The Prologue Scene From PROMETHEUS Was Set To Include More Ships!
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MemberPraetorianJanuary 30, 2017In Damon Lindelof's PROMETHEUS draft the Primordial ship was intended to be the Derelict-Juggernaut ship from A L I E N. How would we have known this?
The scriptwriters commentary from the PROMETHEUS Blu-ray set informs us that "Ridley Scott thought it would be cooler to show something else."
Steve Messing Juggernaut-Derelict Concept
Information from the Q&A session with Neville Page, Steve Messing and David Levy at Gnomon on 17th September 2012 was recalled by members of the AVPGalaxy forum.
A user by the name of Fangface recalled "Yeah, if I remember correctly, there were different classes of Engineer ships to be featured in that opening scene (with the elders getting out and milling around, etc.) one ship had a guitar-like design to it, before the content of the scene was trimmed down to a minimum."
He continued "However, Ridley & Co. felt it all looked too much like a Star Trek film, so they cut back on the ships and other Engineers. "
Below we find alien spacecraft designs by Steve Messing and David Levy. They're known to be alternative designs for the Juggernaut ship, before Ridley went back to Gigers original derelict concept. The scriptwriters commentary also confirms that these ship designs were ideas for the Juggernaut.
EDIT: I love how these Steve Messing concepts are Facehugger-like and Pretzel-like respectively!
Steve Messing Alternate Juggernaut/Primordial ship concepts
David Levy Juggernaut/Primordial ship Concept
Alex Kozhanov [GUTALIN] also designed these incredible and stunning, alternative Juggernaut ships. [see below] It would appear that Steve Messing based at least one of his concepts on these.
So there we have it folks, for those who didn't already know, the opening scene was originally going to show us different classes of Engineer ship as well as more Elder-Engineers being dropped off. Would it have had the same brooding intensity?
Whilst I feel that it would have been very interesting to see, I also like that Ridley decided to pare it down, and also change the whole idea from being a Juggernaut to what has become another of my favourite Sci-fi movie craft the trippy Pebble, otherwise known as the Noobernaut.
That scene was so amazing, Ridley contained the ship to a shadow moving over the landscape, until the mind blowing reveal. It had such incredible impact. Dark and foreboding, we only had glimpses of it rising, metamorphosing, and finally disappearing into the surrounding cloud.
How do you feel about these possibilities? Would you have prefered that scene to have had more ships of different design? Or even for it to have been the LV-426 Juggernaut?
Let me know your thoughts.
Thanks go to Alien Explorations for the info.
"Let The Cosmic Incubation Begin" ~ H.R. Giger
I think that more alien and human ships, space stations, vehicles, robots should be used in the future Alien movies. And they should use more creative ideas and concepts. I like the Pebble ship but it is a little bit simple for me, and the Covenant ship looks simple as well.
I don't understand that 'Star Trek problem' concerning the Prometheus concept art. I think they are totally different. The Gutalin ships are awesome in my op. They follow the sea creature path - OK they don't look like a squid or a snake or a shark, but they are similar to a frog. A water creature more or less... :)
I have always had the feeling that this is a hammerhead shark:
I found a good hammerhead shark image:
Look at its mouth! And the rays of light. :)
Thanks, Lone! Do you want more? :)
Charlie's eye creature and tadpoles:
Engineer concept ship by Gutalin and frogs:
You want more? :)
Prometheus ship and aligators:
Everybody knows that Shaw's baby looks like a squid which evolves into the trilobite looking like an octopus:
