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Prometheus - Ridley Scotts Alien Prequel
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Anyone else looking forward to this? I am.
WOuld be nice to get some back story on the mysterious Space Jockey.
[news]'Prometheus' trailer: Watch the Channel 4 'Homeland' teaser ad - video[/news]
WOuld be nice to get some back story on the mysterious Space Jockey.
[news]'Prometheus' trailer: Watch the Channel 4 'Homeland' teaser ad - video[/news]
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(Personally I think this was Scott's plan all along, to tout it as a prequel so he could gain serious support and financial backing then "change direction" so it had little to do with Alien anymore)
Thats what I thought but all the cast and set pic leaks have confirmed that it is an Alien prequel.
Check out the site AVP Galaxy - they have set pics of the Space Jockey chair, new types of Alien eggs etc Its an Alien film for sure.
The Aliens we will see in this will be the Aliens in their pure forms.
The alien in 3 was a dog alien (a really bad looking cgi dog alien) cos it burst out of the doberman.
Or an Ox depending on the version you're watching.
As for the new Thing film - arrghhhhhhhhhhhh! I wish they'd leave that classic sci-fi horror film alone.
That was one thing that confused me about the alternate cut of Alien 3, if it came out of an Ox, why wasn't it slow and cumbersome?
I don't remember that, I have both versions and I'm sure it comes out of the Rottweiler in each
(just checked and you're right, think I'll re-watch it Sunday )
There is also an entire subplot removed from Alien 3 which is restored in the 30 minutes which explains what happened to Golic, in the normal cut he's strapped to the bed in the infirmary and is never seen or heard from again.
Whether 'the company' will feature remains to be seen.I am curious to know how they knew about them (the aliens) in the first place.
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The Alien universe is ripe for further films, let's just hope it's not anything like Resurrection.
I think Ridley is a great director but he's not shy of making some pretty sub-standard films.
I also really hope they're allowed to make this an 18, a proper grown up Sci-fi film. I won't be holding my breath with that though.
Haven't some of the Alien films been reclassified now anyway and are 15's? Maybe a 15 wouldn't be that bad, there still could be some juicy footage and dialogue included to enforce the adults only angle.
You're probably right there Paddy, a 15 wouldn't be too bad.
I just don't want it to skimp on the gore and scares!
Ridley Scott's Alien was hardly all about gore! Yeah there's like one scene with lots of blood and that's that.
Your absolutely right , the original alien movie wasnt even slightly about gore. It was purely about suspense .........i think in that movie you saw the alien about 9 times
Totally agree.
There was only one moment of obvious gore (chestburster), and most of the other killings are unseen, are very quick so you don't see what actually happens, or it is suggested.
The most disturbing one for me is Lamberts. You barely even see the alien, and you don't actually see what it does to her...but you do see the alien tail snake up between her legs...but it's her reaction and more importantly her screams which Ripley hears that are really disturbing.
Thats why films dont get made like they used to movie makers think that because they CAN show us a movie monster in great detail now , then they SHOULD and this isnt the case. Look at some of the best horrors ever made :- psycho ( original ) , halloween , jaws , alien , it and most of the romero movies from the 70's ( obviously now days he goes a bit over board on the gore ) none of these depending on gore and massive amounts of cgi to scare us but they are heaps and bounds scarier than anything from the last 15 years
If Ridley wanted to do a Sci-fi Movie then he should, but it should stand alone as a separate entity.
People want to see more from the Alien franchise, that is why most will go see it, yet we have quotes from lots of folk involved in production of it saying fans need to stop seeing it as an Alien film
Either it is or isnt, they should have made that decision at the beginning of production, as it is no-one knows whats going on.
TBH im not even sure Ridley scott knows ho it fits with the Alien films.
I'm sure it will be good and all that.
I just aint convinced that the Alien tie in is only there to milk the franchise fans of more money while delivering very little to the actual franchise.
It could all be smokescreens and mirrors here, we may get a fully fledged prequel, who knows.
the plot should have been...Humans on one of the first exploration vessels carrying biological weapon tests onboard, goes missing, meets the Aliens, a fight ensues and the Alien ship ends up crash landing on a planet, the Aliens contaminated by the biological experiments starts to mutate there.....The end.
Ties in with the first Alien, and looking at this movie, that may have been the original idea Prometheus came from.