Ridely Scott quits on new Alien project (2011)

[Growler]

Gods, why do you torment us so?

They should have quit after ALIENS. Alien3 looked up to dog turds, and I needn't bother going into the travesties of movies that followed.

I would have trusted Scott or Cameron to do a prequel justice - moreso Scott, but Cameron mighta done OK - it's not like he hasn't worked with Sigourney Weaver before.

Ah, well.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Growler

Alien3 looked up to dog turds

Alien turds actually


(tho, in all seriousness, I liked Alien 3 )

[Growler]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Alien turds actually


(tho, in all seriousness, I liked Alien 3 )

Hehe... I was... disappointed with A3. After the well-crafted story of the first and second movie, 3 seemed too... pat.

[STEED]

Lattest news...

the Space Jockey, seen in the first film, will be making an appearance.

http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news...s.php?id=18156

[Dowly]

I think the fact that news were given early Feb that they were building the SJ cockpit was bit of an give away already.

[Dowly]

Right, let's catch up with Prometheus news.

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Bleeding Cool has posted up an interesting article after having talked to their own source:

“Remember how the alien took on canine qualities after gestating in a dog? You may even suppose that the first film’s alien was so recognisably humanoid because it had grown in a human. The same applies here: generation by generation, the creature mutates. As Prometheus begins, the xenomorph is not too recognisable. Sure, it has that alien DNA that Scott and Fassbender teasingly referred to, but it’s missing… well, it’s missing human DNA. Or dog DNA.

All you have to do is imagine how it might look if it were to mix DNA with another alien species… and I think we’re starting to work it all out.
I learned that the film’s setting is, in part, a planet that has been terraformed to create the perfect environment in which a particular bioweapon would prosper. Terraformed deliberately to farm the weapon? I got no clear answer. Is this bioweapon the alien? I got no clear answer. While there was a lot of wheezing and coughing on my end of the phone, there was a good deal of quiet smirking on the other, it seems.”

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According to the UK paper Daily Mail a further three cast members have joined Prometheus, Idris Elba, Sean Harris and Kate Dickie:

“Elba will be best known to CBMers as playing Roque in The Losers as well as Heimdell in Marvel’s upcoming Thor of course. Harris you may recognize from Harry Brown with Michael Caine, or from the original Red Riding trilogy with Andrew Garfield. Scottish actress Dickie will most likely not be well known to US readers but she starred in the bleakly brilliant Red Road in the UK.“

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Following on from the previous news report, Daily Mail also talked to Ridley Scott and he’s only gone and made things even more confusing:


“Prometheus, Ridley declared, was not — as some have suggested — a prequel to his classic sci-fi shocker Alien. But he refused to divulge more.”

He also mentions production will start on Prometheus in 3 weeks and that he is really trying to keep the film in complete secrecy. “I was insistent that the script not leak onto the internet, where it gets dissected out of context, which spoils it for everyone.”


In regards to an unspecified cast member the article said: “Indeed, one of his actors told me that he could recite the entire screenplay to me — but then he’d have to wrestle me to the ground and, this was related in the nicest possible way, ‘kill me.”

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Aint It Cool News recently reported that Prometheus will be filming in Scotland:


“The Scottish Daily Express reported today that Inverness or Fort William in the Scottish Highlands will be the production base for an August and September shoot. According to the article, other mountainous parts of Europe had been considered but the Scottish Highlands best suited the film’s theme of “grand mythology and the universe” (the relative proximity to Pinewood Studios in England where the rest of the film is shooting wouldn’t have hurt either).

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[Dowly]

Small update.

Originally Posted by AVPGalaxy.net

A few sites are picking this up and running with it at the moment. In an
interview with German newspaper Blick, Ridley Scott made some interesting
comments:

Scott speaks of Erich von Daniken: “He has guessed right. Millions of years
ago, there were intelligent creatures everywhere.” It is a time when HR
Giger’s monster didn’t exist. “I have to create something new.”

Now what this means exactly we don’t know but JoBlo took this to mean
we’ll actually see millions of years ago.

[Dowly]

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Two new leaked photos from the set:

[Growler]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Two new leaked photos from the set:

OK, as much as I loved the ALIENS movie, looking at this, the first thought I had was, "But where are the Daleks?"

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Growler

OK, as much as I loved the ALIENS movie, looking at this, the first thought I had was, "But where are the Daleks?"

ALIENS doesn't show the inside of the derelict, but if you watch ALIEN, you'll
notice that the design is spot on (considering this is a "space jockey movie").

Giger's concept art for the derelict "cockpit" from ALIEN

[Growler]

Originally Posted by Dowly

ALIENS doesn't show the inside of the derelict, but if you watch ALIEN, you'll
notice that the design is spot on (considering this is a "space jockey movie").

I thought the SJ's ship in ALIEN was wicked good, and wished that more coverage of it had been done in ALIENS (even the Director's Cut). Original ALIENS story had Newt's folks going into the ship, her pop getting caught by a facehugger, and then her mom dragging them all back via their crawler to Hadley's Hope. (So, yeah, the whole plot of ALIENS is basically Newt's dad's fault.) I think I remember Cameron shooting some of that sequence, but not all of it, and it was left out of the theatrical release.

More to the point, absent the heavy atmospheric lighting that sets and final prints are likely to have, the Daleks were the first things that came to mind.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Two new leaked photos from the set:

Alright you got my attention now.

[Dowly]

Moar!

[Howard313]

Predators 1
Space Jockeys 1
Aliens 0

[Dowly]

Official Trailer


Q&A with Ridley Scott and Damon Lindelof


Come oooon, be June already!


Oh hello, have we met? (from the trailer)