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Did The Plot For Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ Just Get Spoiled? Nope, Fox Drops Official Synopsis
30 June 2011

Update: That was fast. Responding to the rumors which they have said are “way off,” Fox has dropped an official synopsis/logline for the film. Here it is:

Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life’s ultimate mystery.

In the case the headline didn’t tip you off, this post contains possible spoilers. So if you prefer not to know anything about whatever Ridley Scott may or may not be cooking up with his “Alien” prequel/spinoff “Prometheus,” stop reading here. We good? Okay, moving on.

We have to say, the lock and key under which “Prometheus” is being kept under wraps is pretty impressive. Already in the midst of shooting, there haven’t been any script leaks, cast members talking out of turn or even blurry set photos. But despite the security thus far, if io9‘s source is legit, it looks like someone finally said “fuck it” and let the cat out of the bag way early. The site has received what is a supposed plot synopsis for the film, though even they caution they feel it may be “dubious” (though that might just be because for some reason, they truly loathe the concept). Anyway, read it below:

"Earth. Year 2058.

Archaeological digs in Africa reveal alien artifacts that humans were genetically engineered by a advanced alien race (space jockeys). These “Alien Gods” also terraformed Earth in order to make it habitable for their human creations. Amongst finds are coordinates to the Alien God’s home-world, to Paradise. Months later the Weyland Corp launch the spaceship PROMETHEUS and his crew, into deep space to make first contact. Thanks to faster than light travel a few years later the PROMETHEUS enters the Zeta Riticuli star system. Humans are greeted by their makers, then transported further into space to a scary yet fascinating world. The Alien Gods are proud of their “children”, their first creation to reach such levels of intelligence.

As a reward they share bits of their astonishing bio-based technologies with the humans. But for one crew member of the Prometheus it’s not enough. In a treacherous act he steals the “bio-source code” to Terraforming, a technology at the origin of all Gods’ power, that could make humans equal to the gods. The Alien Gods may be scientists but are also ruthless conquerors, destroyers of worlds who will not accept humans as equals. They unleash on the escaping human crew their favorite bio-weapon, a creature used to “clean up” worlds before colonization. But something goes wrong in the process and humans manage to turn the bio-weapon against their makers. Giving birth to a smarter, nastier, bigger breed of gut eating creatures. Creatures that will be the demise of Paradise. What’s left of the Prometheus crew manages to escape the doomed planet.

On their trail a survivor Alien God in very familiar ship with one ultimate mission.

Bring the wrath of the Gods to Earth."

So is it? Isn’t it? On the one hand, the story explains why there is so much talk about the movie sharing the DNA of “Alien” but not being exactly a direct prequel. But there seems to be more concrete info (inadvertently) from Scott himself that this might be right. Speaking recently at CineEurope where Scott, Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace chatted with exhibitors about the film, he revealed that Prometheus is indeed the name of the ship in the movie and that it’s launched by the Weyland Corporation in addition to alluding to the some of the same thematic elements found above.

“The (space) journey, metaphorically, is about a challenge to the gods,” Scott said. “NASA and the Vatican agree that is almost mathematically impossible that we can be where we are today without there being a little help along the way. That’s what we’re looking at (in the film), at some of Eric van Daniken‘s ideas of how did we humans come about.”

So while this isn’t official and we’re guessing any inquiries will get ignored or firmly denied, there are enough accidental similarities between Scott’s word and this leaked synopsis that leads us to believe it may be the real deal. So the question left is: do you like it?

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/ ... s_like_it/

i didn't even wanted to post that shit.too many contradictions in the synopsis

new pictures from the set.it seems the entrance from the previous leaked pictures leed into this new one

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/production-of-prometheus-confirmed-in-iceland-14127

http://www.alienprequelnews.com/2011/07/ridley-scott-giger-is-working-on-major.html

set photos
http://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=39533.0

Interesting glimpses yet suitably vague.

they said they are shooting the first 15 min of film in iceland.a scene set million years ago.so if the story is about space jockeys and terraforming the piece of jockey ship makes sense.but the other piece looks like what could be a landing leg from a human space ship(prometheus).so there's a nice mistery

First Footage From Ridley Scott’s Prometheus Makes Our Space Helmets Explode!
22 July 2011



SAN DIEGO — Ridley Scott is coming back to science fiction after a quarter century, and we’ve just seen our first glimpse of his new film Prometheus. The good news is, it’s intense, sweaty, scary and beautiful — and intended to scare your pants off.

Spoilers ahead…

Here in Comic-Con’s Hall H, we saw a special featurette about Scott’s new alien movie. The featurette starts with a medley of past Scott films, and then the title card, “RIDLEY SCOTT RETURNS TO THE GENRE HE REDEFINED, WITH AN ORIGINAL SCIENCE FICTION EPIC PROMETHEUS.” At first, you see Scott standing in a studio, and then in a big open space with weird ribs on the walls, and Scott says, “So here we are, I’m back again.” He explains that it’s a James Bond studio (Pinewood) and he could fit seven and a half jumbo jets in here.

And then the actual footage from the film starts, and its a huge flood of creeptastic imagery that recalls Alien but also a bit of 2001: A Space Odyssey. There are guys in pressure suits exploring an ancient chamber with weird hieroglyphs, and a guy in a spacesuit walking through a sliding door into a clean white chamber. And a guy (who might be Michael Fassbender) pulling a weird jelly-looking thing out of a canister. And as Scott’s voiceover notes that things that may look small in the film will turn out to be important, there is a shot of a drop of blood on a finger. There is Charlize Theron on a table with bandages wrapped around her breasts, as though she’s waking from hypersleep.

And then the footage gets faster and more furious, with a guy in a visor looking down at something, a woman in a suit walking into a red entryway, and a globe, and then Scott says, “The cast find an establishment which is not what they expected it to be, it’s a civilization but what we find in it is very uncivilized behavior.” And then there is insane carnage and people with goop inside their space helmets and someone shooting a flamethrower, and mayhem breaking loose in confined spaces. Meanwhile, Scott’s voiceover is saying that there will be biomechanoids and the film will “break new ground.” We see a giant pale planet with rings around it.
And then we see Charlize Theron doing pushups naked. Says Scott in the video, “There is a DNA of the original Alien, [but] that’s as far as it goes, everything else is completely different. It’s all about everything.” And now the people in the footage are crying and screaming and freaking out and the video is flickering like an interrupted signal. And Scott concludes, “Of course, what I want to do is scare the living shit out of you.”

Damon Lindelof, who was moderating the panel, talked about getting the call from Scott asking him to work on this movie, and the long process of the two of them sitting across the table from each other hashing out this movie. At first, the “$64,000 question” was whether this was an Alien prequel, but eventually they moved past that.

Theron came out on stage and talked about how the script had seemed really rough when she first came on board, and she worked with Scott and Lindelof to improve it. Theron plays Meredith Vickers in the film, and she described her character:

“She’s very different from anything I’ve done. She’s a suit, essentially. She’s kind of the machine that runs the machine, that takes this mission into space. At first, she comes across like a suit, very cold and frigid, it seems that it’s all about the economics for her — she doesn’t really come from one side or the other, she’s not a scientist or a believer. She runs a tight ship. But you can tell that she’s going to be a problem. And then later…. We had all kind of layered her and given her [hidden depths]. You think you know who she is [but she's an enigma]. Ridley started doing this interesting thing, where he would have me stand in corners and lurk all the time, and it wound up being really mysterious. In the third act, you really kind of strip her from her skin and see what her bones are about, and what she’s really doing there.”

And then we were patched into Scott and star Noomi Rapace via live video feed — Scott is in Iceland, near a waterfall, where he’s just been doing the final bit of filming for a sequence at the start of the movie.

Scott explained why he stayed away from science fiction for 25 years:

“I was actually too busy doing other movies and exploring other genres, so frankly I never actually thought about science fiction until I realized there was something in the first Alien movie that nobody had ever asked the question about … and I thought that could be the centerpiece of what we’ve just completed. That said, that is the only DNA loosely applied to the original Alien. We’ve gone in a different directions, but in the last few minutes of this movie you’ll see what I’m talking about.”

And Scott hinted that “there may be two robots in Prometheus,” not just the one android who’s rumored to be in the film. He added: “I think robots and androids and Replicants have become so much part of the actual science fiction scenario and landscape, that they’re no longer unique. [So] you’ve got to come up with those unique notions that make something fresh.”

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/07/prometheus/

Comic Con 2011: Mr. Beaks Mulls The Selling Of PROMETHEUS
23 July 2011

Here's what's amazing about PROMETHEUS: for years, fans have been clamoring for Ridley Scott to make another ALIEN film; now he is, and Fox refuses to sell it as a straight-up ALIEN movie (which, make no mistake, it is). Instead, it's an "original science-fiction epic" from the man who "redefined" the science-fiction genre in cinema. This allows Fox to infer that Scott is not only returning to ALIEN, but, in terms of aesthetics, to BLADE RUNNER as well. And so PROMETHEUS is no longer a "prequel" or a "spinoff" (and it is quite explicitly one of these things); it's something unprecedented... or at least it seems that way.

Fox's Hall H panel was moderated by LOST co-creator Damon Lindelof, who somehow managed to play dumb throughout the PROMETHEUS presentation despite having written the film's screenplay. His first job was to introduce the clip reel, which skillfully segued from celebrating Scott's earlier triumphs to teasing his first sci-fi film in twenty-nine years. Aside from Charlize Theron doing push-ups in the buff, the star of the footage was Arthur Max's production design, which bears the unmistakable influence of H.R. Giger. There was no dialogue - only attractive actors like Theron, Michael Fassbender, Idris Elba and Noomi Rapace inhabiting vaguely familiar environments (and huge, beautifully-crafted sets). Dariusz Wolski's cinematography seemed a yellowy approximation of Derek Vanlint's look from ALIEN, but the costumes appeared more corporate than futuristic blue-collar (we later learned that Theron's character is an emotionally chilly "suit"). The space outfits were retro: puffy and topped with bubble helmets like in the original. The characters are apparently mucking about with eggs of some extraterrestrial origin, but we didn't see any face-huggers. A lone drop of blood on Fassbender's finger was the only hint of the gore for which the franchise is famed.

Lindelof was later joined by Theron and, from Iceland via satellite, Scott and Rapace. Scott largely avoided plot specifics; he was far more interested in discussing his first go-round shooting in 3D - which he enjoyed so much, it looks like ROBIN HOOD will be his final go-round in 2D. The footage was screened flat, so we couldn't get a feel for how he's using 3D, but it's pretty obvious Scott is far more interested in atmospherics than vertiginous set pieces. There was also a conversation about the film's rating: Fox is adamant that it be a PG-13 release theatrically, but Scott is hoping to convince Fox chairman Tom Rothman to go for an R; this will be resolved once Scott has his cut, and it is a battle I fully expect him to lose.

Finally, Scott let slip the one fascinating tidbit about what he might be up to in PROMETHEUS: the film will answer one question left lingering from ALIEN, but not until the closing moments of the film. He didn't say which question specifically, but I've a feeling it has to do with the one... thing they nearly showed in the footage, then evidently decided to jettison at the last second. Even if it's not a huge spoiler, they were smart to hold back. The mystery of PROMETHEUS has been the most heavily-discussed topic at Comic Con this year; people still aren't sure how much of an ALIEN film it is. And Fox can toy with that perception - and keep generating speculation - for at least the rest of the year.

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50527

Comic-Con: Prometheus First Look
25 July 2011

High times at Comic-Con today, as screenwriter Damon Lindeloff and Charlize Theron appeared in person at the Fox panel to talk about Prometheus, the Ridley Scott film that has everyone who cares about films just about jigging up and down with excitement. And it got better: Sir Ridley himself appeared with Noomi Rapace via satellite link-up from Iceland to tell us a bit more about the film.

But first there were some clips, which didn't give much away but which looked stunning. Michael Fassbender, looking robotic, examining scientific samples, and wearing a yellow visor standing over a female body under a similar yellow shield. A vast, cavernous space dotted with little shapes on the floor that are about the size of Alien eggs but much more regular. Charlize Theron, hair slicked back, looking cold - but also wielding a flame-thrower later on and doing naked push-ups. Noomi Rapace, whose softer dark hair makes her seem nicer and more likely to survive. Idris Elba, looking unbelievably cool. Incredible sets. BAGS of Scott style.

Scott said, "What I want to do is scare the living shit out of you. It shares one piece of DNA with the original Alien but that's all." It involves a space exploration mission that finds a "civilisation that is home to some very uncivilised behaviour."

So why has he returned to sci-fi? "I was too busy doing other movies and exploring other genres, so frankly I never thought about science fiction until I started to realise that there was something in the first of the Aliens that no one had ever asked the question about, and in the next three there was no exploration of that question, and I thought that could be the centre of what we’ve just completed. That said, that’s the only link to the original Alien. But in the last few minutes of the movie you’ll understand what I’m talking about."

And will that planned PG-13 rating limit Scott? "I have a responsibility to my studio, but I always make sure we have both options. You’re crazy not to. Tom and I will both look at it and decide what the best way of going. I’ve fundamentally covered our ass. But there will still be naked push-ups."

Meanwhile, Theron had a few words on her character. "She’s very different from anything I’ve done. She’s a suit, essentially. She’s kind of the machine that runs the machine that takes this mission into space. At first she comes off very cold and frigid and like it’s about the economics for her – she’s not a scientist, not a believer, and she runs a very tight ship. But you can tell that she’s going to be a problem. What I love about Ridley is that we layered her: you think you know what she is but then you realise that she’s mysterious. Ridley had me lurk in corners all the time so she’d seem suspicious. But the really exciting thing is that in the third act you strip her to her skin and see what that’s really about."

Rapace, meanwhile, seems to carry some of the brunt of the stunts. From Iceland, where she and Scott are finishing off the last few shots of production (but filming one of the first scenes in the film), she said, "But I’m bruised, I have cuts and scrapes all over. I’m so ugly today! I just came back from space like two days ago, so it feels really weird to come back to Earth again.

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=31542

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Video: Creature Creator for Prometheus (and Avatar) Explores Monster Motivations
22 July 2011

SAN DIEGO — As one of the film industry’s most in-demand concept designers, Neville Page dreamed up the monsters featured in Cloverfield and Super 8, and has designed other creatures like the Na’vi in James Cameron’s Avatar.

Page stopped by the Wired Cafe at Comic-Con International to talk about his work in process, why he’s so sought-after in the film industry, and how his work includes elements of industrial design.

We also chatted about his work on Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, and asked for the inside scoop on the connection between the new film and Alien.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/07/ ... tivations/

http://www.alienprequelnews.com/
http://collider.com/damon-lindelof-star-wars-prometheus-star-trek-sequel-comic-con/105191/