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MemberOvomorph12/10/2011From Prometheus News.net.
‘I’m running around in underwear’ – Naomi on Prometheus
Posted December 10, 2011
by Jonesy
In a recent interview with the New York Times, Naomi briefly mentioned Prometheus and gave a little more information out.
In June she will star as a scientist with a deep faith in God in Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus,” his fiercely guarded science-fiction offshoot of “Alien” for which he cast her from their first meeting. “I didn’t tell her but decided she would be the female lead in ‘Prometheus,’ ” he wrote in an e-mail. “My first impression was how different she was from the person in ‘Dragon.’ I realized here was a great actress. The real thing.” Directing her, he added, was one of the best experiences he has had. “It’s my first big American movie in which she’s the heart,” Ms. Rapace said of her character, Elizabeth Shaw. “She’s the one you follow to the end.” Ms. Rapace’s unwillingness to shrink from physical torment — “In some scenes, I’m running around in underwear, doing things that are quite hard core,” she said of Elizabeth
Sounds a little like Ripley.
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or if that stops working....
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/movies/noomi-rapace-the-girl-past-the-dragon-tattoo.html?ref=movies
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Spartacus
MemberOvomorph12/11/2011I typed THIS into google just now..
"Ridley Scott on Upliftng Endings"
What I discovered is that on just about every film he put out that had one, it was ONLY after the Studios forced him to.
They did it for Blade Runner and did it for Legend and he even said he wanted things to end differently for Thelma and Louise, who although triumph, they do it by Killing themselves and that's still pretty Bleak if you ask me.
My point is he never wants to end things that way, but it is rather the studios that do and force their directors to.
He is a brilliant and wise director though, one of the best out there all time, and if it makes sense I would welcome such an ending with open arms...and there's one last thing...
I feel you hit on something very important here, and it might help him to have a message of Hope for Humanity at the end of this thing, heck it might even help it's box office...if it can be done in a away that makes sense fits the films flow, and more importantly just plain works.

Frantz
MemberOvomorph12/11/2011Ok just two things ( of course can go the way you say ...its just my opinion )
1) Ridley scott give always some sort of "payback" in his stories ..in gladiator the hero die yes but he win and there is the afterlife shoot and all the rest ..so there is a big payback ...the same with blade runner ...a total bleak movie with a surprisingly happy ending ...do you immagine "the duellists " with a bleak ending ? or Alien with a bleak ending ? that would have been really a rape for the viewer !!
the big payback in prometheus can be ( and i pretty sure will be ) the destruction of the bad guys even at the cost of all the crew . We know that space jockeys and the "aliens" are in pretty bad shape for the rest of the series ( in fact they are more the "survivors" than the humans )
2) Ridley scott is 74 ..is an age when you need "hope" ... you cant be depressed and bleak at that age ...you can act as a hard , sadic , cool guy when you are young but when you are older you have to go a bit deeper into things and at the end of things there is always one thing that remain ..hope in a good ending .There is hope in all his movies so i will be surprised that if wont happen now .

marty
MemberOvomorph12/11/2011Given the story or what many think the story to be..Engineers/gods/creators...maybe that gives a chance to have some uplifting ending? If prometheus is its own animal and its link to Alien is a subplot then yeah it may work to end on a happy note. But with some doubts..Im sure there is and maybe always was plans to continue the story in the Prometheus universe? So a happy ending with a way to continue it...

Spartacus
MemberOvomorph12/11/2011you guys raised some fantastic points, it could go either way for sure, or who knows, but I am inclined to think although he may leave it open to interpretation and so that he can make more of these, the end result of some of the Prometheus Crew Stealing even just 1 of them "Ampules", if that's what really happens, is going to resonate right through to the ending of this thing, and it will not be pretty or nice, it will be some sort of Wicked Nasty Thang !!!

Gavin
MemberTrilobite12/11/2011this green goo, or what the green goo results in is probably the new direction they have been talking about.

marty
MemberOvomorph12/11/2011I think its safe to say the Urns hold something important alright.... so many possibilities with this one...never mind where it could go!
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