Yeah, the grown-up version. Behind the opaque dome (which Cameron removed for his aliens) is a humanoid skull.
So Ridley Scott is directing an Alien prequel... (The official Prometheus Thread)
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Posted 11 January 2012 - 03:48 PM
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Posted 11 January 2012 - 03:50 PM
Well the host was human (Kane).
the Alien 3 one is supposed to look more like a dog or ox.
the Alien 3 one is supposed to look more like a dog or ox.
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Posted 11 January 2012 - 03:54 PM
Imagine an alien coming forth out of a space jockey.
BTW, where was that alien or its corpse that came out of the space jockey in Alien?
BTW, where was that alien or its corpse that came out of the space jockey in Alien?
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Posted 11 January 2012 - 03:54 PM
Only Giger can imagine that.
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Posted 11 January 2012 - 04:01 PM
Well the host was human (Kane).
the Alien 3 one is supposed to look more like a dog or ox.
True, but that lifecycle change was introduced in the third film. I wonder if Ridley will embrace it.
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Posted 11 January 2012 - 04:02 PM
It might have been always part of the idea Scott and Giger had.
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Posted 28 February 2012 - 10:12 PM
I've just realized that this film is released in Spain two months late, meaning I won't be able to go see it in English, meaning I won't see it at the theater. I hope a good HD rip doesn't last much to appear on the Internet.
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Posted 28 February 2012 - 11:06 PM
I've just found this new video:
"I get asked all the time, 'What happens after Return of the Jedi?,' and there really is no answer for that. The movies were the story of Anakin Skywalker and Luke Skywalker, and when Luke saves the galaxy and redeems his father, that's where that story ends."
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Posted 28 February 2012 - 11:13 PM
Interesting. Cheers for that! It has been directed by Ridley's son, apparently, so I wouldn't exactly expect the film to look like this.
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From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerful image, that he makes me embarrassed with my own work, in terms of how many different shots, how many different sound effects, how many different things we’ll throw at an audience to make an impression. But with Kubrick, there is such a great trust of the one correct image to calmly explain something to audience. There can be some slowness to the editing. There’s nothing frenetic about it. It’s very simple. There’s a trust in simple storytelling and simple image making that actually takes massive confidence to try and emulate.
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Posted 28 February 2012 - 11:34 PM
Brilliant.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 07:24 AM
Huh? Why is this made?
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 09:23 AM
To promote a movie. It's a viral campaign or something.
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From a storytelling point of view, from a directing point of view, there is one thing I associate with what he does, which is calm. There is such an inherent calm and inherent trust of the one powerful image, that he makes me embarrassed with my own work, in terms of how many different shots, how many different sound effects, how many different things we’ll throw at an audience to make an impression. But with Kubrick, there is such a great trust of the one correct image to calmly explain something to audience. There can be some slowness to the editing. There’s nothing frenetic about it. It’s very simple. There’s a trust in simple storytelling and simple image making that actually takes massive confidence to try and emulate.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 09:36 AM
Got to get the Facebook generation interested.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 09:57 AM
We are the Facebook Generation, Lee
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 10:06 AM
Nah, anyone under 25 who lives and breathes FB are its generation. You know - those stupid eyelash obsessed pouting girls who feed off the constant attention from sex mad male 'friends' via throwaway compliments and remarks on their 'wall'. The ones you see updating their status on the train and in the cinema. They're the FB gen. For them it's a way of life.
They aren't interested in seeing a new Alien movie, but Fox wants them to be.
They aren't interested in seeing a new Alien movie, but Fox wants them to be.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 10:09 AM
My girlfriend is not eyelash obsessed!
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 12:02 PM
Nah, anyone under 25 who lives and breathes FB are its generation. You know - those stupid eyelash obsessed pouting girls who feed off the constant attention from sex mad male 'friends' via throwaway compliments and remarks on their 'wall'. The ones you see updating their status on the train and in the cinema. They're the FB gen. For them it's a way of life.
Like you've never posted on a JWFAN thread from a train or a cinema!
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 12:41 PM
Lee doesn't even use a PC anymore!
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 12:44 PM
Yeah, Quint, I never understood how you combine your omnipresence here with being a working man with wife and baby.
Edit: Strange, it's 14:25 and still no reply/reaction from Quint. Did something happen to him? Is he banned again?
Edit: Strange, it's 14:25 and still no reply/reaction from Quint. Did something happen to him? Is he banned again?
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 02:48 PM
Unfortunately for me I do have to do some work, from time to time 
If you've ever noticed how I tend to edit and add to my posts long after submitting them, it's guaranteed to be because of some real world distraction, or my daughter.
But yeah, my phone (and iPad when at home) are what make it so quick and easy to keep tabs on my favorite online pals at JWFan.
If you've ever noticed how I tend to edit and add to my posts long after submitting them, it's guaranteed to be because of some real world distraction, or my daughter.
But yeah, my phone (and iPad when at home) are what make it so quick and easy to keep tabs on my favorite online pals at JWFan.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 02:51 PM
because of some real world distraction, or my daughter.
So, your daughter isn't part of the real world, hey?
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 02:59 PM
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 03:07 PM
Hey, she's a pain in the bloody arse when you're trying to type up a reply (including images of hairstyles) to Alexcremers!
You friggin' carefree singletons haven't a clue how hard it is to juggle fatherhood and JWFan!
You friggin' carefree singletons haven't a clue how hard it is to juggle fatherhood and JWFan!
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 03:32 PM
You friggin' carefree singletons haven't a clue how hard it is to juggle fatherhood and JWFan!
I do.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 03:39 PM
I thought you probably would
Explains the temper
Explains the temper
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 03:44 PM
So, is this the first time ever that they filmed a separate standalone scene in order to promote a movie? And is the scene truly directed by the son of Scott?
BTW, if this is the tone of Prometheus, then it isn't as low-key as the tone in Alien.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 04:04 PM
I thought you probably would
Explains the temper
I preferred your pre-edited post.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 04:09 PM
Well, I thought I'd spice it up a bit.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 04:15 PM
So, is this the first time ever that they filmed a separate standalone scene in order to promote a movie? And is the scene truly directed by the son of Scott?
No and yes, apparently.
I remember Watchmen had viral videos. They were awesome.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 04:21 PM
someone should change the thread title to Prometheus
OH God, Joe is posting again, someone hand me my pills!
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"You're not John Conner, I saw you die, said Kyle". "I was only injured, replied John". "No, your injuries were too severe, you died. Look at you, where are your injuries? You're, you're a Terminator." "Kyle, its still me, yes my body was beyond repair, but my essence is here." He points to his head. "No John". Kyle raised his pulse rifle and aimed it at John but before he could fire, John fired first. Knocked to the ground Kyle looked up at the Terminator in the form of the man he once idolized. All hope was lost. "If you kill me how will you ever be born?" "Thats a good question Kyle, all this time we've focus on Sarah, on John, when had we known the it was you we should have targeted all along." John pointed his rifle at Kyle's face. "The resistance is finished, the battle is won. We the machines are the victors, salvation is ours." Kyle never heard the second shot.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 04:22 PM
Why?
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 04:24 PM
because that is the title of the film not Alien prequel. it's just a suggestion.
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"You're not John Conner, I saw you die, said Kyle". "I was only injured, replied John". "No, your injuries were too severe, you died. Look at you, where are your injuries? You're, you're a Terminator." "Kyle, its still me, yes my body was beyond repair, but my essence is here." He points to his head. "No John". Kyle raised his pulse rifle and aimed it at John but before he could fire, John fired first. Knocked to the ground Kyle looked up at the Terminator in the form of the man he once idolized. All hope was lost. "If you kill me how will you ever be born?" "Thats a good question Kyle, all this time we've focus on Sarah, on John, when had we known the it was you we should have targeted all along." John pointed his rifle at Kyle's face. "The resistance is finished, the battle is won. We the machines are the victors, salvation is ours." Kyle never heard the second shot.
"You're not John Conner, I saw you die, said Kyle". "I was only injured, replied John". "No, your injuries were too severe, you died. Look at you, where are your injuries? You're, you're a Terminator." "Kyle, its still me, yes my body was beyond repair, but my essence is here." He points to his head. "No John". Kyle raised his pulse rifle and aimed it at John but before he could fire, John fired first. Knocked to the ground Kyle looked up at the Terminator in the form of the man he once idolized. All hope was lost. "If you kill me how will you ever be born?" "Thats a good question Kyle, all this time we've focus on Sarah, on John, when had we known the it was you we should have targeted all along." John pointed his rifle at Kyle's face. "The resistance is finished, the battle is won. We the machines are the victors, salvation is ours." Kyle never heard the second shot.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 05:13 PM
I agree. This film will not even have anything in common with Alien. Apart from the Company, the alien space ship, the space Jockey and the director....
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 05:17 PM
And the aliens
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 05:18 PM
They say there are no xenomorphs in the film. But who knows.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 05:21 PM
I think its an elaborate ruse to not spoil the "surprise"
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 05:21 PM
Non sequitur! The aliens were not named Xenomorphs until Cameron's film!
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 05:23 PM
And I like Camerons film and I don't know yet how are they going to call the other aliens so we distinguish them, so...
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 05:41 PM
Well to be blunt, the "space jockey" discovered on LV-426* wasn't human, but it wasn't xenomorph either. That makes it alien. And if there is a species of space jockeys and a species of humans and a species of monster that breeds with whatever it wraps its facehugger around, then we "assume" there are plenty more species of "alien" life forms out there.
Yet there is only one alien that is truly the Alien, the titular monster of our series. This could be all very confusing trying to take this seriously.
* I don't think LV-426 was named until Cameron's movie, making it another non sequitur in the eyes of the cos man, but it's easier to type than "the planet that the Nostromo looked at in the first movie." Oh dear, I ended up typing a lot more.
Yet there is only one alien that is truly the Alien, the titular monster of our series. This could be all very confusing trying to take this seriously.
* I don't think LV-426 was named until Cameron's movie, making it another non sequitur in the eyes of the cos man, but it's easier to type than "the planet that the Nostromo looked at in the first movie." Oh dear, I ended up typing a lot more.
@Wojo: stop being facetious.
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Posted 29 February 2012 - 05:45 PM
I think they called it Acheron but Cameron didn't know about it. In the same way, Cameron ddn't know about the man-to-egg scenes so he made up his own idea.
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