Prometheus look to be very interesting first movie I have wanted to see in a good while.H.R. Giger is helping with the film I see which is great news the Alien creature is his design so was the "Space Jockey" and the derelict ship.I hope that Prometheus is something completely different from the Alien films maybe take some of the concepts the same "universe".
Alien is one of the best films it is so good at hitting primal fear you can watch that movie many times and you still feel it.
I heard that they removed the Space Jockey though but that was from a 2011 interview with Scott things can change.
I think what he said about the xenomorph appearing in Prometheus;
"No. Absolutely not. They squeezed it dry. He (the xenomorph) did very well. (He laughs) He survived, he's now in Disneyland in Orlando, and no way am I going back there. How did he end up in Disneyland? I saw him in Disneyland, Jesus Christ!"
Disneyland is in California the ride he is thinking of is at MGM Studios which is part of Disenyworld in Orlando FL it is part of a ride that features bits from various films using animatronics and it is pretty cheesy.
I think that sums up the Alien and Predator lines well they just went too main stream when the basic story was the best.Aliens was good partly because it had a very skilled and technical director James Cameron and it still ran with the primal fear formula.
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