pretty much confirms old Weyland is along for the ride

Ah! Nice! Is that why they are going at the Jockeys' hardware... Could Prometheus be... a second contact?

I don't think ye olde Weyland would have been satisfied with anything as incomplete as immortality. Nope, becoming a god would be more like it. Crazy old wildcard geezer. It seemed pretty obvious Weyland was along for the ride, as soon as we saw a frail astronaut - it doesn't exactly pay to crew your top-of-the-line spaceship with frail old folks. But thanks for proving it!

Awesome!!!

ricky gervais in the middle innit

"It seemed pretty obvious Weyland was along for the ride, as soon as we saw a frail astronaut - it doesn't exactly pay to crew your top-of-the-line spaceship with frail old folks. But thanks for proving it!" That's why Scott said he didn't want to say whether or not Guy Peirce would appear later in the film because it would touch to the plot... ref: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=610TmUyGwJ8

i'm not 100% convinced yet, has a mark in the same place on left cheek as the prematurely aged holloway

this was discussed before. people were almost certain its Weyland. He's also sitting in a wheel chair in a later scene when Shaw comes back to the crew from surgery...

Well spotted sure looks like him

see i knew it...Ive been saying this for a while now i saw a production still with guy pearce in a space suit with the helemt off speaking with ridley scott and i looked all over for it but couldnt find it...but yeah weylend is on the trip and he doesnt look old at all

silica, this is correct, the scenes with an old man in a wheelchair and standing with a cane have been online for weeks, and I've always believed it to be Weyland, but there have always been doubters. IMO there hasn't been a pic (that I've seen anyway) that puts it to bed like this one.

Well that Answers my question that I had about the corporate timeline in the viral weyland site paid no homage to sir Peter's passing. It stops mentioning him at some point all together, an usually when corporate founders die, their companies add that to their timelines and such. So if he was in his thirties at the time of the 2023 TED talks, how il is he in the film! Has he aged past the average lifespan??

I think you're right. The two mercenaries are there as his personal bodyguards.

People also guessed that this would mean there are two sets of crew: the science crew and the 'bodyguards' for Weyland. Hence you see a bunch of guys with weapons escorting him.

Shadow - the viral site's Investor Info Page says right up top *average* life expectancy for Weyland employees is 95. Wouldn't that jibe with Weyland's age in the movie?

Hi,I am new on here so please cut me some slack. I am a massive fan of Alien and have been getting very excited ever since I heard that Ridley Scott was going back to a genre he created and owned. I am of the opion that weyand has stolen something from the SJ before and is back for a second time. He may look old and frail but he sure does resemble IMO an Alien (very long arms and strange hands) Having stollen from SJ before to potienally live longer -could he now be turning into something and is back to try and get a cure ? By doing this it has disastrous consequences for him and the crew and possibly all mankind! Just a thought .....

fair nuff....production shot was not Pearce though, talking to Scott minus helmet, it was rafe spall

The Weylandindustries " time line does "hint" or confirms "He"-Weyland anticipates to visit the sites" in question, The " area to be utilized or colonized! Scott also said at AMC reveal that G Pierce is in the film for more than 5 minutes! Yes thats him and those are his bodyguards, and that poor sap is 20 light years from a nursing home!

@ Jim Yeah possibly, I just didn't have a handy calculator to do the math at the time I posted that. Was walking home from coffee at the mall, and reding this site on the phone. Sure the phone has a calculator, but that would mean too much app flipping and data searching while walking. Only so much multi-tasking I am capable of doing at the time! So lets put my question to rest now: Date of birth: October 1, 1990 Prometheus Date: , 2085 -------------- Age at time 95 There! Now that I had a regular browser at my disposal and a calculator we get the answer to my question. So yes by Weyland Industries Corporate Expected Lifespan it is possible for the old geezer to be present in the film lol.

Originally I was thinking he was going to be become the SJ, I saw him in the trailer and the situation from the clip gives me the impression he shows up after the Prometheus crew find the pyramid and the urns. Once David discovers the secrets of their contents I believe he notifies Weyland who was probably shortly behind them in another ship. The guys with guns probably seize control of the situation to allow him to retrieve his prize. I believe he believes whatever they find may be the key to his longevity. This is speculation but it makes sense. Weyland has already indicated he considers himself a god and a god must live forever. I also believe his end is not pleasant, hence the title for the movie. In the original Alien movie from a deleted scene added to the directors cut. Dallas and Brett are being turned into eggs. I know this scene was intended to be part of the story from before filming started because the scene was part of Sigourney Weavers test scenes. I still think he is due a fate worthy of his hubris.

Which trailer is this shot in?

I just went through all three and the IMAX trailer is the only one with a comparable angle....not sure it produces that pic though...

Frame stepped through all the trailers I can think of including the IMAX but can't find that particular shot.

Yeah..like I said...best look, but not quite it....

Try TV Spot 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AZ-ADd1-hs

Maybe, maybe...I don´t like it. "Evil corporation" was a novelty back in the seventies and still has its charms (given the 2008 debacle), but the "mad scientist" trope is too much backwards. But...why these guys are wearing their helmets inside Prometheus? Lack of atmosphere or fear of contamination?

It's almost looking photoshoped to me now but I sware I did see something like it somewhere... I am looking for an explanation not confirmation. The face of the guy in the clips I have looks different. I am starting to think that two old men come through that door.

they're wearing helmets because they're walking out into the cargo bay

Thanks silica that was it!

So these are all the same guy? [img]http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/7324063/img/prometheus/oldman.png[/img] [img]http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/7884123/img/prometheus/weylandold.png[/img] [img]http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/7856506/img/prometheus/oldman.png[/img] [img]http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/7324069/img/prometheus/Wheelchairman.png[/img]

Biomechanic, I believe so. And another still photo you missed. One of the man jumping in mid- air onto Shaw. That's him too, I think...

The first 2 pictures I posted might be the same guy and the last 2 might be the same guy but I am not convinced they are all the same guy. I also think mowhawk mutant guy is a whole other ball of wax. I do think this new picture looks like Weyland though.

The guy painting Weyland's toenails in the fourth pic - his henchman. Isn't that guy the closest shooting bodyguard to Weyland in the other pic? Agree mohawk has got to be Fifield or someone else...

The guy painting his toenails is David and I think they are using whiteout. Old man Weyland is the future's Howard Hughes.

@Biomechanic. Haha, yeah, true. (There are jars of all kinds of saved things on alien ship too, re: HH) But I meant the other guy next to David and the wheelchair, the guy with the tuff buzz cut. He's the shooter in the pic above.

His medicine cabinet is actually scarier than anything found in the temple. Yeah I don't know who buzz cut guy is I guess it could be that hired goon.

Hey, I had not seen that, so that does explain a lot, after all the beginning when they talk about a King, it is pretty obvious that Weyland is that King, as he has an empire and he is obviously about to bite it. He probably is going to try and steal from the Space Jockeys materials that will prolong his life and basically it blows up in everyone's faces. Maybe Weyland becomes a SJ and is the one in the Seat at the end and its his dead corpse we see in Alien, that would be funny

That jumping guy is the one wearing flower motif uniform.

I'm willing to bet the old guy is Mr. Weyland, and I still think that somehow he becomes the Space Jockey we've seen in the trailer (sans the suit, since we all know it's part of the chair or something). Just one question, though.......why are they painting his toenails? Does he want to look pretty when he becomes a god? Or is it just some health-related thing (apparently, toe-nail painting is implemented for health reasons based on something related to some toe-nail infection or something)?

THE OLD GUY IS HOLLOWAY! Zoom in on this [url=http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/7863160/img/PrometheusImax/vlcsnap-2012-03-23-09h31m15s107.png]pic[/url] and you can see name on bonet of an aging Holloway with same scar on cheek. http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/7863160/img/PrometheusImax/vlcsnap-2012-03-23-09h31m15s107.png

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.