was just replaying itself inside a broken shuttle a long long time after it was first picked up by it. we were never given a time frame for how long Newt and Hicks and Ripley were up there this time.

I know that Burke tells Ripley in Aliens that she was in hypersleep for 57 years. All this business about transmissions and distress signals has got me thinking, I dont think Ripley, Newt & Hicks crashed on Fiorina Fury 161 by accident, I think they were sent there somehow by Weyland Yutani. And how the company get to Fiorina so quickly? I hope Ridley Scott decides to do Alien 5, it would hopefully answer questions that Prometheus cant.

I have obtained a free copy of that Novel Online. Thanks to You ShadowCaster. I am most greatful. Cannot wait to read the whole thing now!!!

You are most welcome. As soon as I read it I was like "Whoa wait a minute"! Then I ran to the scanner and prepped the scan. I am very happy that this has spiked your interest and that it has possibly tied some of the stuff together a bit. Now only time will tell!!

Yeah looks cool. But there's no neon light!

Sweet post. That set looks awesome!

Brilliant! Have you seen this one? Never fails to make me laugh. [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biXXh8XJHcE[/url]

Damn . Missed it..

@ Krak Fox Personally yours is my favourite fan made poster by far. OT - Are you a Mighty Boosh fan?

it's still not working for me...get a long paragraph mentioning something about registering which I did a long time ago...I just chimed in because I thought someone should mention it, it is NOT in fact working, for me at least, please check it again, thank you.

the king of graphic novels can only be FROM HELL don't be fooled or put off by the film from reading this masterpiece.

That is a very cool observation ra_quami. I am not adverse to time travel being in this movie if done well.

It's obviously tub-girl

Defenitely the SJ head or helmet you can determine the shape. If it's an egg who is laying the egg. This thing is not suppost to be Alien driven until the last 8 minutes. So no xenos or eggs till very late in the movie and by then you would expect most of the crew to be history.

You're right, case in point is to watch the teaser trailer for Episode 1 for Star Wars and then watch the movie...

I sure hope the actual soundtrack score will match up to the atmospheric tone set by the music used during the 'leaked' 1st teaser... It's up there with some of the best trailers ever, and we haven't even seen it properly yet!

That's true Spartacus, a good score can really heighten the scare factor. This particular music seems to be the antithesis of what everybody was expecting, me included, (low key) and is very threatening, intense and powerful implying a literally hard-hitting, violent premise. Wether this premise is indeed set in the trailer and will play out in the film and 'scare the living s*** out of us' remains to be seen.

ZetaReticuli, I'm still humming it during the day to myself whenever I think of the film. "Whoooomp, 2, 3, 4, Whoooomp, 2, 3, 4, Whoooomp, 2, 3, 4, Whoooomp" That soundtrack was "Mad Sick Good" !

Ok, this is an easy one. Which crew member on the Nostromo had a stroke? Regards, Rick

I always thought too that Labert was interferred with possibly raped. This would fit in with some of Gigers work if you look carefully at it. Also I read somewhere that the original plot in Alien was all based around Alien regeneration not eggs and that it was Cameron introduced the egg concept. If this is the case there will be no eggs to be sceen in prometheus. This would mean some pretty gruesome scenes which Scott has hinted at.

Hi micro I agree with everything you said there except about the eggs. Firstly, I want to say I am not biased and it makes no difference really if eggs exist or not. I didn't think we would see eggs when I first heard about the movie but I think we are seeing evidence there are eggs in the leaked/official pics. However, there does not need to be a queen for there to be eggs, Eggs were in the original Alien and the originally idea was that the xenomorphs turned certain victims into eggs as part of the alien life cycle. Ridely restored the concept when he added back the deleted scene where Dallas is being turned into an egg in the directors cut release. I think the idea of a queen is going to be quietly undermined because it wasn't the original intention of the originators.

Thinking about it maybe you're right, maybe "eggs" is the wrong term for what they are. Were they called eggs before Cameron's movie? I guess Dallas was being made into a spore sac. The spore being a facehugger. Ha but I won't dare even try to convince the queen's loyal subjects that there are no eggs in alien just spore sacs.

Well as Xenos dont actually need to have sex to reproduce I dont see how or why an Alien would need/want to have sex with a human woman anyhow... The scene in Alien simply shows its tail moving up between Lamberts legs then cut with screams and her face in pain then her body is found in a strange possition after having been killed. There is only a suggestion of sex because of the time in which the Alien takes and the method it uses in toying with her and ultimately killing her. Perhaps cocooning can only take place once or twice per Alien and once say two humans have been cocooned the Alien simply waits and kills for the joy of it. Who knows, its another Alien mystery.....

I think it will spawn an extended universe weather intentional or not. I also think a lot of hard core fans of say Aliens and Alien vs Predator are going to be stark raving mad about how this film rewrites the alien universe. I am not sure there will be sequels to this but maybe prequels.

I'll go with the second prequal. All the hints are there. Two many questions to be answered here considering only the last 8 minutes will be linked to Alien. For me the whole question of how WYC knows so much about the derelict on lv462 is to be answered. I dont think this can be done in the last few minutes of the movie. Unless of course the second android we know nothing about is Ash or a first edition Ash android

Hey Bio, I am apt to think there will be a parallel story line to the original taking us on a different course from the original franchise. They did say a whole new grand mythos of the Alien Universe. This would be the way to do it while not detracting from anything that was previously made. Just my idea though, and I could be completely wrong. Regards, Rick

I think it would be wise for the film to not fit too closely to the Alien franchise, as it could potentially turn off many would-be movie-goers. Probably better to do a loosely tied Alien film, in order to appease the hard core fans, as well as garnering more fans through an original story. Not to mention the PG-13 rating that Ridley Scott is aiming for.

Remember there are two androids in the movie one we know is David. If the other is a plant by WYC similar to Alien, although I'd doubt Scott would repeat this plot idea, then there could be interference by the android in the Engineers process for human evolution resulting in a boi mech being. Will David be similar to Ash or a much more basic robot/andriod in this movie? Or will he evolve into a monster?

well drones and robots set aside....their definitely is a huge similarity between the Jockeys and Xeno's( as BellaLikesAliens already mentioned)...a jockey to me is a bigger more intelligent xeno with a different shaped head...seriously if u look at the original jockey from alien....its anatomy is very similar to that of a xeno...the arms and legs and torso are nearly identical...just a different head and no tail....actually the jockey is seated...so it might even have a tail for all we know...they definitely share dna ...it looks like they where molded from the same clay..... thats just my humble little opinion...don't really care if anyone agrees or disagrees...just my 2c's worth!....actually wait ...no!....it would be nice if someone agreed!...lol

It's Giger's artistic style that makes them similar but whether the writers decide to use the similarity as part of the mythology or or not is yet to be determined.

jes we must bear in mind that Giger's artistic style had to be very consistent...the caves the xeno's and the space jockey.....a xeno can quite literally camouflage itself within the cave walls....it would be silly if they deviated to much from the original footage of the jockey carcass....that would really break any existing ties to the original masterpiece from 1979.

my error ....the 2 guys are listed as "mechanics" now and not "Engineers" maybe are just really part of the crew ...who knows !!!!

Hmmm...that's strange, as it was included amongst a few other 'Prometheus' stills at this link here - http://area51comics.com/2011/07/21/prometheus-movie-still/ I'll edit it out of my previous post if you or anyone else says what movie it's actually from then, as I don't recognise it... Thanks for embedding those links Bughunter, and nice effort on that mock-up Krak Fox.

Cervantes - The woman in the white spacesuit is not from Prometheus, its from a different film!

@ Cervantes - here's my recent poster effort: [img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/336/b/c/prometheus_poster_by_krak_fox-d4hxnxr.jpg[/img]

its from a tv documentary about science fiction ..there are other photos of that woman ( that is not rapace ) dressing for the show ...btw is not prometheus

An actual high quality trailer to scrutinize will be fun!

Thanks for the further clarification Frantz, and I wonder what that 'sci-fi' tv documentary was called... I also wonder why that spacesuit shot was included amongst the other 'Prometheus'-related shots on that site? Anyway, I've removed it from my first post above to avoid confusion.