Guy Pearce - why?

Icarus1

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I really liked Guy Pearce's performance in Prometheus. However, something seems strange about that casting choice. Why take a young actor (no matter the skill level) and coat him in tons of aging make-up when you could just cast an old dude in the first place. GP was great as PW in Ted Talk video, but in the big picture Prometheus itself is more important than this marketing video. So, why? Does RS have a more expanded role for GP as he ellaborates on PW's character? That is the only conclusion that makes sense to me. If so, I love that planning! It's always best to cast a character with the same actor for consistency. Anyone have insight about this? Is there another thread that already addresses this?

Cyberdeath
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June 15, 2012

I was thinking before i saw the movie the first time, maybe they needed a young actor to portray Weyland AFTER he takes some kind fountain of youth potion. I guess not...

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June 15, 2012

Yes it is strange, I can only think that it's to fill the bluray behind the scenes bit up with him when he was younger talking about the business. Other than that, it might have something to do with Prometheus 2, we can only speculate.

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June 15, 2012

They said that , on the script ,there was a long scene with Weyland young and David on a yacht ....that scene was never filmed but pearce was signed already . A waste anyway

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June 15, 2012

In the scene in the beginning where his character is a hologram on the ship - he looked like the villian from Austin Powers! He even had the same clothes!

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June 15, 2012

He should have used his pinky :(

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June 15, 2012

I partially agree on the Weyland thing. Pearce's performance reminded me of Jonathan Rhys Meyer's perferomance of an ageing Henry VIII in the last episode of the The Tudors. Some young dude in old man make up with a pillow stuffed up his shirt to make him look fat. Bit hammy, croaky voice indicating...age? Oh i dunno. But Pearce as young Weyland was awesome. You can see the narcicissm and god-delusion drip from him during that TED talk. When he says 'we...are the gods now', you just [i]know[/i] what he means is ... '[i]I...am God now[/i]' Great piece of viral marketing.

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June 15, 2012

'Pearce was signed already' Yeah, that is probably a huge reason they stuck with Pearce. Art/storytelling gets messed with because of business contracts. Oh well...he was still really good! Just not naturally old.

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June 15, 2012

I think its kinda like the same concept with bishop weyland, they wanna get him preped up for a prequel, or sequel. In ALIEN he is a fairly young synthetic, and in AVP he is a grumpy old man. Becos end of the day they are zagillionaires n it makes sense for their company to built synthetic out of them, or even so tht for the film producer to cast his character to appear again n again

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June 15, 2012

Additional thought, in the film vickers quoted "every king has his reign and then he dies". I think we're gonna b seeing alot Guy aka Weyland doin alot of dirty stuff to get his hands on this bioweapon! Yoo hooo a sequel is on its way!!!

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June 15, 2012

Here's another potential scenario. We've all heard rumors of a Bladerunner sequel. Could this be the character that bridges the two franchises? Blade Runner takes place in 2019... depending on how old Peter Weiyland is supposed to be in Prometheus, perhaps he is also involved with the replicants somehow??? I don't know. I guess if Ridley Scott wanted to get crazy he could make it happen!!

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June 17, 2012

Take a look at BEN STILLER'S aging makeup in WALTER MITTY. Goes to show all producers out there, that its the talent you hire, not the technology involved in a makeup job. Wish the same studio that aged Ben Stiller was used for Guy Pearce in Prometheus. It was the only aspect that took me out of the movie.