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Spartacus
MemberOvomorph11/20/2011"I'M SO FA-KLEMPT"
I just received a twitter notification with regards to some potential new leaked Cam Footage from the upcoming official trailer...
Here is the link to the info I was twittered about.
You tell me. Copy and Paste and Discuss Amongst Yourselves,
I'll give you a topic, "Prometheus Is Coming"
[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v234/LT.HIGHTIMES/coffeetalk1.jpg[/img]
DISCUSS !!!
http://www.prometheusnews.net/movie/developing-news-trailer/
~Spartacus
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Mentos
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Hmm...that is quite a good observation Cain; and it does make sense if that is the case.
I'd explain how a creature/xeno ends up on the ship.
I'm quite curious about the very end of the clip where we see something moving inside of the woman. Didn't [b]Lindelof[/b] clearly state we wouldn't be seeing any chestbursters/facehuggers in this film?

Game_Over_Man
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Is there a new ships cat @ 8secs? Actually might be some cute alien creature :s
Is there room for cute in this film? lol

Mentos
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Haha that's exactly what I wondered. And is it just me or does it look like its being dragged down by something?

Game_Over_Man
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011[img]http://i1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa410/Ultramarine_99/SpaceCatThing.jpg[/img]
Wtf is this? lol
Remember the Speights bogus script that was floating about? - kinda hoping it's not a cat, mucha as I loved Jonesy :s

Mr.J
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Hey Mentos, it is someone removing a sheet or tarp of some sort it appears, I watched that alot of times and you can see a man in the background.

Mentos
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Possibly... although when the tentacle thing flicks at the end of the gif playing, it seems to get fatter; like a muscle changing shape with movement. Could you highlight the man for me? I can see some sort of shape but I can't make any distinct figure out.

Spartacus
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Hey "Game_Over_Man";
The Spaiths script you refer to turned out NOT to be bogus after all.
Scott has created a new script from the script Spaiths created originally and melded it to new ideas presented by Damon Lindelof to create it.
The credit in the film will read... "Written by Damon Lindelof and Jon Spaihts".
Just FYI.
This is important to me because every single person I spoke to who had read Spaiths script HATED IT...except for me...I Loved it, Lobbied for it, and insisted it would make a great film.
It is also my considered opinion that every single person who knocked it did so because they are IMO...Homophobic... and it had some homosexual scenes in it, where as I looked past all that, read it for what it was, and found it to be highly original and exciting in the possibilities it presented for a new film, including seeing the Xenomorph in it's original infant state and what that was exactly {a tiny sandy hole in the ground for those in the know} as well as a new race of creatures called "The Growers" whom I believe harvested the Xenomorphs originally and are a Race Of Space Jockeys... as it turns out I believe many of them, a boatload of Spaiths' ideas, have been filmed for the final product and I am proud that I stuck by it, I took a lot of heat for sticking with it but it would seem Ridley Scott agreed completely with me. Like I said, I haven't met one single person who liked that script other than me and Ridley Scott.

Biomechanic
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011I had looked at a couple of the clips that are being mentioned above but didn't see much:
[img]http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc389/bongobat/prometheuspillar.png[/img]
I first thought this was the profile of a helmet but now I just don't know. How are you guys seeing a cat here though?
[img]http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc389/bongobat/prometheustentacle.png[/img]
This fluid like tentacle scene fades into what I think is another dissolve between the man jumping and a body of water in the background:
[img]http://i1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc389/bongobat/prometheusjumpoceanandsmoke.png[/img]

Mr.J
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Hey Mentos..I dont have a screen freezing app but if you watch the trailer on youtube abd pause it just prior before we see the movement, you can make out a man in the center of the screen very faint because the lighting is really poor.
Spartcus,
I think so too but I also think Scott and Lindolf may have completely rewrote it like david Giler did for first Alien to O'bannon.

Mr.J
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Yeah, we need a hi res pict and depends on what is placed in the trailer for release. I t look like some one bouncing a sheet but I know I could be wrong. And I am watching the Alien Blu Ray Anthology right now, the behind the scenes and Scott loved the sex aspect out of it, I am with Spartcus with this, on some points but I think Scott will give us what we don't expect.

Mentos
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Haha when you print screen it like that Biomechanic you do have a point! Maybe I was a tad off with the 'cat' assumption, but it definitely looks like a living organism to me.
[b]*EDIT*[/b]
I re-watched the video...its definitely a cat!

Spartacus
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Cain1977 wrote;
"Spartcus,
I think so too but I also think Scott and Lindolf may have completely rewrote it like david Giler did for first Alien to O'bannon".
~Another Great Point man...and you may just be right there, either way I am most excited to see what they added/subtracted/melded to and how it all plays out in the end.
For me, there hasn't been one single film, ever I think, that created a bigger buzz as far as I was concerned or which was anticipated with as much vigor and excitement as this one is.
"2001; A Space Odyssey" was billed very strongly and I went to premier of it in NYC in 1968-69, but no one really knew what to expect and it was more curiosity than anything else that propelled people to go to the theater and see it.
When "The Exorcist" came out everyone who was going to see it just about had already read the fabulously popular novel, which I seemed to see everywhere at the time, in school, at work, on the streets, everywhere you went someone had the book in their hand and so we all lined up, for blocks and blocks and blocks, also out of curiosity, although for "The Exorcist" it was the morbid kind and wondering how the heck they could even film most of the scenes in that book.
When "Raiders of the Lost Arc" came out it was the allure of theater enhancements and gimicks like Surround and Sensurround and new Audio features enhancements in the theaters themselves that drove people to the theater, and rightly so, we all knew they were Lucas and Speilberg enhancements and so that lent instant credibility to the film itself, without having even seen it...and what a treat that film was at that time and I can still feel the giant ball rolling towards my face.
But I have never, in 50 years of loving and watching movies, seen as much of a buildup and sheer Buzz Of Anticipation anywhere near this far in advance of the release of any one film.
Knowing Scott, Giger "et al" are the good people responsible for it somehow makes the Buzz Itself Severely Credible on top of that.
It's like I am already looking forward to owning the DVD of this one...and I have never felt anything close to that before this far in advance of any film.
IMO, if it turns out to be as well received as we hope, I think in the end it may take a RIGHTEOUS place at the very echlon of Science Fictions All Time Greatest Films.

Mr.J
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011I agree, Alien was the first film I saw when I was younger and inspired me to be a writer and go into film making. I am already wanting the special edition of this and cant wait to see the behind the scenes and making of this film, from the script to the pre production, production and post. I just finished reading the harvest script and I can say that Scott and lindolf prob have rewritten a major part of it because in IMDB, Spaiths is listed on there. So, it will be rather interesting to see what they kept and what they created...

Biomechanic
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Here is a video with a little bit of contrast and brightnest adjustment and a sharpening filter applied I also slowed down the speed to 30 percent:
[url=http://s1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc389/bongobat/Fun%20on%20the%20Internet/?action=view¤t=prometheus.mp4]Slow Teaser[/url]
For some reason I can't get it to stream from photobucket but if you go to the upper left corner of the movie you can download it. It works here in VLC player but should work in most players.
EDIT: Now it seems to be streaming just fine for me, I had to turn off Ad Block Plus in firefox.

Mr.J
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Great job slowing down the frame rate and adding some brightness too it, somethings are clear as other will remain in the shroud mystery. Though my imagination is playing tricks with me, lol.

Biomechanic
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Hey Cain did you see the person in the spacesuit at 00:13 and a woman's head at 00:36? I am almost seeing a cat now too but I just dont know about that. I thought I saw cat ears like an over the shoulder shot near the end but I think you guy's are influencing me haha.

Mr.J
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Hahaha..I see the space suit. The cat though may be up for the footage lighting. It is creme in color but I can not tell whether it be a cat or some form of a alien who knows, lol. We now see a POV of the scanner coming toward the screen and then cutting to the woman in the scanner..which I am assuming our main character.

Spartacus
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011noticed some stuff in the version Biomechanic adjusted the frame rate on that was not noticeable at reg speed in the original.
Very "f'n" cool fellas.

Spartacus
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011and by the way,
Predatordreads wrote
On 11/20/2011
People you better check this out FOX WILL TAKE THIS DOWN! Spartacus in the fine words of Larry David prettay prettay prettay good stuff!
Funny stuff "Pred"
Larry David hahahaha
you must have read that post in which I used the expression...
Nothing can "Curb My Enthusiasm" for this film.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
I just got it
I am a Bonehead.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Game_Over_Man
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Hi Spartacus - I'm with you on the alleged "bogus" Spaihts script, I really liked it too, although I wasn't too into the cat being the host, I think that could've been dealt with more originally. But overall it was moving and brave. I think Lidelof was brought in to invigorate the action and bring the two storylines into greater unison.
My take on the film is that it's going to deal with metamorphosis, I saw a still from the ComicCon and there appeared to be a woman screaming, staggering out of a crew mess on what looked hind legs. I hope this scene exists, could be really horrific. I think this is where the horror is going to be prevalent, through gruesome metamorphosis :)

Mr.J
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011It's like gutting our your basement. I believe the Lindelof and Scott gutted the script entirely and went into a direction that will be talked about by all scifi an Alien fans. I can see the morphing happen, the Alien started out as something entirely or my guess is it got Human DNA intermixed and thus giving us our dangerous Alien....of course, I am letting my imagination roam freely but I guess we will see more when the trailer comes out.

Spartacus
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011I just re read this entire thread right up until and including those last 3 comments and I have goose bumps thinking about some of your comments and what if those idea's do actually come to happen in the film.
Just seeing everyone's contribution here is fun.
& what a subject eh...?...as us Canadians say...
"Prometheus"
...who it turns out...LOL...was a "NYMPH"...or is it "Clymene" that is the nymph I can never tell for sure...LOL....No wonder Scott called Giger again. lmao.
Them 2 "prolly" got a flashing red "Bat-Phone" set up between eachother's caves...lmfao...
(From European mythology)
Literal meaning: ‘forethought’. The Greek fire god and friend of mankind; the son of the Titan lapetus and Clymene, [size=200]a nymph[/size], and brother of Atlas, Menoetius, and Epimetheus. Hostile to Zeus, the sons of lapetus found their match in the wide-seeing sky god, though Prometheus himself gained a Pyrrhic victory by enduring torture and not revealing his secret knowledge of future events. He was aware that if Zeus had a child by the sea goddes. Thetis, their son would displace Zeus as chief of the gods. Zeus struck down ‘overweening’ Menoetius with lightning, obliged ‘stubborn’ Atlas to prop up the sky, gave disastrous Pandora to ‘foolish’ Epimetheus, and chained ‘subtle-counselled’ Prometheus on a rock, sending in the daytime an eagle to consume his immortal liver, which was restored each succeeding night. The hero Heracles may have released the suffering fire god, without the consent of the Olympian gods.
According to Hesiod, writing in the seventh century BC, there were five races, corresponding to the five ages of the world: these were the Golden, the contented subjects of Kronos; the short-lived Silver, who were made impious by Prometheus; the ferocious Bronze, unnamed devotees of Ares, warriors predestined for the underworld; the Heroic, their more honourable successors; and, finally, the Iron, whose members include Hesiod and ourselves. The iron race will not cease from grief and destruction till Zeus sweeps it away, like its four predecessors. The original abundance of the earth—from which mankind sprang—was withdrawn by Zeus after Prometheus had taught men to cheat the former of his due share of sacrifices. Also taken back was fire, an element indispensable for civilization. Prometheus dared to steal a flame, either from the workshop of Hephaistos or from the hearth of the gods on Mount Olympus, and Zeus retaliated by promising the creation of evil. This was Pandora, ‘all-gifted’, whom Hephaistos constructed at Zeus' request. Despite the warning of Prometheus about not accepting gifts, Epimetheus welcomed Pandora and her jug, from which issued ‘all the baneful cares of mankind’. Thereafter the division between mortals and immortals was clearly apparent.
Prometheus is an ambivalent figure. He contains two conflicting aspects of the divine helper: fire was his gift to mankind, in some tales even life itself; but the price of technological advance was the grief and destruction typical of the Iron Age. Two steps forward and one step back: compared with the Golden Age, perhaps three steps backwards. Yet Prometheus remains an appealing symbol, the personification of the unconquerable will opposing greater power, forever chained and suffering but confident of the ultimate triumph of his cause.
Man- The Possibilities for this thing are Just Endless!!!
~S.

Game_Over_Man
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011I've slowed the vid down and brightened the whole thing - can def see something jumping onto a human and egg/cylinder things behind broken glass near the end :s cat thing look more alien imo lol
[url=http://s1196.photobucket.com/albums/aa410/Ultramarine_99/?action=view¤t=Prom.mp4]Prom Trailer edit[/url]

Rick
MemberXenomorph11/21/2011Hey Fella's First chance I've had to dig into this. In Game_Over's Edit at :28-:29 seconds. You see the reflection of a pupil/iris and what you are seeing is through the visor of a helmet. Take into effect the lensing of the helmet (due to curvature and reflection) with the lighting you get really crazy a$$ effects. Can someone get some stills. Clean up the contrast, reduce the "fish eye" lensing effect and we might be able to make out more details.

Mr.J
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Hey Spartacus...I was taking a gander over at IMDB and something just availed to me, not all the actor's character's names are present, only a few names, mainly the ones that were mentioned at comic con and what IMDB shows...are the with holding the names because as you stated they are using part of spaiths script. Keeping the character names under wraps is something to ponder....if those names got out then it would confirm the use of his script or the base of the story you pondered about.
Cain

Rick
MemberXenomorph11/21/2011Spart,
You forgot one part of the tale regarding Pandora. She may have been created from Earth to punish us, but she was not our downfall. She unleashed all manor of hell but she kept Hope in the jar so that Hope would never be lost. She also only opened the jar out of curiosity not out of animosity towards us. With these opposites I can't help but keep going back to thinking that the Xeno is the flip side of us.

Mr.J
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Rick: Just as Ash explained why he admired the creature. The opposite of us, good point.

Rick
MemberXenomorph11/21/2011Game_Over,
What are the black lines? Also at :23 seconds you see something that looks biomechanical.
Rick

Game_Over_Man
MemberOvomorph11/21/2011Not sure about the lines - remind me of Mayan "landing strips" Remember Von Daniken is a big influence on this project according to Scott, so expect some kind of Mayan cultural references.
Actually, they predicted doom in 2012 - maybe this is what they were talking about?
23 looks like it's more robotic - possible a vehicle or chunkier loader type thing. Wouldn't surprise me if they brought more machinery into the battle - think about merchandising and how popular those things were after Aliens.
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