GuestNovember 24, 2011Ok, here's my take on the final 8mins…make that 15 lol
The story so far has involved Fassbender furtively implating/poisoning crew with primordial goo - this has instigated a process of metamorphosis, turning crew into various beasts and killing one another.
Theron, Fassbender and Rapace are the last survivors. Rapace while retriving what equipment remains, overhears Fassbender discuss his experiments with Theron. They've both been in on the act. Theron reveals herself to be non-human, she's a replicant. The finest model yet since the takeover of Tyrell Corp by Weyland Yutani. She's been sent to monitor Fassbender whose android model has been known to have "unreliability" issues. She revels in the fact she's a superior design, the future of synthetics. Fassbender is in admiration. They reveal the crew were always intended as guinea pigs for research purposes and video data has been streamed continually back to earth in preparation for their return.
Rapace on learning this attacks them both, but fais to kill them. They leave her stranded in the Jockey Ship, escaping the planet aboard the Prometheus.
As they enter space, ships captain Idris Elba who was thought to have been killed, reappears as a sub-human beast. A stunned Theron and Fassbender are subsequently torn apart. Theron's torso, spraying uncontrollably with white fluid, tries to set the ship into auto pilot, but it's too late. Elba's beast roars defiantly as the ship crashes back into the stratosphere and disintegrates.
Rapace meanwhile, triggers her own personal distress beacon, then sets about trying to find some way off the planet. "It's a ship, there must be a way to fly this thing." She enters another room, this time empty of ampules, and instead of a giant human head facing her, this time a recognisable giant carving of the xenomorph "dome". Above it, an empty plateau with an ancient control panel. She clambers up, and somehow triggers the device. A jockeys seat is revealed from beneath the floor. It looks like a pilots chair….Rapace walks to the seat…but as she does so, horrifically begins a process of metamorphosis. She screams at the bewildering terror of this, bones breaking into beast like form, possessed by the will of the creature she's becoming. She staggers into the chair, tears falling from her now black filled pupils. The chair activates and envelops her in a bio-mechanical exoskeleton. A pipe is fed into her mouth and she commences a regulated breathing process. She is no longer human. Suddenly an egg is fired into the new creature, her eyes widen as it is forced through the breathing apparatus. There is a stillness, a quiet. The "gun" stem activates and fires a monitoring beam into the creatures chest. It is stimulating the implanted egg, accelerating the growth process.
Then out of the silence, the sound of ribs cracking, a final scream from Rapace that merges into the searing screeches of a new creation - tearing out of her chest, an Alien Queen! This was not a pilots seat, but a host chair!
Again a brief stillness, the giant queen, slithers from her host, rises from her trembling newborn legs, walks onto the plateau and begins laying eggs…
Time passes, we see a chamber filled with alien eggs. A blue light field suddenly beams across the floor, monitoring the eggs stasis. Cut to a shot of the ships hull as the light crosses - we see a brief glimpse of the Queens now dead body, fused to the inner wall, like a work of art, at one with the ship.
Cut to Rapace's now dusted beacon, it's tiny screen flickers into life. The cursor flashes…."Distress signal received. Rescue party dispatched…SS. Nostromo".
Anyway you get the gist…Probably more than 8mins there and nothing like what Ridley has in store…enjoyed speculating tho haha :)
