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The combination of this video being of such bad quality plus the temporary titles indicates that this might be a genuinely early cut of a teaser for Ridley Scott‘s Prometheus (20th Century Fox, 6.8.12), which is some kind of Alien prequel. We all remember the Alien scene when three Nostromo crew members enter the huge, horseshoe-shaped ship and come upon a dead giant with big shoulders and a big head and an elephant trunk. I’ve watched this trailer twice and haven’t spotted any of those elephant-trunk guys walking around.
Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Kate Dickie and Ben Foster.
“COULD BE IT’S END”?
Wow.
Man, those Inception trailer guys really started something, haven’t they?
Big guffaw at “COULD BE IT’S END.” Something about all caps + epic scope + grammatical error is a winning combination.
Interesting that they use the same music from the original ALIEN teaser many eons ago. Obviously, in space… no one can hear you spell. “It’s” made me laugh.
Grammatical error aside, it looks potentially stunning. How great is it to see ALIEN-styled visuals again?
Best/worst plot speculation I’ve heard has them finding the Space Jockeys, discovering they created humanity, discovering they now believe it was a mistake, then deciding to eliminate humanity with their bioweapons, a.k.a. the Aliens.
Ending of the movie has our heroes stopping that, but the Space Jockey ship is damaged, and crashes you-know-where only to be found by John Hurt and Co.
No idea if that’s the case, but it sounds TOO logical/predictable to NOT hit close to the mark.
Still- RIDLEY SCOTT SCI-FI. What’s not to love?
I’ve heard the same, Ray
Anyway, I like what I see so far.
Went to check IMDB whether Ben Foster is in this (Wells, I don’t think he is), and saw Patrick Wilson is in this? My money is on him having a/the Paul Reiser role.
This looks like the movie i hoped Avatar would be.
Jeff: It’s supposed to be a movie set up in the Alien 0 universe, not an official prequel.
Ho: Yeah, I’m hoping the same. But it looks a bit more like Spirits Within to me.
Gabe: Actually, Nolan cited Blade Runner as an influence on him, so…
I’m sure Ridley Scott had the DVD to SPIRITS WITHIN playing on the other monitor as he’s cutting this, you terminal zero.
JMB: Never know. One of his movies was made in Japan, and there are games based on Aliens, so maybe he’s familiar with their pop culture.
NO, DZ. NO NO NO NO NO NO. For all that is pure and sacred, please put both feet on the brakes.
If Ridley Scott does an interview tomorrow and says he looked at FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN, which is only getting airplay IN THE WORLD on your DVD player and your DVD player when you’re asleep – instead of slicked-up sci-fi archetypes – I will start every future HE post I make with an apology to you and quote a line from SPIRITS WITHIN as the gospel.
NO.
And you can tell from the cast that the only survivor(s) will be Rapace and/or Theron.
The Deez has been firing with both barrels lately, bringing on that special mix of box office prognostication, oddball comparisons (“So basically HUGO is BICENTENNIAL MAN MEETS SAW V?”) and the ever-popular “this was ripped off from this obscure Asian shit no one’s ever seen” paranoia where he’s like Dashiel Hammet breaking the news to the world that, gee golly, sometimes two things that exist in the world have superficial things in common. How come it’s always ASIAN SHIT though? How come Deez never goes to see Melancholia and decides he’s gonna TRACK DOWN Von Trier at screenings and HUMILIATE HIM with the fact that RACHEL GETTING MARRIED also featured a WEDDING and GUESTS MAKING TOASTS, and he’s ON TO HIM, WATCH OUT, LARS!
I mean, I get this too and for a minute and a half I’ll do a Twitter whine BROWBEATING THE WORLD that they don’t realize John Hawkes’ song to Marcy in MMMM is just the Bela Lugosi’s Dead intro then it turns into Blue Monday…. But then I get over it and move on.
As for this movie:
More fucking Fassbender? I know everyone here has a hardon for this guy, but is there ever going to come a point in his TOTAL DOMINATION OF ALL CINEMA when he actually, you know, sells a movie ticket on name recognition with audiences that don’t frequent movie blogs?
JBM: Not sure why you’re so fuckin’ defensive about him possibly looking at the FX of a movie based on a video game for reference. The guy wants to do a Monopoly movie and worked on Call of Duty DLCs, FFS.
Lexg: Actually, I thought Melancholia ripped off Majora’s Mask.
I’m not in the slightest defensive about your descent into madness. Merely a spectator.
My only concern for this is the screenplay by Damon Lindelof. Hopefully without usual writing partners Kurtzman and Orci to insert lowest common denominator jokes into every page it might not be too bad, but…
Still, has Ridley Scott ever, really, made a BAD film?
Spirits within was great and highly underrated. I’m all for somebody ripping it off to do a live-action film. Hell, Matrix ripped off Ghost in the Shell yet is a better movie overall.
host for chump change, barely able to pay the rent at times
What is this fascination with going back and demystifying stuff that was much cooler when it was mysterious? At the beginning of Alien they find this ship that looks like nothing we’ve ever seen in sci-fi before, It’s apparently been there thousands of years and was piloted by some…thing…that was trying to warn passers-by to steer clear of the creatures that killed it. What an awesome set-up for a sci-fi horror film.
I know! Let’s go back and make a movie that explains every last detail of that incredible mysterious beginning! Because the fan-fic crowd demanded it! Because it worked so well for the Star Wars prequels, the Thing reboot and 2010. Patton Oswalt’s rant seems particularly relevant here.
To be fair, it sounds like Ridley didn’t even want to a prequel. This movie started as its own new sci-fi project. I guarantee you to get funding for this, he said I’ll throw in an Alien reference in the last 10 minutes or so.
The Alien references are laid on pretty thick, especially with the way “Prometheus” slowly reveals itself.
I would agree, Rashad, except for the fact that you pretty clearly see the Space Jockey’s horseshoe shaped ship. If Ridley wanted to do another sci-fi film with Giger as his production designer, I’d be all for it. But not this. (And stay the hell away from Blade Runner!)
The one that might be the most obvious fan-trailer giveaway is the one of the wheeled-motorcycle thingies and the big tank rolling down the ramp. If someone can ID that as being from Avatar (or something more obscure), then it’s a fake.
So the robots in the franchise are Ash, Bishop, Call & now David.
ABCD
Funny.
If someone can ID that as being from Avatar (or something more obscure), then it’s a fake.
could just be a placeholder while they’re waiting for an effects shot to finish up
@JLC – exactly my sentiment (and spot on throwing in Oswalt’s prequel rant).
When you look at films of this era (STAR WARS, ALIEN, RAIDERS, BLADE RUNNER, THE THING) one of the things that gave them extra dimension and had you pondering their stories long after you walked out into Saturday afternoon sunlight was the fact there were backstories teasing your imagination.
If you were lucky enough to have friends with same taste for fantasy/speculative fiction (tip of a vivid hat to Ellison), then each movie became the starting point of hours of on-the-fly fanfic. The Old Republic, the Space Jockey’s people, Indy & Sallah’s earlier escapades, Deckard’s glory days and what happened to “the Swedes” led to creative speculation, doodles and a few heated arguments.
Interesting that several have referenced Nolan and INCEPTION because it neatly fits this mold: what other jobs did Cobb, Arthur and the unfortunate Nash pull before we meet them in that North African apartment? Same thing with PIRATES – there were many a hi-jink before Jack sails into port in that dingy.
IMHO it’s (or its if used by the trailer writers) the problem with so many of the recent films in this genre. I never cared what happened before Worthlesston showed up among the Navi. It’s also the problem with origin stories – there are no earlier adventures to wonder about. It’s also in a way the problem with LOTR – because “The Hobbit” is the backstory, all you are left with is what happens in between and wasn’t all that interesting to me.
JBM: Not sure what’s mad about the fact that he’s loaned his name to video games before. So he no doubt is somewhat familiar with the culture.
“How come it’s always ASIAN SHIT though? How come Deez never goes to see Melancholia and decides he’s gonna TRACK DOWN Von Trier at screenings and HUMILIATE HIM with the fact that RACHEL GETTING MARRIED also featured a WEDDING and GUESTS MAKING TOASTS, and he’s ON TO HIM, WATCH OUT, LARS!”
That was laugh out loud dead-on, Lex, thanks for that.
CinemaPhreak captures a minor but significant reason Inception was so appealing: it was self-contained, in media res action through and through. All the necessary backstory was in the movie, but beyond that it was just that classic brand of “backstory tease” we used to get in all our fun movies.
Frankly, the only prequels I want to see now are HISTORICAL prequels- I can dig WWI movies coming before WWII movies, even though we know how BOTH end….
The rest of this stuff? BLECH.
Lex feels about Fassbender the same way I felt about Stephen Tobolowsky in 1991. ‘Why is this guy in Everything?”
“what happened to “the Swedes”"
Okay, I’m stumped, what is this in reference to? Stargate or something?
@ mgmax – He was referring to the “Norwegians” of THE THING.
As for INCEPTION, I never wondered much about the backstory to the “characters” since the entire film is supposed to be a dream and therefore self-contained.
Lex is how old? No thanks.
@CinemaPhreak
Your post above is perfect
I just saw the 2011 version of The Thing, and I’m trying to erase it from my memory. It’s all about a lack of imagination and balls to back it up.
I honestly thought the 2011 THE THING was terrific… And as some may or may not know, Carpenter is pretty much my lifelong filmmaking hero, the ’82 film is an immortal classic to me… But I still liked the new one so much I saw it three times; The end in particular is sort of brilliant and on first viewing sent me out of the theater giddy like a school kid.
YES, it does have that prequel flaw where every incidental moment from the “original” (I am aware the Nyby/Hawks is the original) needs to be Boba Fetted into the ground… But as these things go, it’s SUPER reverent to the tone, style, and look of the original, save for the camera being more handheld than JC’s Panaglide style. But it’s in beautiful scope, matches the original, Edgerton does Kurt proud, Winstead is FETCHING and also a really strong female character who ISN’T ogled or fetishized and doesn’t take any shit from the surprisingly charismatic and not-interchangable cast of Norwegian and Germanic character actors.
It relies a little too heavily on CG, but it inverts and builds on some of the scares from Carpenter’s movie… Like Zombie’s two Halloweens, I think it’s more worthy of respect than the knee-jerk fanboy write-off. Actually think it’s one of the more “fun” movies of 2011.
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@Lex.
I wanted to like it going in, but in my view, the problem was that it was trying to mimic Carpenter’s version too much. It didn’t build the tension up properly before the payoff scenes. Winstead and Edgerton are both very good in it, but I just saw everything coming a mile in advance. Didn’t have a problem with the cg though, I thought that part was done well.