Ridley Scott talks Prometheus with Geoff Boucher

what an awesome interview! thanks! I really adored hearing about the storyboarding, would like to see them after Prometheus has started. I also can not wait for a new BladeRunner universe piece, really appreciated Geoff asking the question!

Excellent interview

listening this it really seems an Alien prequel huh ....

splendid stuff always a fascinating thing to listen to ridley

OUTSTANDING!!! Night rider, this is the best interview of Sir Ridley Scott I have seen any where period! Key words for me EVOLVED and VIRAL TIME BOMB? The mystery deepens. And not to mention clear confirmation that the Derelict on LV426 it's millions of years old, again dude just awesome.

And did anyone noticed the big honking red space suit in the room with the Weyland logo on it's chest piece?!! It's the same one from the trailer with a wounded Shaw crawling trough Prometheus' corridors.

@Knightrider ... Thanks for that ... was a sweet interview ... I have subscribed to that channel ... right up my street ... @Xeno ... Yeah lol ... I noticed that too ... but what a weird shape eh? ...

Very cool interview, great to see Ridley's thought process working in front of the camera. A visual memory is a fantastic tool.

I LOVED THIS INTERVIEW.....thanks so much NightRiderLoveProvider.....I'm fascinated by the way he talks about how his mind works, how he edits in his head as he goes along, writing in boards.........it's stuff like this that reminds me just why I love cinema, why it fascinates me so....

Great interview! I joined the forum site that the link sent me to, but everything there seems harder to read (I guess it is the black on white background).

WOW, I cannot believe you all saw that and no one mentioned the [b]MASSIVE REVEAL[/b] RIDLEY COMPLETELY GAVE TO US FOR FREE AND WE HAVE BEEN AGONIZING OVER IT FOR 33+ YEARS NOW HE SAID... "THE EGGS WERE ON THE DERELICT TO BEGIN WITH AND WERE BOMBER CARGO, SOMETHING GOT LOSE AND FORCED HIM, THE JOCKEY TO LAND AND THEN KILLED HIM FROM WITHIN HIMSELF." THUS ENDS A33+ YEAR DEBATE !!! THE EGGS WERE ALREADY ON BOARD THE DERELICT WHEN IT WAS FORCED TO LAND!!! THANKS RIDLEY, INCREDIBLE, AND THANKS "NightRiderLoveProvider" FOR POSTING THIS INTERVIEW WHAT A WONDERFUL THING TO FIND OUT DEFINITIVELY AND FINALLY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS!!!

cool interview, as an artist myself, i can relate to what Scott said about a canvas and...there is that hard-shelled copper colored suit again! not really digging the overall design, unless it has a specific reason for looking so awkward (maybe it modifies itself to the person wearing it...??) (as always) can't wait to see this film..!!!!

Agreed Spartacus.......

But ridley didnt always said that to him the space jockey's ship was a sort of a bomber ( and the eggs of course the bombs ) ?

He does, watch it again halfway through...in fact he says this was "always" his position on it.

So he just repeat what he always said .... he just add that things about crashing/forced landing ... but i think that everyone of us knew that the SJ's was a victim of his own cargo

Wowza! Thanks @NightRider..

Finally, god he took his sweet time.

And of course it is implied that the derelict in Alien is not the same as Prometheus..........finally. And that the eggs, facehuggers, chestbursters and xeno's are a bioweapon. Of course now more questions arise not related with prometheus; where was that cargo originally going ( please do say earth )??? Who is older xenos or humans, life expectancy????? what happened to the thing that came out of the space jockey???? etc. etc. etc.

Thankyou Nightrider. Scott is a meticulous artist of sheer genius.

wonderful video, ty for the post, man. That interviewer is awesome, and Ridley is very gracious and seems fantastically nice in all these interviews...

@Frantz No, there a couple of things that are very significant - one is that he is not just repeating himself, he's adding some things he never said. Either intentionally or just as a result of the way his mind works, he is adjusting history just a little a bit, presumably so it locks into Prometheus better, and by so doing revealing some more of the intent of Prometheus: [i]Now,[/i] they are not just, "eggs", as a cargo - they are, "viral time-bombs", as a cargo - where something had "got loose", "evolved" and taken the pilot out. Also, he states the signal was a distress signal, [i]by intention?[/i] That seems odd as it directly contradicts Alien, where what was decoded of the signal was interpreted as a warning - so I'm very curious indeed about how that is resolved.

I think I was right about that signal, it was not and never intended for anyone but his own race to let them know of the forced landing and breach of the mission and the ship itself by the one or more biological organisms from the cargo. what I winder most is this, was that particular Derelict ship on it's way to destroy or "TerraForm" Earth?

If the original derelict is millions of years old, then that does more, I think, than merely imply that it is not the same ship we see in Prometheus. And there goes the fanwank theory that humans had anything to do with the creation of the xeno.

It makes sense that the Xenos have to be transported in 'egg-form' because once matured they wouldn't survive long ... only lives for a few days (a week?)... according to Giger ... so in egg-form they're in some sort of sleep stasis ... until some plonker comes along and pokes it ...

This link should be added to the 'news' section on this site. It is very relevant, brand new, and clears up more than one theory put up on this forum. Great post, great thread.

My bad, it was the guy from the LA Times who got him to spill it all !!! Kudos to "FW" & "NRLP" who orginally broke that story but did not notice the content the way I did! and you were right, my bad, he did not say "On It's way to earth" but it is IMmplied I believe!

But what about the "egg silo"? Was this "silo" another word for the hold on the ship?

One thing I love about Scott is he's good, he knows he's good but he just stays riiiiiight below the surface of being an ego maniac. Well, maybe not an ego maniac but just below being full of himself. He balances that tight rope better than anyone I've ever seen. And if there's anyone in the business who desreves to be an ego maniac it's Scott. Decent interview. I enjoyed the "best day" question. I thought that was a really original question. I didn't think much of Scott's answer though. What I found most interesting is what he said about the future of Blade Runner. Gives a lot to form ideas around and begin speculation about.

I don't really see anything that was revealed in this interveiw that hasn't been revealed a million times before. He said in the 2003 commentary that the ship was carrying bioweapons and that they got out of control and infected the SJ. I really am surprised as I thought this was all common knowledge for Alien buffs. Seems like Frantz has my back on this. We can't be the only 2 though.