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Who fucking designs this shit man? People moaned the tits off about avatar for a reason, because the typeface was a fucking joke! But this? It's just as bad! The title is cool, but what dipshit decided it would look great to space Ridley Scott's name out like a fucking accordion? Seriously, who gets paid for this shit it's a fucking disgrace!

Prometheus footage to be screened at Cine Europe expo this week

It looks as though some Prometheus footage will be revealed sooner than expected. Earlier this weekend we learned that Fox would be presenting some tidbits at this year's Comic-Con in July, but now it looks like the first preview will be in Amsterdam this coming week already.

According to David Pinedo of Holland Film Nieuws, Fox will be showing something from Prometheus at the Cine Europe expo in Amstedam.
Mr. Pinedo tweeted:

Ridley scott will be screening footage of his film Prometheus at Cine Europe! Cameron with Titanic 3D material!

The Cine Europe expo takes place June 27th - June 30th at the RAI convention centre in Amsterdam. Unfortunately it's closed to the public and registration is closed.

According to the schedule, Fox will be presenting in the RAI Auditorium on Tuesday June 28th at 19.30CET.

According to David Pinedo of Holland Film Nieuws, who revealed to us earlier that Fox will be showing footage from Prometheus at the CineEurope expo, some of the Prometheus cast will also be attending the presentation.

"Cast (Fassbender, Rapace, etc...) of Prometheus will also be in attendance at Fox preview tomorrow!"

idley Scott's Prometheus movie will get a Hall H presentation at CC. As will Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. But which actors will be there?


It's been speculated for a while on various forums and websites that the first Prometheus teaser trailer will be attached to The Rise of The Planet of The Apes which opens August 5th, two weeks after Comic-Con.

Fox shows no Prometheus footage at CineEurope


No matter how many times we've heard it before, when something sounds too good to be true it usually is. And in this case it seems Fox decided against showing any footage from Prometheus at this year's CineEurope expo in Amsterdam.

Ridley Scott, Noomi Rapace and Michael Fassbender were however present and did talk to the full auditorium about Prometheus, but exactly what they revealed still seems to be a little hush hush.

David Pinedo who was lucky enough to attend the 20th Century Fox presentation first tweeted that they talked a lot about 3D and the huge scale of Prometheus, but little about the story:

Prometheus was more a description of scale and 3D and not about content. It is amazing how much they spoke without revealing much at all!


but a little later on he admits that maybe a few things were revealed which we haven't heard before. In a reply to a tweet from Pinewood Studios he says:

@PinewoodStudios Ridley gave us a good scoop on what to expect and the title/voyage but dont want to spoil it!


He did however reveal a little teaser from Michael Fassbender, who joked about his android character:

Fassbender: "I play a 'butler'"

Kevin Pollak had a long talk with Prometheus writer Damon Lindelof on his chat show. Lindelof talks a lot about his career, Lost, Star Trek and Cowboys and Aliens, but he also briefly touches Prometheus in this interview.

When asked whether or not Prometheus is or is not a prequel to Alien, Lindelof replies:

Or is it? I think should be the tag line as opposed to 'In space nobody can hear you scream', it should be 'Prometheus: ...or is it?' (laughs)

It started as an Alien prequel as that's what everybody wanted it to be. Obviously Ridley Scott hasn't made a science fiction movie in 25 years since Blade Runner, so the idea that he's returning to this genre is huge.

But there's a real issue which is what is the state of the Alien franchise at this point in our lives? Now it's Alien versus Predator and all these things and it's been completely and totally diluted.

I've always felt really good prequels should be original movies. And the sequel to those prequels should not be the movie that already exists. Because, all due respect to anybody who makes a prequel, why would you ruin the greatest twist in the history of movie cinema?
'Luke I am your father'... By showing me three movies (Star Wars prequels) that basically spoil that surprise. You could do movies that take place before Star Wars, but I don't need to see the story of the Skywalker clan. Show me something else that I can't guess the possible outcome of. There's no suspense and inevitability.

So a true prequel should essentially precede the incidents of the original film, but be about something entirely different, feature different characters, have an entirely different theme although it takes place in that same world.
That was my fundamental feeling about what this movie wanted to be.

And truth be told, it wasn't script doctoring in the strictest sense because the draft that existed before I came on was written by this guy named Jon Spaihts, who is very good! And there are a lot of things in Prometheus that were hatched by Jon Spaihts and that were written by Jon Spaihts.
And I feel like somewhere in the media reconstruction of this story the tale is I come in and pitch an entirely new movie and it's so original that everything else gets thrown out and THAT's what we're doing.
In my brain that's not exactly what happened.

But I also do feel that this is the movie that I would want to see as a fanboy take place in that Alien universe that precedes the events of the original Alien, but is not necessarily burdened by tropes of that franchise with facehuggers and chestbursters and all that stuff that I love. But we've seen it before, so can I do something different this time.
And that's the movie that Ridley wanted to make.

There's more talk about how Lindelof was approached at about 2:24:56 in the interview, and when he received Jon Spaihts' original draft:

So I read it, and like I said it was good! This was not a triage situation. There were really good ideas in that script. (...) So I sent them an e-mail and said I'd read it and here's what I think and here's what I would do if you were interested. (...) So the next morning I get the call: 'We liked your take! Can you come in to Scott Free?'. (...)

Lindelof then explains his first meeting with Ridley Scott and the Fox executives, and how it took him about 2 weeks to complete the first draft of Prometheus.
Later on he's asked about the tone of Prometheus, will it be similar to the 'Haunted House' feeling of Alien?

All I can say is it's exactly the movie I would want to see as a fanboy, for Ridley Scott to come back to that Alien world. And so what you just said would be under that heading. Yes... unsettling. And unsettling is different than horror.

It was just a matter of time before we'd get some details about the Prometheus presentation at the CineEurope expo in Amsterdam today, as The Hollywood Reporter gives us the details.

First of all, Ridley Scott confirmed that Prometheus will be about the mysterious Space Jockey as seen in the derelict ship in Alien:

Scott acknowledged that Prometheus, while not a direct prequel to Alien, occupies the same general universe, saying the picture was inspired by a desire to explore the mystery of the "space jockey" the giant fossilized creature with the burst-open chest seen in the first Alien movie but never explained.

Scott also confirmed, as we've previously only speculated, that Prometheus is the name of the ship in the movie and that the ship is sent out into space by a large company much like the "company" (Weyland Yutani) we know from the Alien franchise.

Also, back in March we speculated that the movie might be somewhat inspired by Swiss sci-fi writer Eric van Dankien, who claimed that humans are not indigenous to Earth. It seems we were right again:

"The (space) journey, metaphorically, is about a challenge to the gods," Scott said. But Scott's ambitions with Prometheus go far beyond simply restarting a hit franchise. The British director said the film's storyline, and script by David Lindelof, was partially inspired by the writings of legendary Swiss sci-fi writer Eric van Daniken.
Van Daniken, author of 1968 bestseller Chariot of the Gods, is best known as the first proponent of the so-called ancient astronaut theory, which holds that aliens kick-started civilization on earth. "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," Scott said. "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."

Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace, who were also present, didn't say too much about their characters however. Fassbender did once again hint that his character is an android, much like Ian Holm's Ash in Alien. I guess with Ridley Scott sitting right next to them with their contracts in hand they were too terrified to say a word.

Movie news website JoBlo.com mentioned in a post today that they've heard that part of the Prometheus story line will take place millions of years ago.

By the way, today we had someone give us a heads up to the fact that, in a foreign interview back in December, Ridley Scott admitted part of PROMETHEUS takes place a million years in the past...presumably showing the origin story of the space jockeys. Sounding cool to you or what?

There's no word of where this interview is, or which language, but thanks to Valaquen for pointing out this article in German from Swiss magazine Blick. It's from May last year, so it might not be the interview JoBlo is referring to, but it seems pretty close.

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."

Erich von Daniken is a Swiss author who's best known for his book Chariots of the Gods from 1968, in which he hypothesises that many technologies and religions of ancient human civilization were given to them by ancient astronauts who were treated by humans as gods.
He bases his hypothesis on ancient structures such as the pyramids, the Nazca lines and Stonehenge, and on interpretations from the Bible.

If we take this and look back at what little information Ridley Scott has revealed about Prometheus in the past, we can find obvious links between von Daniken's hypothesis and what little we know of the Prometheus storyline.

Scott mentioned just recently that Prometheus is a "... story of creation, the gods and the man who stood against them".

There's hardly any doubt that the "gods" Scott is referring to are the ancient astronauts von Daniken writes about. And as we all should know by now the man who stood against the gods was Prometheus, who stole fire from the gods and gave it to us mortal humans.

In this case, I wouldn't be surprised if the "fire" is an alien technology such as terraforming, which has often been mentioned in the mix of rumors regarding the Prometheus storyline