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MemberOvomorph10/5/2011PROMETHEUS
CAST
Elizabeth Shaw...Noomi Rapace
Rayden Holloway...Logan Marshall-Green
Meredith Vickers...Charlize Theron
David 4.0...Michael Fassbender
Jeremiah Janek...Idris Elba
Theo Zedmore...Guy Pearce
Logan...Ben Foster
Ravel...Benedict Wong
Chance...Emun Elliot
Mudow...Kate Dickie
Yuri...Rafe Spall
Aldrich...Frank Kelly
Francis...Sean Harris
Siena...Tal Berkovich
Lettap...James Payton
Tembrook...Tuppence Middleton
Earth. The beginnings of our world. In an opening montage, we watch as our primordial planet is terraformed and bioformed by seemingly all-powerful, Godlike alien entities…the ENGINEERS. The seeds of life are introduced to Earth for the first time by these fantastic extra-terrestrials, who have the power to create and manipulate both mechanical and biological matter at will. The montage ends as the earliest genetic recipe for life is sent forth from the Engineers’ massive, towering CITADEL in the dark desert.
The desolate desert of Africa: 2085. The prehistoric ruins of the Engineers’ Citadel is discovered by a corporate construction team tasked with building a nuclear-powered comm-array in the wilderness. Amidst the ancient remains are found highly advanced, biomechanical relics with are determined to be of extra-terrestrial origin. This catches the attention of the mega-conglomerate WEYLAND-YUTANI CORPOTATION, who finances a massive archaeological excavation of the citadel in the hopes of reverse-engineering the alien biotech for financial gain. Running the operation is MEREDITH VICKERS, a cold, calculating corporate executive, who recruits intelligent and independent astrophysicist DR. ELIZABETH SHAW to head up the research team. Assisting Dr. Shaw are xenoarchaeologist DR. THEO ZEDMORE and her fellow astrophysicist DR. LOGAN. Shaw uncovers the secret of the citadel when she discovers a chamber of star charts, which seem to lead the way to the home planet of the Engineers. Also uncovered is evidence suggesting that the Engineers had a database of all life on Earth, and may even have been responsible for its creation including Man.
In a partially-submerged MANHATTAN, Vickers meets with Dr. Shaw and an OPO, (Off-Planet-Officer), CAPTAIN JERAMIAH JANEK, and plans a space mission following the discovered star charts in an effort to find and make first contact with the Engineers. For the scientists and explorers onboard, it will be a journey of discovery, but for Vickers, it’s merely a way of obtaining new technology so that Weyland-Yutani may retain the lead in the competitive race to establish colonies off-world.
The depths of space: 2090. A highly-advanced, top-of-the-line ISRV (Interstellar Research Vessel) PROMETHEUS decelerates as it reaches its target solar system. The vessel’s crew emerges from their cryo-chambers. Along with Elizabeth Shaw, Theo Zedmore, Logan, Meredith Vickers, and Captain Janek, the crew of the Prometheus is comprised of: First Officer MUDOW, Security Officer RAYDEN HOLLOWAY, Navigator CHANCE, Helm Officer RAVEL, Operations Android DAVID 4.0, Political Officer ALDRICH, Medical Officer FRANCIS, Engineer YURI, and Technical Officers SIENA, LETTUP, and TEMBROOK. The crew gets acclimated to their removal from cryo-sleep, their muscles in atrophy from five years without use. Holloway assists Shaw in her physical therapy exercises.
The crew prepares for arrival at the home planet of the Engineers. Shaw and Holloway are instantly attracted to each other, initiating a romantic relationship. However, as they enter the Zeta 2 Reticuli star system, Prometheus encounters a massive disturbance which hadn’t appeared on scanners, one even more powerful than a black hole: a wormhole in space. Prometheus is sucked into the wormhole, and after a harrowing ride, emerges on the other end. The ship crashes on a barren planet, which the damaged computer system identifies as the mission’s final destination.
The crew sets about attempting to repair the Prometheus, while Elizabeth Shaw leads a recon expedition to investigate nearby structures, which turn out to be a cavernous Engineer temple. Inside the temple, Shaw’s team encounters a bizarre BIO-BRAIN, a biomechanical humanoid face set within a towering pillar, as well as thousands of seemingly primitive URNS. David takes several of the urns back to the vessel for analysis.
Investigating the urns, David discovers that they contain the genetic material for thousands of species within a viscous liquid called BIOFORMER which can rewrite any living organism on a cellular level. Basically, possession of the substance gives its owner the power to create life. Vickers interacts with David and seemingly innocently leads to the Bioformer infecting David through a cut in his finger.
Within the depths of the Temple, we find several living Engineers who discover the transgression of the Humans, and remotely rewrite the stolen Bioformer to make it into a weapon. The Engineers capture Holloway and run a number of horrific experiments on him, injecting him with the Bioformer and allowing him to return to the vessel.
Subsequently, the crew of the Prometheus begins to fall victim to the now weaponized substance, as the “carrier” Holloway injects Ravel, Zedmore, Francis, Siena, Lettup, and Tembrook. The victims begin to lose their humanity and slowly transform, experiencing nightmarish visions and hallucinations and making pilgrimages to the depths of the Temple to receive instructions from the Bio-Brain. Holloway, in particular, is resistant to the transformation, fighting against the alien influence with his feelings for Shaw and his responsibilities as security officer. Meanwhile, David finds that the Bioformer is making him into a biological being…making him Human. The crew also finds that their trip through the wormhole took them back hundreds of millions of years and they are actually stranded on primordial Earth, having moved through space and time.
Eventually, as alien influence and the continued lurking presence of the Engineers becomes clear, the crew of the Prometheus turns on each other as the infected human victims fully mutate into PROTOFORMS: vicious, skeletal alien monstrosities which proceed to assault the unaffected Human crew through the halls of the Prometheus.
Mudow, Logan, Chance, Aldrich, Yuri, and Janek end up being destroyed by the Protoforms. In a strange, erotic ceremony, the Protoforms seemingly mate with the Bio-Brain and each other to create thousands of EGGS, the first of a new generation of the monsters. Meredith Vickers is revealed to be a sleeper CONSTRUCT of the Engineers, who are still active in their far future and Shaw’s present due to the time-travelling abilities of the wormhole. Vickers was grown in an Engineer lab but escaped, fleeing to Earth while always wanting to her find creators and take their power. The Engineers activate Vickers’ secondary GENE PROGRAMMING, and she transforms into an ALPHA PROTOFORM: the STAR BEAST.
At last, the two remaining crew members, Elizabeth Shaw and David, seek to confront the Engineers in the Temple. The Godlike entities prove to be utterly evil, and David sacrifices himself as he’s dissolved in the LIFE SEED BIOFORMER which is the basic genetic recipe for MAN: the former android David, it turns out, is the basis for all Mankind. Shaw is captured by Holloway, but he regains enough of his humanity to remotely activate an Engineer vessel for Shaw’s escape, then holds the other Protoforms and Engineers at bay. As Shaw escapes, she finds herself in the midst of the initial Engineer terraforming of Earth which we had witnessed in the opening montage, chased by the former Meredith Vickers who is now the gigantic, horrific Star Beast.
Shaw makes to her escape vessel which blasts off for the wormhole, Holloway fighting the Star Beast with both falling into the wormhole and disappearing. An Engineer PILOT detaches from the Temple in a FAMILIAR VESSEL and follows Shaw, but is lost in the wormhole. Shaw emerges above the Earth of her present day; however, she’s deemed insane and responsible for the loss of her expedition and confined to a psychiatric hospital by the Company. It’s implied that there are at least some of those who believe Shaw’s tale, but have silenced her as part of a cover-up.
In the final scene, we see the vessel of the Engineer that was chasing Elizabeth Shaw emerge from the wormhole in the Zeta 2 Reticuli star system, still in the prehistoric past, and crash on a nearby planetoid, the Engineer Pilot helplessly lost and the EGGS in the ship’s cargo hold stirring as something alive moves from within…
The Beginning
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Frantz
MemberOvomorph10/5/2011its a great work RHunter !! 5 stars , but i will be disappointed if that would be the real plot ...things i dont like in your EXCELLENT work
1) it have a clear main character , they will try to avoid that
2) too many things togheter , creation of life , space travel , dna mixture , androids , romance , eroticism , the corporation etc etc
i FEAR btw that you will not be far from reality

Xenotron
MemberOvomorph10/5/2011Again, why are you [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/126]assuming human to alien mutation?[/url] There's no evidence for it anywhere. I'm starting to get a little annoyed by this theory.
I wouldn't worry too much about the accuracy of this theory. It's much too specific for something that is currently an enigma wrapped in a mystery. No one knows what the plot entails.

Mentos
MemberOvomorph10/5/2011Where abouts on IMDB? Its not listed under the Prometheus plot synopsis. Its a pretty cool idea though (bar the bit in Manhattan.)

Xenotron
MemberOvomorph10/5/2011IMDB is good for future movie cast lists, but be careful with some of the plot synopses. The plot synopsis there contains a lot of speculation and was written by someone named "bjblackmore". Make sure to check your sources.

RHunter
MemberOvomorph10/5/2011It was claimed to originate from IMDB where I got it from. It is a cool synopses when you relate some key points to the Prometheus stills from Comic Con. Like I asked myself why in the pics did the SJ planet or civilization look in one pick like ruins, and in others crew members are carrying flash lights around like the place had been vacated. You think SJ advanced civilization and humans land without contact and snoop with flash lights, so the worm hole idea going back to the terraforming of earth added up to me from the way things looked visually unless the SJ are hiding out in a savage way but they are scientists and engineers. And we have been told Theron's character Vickers is there for other reasons and as each layer is peeled from her there something else...well maybe she may be a sleeper alien waiting to be activated...lol. The thing I don't get is why would a being that's so capable of being uncivilized and ruthless have a flip side to create us. We as are supposed Gods have an obsession with creation too via robot, replicant. In this Universe a lot makes sense for the fiction of things as disturbing as some of it might be.

Xenotron
MemberOvomorph10/5/2011I have my personal theories about a ruthless and uncivilized alien race having a flip side and creating us.
What if only one of the aliens created us and his name was "Prometheus"? What if the aliens don't agree with each other?

Mentos
MemberOvomorph10/6/2011Hate to say it but this 'plot' matches some of details we've heard about the film already:
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[*]- Noomi Rapace's description of her Character growing up in Africa
[*]- The supposed 'Desert' seen in the trailer screening
[*]- The giant head we've seen
[*]- The 'beginning' of the film is shot in Iceland (It takes place on LV426)
[*]- We've seen pictures of the wall markings (from the comic con screenies) in what could have been a temple. It definitely looked like it was on LV426
[*]- [b]EDIT[/b] Also: we've seen a picture of 'smashed up' part of a space ship (lending credence to the crash)
[*]- [b]AND[/b] we see Fassbender cry in the comic con footage - is he becoming human? (Its also speculated that the green goo/grey matter on his finger is actually a drop of blood)
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This definitely hits the mark in relation to some of the stuff we already know :S

Apollo
MemberOvomorph10/6/2011What a pleasure to read, however I am sure Ridley has a vision where he wants to make more movies even a trilogy. What you have done is put a whole beginning, missle and end to the synopisis so I am not sure this would happen but what a great vision of a movie, got me intrigued just reading it and not many things do that. Also i have to agree, why does everyone think about this mutation idea i am not so sure about it. There isn o real avidence to support it.

tar
MemberOvomorph10/6/2011I think most of this could be true. I hope alot of the story we never hear about until we actually watch the film. That would kill the film for me if I ever knew the entire thing.

RHunter
MemberOvomorph10/9/2011I agree, it would kill the film. Waiting until June 8, 2012 is killing me too.

Predatordreads
MemberOvomorph10/9/2011This is pretty cool! VERY DARK! Welcome back to science fiction Ridley Scott! If this is the way Prometheus plays out then I will be pretty stoked. Its bizzare, twisted and scary and gives that felling of being stranded. I hope this is something thay will spawn to more movies, comics, just an new universe for the space jockeys. This almost sounds like Pandorum but value size.

StarbeastEngineer0001
MemberOvomorph10/24/2011From what Rhunter describes, Ridley Scott's announcement, and other considerations (notably, Erich von Daniken's "Chariots of the Gods"), we can assume that this is a film about ancient astronauts and their encounter with the Weylan Corporation explorers before merging with Yutani Industries in order to acquire a Xenomorph specimen. Based off of the urns with "goo" , the heiroglyphs, underground chambers, and the mutation in the Comic-Con footage-it seems that the Space Jockey race are revered as Holy Engineers and Gods- that helped advance the human race to greater levels, but with a more darker and mysterious twist.
Here's how I put it:
[i]Millions and Millions of years ago, a most superb, intelligent, creative, and domineering race swept the galaxy. Explorers. Engineers. Gods. Having the potential to blossom space with the beauty of life, they set about to reap the benefits of their creations. But from great deeds came great consequence...their own creations, their "children" became uncontrollable, uncontained. It wasn't long before they became threatened themselves...and vanished into the hourglass of time...but not forever[/i]
A Ridley Scott Film
P R O M E T H E U S
Summer 2012
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