Prometheus = Block buster?

Sorry juxta... Thinking the same thing.

well, if Sir Ridley is envolved in a direct way i say go for it. If not... mheee... If Lindelof is nowhere to be seen or heard of even better.

...it's ok db...great minds think alike...;)

@David1 You are wrong, you are so wrong... Lindeloff will be back.. I think the industry will attribute a big part of Prometheus' success at the box office to him.. probably he will establish himself as a house-name, in the style of a Night M. Shyamalan, until he starts to exhaust his bag of tricks turning into box office poison... but in the mean time, there is a lot of Lindeloff ahead for us to endure...

...he will be back but maybe perhaps just to clean up his act in the first act of Prometheus 2....I think Ridley might put a leach on him next time....In the end it all depends on how well the movie does commercially...remember Ridley is also a business man...why would he completely kick out Lindelof if the movie does well?....

I think of Prometheus in the same vein as a fine wine. Some people will appreciate it, some won't. I hope it tops out world-wide around 400 million, but will take some time to get there. FOX had better support it staying in theaters, (they've already clusterfucked enough of it). If they pull it early, it'll just make it's cost plus a little profit.

I've seen the movie and definitely needs a sequel, I know that many of the members of this site love the mystery and holes but really need a sequel and we do not need to Lindelof for that (please no). Do not get me wrong, Lindelof's work was not so bad, but for a sequel is necessary come to the point and dig into the depths of the history of the Engineers. I would love to Ridley was behind a sequel, but to be honest he is 74 years old and his next project is the next Blade Runner, but who knows... In my opinion Prometheus is a spin-off and should be valued as such ... the end of the movie leaves the door open for a sequel, but more in parallel and totally focused on the Engineers.

If Prometheus doesn't work as a stand alone movie to me, I don't think I will be interested in any sequels... I don't care about how much of the Alien legacy is in there: all I ask is for a movie that hits the marks as cutting edge, thought provoking entertainment, which is basically what it's been labeled by Ridley Scott, 20th Century Fox and the marketing team. I don't like hoaxes of any kind.

Arkadine: nooooooooooooooooooooooo..... the horror... the horror....

Yep, I won't wait 3 years expecting to find out the answers to some deceitful enigma, which ultimately may make no sense whatsoever. I could wait for next week's Lost episode and be just left hanging by it.. but this is no t.v., folks

I don't understand you Arkadine. You just said that you can't wait three years for a Prometheus squal. Be honest your going to tell me that when the sequal comes out you are not going to go watch it. You are a true Alien fan? Are you not. It's not like your going to have to wait in front of the theatre until the sequal comes out,

Prometheus does not give great answers, only a small revelation about the origins of the Xenomorphs...but with respect to the Engineers you should not expect much...only a sequel can answer that.

@Rubirosa What I mean is that I learn from experience. If I watch a movie that not only sucks, but also sets an "origin story" I don't care for, there's no way I will watch the sequel. I'm not saying that this is the case. I admire Ridley Scott enormously, I loved Alien but I am not a fanboy who will embrace everything the marketing machine will throw at me.

I understand you fully. But you know how it is. Once you watch a couple of great movies that were directed by somebody like Scott. You tend to stay loyal to that person. At least I do.

I even give the movie the benefit of the doubt regarding how unsympathetic the characters are supposed to be. That can even work as a plot device. For instance, I recently read the novel "Eden," by Stanislaw Lem. It is about a scientific crew stranded on an alien planet. Most of them are such assholes, their anthropocentric mindset is so obtuse, that you are rooting for the alien lifeforms to destroy them. However, the story has a moving and poignant payoff in the end. So, you never know, I'll just wait and see.

Hey @Arkadine ! You sound like you read sci-fi novels. Have you ever read anything by. Jack Vance, Clark Ashton Smith or Henry Kuttner?

I must confess I am not familiar with the latest crop of sci-fi authors. I heard about Jack Vance but I don't remember reading anything from him.

They've made the movie for a very good "price." He's said it over and over again. I was on the FOX lot yesterday. I'm fairly confident that they're going to make this thing work financially one way or the other to get the sequel (prequel?) made. I've personally felt from the outset that Ridley's ultimate vision is to make a movie about the Engineers. He just needed a path and a bankroll to do that. I think [i]Prometheus[/i] will be that gateway. $375~490 million worldwide by the time the blu-rays are burned and off the shelves. He has built it. They will come.

@sukkai Do you get the sense that a 3 pic deal is too much of an arc for Ridley to want to be commited to? I'm going to be looking for that next week, for possible indications not just in the ending which would be too easy, but throughout. Ridley likes to embed things and I can't imagine him across from Damon for all that time they spent in preproduction and not looking for threads he can run with in the background. I think there's a chance that may shape the story as a whole..and how many installments it encompasses. One thing I feel strongly is this is not intended as a new franchise, I havent heard that from Scott or Lindelof, not even in a coded form.

European opening sales have been strong, so it looks like we'll be getting our sequels.